Once the idea took hold, Will spent the next two days studying Ritual Studies at the Library of Alexandria. After gaining the Ritual Inscription Bonus Ability at level 2, he came up with a new plan.
Ritual Studies was fairly advanced in Egypt's Wizarding World. One reason was the sheer number of Egyptian gods and the countless ceremonies held in their honor, many of which required rituals.
Another was that, from the ancient pharaohs to today's Wizards' Council, Egyptians had always favored rituals. This oldest form of magic had never lost its appeal there.
Over those two days, Will gained a good deal of Ritual Studies experience and mastered several simple rituals. He decided to test what Ritual Inscription could do.
[Ritual Inscription: Your ability to set up rituals has improved. You can perfectly reproduce any ritual you have completed before.]
The effect thrilled Will. This ability was practically a cheat. Once he had succeeded at a ritual, he could succeed at it forever—and its implications might be even more astonishing.
Will knew that many rituals demanded exacting conditions of time, place, and procedure. Falling short on any one of them could affect the result. But if Ritual Inscription could reproduce a ritual perfectly, that meant it could bypass many of those hidden influences. How was that possible?
There was only one way to find out.
Will planned to test the rituals he had learned: two small ones and one medium-sized one.
First came the finding ritual, which was used to locate lost objects.
Will took out a sheet of papyrus and drew a simple ritual pattern on it with red sandstone. Then he placed a pinch of dust collected from the sole of his shoe at its center. It represented "the path traveled."
He silently pictured what