The results were in and they were informative… if a little confusing. Buying a new skill or ranking up an existing skill with skill points did in fact grant experience, even if it seemed illogical that would be the case. That was good to know, but the numbers involved made less sense; ten per cent for buying a new skill, another ten per cent for buying a new rank but twenty two per cent for ranking up a skill naturally? It was a strange, uneven number that didn’t seem to fit when everything else he had seen was an increment of ten at a time. What was the determining factor for the larger number, the fact he was improving the skill naturally? Or the fact he was increasing the skill from rank two to three, instead of one to two? Or was he also gaining experience for improving other skills in the background, like his new saw blade creation?

Unless he wanted to constantly check his experience after every single thing he did, or find some way to permanently display experience, it was likely he would never know for sure what factored into those numbers. For now it was enough to know buying skills granted experience.

The saw blade hovering above his palm had come together easier than he had anticipated, either because of the increased rank of his Mana Shape skill or because he had grown accustomed to manipulating the basic shape of a Mana Orb. Like his first attempts as Mana Dart it felt fragile and unfinished, although fragile wasn’t exactly the right word; malleable, like it would bend and warp rather than cut and slice. It had also drained more of his Mana so far than he had expected it to, which was strange considering it wasn’t any larger in volume than a Mana Orb; allowances had to be made for the extra time spent shaping the spell however and so far all of his spells other than Mana Slice seemed to cost more than the spell they were born from.

Oberon compressed the saw blade down, like he had done with Mana Dart and Flame Lance in the past, in an attempt to harden the circular shape and make it better able to withstand an impact with something. While doing so he paid particular attention to the serrated edges, flattening then down even further and trying to make then sharp as well as solid. Even when this was done it didn’t feel finished however and if he launched it at something as it was it would be nothing more than a particularly fancy looking Mana Slice.

He tried to set it spinning, using Mana Shape to rotate the saw in place and moving it faster and faster once he felt certain it wouldn’t fly off and harm either himself or someone else by mistake. Saws were meant to spin, to use the rotation and the teeth along its edge to wear away as much as it cut; this spell would be no different. Once it was moving fast enough that the teeth along its edge became a solid blur, a single unbroken circle, Oberon released the spell and launched it at a tree across the stream from the camp.

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Continued using "Mana Shape III" on "Mana Orb" to make "Mana Saw"
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[@Zeroth]