Spirit Macro Hundred Interpretations, Insufficient Contribution Points, and Arrival in the Southeastern Corner Region

Three and a half weeks later, Locke looked at Ackerman, the blue-skinned troll wizard. "Mr. Ackerman, are there no more rubbings of Spirit Macro?"

Ackerman lifted his enormous feet and walked between the peachwood floorboards and bookshelves of the library. He spread his hands. "No, Wizard Locke."

"Golden Crown Mountain's Potions research has always been mediocre— ahem, I mean, it still has plenty of room for improvement. And Spirit Macro is extremely precious. Even an image copied from an original, let alone the original itself, is valuable. Finding those two copies for you was already quite a feat."

"If you have Second-Ring Contribution Points, Wizard Locke, you can exchange them for Spirit Macro rubbings," Ackerman suggested. "Golden Crown Mountain's library has a good supply of those."

Only after obtaining a Spirit Macro rubbing had Locke understood why he had kept failing to make the Doppelgänger Potion.

He had read a great deal of material on Spirit Macro in the free section and consulted Witch Catherine once before he understood that Spirit Macro was an intrinsic property of things.

Mass, density, and specific heat capacity were intrinsic properties of an object. Spirit Macro described its intrinsic properties on the spiritual level.

Second-Ring Wizards could see the flow of Plane Power with their naked eyes. Building on that ability, Second-Ring Potion Masters could study the paths formed by an object's spiritual flows throughout its past.

That was what Spirit Macro was.

Second-Ring Potions were powerful enough to affect beings at the level of Second-Ring Wizards because their creation had reached the point of using Spirit Macro.

Once Locke realized this, he discovered that he had overlooked several details in the Doppelgänger Potion's formula that he had assumed were unimportant.

To make the potion, he had to cut a gold coin in half