With his new sword in hand, Tyler turns and looks at me, “1 to 10 how did I do.” He then starts to go through some forms with his new sword, getting used to it.

“About 9 out of 10. You didn’t do anything really wrong, just somethings you could have done better. I’ll show you tomorrow but we’ve been in here for 10 hours and need to get home.” I say back.

Tyler agrees and we head out of the tower. On the drive back I realize that {Pestilence} is in the system. That someone could just use it, not knowing its full capabilities. That they could wipe out nations with it. So I took a gamble.

“Um, hello, system can I modify a spell you copied?” I say to thin air as Tyler looks at me funny.

[WHY]

“Oh, it actually responded. Well, um, {Pestilence} is a little bit, um, unstable. I may have not set the ability to control who gets infected. Could I, um, fix that?” I say nervously as Tyler catches on to what I’m trying to do.

[YOU MAY MAKE THE CHANGES]

[THEY WILL BE CHECKED]

Then I was in a black void and I could feel I had my old power back. Quickly getting to work I started to change the spell in question. I first pulled up the spell form and scanned for where I could include a control run set. It would have to be big for this level of spell. I couldn’t find one. Starting to panic I asked a question. “Could I make a substitute spell to replace this one?”

[NO]

“Oh no,” I said out loud. I’d have to remake parts of the spell. Considering the fact that I was a proper tier 5, at least for now, I could probably make it better. Maybe. Pulling up the old spell form I got to work making it again. The first thing I noticed was how inefficient the spreading part of the curse was. I could probably gain the space I need for the control runes if I could fix them up.

I started to improve the spread runes, changing some entirely and swapping around other runes. Then I worked on the mana flow for the section. After who knows how long, everything fit into place. I now had the space for the control runes, slotting them in, and started to integrate them. When that was done I set the valid targets to tower-generated beings and demons.

I did feel a little bad that I was nerfing the only tier 5 curse but it had to happen. Finally finishing the spell I was pulled back to reality.

[SPELL HAS BEEN UPDATED]

Breathing deeply, I ponder on the fact that I just, probably, saved the world. I may have been the cause of it but hey when has that ever stopped anyone from claiming credit. Tyler looks a bit confused about what happened.

“So, I kinda know what just happened but to be safe, what just happened?” Tyler asks me.

“You know that spell I was talking about yesterday before we got interrupted?” I ask.

“Ya, it was {Pestilence} right? Why?”

“I may have forgotten what a fucking mess that spell was, It spread to anyone who didn’t cast the spell.”

“Did you fix it?”

“Ya.”

“Then that calls for more vodka.”