Chapter 10: You Have That Look Again

I ate my porridge and looked at my notebook tucked inside my robe and thought about the intricacies of Spark casting and the three clear objectives written in my own hand.

Spark was not truly pursued by Acolytes as it took a while before it showed its strength, and most would focus on Surge, which was the bread and butter of most mages and Acolyte because it was one of the few spells that could hasten the development of Anima Depth and it was the basis from which an Acolyte selected the Discipline they would be pursuing all their life, either elemental or any other magical fields like space or even time.

Surge was raw Anima expelled outward as force, heat, or light.

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