Inflame (The Completionist Chronicles Book 6) by Dakota Krout (best romantic novels in english TXT) 📕

relief, but his eyes caught on something as the words vanished faster than they ever had before. “Wait a second, what’s that asterisk-”

The end result is the same, but the recipe has changed! Now, instead of a varied list of goods that is fairly inexpensive, everything costs aspects and Cores! Congratulations!

“Woo.” Joe cheered along with the tutorial just so it didn’t turn mean. It appeared that his questions weren’t getting answered.

Every aspect needs its own jar. You’ll be happy to note, any aspect jar can be made out of any ranked Core! Each rank of Core has a storage capacity maximum and minimum, and creating a larger storage device requires aspects! Here are the Ranks and min/max!

Trash: 1-100

Damaged: 101-999

Common: 1,000-2,000

Uncommon: 2,001-3,999

Rare: 4,000-6,000

Special: 6,001-7,999

Unique: 8,000-10,000

Artifact: 10,001-14,999

Legendary: 15,000-20,000

Mythical: 20,001-?

“That was… convoluted…” Joe tried to read through it a second time, but the words were vanishing already.

You seem to be someone who learns by doing! Let’s try making a Trash-ranked aspect jar! Take the Trash-ranked Core provided, and follow the instructions on the recipe!

Joe took a long, calming breath and skimmed the recipe. “Oh. That’s not so bad.”

The process was similar to enchanting, but less detail-oriented. It reminded him of something else that he had already done in the past, but for the life of him, he couldn’t remember what it was. He needed to flood the Core with a specific aspect, then hold the Core with his mana in the final shape of the aspect jar. It went surprisingly smoothly… too smoothly. Joe was suspicious.

Item created: Natural Trash Aspect Jar! This jar has a maximum capacity of 100 Trash aspects, and as such required 10 Trash aspects to create, 14 were used.

Great job, trainee! You created a Trash Aspect Jar! __ERROR___

“Oh, come on. I don’t want to lose more hair.” Joe stared the error message down, but luckily the only thing that happened was a continuation of the tutorial.

As you can see, 10% of the maximum storage is required in order to create an aspect jar. Since you created the Aspect Jar without using the proper method, there was a 40% wastage! Oh, no! Let’s look at the next part of the tutorial, and see if we can fix that issue!

“Deep breaths… this is a prerecorded tutorial.” Joe looked down at the new jar in his hands. It was shiny. There was a light gray tinge to the natural blue of the reshaped Core, giving the entire thing the look of a flame trapped in crystal. He really felt that he could have just sat and stared at this all day. Luckily, the tutorial had a voice associated with it, or he would have missed out on the opening lines.

When storing or using the aspects within the jar, a proper Aspect Array is required. Let’s go over how to make the most basic of Aspect Arrays: the Field Array! This is useful for times when you need to reduce something into aspects in the field, or when you just cannot be bothered to take it to a proper reduction site!

Take a look at the sketch, and try to form a three-dimensional version of the design around this Trash-ranked left boot! Once you have managed to form the array, place your jar next to the array and extend a line of mana to the indent of the jar!

More instructions will follow!

If the earlier section had been surprisingly easy, this section was riotously difficult. Joe had plenty of control over the mana when it was in his body, but it constantly wanted to steam away when he was extending it more than an inch past his skin. He ran out of mana over and over again, only getting better due to slamming his face against the issue constantly. He was sure that the tutorial helped, or he certainly wouldn’t have learned how to make the Field Array in the amount of time that he did. Then, he got it. It *clicked* into place.

Spell learned: Field Array. (Max). This spell only has a single rank. By casting this around a target and linking it to an aspect jar, the target can be reduced with a maximum of 5% loss, +1% per rarity level of target aspect! Fixed cost: 100 mana. Can be maintained indefinitely. User cannot move more than five feet from the array, or it will break and need to be re-made.

Skill increase: Mana Manipulation (Student V).

“Wow.” Joe stared at a message he hadn’t seen in far too long. “I suppose that makes sense… manipulation of mana outside of the body was really difficult.”

Congratulations on learning the Field Array! Let’s try it out: reduce the boot and guide the aspects that try to escape into the array, draining them into the jar!

A flash of mana later, the boot was gone. Light grey wispy fire illuminated the array, and all of it was pulled into the jar. He wanted to check it out, but the next section was already starting.

Great work! As a note: recreating the array with more permanent and aspect-absorbent material will allow you to minimize losses when reducing items or creating new ones!

Now let’s use the array to create a second Trash aspect jar! Using the array, surround the Core, link the Trash aspect jar, and place your hands in the ‘hands here’ aspect-influx zone. It has been highlighted this time, so make sure to memorize the pattern for future use! Then, guide the aspects along the mana tubules and convert the Core and aspects into the pattern required for an aspect jar.

It went quickly, just as it had before, and once more, there was a notification of a ‘Natural Aspect Jar’ being created, an error, and a congratulatory message from the system. Then, it seemed that the tutorial was complete.

Don’t forget that you can use more potent Cores to create larger jars! You can also vary the size of the Field Array to surround larger or smaller objects as needed! New information is now always available; in your crafting section, pull