Now that we have some basic ingredients we can make our blood altar:
And we need to get blood into that somehow, so now for Expert Mode's Sacrificial Orb:
The good news is, we don't have to go too far into blood magic to start getting our slates. However you will need a few of those Thaumcraft stones now.
And we should get our blood orb as well which will take a mana diamond:
Before moving on from blood magic, it is a good idea to get at least to the tier 2 alter which will require 16 slates to make the blood runes. Now let make a few brewing stands and send them trough the alter for our next journey.
Now at this point we have a decent infrastructure of all magic schools except the runic altar.
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