Viewed from the sky, the full expanse of Tatshaw Territory came into sight.
First came the semicircular coast, then a city—Far-Sail Port City. A great river wound through the entire territory. Most of it was plains, not counting Rokas Territory; at the inland end of those plains lay hills, and beyond the hills stretched a vast forest.
This region, known as Thorn Forest, ran two thousand kilometers in length and covered more than five hundred thousand square kilometers.
In a room within a sealed underground basement, Romon came to his senses.
"At last, I've thoroughly mastered all magical knowledge below the Third Level. Thanks to the mage knowledge I acquired recently, as well as the insights of the Divine Vampire."
During the last mage corpse incident, Romon had traded for Third-Level magic materials to add to the Mage Tower. Naturally, he had kept a copy for himself.
Priests and Druids were fundamentally quite alike.
A priest began as an apprentice, praying again and again until they received faint responses of Holy Power. The more focused and devout they were, the greater the response they received.
Once their faith reached a certain degree, their accumulated Holy Power reached a certain threshold, and they themselves desired it, the god would bestow fully formed divine spells upon them.
Priests did not need to combine spells themselves as mages did, because the gods directly delivered ready-made products to them.
For Druids, however, it was not gods whose recognition they needed, but nature. Nature bestowed fully formed divine spells upon them.
Neither of these professions required personal research. They only needed prayer and meditation. In theory, even an illiterate commoner could advance and wield Nature Divine Arts of many levels.
But to modify or create new divine spells, one had to study their structure and