Would I get myself caught up in this just by going to watch? Oh, right, I can't go back now anyway. Good, good. Even if I wanted to join the fun, I couldn't. Ruger poked fun at himself.
If only I had a spell that could clear away dust, he thought.
After clearing a small space, he sat down again, took out the Black Book, and opened it to the new section of the Demonic Mark Meditation Method.
This was his first time opening this old friend, which had been with him longer than anything else, since becoming a Level-Two Wizard Apprentice. Things were no longer like those early days when he had just started catching bugs. Back then, he had solved his food problem but knew neither spells nor meditation methods. During that stretch of purely Kobold life, when all he did was eat and sleep, he had been even more inseparable from the Black Book. Every day, he either carried it in his arms or on his back when he went out, used it as a dining table or pillow, or treated it as a sleep aid.
He studied the newly revealed section. His old friend had not disappointed him.
The new page in the Black Book discussed the temporary spell slots granted by the Demonic Mark Meditation Method. Storing spells in advance and then casting them instantly at no cost was a feature shared by all third-generation meditation methods. This page, however, described what made the Demonic Mark Meditation Method special: upon advancing to a Formal Wizard, one could relinquish these temporary spell slots, created to improve Wizard Apprentices' chances of survival, for an extremely high chance of gaining a unique one-ring composite spell.
Composite spells were already a relatively rare type of spell.
Upon advancing to