As soon as Amanenar left, Rhode shut the wooden door and began leafing through the books on the shelves.
It was time to get a proper understanding of Dark Magic!
When he had destroyed Scholomance, he had found no books on Dark Magic there, nor had he seen any undead creatures.
Rhode guessed that the Cult of the Damned had still been in its earliest stages of development then, with some things not yet fully established-including its teaching materials.
But now that a book had appeared... Kel'Thuzad must have ordered his people to speed up the writing and distribution of teaching materials, racing against time to carry out his evil mission.
And here in the Arathi Highlands, they had already successfully summoned undead creatures. This Scourge technique must have been fairly well developed by now, which also suggested that the Cult of the Damned's educational system was gradually taking shape.
Still, learning this Dark Magic seemed rather dangerous. The room's unfortunate former occupant, whose head had exploded, was proof of that.
Then again, perhaps he simply lacked the aptitude. After all, even conventional magic could blow your head apart if you studied it the wrong way.
Surely the books the Cult of the Damned gave its best students weren't intended to kill its own people.
So if Rhode followed the correct sequence and methods, with the assistance of his Spell Models, he should be fine.
Of course, he still had to be extremely careful. When he had first used reverse Spell Model analysis to cast Dark Magic, it had taken ages just to squeeze out a wisp of black mist. If he had really kept recklessly pushing ahead back then...
Yeah, having my head explode might have been getting off lightly.
*So I should start with the absolute basics and