“Good,” Alanic nodded. “What did you want to start with?”
“Well, first of all I’d like to know if you could help me defend myself against soul magic in the future,” said Zorian.
“Why wouldn’t I be able to help you with that?” asked Alanic, c*****g his head to the side slightly.
“I was told that spellcasters without some measure of soul perception can only cast the most rudimentary of soul magic,” said Zorian. And from his attempts to duplicate Kael’s spells, he knew that to be largely true—the only spell he managed to learn from Kael was the one that cloaked him from the soul perception of other necromancers, and Kael claimed that was baby stuff.
“Ah. You’ve been talking to a necromancer, I see,” Alanic said.
Zorian winced. “It… seemed like a logical course of action. I had a s
