The Mountain Dwarves' stele was somewhat like the Wizard's Inheritance Crystal Ball, where predecessors had engraved spiritual messages into a medium, allowing others to view them through the use of spiritual power.
After probing the stele with his spiritual power, Richard quickly memorized the two inheritances.
However, during this process, Richard reluctantly found that both inheritances required a more fundamental Mountain Path as a foundation for learning. Merely obtaining the inheritances, with his current level, would take him hundreds of years to extract anything useful from them.
His accumulated knowledge was too shallow. He couldn't, like the older wizards, quickly digest alien knowledge and integrate it into his own combat system.
Thus, Richard found himself back at square one—starting with the basic inheritances first.
