When Maria saw that Solam had already become completely absorbed in studying the new spells and had no intention of paying her any more attention, she found it boring and left.
Solam was now utterly free of distractions. These spells were simply too precious. Leaving aside their power, the rare spell models alone were a valuable treasure. Every mage hoped to learn more spells. Not only would that improve their strength, but more importantly, collecting more spell models would allow them to create their own unique spells in the future.
Creating a spell named after oneself was every mage's dream. For example, Melf's Acid Arrow and Melf's Meteor Swarm were both named after their creator, Melf.
Although Solam's spell level was not yet high enough to cast these spells, that did not prevent him from recording their spell models first. Since these were unique Cloud Giant spells, he could not casually let them leak out. He could only use his Focus psychic ability to forcibly memorize them all, since it would be troublesome if someone saw them written in his spellbook.
After that, Solam became even more reclusive. He usually stayed either in his room or in the library. Even Tris rarely had a chance to see him, so she grew bored as well and moved out of the royal palace.
Over the next few days, Solam finally learned from the books how these Cloud Giants had built their city. It turned out that Cloud Giants could use certain magical rituals to form contracts with elemental creatures, having the elementals help build their city. For instance, the construction materials in Cloudtop City were all marble. If they had gathered it themselves, who knew how long that would have taken? So they had asked earth elementals to transport the materials directly