Elder Blood Witcher 328 Make Your Choice!

"Pyromancy would be the easiest of the two to learn as it doesn't require a lot of work to get started, indeed all it would take is me parting with some of my soul for you to use as what wizards would recognise as a Foci." he says but finding out she'd receive part of his soul seems to have put a damper on her enthusiasm...

"You'd almost immediately be able to cast a few easy spells but that's were the easy part ends and the struggle begins. With Pyromancy the most important thing is to control the flame, lest it control you. With the fire basically becoming connected with your own soul, any mishaps with it could be disastrous, losing control could end up with you burning to death by your own flame... But, with practise and dedication you'll be able to summon fire storms on command, turn your skin to iron or cover your enemies in corrosive and acidic fogs that'll melt them from the inside out." he says, describing some of the abilities she'd likely learn should she choose this path.

Seeing the contemplative expression on her face he nods to himself and begins to explain Sorcery.

"Now, Sorcery is a different beast when compared to Pyromancy... While it isn't as deadly to the user it doesn't allow you to instantly be able to cast spells the moment you start, instead it takes years or maybe even decades to master the Formulae essential in forming the spells. It's different from this worlds magic as it doesn't need "Imagination" or "Wand movements", instead you form Formulae out of mana itself, these function like runes except they don't need to be powered as they are already of course, magic itself. Observe." he says and casts a regular soul arrow above his vacant hand.

"The formulae to make this soul arrow includes compression of the surrounding magic which reduces the amount of magic you yourself have to use, a firing function which shoots it at a relatively quick speed and also a weak ability to target hostiles, though I wouldn't aim blind and trust this particular formulae..." He says, noting that Nerissa's eyes seem glazed over... Is that a snot bubble?

"Ahem, anyway. As this soul arrow is comprised of only magic it will not strike people physically, instead dealing all of it's damage to their souls. This means that enemies without souls will be considerably less effected by this particular spell, for some magical constructs it might disrupt their magic somewhat which might be useful, but I'd recommend higher tier spells in the school of Sorcery for this particular problem. As you saw earlier, if you compress magic enough it'll eventually become Crystal, which is able to affect the soul and the body. Needless to say, giant shards of crystal tearing your body apart would probably be effective against most enemies... Other than that, the school includes other spells that might be useful in certain situations, one of which you've already seen." he says and turns his staff invisible before cancelling the spell.

Ciri "Ah, when we were hunting vampires in Brimsby... You cast the same spell." she says, recognising it.

Reima nods, "I'm not sure how far Sorcery's use extends but there are spells that stifle sound, produce light and even make you able to fall great distances without harm... Though, it'll likely take you an incredibly long amount of time to truly master this art, my master Big Hat Logan's one of the biggest geniuses that'd existed and it's still taken him hundreds of years to get to his current level.

Ciri "So, it's not useful right now? I need to fight the Wild Hunt eventually and I don't have hundreds of years to train... Besides, how have you become so adept without training as long as him?" she asks confused.

Reima shrugs, "I may have had a few... A lot of advantages over Big Hat Logan, in his world Sorcerers are not able to pa.s.sively absorb mana from the air and instead have to eat magically rich foods to get their reserves back up. Compared to us this makes them take a lot more time training their spells as they can't practise all day haphazardly like we may be able to.

She nods at this, "Still, you've probably not even trained a fraction of the time he has, and you've still managed to get to this level."

Reima tries to think of a reason without outright stating "A G.o.dly being give me a cheat for s.h.i.ts and giggles."... "I seem to have had an adpittude to this school of magic, Logan even said I was more talented than he was... That with my ability to constantly train allowed my quick growth."

She still looks suspicious but sighs and drops it, "I guess I want to learn Pyromancy? It'll help deal with the Wild Hunt's frost based a.s.saults and attacks, plus I doubt I'll be able to learn Sorcery nearly as quickly as you... Other than that I think learning this worlds magic will help fill in for less powerful and more utility based skills." she says, thinking over the benefits of each school.