My Muscle System in the Mage World

Aur walked through the dark passage with just the dim light from the burning hope bug, which barely lit the surrounding area in front of him.

His senses were also suppressed in the darkness, causing Aur to be quite isolated from his surroundings.

Luckily, there was no trouble like before; here, Aur smoothly crossed the deep darkness and saw a large door in the distance, its metallic surface shining with the light from the Hope bug.

"This should be the place," Aur muttered with a thoughtful expression.

"If all the resources from Sebastian's diary are true, then…"

His crimson eyes flashed with excitement.

With anticipation in his crimson eyes, he tentatively opened the door. Immediately, Aur's vision was filled with a dimly lit, simple room that looked exactly like the previous one.

Aur didn't focus on his surroundings; instead, he looked straight ahead with excitement.

Various books and materials were laid out on the table. However, Aur was drawn to a chest that was at the side of the table.

He walked up to the chest and opened it.

The moment he did, a blinding light reflected, making Aur involuntarily close his eyes.

There lay countless mana crystals in the chest, all of which were half purple.

"High-grade mana crystals," Aur nodded his head with a satisfied expression as he looked at them with a smile.

The glints, however, differed slightly from those of a typical mana crystal. The half-purple tint on the crystal appeared somewhat dimmer than that of a usual mana crystal. At first glance, everything seemed fine.

"As expected, there is not much mana in the mana crystals anymore. However, since it was previously a high-grade one, it still retained its purple tint…"

Aur's crimson eyes flashed with a strange light. "Although if I use it, it will barely be effective as a middle-grade mana crystal, however."

A smirk appeared on his face.

While thinking of it, he looked at the book now.

"Top-tier mage spells; I wonder how many he has…" Aur mused to himself while rubbing his hands.

Actually, the academy allowed many spells for the students to choose from, and there were numerous spells available. However, those magics were all low-tiered, with not much combat strength at all.

If the academy really gave their top-tiered spells to the students with the chance of being leaked out to the other villages and such, then the village would be foolish.

Although there were many varieties of magic to choose from, most of them had low combat capability or were too difficult for one to master, just like Aur's five elemental magic.

Even in the five elemental magic spells, there was a complete set, but almost all of them had very low combat power. In battle, the only one that suited Aur was the Elemental Mastery spell; the others were very disappointing and lacking.

The other magic was the same as well. The real top-notch spells were hidden most of the time and were only given to some rare few people on rare occasions, either as a contribution or when becoming an elder.

Aur dusted off the dust on the books and looked at the three books.

"Unlike the single spells, these are complete sets of magic books," he nodded his head with a smile on his face.

One of them was Larva Magic, the other was Lightning Magic with a complete set for a spell, and the last one was….

Sound Magic!

"Huh, Sound Magic…" Aur's eyes widened. "This was never mentioned in the book."

SoundMagic was the most precious magic that was only passed down to the village leader.

"I guess Sebastian was too cowardly to even dare to write these spells in his diary…" Aur thought with a sneer.

Considering his personality, this might very well be the case.

"These will be useful in the future." The three books disappeared all into his system storage with just a touch.

Aur looked at the other items with a disappointed expression. Most of them dried out and withered already, with centuries passed. However, there was one particular ring that still shined with a silver light.

"That is the thing I have been looking for." Aur thought with an excited expression as he hurriedly took the silver ring.

Immediately, he went towards his mental space again.

The silver ring also materialised with him in the mental space.

Seeing this, Aur raised his eyebrows, his smile widening. "It was true."

The only things that Aur could take into his mental space were the spells and spiritual things inside the mental, except for a strange thing that needed a number of requirements to be transported into his mental space.

Since the mental space wasn't in the three dimensions that Aur and any other people were, it was an unknown dimension that was solely connected to the wizard.

Aur casually tossed the ring up in the air into the centre of the room where his vital spell, Wizard hand, was located.

The ring travelled at a fast pace directly connecting with the Wizard hand in a swift motion.

Boom!

After the silver ring entered his vital spell, a strange reaction occurred.

The spell started to rotate at a terrifying speed as the surrounding mana grew more active.

"My spell's speed of absorbing mana from the outside world has increased." Aur declared with a satisfied expression.

These silver rings were actually called silkworm rings, although Aur had no clue why they were called as such, but they had a certain heaven-defying effect.

The silkworm rings increased Aur's speed of absorbing surrounding mana by at least five times!

What was the difference between the different grades of talent?

One of them was the bigger the talent, the bigger the mental space; however, the other was the speed at which they could absorb the spell.

It was like this: if two people, one having a middle-grade mental space and the other a high-grade mental space, were using an exactly same spell as their vital spell.

The one with the high-grade mental space would have a higher speed of absorbing mana, at least by five or even ten times more than the middle-grade one.

But these silkworm rings had the terrifying effect of artificially increasing the speed at which one could absorb mana from the surroundings.

"Too bad these silkworm rings are only tier one magic items," Aur shook his head with some pity.

"Sadly, I will have to abandon them after I reach tier two wizard."

However, these things were enough to increase his speed of absorbing mana compared to an average high-grade talent.

Aur opened his eyes as he returned back from his mental space.

"With these increases and the resources I will get after making business deals with the high-grade mana crystal, my speed will exponentially increase, reaching a terrifying degree."

Aur's expression turned strange as he looked at the door which would lead him to the fourth area.

"Quite regretful." He had initially planned to kill Adriana after they reached the fourth area, but unfortunately, or fortunately, Adriana died in the second area.

And Aur wasn't willing to risk his life to enter the fourth area and face a huge danger.

"I will return after I reach tier two wizard," Aur decisively decided.

The resources and spells he had were enough for him to last for now.

He swiftly returned from the cave without hesitation, back to the second area and into the first room, before leaving the cave entirely.