Transmigrated as a Ghost

Landing not far from the ravine, everyone dismounted off of the backs of those they were flying on, and Marcus and Fallon returned to their humanoid forms.

However, now that they were out of the city Marcus no longer stayed in his guise as Irene and took his original form.

Except he had forgotten that two people here did not currently know his secret, and Quillon and Aerial came up to him and asked him why he was taking this form.

Naturally they had already seen him transforming so they knew he could do it, but the reason as to why he was using this form eluded them.

“Oh, that is right, I never told you. Irene is actually kind of my secondary identity. This is how I originally looked before gaining the ability to take other forms.” Marcus said, trying to gloss over the details of how he got Irene’s form and memories.

Luckily, they seemed not too bothered by it, and let it go at that. Not caring much about his outward appearance.

The thirteen of them then moved over to the ravine and looked down it warily._.

Just as last time Marcus and Mrazivý were here it went down incredibly far, and it was impossible to see or really even fathom the bottom.

“Is this really the widest point? It is only about a dozen feet across.” Lyra said as she looked at Blitz and Eirwen.

The two of them were by far the largest members of their group now that Fallon had taken human form.

“It is the widest point I have seen. The area me and Marcus entered was only around eight feet wide, and this is where James and his sky knights originally entered after searching for hours for the best area. We could spend days trying to look for a better access point.” Mrazivý said to Lyra.

“Yes, but how are we going to get them down. It is too narrow for Eirwen to fly down, and Blitz cannot even fly at all.” Lyra said, continuing to voice her worries.

Yet as they all stared at the ravine and trying to rack their brains, Marcus clapped his hands to get everyone’s attention.

“Actually, I have already come up with a method to take us all down there myself. So, if you would not mind standing back, I will show you what I have in mind.”

Backing away, everyone looked at Marcus intently and waited for him to do whatever it was that he was going to do.

Holding out his hands he began overflowing with mana, and soon hundreds of iron threads poured out of his hands.

Quickly they began weaving themselves into a large platform, and within thirty minutes Marcus had created a long and narrow platform that they could all stand on.

“That was certainly impressive. I have never seen someone use a spell in this manner.” James said, intrigued by Marcus’ utilization of a low-level spell.

Yet seeing this just resparked a question that had been forming on Mrazivý, Quillon, and Lyra’s minds.

“Marcus, you did something similar during our match. Your low tier spells seemed just as strong as your higher tier ones. How are you doing this?” Mrazivý asked, keenly interested.

Slapping his face, he realized now that in the wake of everything else happening, he had not mentioned the discovery he had made.

“That is right, I forgot to mention it. A few months ago, when I was out in the Verkoudhied Mountains I witnessed a battle between two beings that were far stronger than any of us. I watched the two of them completely decimate the landscape with attacks that were nearly incomprehensible. But one of them when they used magic sometimes used lower tier spells that were still able to block attacks that destroyed mountains. After watching this I came to an understanding about magic. Lower tier spells can be just as strong as higher ones as long as you give them the same amount of mana.”

After saying this, everyone looked at Marcus with confused expressions. They did not really understand what he was talking about, since when you used a spell, it always used the same amount of mana.

Certainly, you had some control over its range and size if you wanted for some spells, but for the most part, you just cast the spell and it comes into existence.

“Here let me put it another way. Each spell is a formation that is set to create a phenomenon. And part of that formation is the amount of mana used to create it. But when the spell is forming, instead of letting the formation automatically use the set amount of mana to cast the spell, you can manually send as much mana as you want into. Now I will not say it is an easy technique to use, but it is similar to sending mana into a weapon or other object. There is no set skill for it, just the amount of control you have over it yourself.” Marcus said, trying to explain it to everyone else.

Of course, just hearing an explanation without fully understanding the concept, everyone was still not completely following what Marcus meant.

Seeing the bewilderment on all of their faces, he decided to give a demonstration of what he had learned.

Holding out his right hand he conjured the tier three fire ball spell and sent it out into the open around two hundred feet away, before it exploded into a twenty-foot diameter sphere of flames as always.

He then did it again, but this time instead of allowing the spell to take what its normal parameters where, he imbued it with as much mana as he could.

This time even though the spell still created the same twenty-foot diameter explosion of fire, it was noticeably much stronger and hotter.

When it receded, it could even be seen that the ground had become molten from the extreme heat of the spell.

“See the first one was just a normal fire ball, while the second was one that I used all of the mana I could pour into it. Naturally there is still a limit to how much I can put into a spell before it becomes impossible to control, but this way even lower tier spells are still very useful.” Marcus said.

Still even after his explanation and demonstration, no one else fully understood what he had done.

It was easy enough to say and show how something happened, but another for someone to grasp it in its entirety.

Nevertheless, this just brought up another question for Mrazivý in particular.

“What about the heightened spell skill. Is it not supposed to do what you just did, though on a smaller scale?”

Nodding his head, Marcus was glad that she brought this up since it might help her to learn how to imbue more mana into her spells.

“Yes, it is similar, but heightened spell just increases a spells’ power by a set percentage. In fact, you could think of it as a training handicap. It strengthens your spell without any extra focus on your part, but only to a certain amount. However, if you do it all on your own, you can make it as strong or as weak as you want.”