* In [[https://www.fictionpress.com/s/2961893/19/Mother-of-Learning Chapter 19]], both Zorian and Taiven have such moments in their practice duel: the former by blocking Taiven's initial volley of missiles and nearly incapacitating her with [[TrickBomb a vial of alchemical gas]] and the latter by, while blinded and choking, sensing Zorian's smasher and ''[[CounterAttack blasting straight through his missile]]'' to hit him.
* [[https://www.fictionpress.com/s/2961893/26/Mother-of-Learning Chapter 26]]:
** Through a small bit of soul magic and some clever trickery, Zorian does something even [[TheAce Zach]] was never able to accomplish. [[DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu He defeats Quatach-Ichl.]]
** Zorian is barely holding his own against the third time traveler through the use of his mind magic, he can't do more spells lest his mental defenses falter, and his opponent is significantly physically stronger than him. Zorian's solution? Pull a gun.
---> "You shot me!" the Red Robe's voice yelled hysterically behind him. "What kind of mage uses a gun!?"
* In [[https://www.fictionpress.com/s/2961893/52/Mother-of-Learning Chapter 52]], Zorian attacks the mind of a skilled necromancer through one of his undead and uses his enemy's vulnerability to seize control of their massive skeletal dragon and fly it straight into the ground.
-->For a moment, everyone around Zorian halted and turned towards him in silence.\\
"Holy hell," somebody said. "That actually worked."
* In [[https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/21220/mother-of-learning/chapter/321479/75-soul-stealer Chapter 75]] we get one for a plant. The soulseizer chrysanthemum proves to be a threat to two archmages through it's unique powers and cunning.
* Doubles as Heartwarming in [[https://www.fictionpress.com/s/2961893/91/Mother-of-Learning Chapter 91]], but everyone giving their lives to hold off both Panaxeth and the Guardian of the Sovereign Gate so that Zorian can escape the time loop is truly something to behold. Highlights include:
** [[BigBrotherInstinct Daimen]] slashing his own wrists and using all of his lifeforce to stabilize the dimensional prison.
** [[TricksterMentor Xvim]] staying behind to maintain the portal.
** Several of the other loopers entirely [[HeroicSacrifice disregarding their own safety to protect Zorian.]]
** Zorian not allowing even death to slow him down as he dissociates his soul from his body and successfully escapes from the dimensional prison and returns to his original body.
* [[https://www.fictionpress.com/s/2961893/102/Mother-of-Learning Chapter 102]] provides several examples of just how amazing a mastery of shaping magic, spell formulas, and soul magic can be.
** Upon seeing that a simulacrum of Quatach-Ichl is enacting a complex demonic summoning ritual, Zorian decides to enact his own summoning and calls forth the high ranking angel he and Zack contacted earlier in the month. It's then revealed that the angelic summoning was specifically designed with Zorian in mind as his unrivaled shaping skills allow the spell catalyst to draw forth untold amounts of ambient magical energy, bypassing the issue of Zorian's modest magical reserves to enact an incredibly powerful and widescale spell.
** Zorian is left nearly helpless as he has to focus all his attention on enacting the aforementioned summoning ritual with only two of his magical constructs and his brother to protect him. It proves to be more than enough.
*** Zorian's golem, Mrva, entirely [[NoSell No Sells]] everything the three enemy battlemages can throw at it before temporarily knocking both Red Cloak and Silverlake out of the fight, forcing Quatach-Ichl to use his own constructs to slow Zorian's down.
*** With Mrva out of the way, the skeletal mage releases a full arsenal of attack spells, none of which reach Zorian thanks to the interference of his custom made magic cube, which disassembles itself into smaller copies and intercepts everything the lich can throw at it. When the dragon mage Oganji tries to eliminate Zorian through the use of an artillery level fire ball, the cubes wrap around it and [[SpaceMaster teleport it to its very own pocket dimension.]] In the end, Zorian proves himself to be so untouchable that Quatach-Ichl is forced to temporarily retreat and assist his simulacrum in its demonic summoning lest Zorian finish before them.
** In what appears to be a last ditch effort to stall for time so that the Primordial ritual can be completed, Red Robe sets off several [[OurGhostsAreDifferent Wraith]] [[TheVirus Bombs]] throughout Cyoria with just a snap of his fingers. Zorian, who has extensively studied Sudomir's Soul Well and the Soulseizer Chrysanthemum during his stay in the Sovereign Gate, proceeds to [[BadassFingerSnap snap his own fingers]] and [[OutGambitted activate the Wraith Wells he set up throughout the city]], neutralizing every wraith released and rendering Red Robe's DeadMansSwitch useless.
* [[https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/21220/mother-of-learning/chapter/452736/106-i-win-iii Chapter 106]] is a epic moment for Zorian. By spending months studying the soulseizer chrysanthemum, he created a spell that allows him to bypass a mind blank, the ultimate mental defense, by learning how the chrysanthemum attacks the mind through exploiting its connections to the body and soul. Zorian then uses this spell on Zach and Red Robe which allows him, with the aranean's help, to trap them both in a [[LotusEaterMachine highly realistic illusion]]. He then uses this illusion to convince Zach that he's the only person alive who remembers the time loop (even anticipating that Zach might think to check the minds of the people around him), which allows the man's contract with the angels to be dissolved, freeing him. Zorian uses a second illusion on Red Robe that convinces the villain that he's won and all his enemies are dead, and by making him think time is passing, has him reveal all of his contingencies which would have been triggered in the event of his death, before finally killing the maniac once and for all.
--> He was Zorian Kazinski, third son of a minor merchant family from Cirin, accidental time traveler, and quite possibly the most powerful human mind mage in all of Altazia…\\
…and he had won.


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