The booklet was thin, containing only a few short pages and very little information. In fact, it was more like a table of contents, with hardly any substantive detail.
Yet every entry made Xu Yi fix his gaze on it and read with rapt attention.
It listed roughly five items, the first three of which concerned magic.
They were not descriptions of magic in the usual sense, but related accounts that could even be called rumors.
The first account, for instance, described how, around two hundred years ago, a relatively obscure Great Mage on the Sains Continent had come up with a sudden idea while researching fire magic. He had strapped a ring of Magic Crystals around his waist, drawn fire magic elements from the surrounding space directly into them, and then used the mana within his body to resonate with the mana inside the crystals.
The result... Although his considerable strength had kept the Great Mage from being killed outright by the enormous explosion of the Magic Crystals, his mana had been thrown into disarray, leaving him seriously injured. Even after recovering, his magical abilities had declined drastically, and he could regain no more than the strength of a Level Eight Mage.
Filled with regret, the Great Mage had recorded the incident and submitted it to the Mages' Guild Headquarters, hoping the guild would publicize it so that other mages would not make the same mistake.
The second account concerned an ordinary mage of no particular renown.
This mage was said to specialize in wind magic and to favor unconventional approaches when researching it.
When ordinary mages used wind magic to fly, they gathered wind magic elements around their bodies and used them as propulsion.
This mage, however, had devised another ingenious method. When flying, he not only surrounded