Chapter 51: The Beginning of a Legend

  In Matthew's memory, Arists were broadly divided into four schools of thought.

  Elemental School:

  They were passionate about trolling and modifying elements, expl the mysteries of the world's position, and deeply researg the ws of various elements.

  Some preferred summoning elemental beings, expl elemental realms and worlds.

  Summoning water and fire elementals was their specialty.

  Most Arists in this school aimed to create more powerful, devastating, and wide-ranging elemental spells.

  Fireball was the most famous representative of this school!

  In his previous life, Matthew specialized in this path.

  To bat stronger enemies, he even developed the terrifying spell Elemental Annihition.

  It was this 13th-tier god-level spell that allowed him t three deities down with him.

  Life School:

  They delved into the mysteries of various lifeforms, seeking to uand the secrets of the human body.

  They aimed to use their research to gain longer lifespans or stronger bodies.

  At the same time, they performed horrifying experiments and modifications.

  It is said that the half-orc race inated from one such terrifying life experiment.

  Iolem, the chief Grand Arist of the heril Empire and known as a demigod, was the representative of this school.

  Iolem had lived for over 1,200 years, and earlier this year, he created a new 11th-tier legendary spell—Iolem's Loy.

  Each time this spell was successfully cast, it extehe recipient's life by 200 years, and it could be cast repeatedly.

  Weave School:

  These Arists focused on expl deeper levels of the Weave, researg and developing new spells from it.

  They were also dedicated to repairing damaged ses of the Weave, whi turn grahem rewards, knowledge, and spells.

  They explored the creation of indepe Weaves and had already implemehem on a rge scale.

  The floating cities and the massive maze locks of the Seven Towers cil were remarkable results of this school's research.

  Of course, the elves had explored this path even further.

  Karsus was a master of this school, and it was rumored that he was researg a new maion of the Weave.

  If successful, it could evee a new source of power for Arists.

  Time and Space School:

  Creating pocket dimensions, destroyiire phese were feats within this school's reach.

  They were fasated by the structure of space, seeking and developing undiscovered pocket dimensions to harvest resources aory from them.

  More than half of the heril Empire's territory existed in other pnes, discovered and explored by spatial Arists.

  Ste belts and other dimensional ste items were products of this school.

  Some Arists also aspired to master the power of time.

  They explored the hidden mysteries of time, attempting to develop time-based spells that humans could trol.

  Iingly, prophecy was another product of this school.

  Some Arists bihe flow of fate with the Weave, attempting to glimpse fragments of the future.

  The first two schools were more on, ating for 90% of all Arists.

  The st two schools were strange and powerful, and once mastered, these Arists became figures that no one dared to provoke lightly.

  Naturally, on Arist reached a higher level or became a Grand Arist, they would branch out to study and learn across the schools.

  Without the bes of his otherworldly experiend power to accumute experience, Matthew believed he would have stuck to his old path in the Elemental School.

  Given his current start and the advantage of knowing the narrative's dire, there was a high ce he could reach the heights he achieved in the game, and possibly even surpass them.

  But now, with the ability to hire subordio harvest experiend save vast amounts of training time, Matthew had more options.

  "Why choose just oh?"

  Silently asking himself this question, Matthew felt a rush of excitement and couldn’t help but smile.

  With a thought, Matthew brought up his personal attributes panel, where the Are Legacy se showed two "+" symbols.

  Each "+" symbol was apanied by the message:

  "Would you like to spend 1,000 experience points + 300 Fate s to activate araordinary legacy?"

  Matthew couldn’t help but feel grateful. Thanks to the Bloodhand Svers generously tributing a huge amount of experiend Fate s, he had the ce to seize this rare opportunity.

  Azure light filled the meditation space.

  Matthew savored the indescribable ges and the subtle effects of Fate’s influence.

  For now, Matthew could only accept these passively, but one day, he vowed to trol them actively.

  As the light faded, two brand new and magnifit Are Legacies appeared, filling Matthew with joy.

  Extraordinary Legacy: Flesh - Feat Analysis LV1.

  Analyze a target's feat, gather enough information, and through researd analysis, master the ability to activate and learn that feat.

  Current level allows for analysis of low-level feats only.

  Extraordinary Legacy: Weave - Animate Endowment LV1.

  Animate an energy-taining object, granting it sciousness and thought.

  Current level allows for animating ordinary objects only.

  The data indicated the effects of these two legacies.

  Iy, Matthew's thoughts and memories had also been filled with an influx of plex and obscure knowledge.

  From this knowledge, Matthew realized the intricate details and power of these two extraordinary legacies.

  Animate Endowment needed no expnation.

  Like the legends of sages who animated stones and pnts, granting them life aience.

  It was a wondrous and unique ability!

  This was also the most important ability for crafting legendary war structs and legendary golems.

  Its value was incredibly high!

  However, in the short term, it wouldn’t help Matthew mud would require signifit researd development.

  Feat Analysis, oher hand, was a game-ger!

  This was an unpreted divine skill, something Matthew had never heard of any pyer obtaining before.

  With Feat Analysis, Matthew could gain a deep uanding of most feats' formation processes after spending some time and effort.

  Simply put, Matthew could enable his soldiers to master additional bat feats in rge quantities!

  Matthew could also train his professional followers to acquire various feats in binations, resulting in a rge group of elite warriors with exceptionally strong bat capabilities!

  This was the beginning of a legend!

  Ideas and thoughts flooded his mind as Matthew imagihe wonderful prospect of training ae force, anders, or even boss-level characters under his and. He couldn’t help but ugh out loud.

  "Who knows, maybe I create even more unique professions. After all, many professions learn other professions' feats..."

  "Tomorrow, I start testing this. Who should be my first test subject?"

  In the now pitch-bck basement, faintly "sinister" ughter echoed.

  FAL