Necromancy Fancy

Now as he was returning those books to their shelves in New Alteros another title caught his eyes. Those within the N section. Necromancy. He stared at it for a few moments, his hand frozen over it, the art of the Morninglord himself. That depraved and terrible art. Disrupting the very life force itself. But it used souls. It manipulated souls. He needed to learn how runes and other magical arts would interact with souls in order to further his understanding and search for Death Magic. The quest for one depraved art leads to another…

As he broke open the book, he began to analyze every sentence with a fine tooth comb. Nothing would be overlooked. Every esoteric thought and teaching would be thought and refined upon. Especially those concerning the movements and the tendencies of the soul. As Necromancy was all about manipulating and binding the soul to a physical composite, usually a skeleton due to its already established and powerful mana circuitry, but it could actually utilize other things, but that was irrelevant in purpose at the time.

He kept reading. Taking note of every minute detail. It was a musical masterpiece, in which every note was an integral part of the whole. Any overlooked detail could spell failure, or otherwise not the result that was being searched for. Like any other art, it had its finer and more concentrated aspects. And he payed special attention to every part of those aspects. Not a detail could be overlooked.

And in his manic madness, the world moved faster, it seemed to ignore him as they moved. Good. Fewer interruptions between him and his work. HIs mind was immediately swinging into how it could possibly use this in conjunction with the runes that he was already using. If he can conjoin this knowledge to everything else that he was learning and refining. He would make every connection to each art that he could.

But he prepared for the worst. That they were non-interactable. That they would not mesh or work with one another. And in preparation of that, he took notes on it as it was most commonly explained. The traditional forms and arts associated with the conjuration and binding of the dead. He understood the mana circuits of creatures better from this. The charts of the circuitry were better in these necromantic tomes than they were in the previous books. Perfect information for Runewriting.

As he finished the last books, he made compiled all the information, and like anything else, compared it all, writing a completed and comprehensive of each aspect into a folio. He wanted more to compare it to, as there were still a few important gaps in his understanding of the process and the learning of it, but that could be worked upon in the later. He had his foot hold, and as such placed the books and other resources he had gathered. He was starting to get ready for future experimentation. It was starting to get close to the time that he could begin setting his everything into motion, but as he put the books away, he took the books on Souls and Death Magic. Back to the work he came here for.

(Vindictus)