Simulacrum!

Soren stayed there for only half a day.

Once he had obtained the items, he immediately began tracking down news of the artifact's emergence, intending to find out whether the flail that had appeared was truly the legendary [Flail of Ages].

The book on Traceless Steps could wait until he returned to Port Nyanzaru.

Soren spent a long time carefully examining the unusual mask, however, because the spell inscribed on it was truly important.

Wizards had spells that created avatars.

One such spell was called Project Image, a Level 7 spell that temporarily created a duplicate. Depending on the caster's mastery of the spell, the duplicate could possess roughly fifty to sixty percent of the original's capabilities. While using Project Image, the original body could barely move, and the caster's consciousness shifted to controlling the duplicate. Thus, few wizards used this spell under ordinary circumstances. Only when exploring other planes would they send their avatars over.

The spell had considerable drawbacks, so wizards had few uses for it.

However.

There was also black technology among spells of this kind: the higher-level Simulacrum, which could create a duplicate identical to the original and retain roughly seventy percent of the original's strength.

What was more!

This avatar could cast some of the low-level spells the caster had originally memorized.

Soren's objective was the Simulacrum inscribed on the mask, a spell that was almost lost to history and the most powerful Level 8 spell known to date.

Simulacrum imposed no restrictions on spellcasting.

After creating a temporary duplicate, the original could still move freely and cast spells. The only catch was that the caster's consciousness had to control two bodies simultaneously.

In other words, the caster had to split their attention between two tasks!

This spell was extremely difficult to learn. At the