"Not bad, not bad. I just casually posted a notice online, and I actually found the Darkhold."
After obtaining the Darkhold, Karn felt its eerie allure. He had felt it many times while practicing dark magic, which used emotions to corrupt a wizard's soul; but the Darkhold was even more sinister. Simply practicing the dark magic in it would establish a connection with Chthon.
"There seems to be a layer of disguise on this."
While probing it with magic, he discovered a layer of disguise. He shattered that layer with his magic, slowly revealing the true Darkhold.
"Just as I imagined. But which Darkhold does Agatha have? Are there two different Darkholds, or is it a copy?"
Karn pondered this briefly, but when he could not figure it out, he gave up on investigating further. He intended to try the magic in it, but before that, he needed to protect his soul.
Besides Occlumency, there were also magical runes and alchemical items for defending the soul.
"Gaining power means suffering corruption. But if I only use the spells as a reference and cast the magic in the Darkhold with my own magic, Chthon's power probably won't corrupt my soul, right?"
Curses, corrosion, mind control, rituals for summoning dimensional demon gods, and Dreamwalking projections across the multiverse.
The magic in the Darkhold was exceptionally sinister, standing in complete opposition to the magic of Kamar-Taj.
Magic was a kind of program that influenced reality. The magic in the Darkhold distorted reality too greatly, requiring substantial amounts of Chthon's power to affect reality and bring it about. In that case, one would imperceptibly become Chthon's puppet.
From the beginning, Karn had no need to draw power from dimensions. He used his own magic to alter and influence reality, and his magic happened to