Apprentices of Egyptian Rune Magic [Second Update]

To be honest, Ye Ting was not the kind of person who hoarded his knowledge and refused to share it with others.

Otherwise, he would not have decisively revealed his transformation spells in Dalaran back then, establishing his own prestige while also raising Dalaran's mages' mastery of transformation magic to a new level.

In his view, although all his methods stemmed from this magical knowledge, and this knowledge was his greatest weapon,

his becoming powerful was not the result of that knowledge.

The reason he had achieved what he had today ultimately lay in his own wisdom.

Wisdom was the trump card, not magic. This was the conclusion he had reached after many years of experience.

For one thing, even if his enemies mastered every spell he knew, among the vast sea of magic, who could possibly know which spells he would use in battle? Although mages needed to remain sufficiently mysterious to retain their combat effectiveness, once the number of spells they knew reached a certain level, secrecy no longer mattered.

For another, not everyone possessed the intelligence needed to learn his magic. To say nothing else, even now, only a handful of people in the entire Mystra Academy could understand the spell that materialized the soul.

Thus, Ye Ting had never been reluctant to teach his magic widely to others.

The same was true in Egypt.

The apprentices were astonished to discover that, beyond the divine power they understood, there were actually so many other powerful supernatural forces.

According to Ye Ting, although priests were the gods' spokesmen on earth and interpreters of divine revelations, it was mages like them who truly studied the gods' power and carried out the gods' will.

This gave the magical apprentices an extraordinary passion for learning magic, filling them with a sense