Life in Dalaran gradually grew dull!
For Karin, every day meant shuttling between three places: the library, the tavern, and Violet Square!
It really was rather boring, even rivaling a certain period of his previous life... Fortunately, Karin was much more mentally mature than he had been then, and could calmly adjust his outlook!
He had no idea how long he had been in Dalaran. His sense of the exact time had grown somewhat hazy; perhaps it had been several months!
Yet he seemed to have made little progress in magic.
Before the Third Ring, breakthroughs depended on understanding, and Karin thought he had done fairly well in that regard; after the Third Ring, however, it all came down to accumulation. He had to admit that he had done terribly during this time!
Before Karin left, Kane Sunfury had given him four spells to guide his Third Ring studies:
School of Abjuration: Arcane Barrier, Dispel Magic
School of Evocation: Flame Shock, Frost Nova
Unfortunately, apart from gaining a slight grasp of Arcane Barrier, his progress in learning the other spells had been extremely slow... Especially the Third Ring evocation spell "Flame Shock," which was theoretically merely a derivative of "Fireball"; yet Karin, who had mastered "Fireball," was completely at a loss with it!
Indeed, without the All-Knowing Eye or anyone else's guidance... Karin felt that he had hit something of a bottleneck in his studies.
The profundity of arcane magic far exceeded Karin's estimates... Previously, with the All-Knowing Eye there, he would never go astray in his research or studies; now, things were different!
He had long since grown used to making mistakes. Without anyone to guide him, he had to feel his own way forward at every step!
Karin had never missed the All-Knowing Eye as much as he