"A guide to smooth - Foreword

So you have mastered zr-drb and now want the classic smooth crv, because you just can't decide when reading through your SpC collection. You do understand the potential to simply go for a zr-wfl, jd-wfl or variations of it and have decided against them.

Do you meet these criteria? Then this book is for you.", Sigmund skipped some pages which rapidly devolved into jargon involving diagrams, awefully specific numbers with specific shard costs and unknown operators. This book truly was not written for people like him, and he hadn't even seen any books about wfl. Now that was some new knowledge, but there was not really a way to apply it, it was merely some words that loosely connected to other words that did not connect to any of the things he understood, it wasn't a good place to start. He grabbed an SpC book, it detailed shard cost formulas, jargon, the same incomprehensible diagrams and vague descriptions of highly variable magic effects including some partially already known concepts like colors and physical forces. It was a complicated and intricate thing, that probably assumed you had mastered some sort of technique which could be drb, wfl, str or crv and owned the required shards or something like that - and even then Sigmund would not have the slightest clue what thing would happen if he were able to perform a magic from the relevant SpC. Just experimenting could be dangerous or wasteful.

Maybe economy books were better? He could just let someone else do the magic- if there were trustworthy people somewhere. He grabbed the 'Shard General Compendium A2' to read up the exchange rates.

Apparently there were two values, the ma value which the #E02 shard was 1 worth of and the dC value, that many different shards were 1 worth of, there could be high ma value shards with low dC value and vice versa.

There were shards that had a 0 in dC, but a shard could never be 0 in ma, but it wasn't explained what dC or ma meant, so in the end it probably was all relative and higher numbers meant higher value. It wasn't explained where shards came from and how to get shards in the first place, just their relative values. Was this book worthless?

Probably not completely, but really it didn't shed any light or provided any opportunities.

Mostly it showed Sigmund which magics were more expensive and which ones were less so - unless the Shard wasn't part of the book, which sometimes was the case. Just how many different Shards were there? Who was cataloguing them? Were these just the notes of a singular immortal person? If yes, who had collected all this knowledge of this entire library and how? Every new book created more questions and didn't answer any. The big picture had begun to take on more shape, but it was like finding pieces that indicated a puzzle of titanic size.

It had been a big waste of time to look at those books, Sigmund concluded.