Once per Day

The airship captain's cabin was quiet for a moment.

Sitting on my bed while I sat on the floor, Sash rubbed his chin with one hoof while the other slowly rocked one of the beads of his abacas back and forth. "So, disregarding the bits we gave to the prisoners," he murmured, squinting one eye and tilting his head back. Even though this was chump change compared to the escapade I'd just performed, it was still nerve-wracking waiting for him to finish. Sort of like waiting for Christmas morning.

After a moment, he nodded and began working his abacas again, faster this time. "Now, you agreed to only take one share of the money for your personal use, while we hold back the rest for use by the Children." I slowly nodded and leaned forward. He paused, narrowed his eyes, and tapped two beads backward before slowly nodding and grabbing the quill beside him with his teeth. Carefully applying some ink to it, he wrote down his calculations and then considered them. After somewhere between a few seconds and forever, he nodded. "Yes, I believe that's right." I sprang forward and snatched the paper from him and read it.

My breath hitched and my palms began to sweat. "That's a lot," I huffed.

"Indeed it is," Sash replied before smiling and then recoiling. "Victor?" I blinked the dancing lights in my eyes away and turned to him.

"Yeah?" I asked. He looked at me in bewilderment for a moment before adopting an incredulous leer.

"Are you- Your eyes were-" I gasped and waved my hand.

"Right, right, right!" I scrambled and pulled out my book before hunting for the page on leveling up. Once I found it, I narrowed my eyes. "Gold to experience ratio, uh. I think I'm level-" I grimaced with a wide frown.

"Six?" I hissed through my teeth. I gave Sash an uncertain look which he matched as his eyes darted left and right.

"Is that good?" He finally asked.

3rd Level

Fly: My power level plus some weird metric times ten minutes. I can fucking fly!

Hold Person: My power level plus six times ten minutes. Victims who fail to resist are frozen in place until the spell ends. I can use it on up to 4 things, but if I focus on just one guy it's way harder to resist. Surprise! It doesn't work on four-legged things. Getting sick of you and your 'horses ain't people' xenophobic bullshit Gary. ~~You win this time Honeysuckle.~~

Dispel Magic: Ten minutes. Stops magic for as long as this spell lasts. Doesn't work on magical items. It also has a weird-ass limiter on magic used by stronger spell casters than me based on the 'ratio' of difference between us. Basically, if they're like twice as strong as me, this only has a fifty percent chance to work.

Clairvoyance: One hundred twenty minutes. A weird one cause it apparently functions like ESP in the Level 2 section, but it lets me 'visualize rather than merely pick up thoughts.' I don't know what the difference is.

Clairaudience: Fuck both of these spells, cause this one works as above but lets me 'hear rather than visualize.' ??? I can apparently cast it through a Crystal Ball, so ????

This confusing shit is making me think the Satanic Panic wasn't that big a deal.

Fire Ball: Scratch that. We're so fucking back. The only weird thing is it has a duration of ten minutes. Haven't had a chance to test it, cause Sash won't let me try aboard the ship. It allegedly hits stronger the more powerful I am.

Lightning Bolt: We've never been more back. This one gets stronger the more powerful I am as well, but apparently if it hits something before it's fully extended it will bounce back. Yikes.

Protection from Evil, 10' Radius: It's just Protection from Evil, but with a wide space and lasts twice as long. Neat.

Invisibility, 10' Radius: It's Invisibility but with a wider space and only lasts for one day. 'Infravision' can still see whatever I cast this on, apparently.

Infravision: Speak of the devil. Lets the recipient see infrared light waves for one full day.

Slow & Haste: Noting these down together cause they're just the inverse of each other. Slow lets me slow down up to 24 creatures in a broad area. Haste does the opposite. These spells counter each other and last for thirty minutes each.

Protection from Normal Missiles: One hundred twenty minutes. Subject becomes immune to missile weapons, like arrows and shit. Normal ones. That's sick as fuck, but it's really fucking funny to me for some reason. Normal missiles. Would an ICBM count as normal? They're pretty normalized back home. Hm.

Water Breathing: One hundred twenty minutes. Gee, I wonder what this one does?

Explosive Runes: Wild. I place a rune on a thing, like a book, parchment, map, whatever. If someone other than me reads whatever the thing is, the rune explodes. I can remove them whenever I want, and magic users stronger than me can attempt to remove them. I suddenly feel a mighty urge to write Honeysuckle an apology letter for all the mean things I've said about her mom.

Rope Trick: Sixty minutes plus my power level times ten minutes. I can take a length of rope and throw it into the air where it will hang. I and up to three others can then climb it and vanish into a pocket dimension at its top end. I don't know what happens if we're in there when the spell ends, but apparently, if the rope is pulled down while we're climbing it, we'll fall.

Suggestion: If the creature fails to resist this spell, it will do what I say when I cast the spell. The suggestion itself must be short and simple and I can't just make them off themselves. However, this one seems like it works on any creature. For one week, at least.

I knew you had it in you, Gary!

Monster Summoning I: Sixty minutes. Lets me summon three to six weak, weedy little monsters to help me. I need to consult the monster list to know for sure what all I can call. They do their best and do as I tell them, but vanish when the spell ends or they are killed. The I in this one's name does catch my attention, however. Kind of directly implies there are better versions waiting down the road.

Oh, and it takes the monsters ten minutes to actually pop up for some reason. Maybe it literally calls them from my surroundings? Gotta consult the monster book.