If There Is No System, Make One Yourself.
"You-You... You want to learn my magic?"
What did Ciri just hear? A demon of chaos and darkness wanted to learn the god of order's magic?
"I do not think there's anything wrong with that."
Joshua did not understand why Ciri was so shocked even though she had already been in a state of fear the entire time.
"There really isn't."
Aside from a few sects, many mages in the world believed in multiple gods to diversify their magic.
Their faith had nothing to do with their strength because the gods only provided the seeds of magic. In order for them to bloom, it all depended on the mage's own learning.
Thus, most of the people in this world treated the gods as a tool to learn magic rather than faithfully worship them. Ciri belonged to that group.
If there was something that mages really worshipped, it was called "knowledge".
Ciri pulled out a wooden statue from her robe and placed it on the ground as pale white light appeared on her fingertips.
A few swipes on the ground later, a pale white magic circle radiated around the wooden statue.
"Just touch the statue with your hand."
In Ciri's world, the ritual was something everyone would go through when they were six years old. Regardless of their innate talents, they would be implanted with all kinds of magical seeds.
It was a necessary procedure in order to live in the human world, just like an ID card on Earth. A person would only be considered a citizen if they had one.
That was also the first time Ciri had ever hosted such a ritual. She was a novice who had not even gotten her second-level magic certificate yet. Hosting the ritual aside, to think that the target of her ritual was actually a demon!
If the god of order really existed, Ciri really hoped that divine wrath would not fall upon her.
That was the first time Ciri actually prayed to the god of order.
"Like this?"
Joshua did not sense any danger from the magic circle Ciri had drawn up. The magic power in the circle itself was minimal just like the Torch spell earlier.
So, Joshua just touched the wooden statue with his hand.
A pale white glow begin to gather at Joshua's fingertip and entered his body through the wooden statue.
The light grew stronger as the entire room was filled with shimmering particles. Once everything entered Joshua's body, he found something extra in his vision.
A series of complex words and symbols became visible to Joshua the moment he opened his eyes. There were at least hundreds of them, and the symbols were not of any language that Joshua knew, yet he could understand the meaning of the words.
The first character represented "1", and the second one, "0", alongside symbols for "A" and "B".
"Are these symbols in my eyes... runes?"
With a wave of his hand, the runes disappeared. But with just a thought, they appeared before him again.
Joshua had seen the runes before, and many of the prince's inventions contained a large number of those symbols. The runes replaced cogs and gears for the operation of his magically-powered machines.
"Yes, they are Runes of Order."