[Illusionary Manuscript (First Ring, ritual): You can place a powerful illusion on written text to deceive others' vision. Lasts 10 days. You can make it appear to be obscure writing or symbols, or make it display entirely different information. Creatures with True Sight can read the information hidden within.]
Faced with Tang Qi's questioning, Kuru pointed rather innocently at the spellbook Kuru had been studying lately:
"In book."
"So you learned it just because it was there?"
"First, learn, then, know..."
Only then did Tang Qi realize.
To prevent someone from picking up their spellbooks and using them straight away,
most mages encrypted their spells when recording them, using symbols and formulas only they could understand.
Cryptography was a course specifically offered by most Mage Academies.
Tang Qi couldn't expect Kuru to know what the spells in the book did before choosing which ones to study.
This also meant that Kuru's work currently focused solely on the legacy of the dead, unnamed mage from the Daughter of Wealth.
As for New Star's and the Necromancer's spellbooks, they were even harder to decipher and had been set aside for now.
Perhaps because the unnamed mage had specialized in the Illusion School, the spells Kuru had deciphered were also illusions, such as [Silent Illusion] and [Illusionary Manuscript].
And as a Kobold who hadn't even fully mastered the Common Tongue—
it wasn't that Kuru didn't want to learn.
Kuru simply felt that the words already learned were enough to communicate, and had decided to spend all that time studying spells instead.
In one month, by deciphering the patterns found while studying [Earth Shaping] and [Silent Illusion], Kuru had thoroughly mastered two entirely new spells...
That was already astonishingly fast.
At that thought, Tang Qi realized he had been too demanding and