[You chose the black magic inheritance.]
Mu You was not yet sure what form the rewards of these inheritances would take, so he first selected the black magic inheritance he needed most. At the same time, he held the Pocket Watch ready, prepared to go for "I want them all" again as soon as he had the chance.
[Distributing inheritance...]
As this new notification appeared, Mu You suddenly felt something appear deep in his mind.
It was a pitch-black cube, its surface etched with countless glowing lines like a circuit board, with vast numbers of profound star spirit runes filling those lines.
At the same time, a stream of memories flooded his mind. Amid a spell of dizziness and pressure in his head, Mu You quickly came to understand many things.
Long, long ago, the earliest mages of the Star Spirit World discovered that they could manipulate the "ether" within their bodies to change the world. This energy was also called mental power, spirit energy, magic power, and so on, and thus, magic was born. But all magic back then was relatively weak, at least remaining within the bounds of what humans could understand and safely control. This type of magic was called "white magic."
Until one day, a brilliant mage with an adventurous spirit discovered that the "ether" in the air could also be manipulated to cast spells. The ether within a human was finite, but the ether in nature was infinite. Spells cast using this method were several or even dozens of times more powerful than ordinary spells!
And so, black magic was born!
However, people soon discovered that black magic had a drawback: letting infinite natural energy surge into the body made it extremely easy to lose control!
The vast majority of spellcasters