To be honest, flying under the system's control was still too stiff. Lin Yu had to give commands mentally to control the direction of flight, which made flying less agile.
Recalling the information about the Fairy Race, Lin Yu remembered that a Fairy's Talent Runes were inside the bones.
During meditation, Lin Yu's mental power had seen the Talent Runes inside the body.
With that thought, Lin Yu directed mana into the runes inside the bones.
As mana flowed into them, Lin Yu rose off the ground. After spending a few minutes getting used to it, Lin Yu completely mastered the ability to fly.
After playing around for a while, Lin Yu came down from the sky.
While flying, Lin Yu had discovered a set of Talent Runes near the heart, with no idea what they did. None of the magic knowledge Lin Yu had learned contained anything about that set of runes.
The Talent Runes inside the bones controlled the ability to fly, so what did the Talent Runes inside the heart do?
Right now, Lin Yu really wanted to know what the Talent Runes in the heart did.
With that in mind, Lin Yu prepared to try injecting mana into the runes in the heart.
As mana flowed in, Lin Yu felt the body begin to twist and distort, and something inside began to change.
"What's this?" Seeing the gender field on the panel change from none to female, Lin Yu was puzzled for a moment, then remembered that the Fairy Race's description had mentioned the ability to switch genders freely, granted by an Alchemist.
It seemed the runes in the heart controlled one's gender.
After noting down the structure of the Talent Runes in the body and how they worked, Lin Yu switched gender back to none.
Next came more magic practice. Lin Yu's casting speed was still too slow, and more practice was needed to achieve instant casting as soon as possible.
Recently, one matter had been giving Lin Yu a headache: choosing an Innate Spell.
After discovering that advancing through the system apparently wouldn't grant an Innate Spell, Lin Yu had decided to advance independently.
But before advancing, the Magic Aperture had to reach the required strength, and Lin Yu also had to choose an Innate Spell to construct.
Lin Yu's mana had now risen to 5,380 points, the limit the Magic Aperture could reach with the current spirit attribute. A Magic Aperture of that strength had long since met the requirement for constructing an Innate Spell.
Of course, Lin Yu felt that the soul could still improve further. At present, there was only one way to strengthen the soul: relying on meditation to improve it slowly.
For now, though, Lin Yu was devoting more energy to learning and choosing an Innate Spell.
Choosing an Innate Spell was where Lin Yu ran into trouble. To be honest, Lin Yu still hadn't decided what magic to choose as an Innate Spell.
As for choosing highly destructive elemental magic, Lin Yu felt it was too limited. The spell Lin Yu wanted had to be capable of fighting and providing protection, while also assisting with learning, researching magic, obtaining materials, crafting magic items, and so on. Simply put, Lin Yu wanted everything.
And no such magic existed among the spells Lin Yu had learned.
If no such magic exists, can't I create it myself? Magic circles are made by combining various runes in special arrangements. I've learned so much magic and come to understand so many runes. I can use the knowledge I've gained to create magic that meets my requirements!
While Lin Yu was still agonizing over whether to lower those requirements and choose another spell as an Innate Spell, a somewhat fanciful idea popped into mind.
The more Lin Yu thought about it, the more feasible it seemed to research a spell that met those requirements.
Once the idea of researching magic appeared, Lin Yu could no longer suppress it and began considering whether to try developing a spell that met those requirements.
"Let's try it! How can I know if it'll work without trying?" Having decided what to do next, Lin Yu began considering what effects the spell should have.
"For fighting and staying alive, should it manipulate external magic power to produce elemental magic effects, or use my own mana to simulate elemental attacks? How about both?"
"As for support, the Analysis Eye's Talent Runes in my eyes seem useful, and there's the Reading Spell to improve reading ability, something to strengthen analysis, Life Detection—add them, add them. And Appraisal too, add that..."
"Alchemy Rune seems good too. It can transform matter, so it should be able to produce the materials I need. Add it. Disassembly would make it convenient to break down all kinds of materials, so I'll take that too..."
Looking at the magic circle in the Mental Sea, made from countless runes Lin Yu had constructed and piled together at random, Lin Yu knew without trying that such a circle wouldn't have any effect at all.
What Lin Yu needed to do was break down all the chosen spells and use their runes to assemble an entirely new spell.
The first step was to determine what kind of magic circle to create. Recalling all the knowledge learned so far, Lin Yu quickly settled on a type: compound ritual magic.
The spell Lin Yu wanted to create needed to do far too many things. Ordinary magic simply couldn't manage it, while ordinary ritual magic was intended to continuously strengthen a single ability through a ritual. It couldn't provide the breadth Lin Yu wanted.
Only compound ritual magic could achieve the All-Purpose versatility Lin Yu required. While reading The Origin and Development of Magic, Lin Yu had come across an introduction to compound ritual magic.
In ancient times, someone had hoped to create a kind of magic that could do everything. Through continuous research, compound ritual magic was born.
Compound ritual magic was a kind of magic created by modifying and merging multiple ritual spells. A single spell could accomplish many different things, but some time after its creation, the mages of that era abandoned it.
The reasons were simple: compound ritual magic consumed an outrageous amount of mana, and the returns were too low.
To produce multiple magical effects, compound ritual magic was generally made by modifying and combining multiple ritual spells. This made its magic circles extremely complex and its consumption enormous.
Excessive consumption alone wouldn't have made mages abandon compound ritual magic. The real reason was that its attacks were inferior to those of pure attack magic, while its support abilities were inferior to those of pure support magic.
After all, to allow compound ritual magic to produce multiple magical effects at once, no Amplification Runes were included in it.
Because ordinary ritual magic had a single effect, its magic circle was designed not only with runes to cast and control the spell, but also with Amplification Runes to enhance it, allowing the spell to achieve 500% or even 1,000% effectiveness.