Third replay, this time as an Air Mage. I'm having trouble with getting the second set of spells - the rock lifts when D'arc levitates, but when he drops back on the ground, the key is covered again. What to do to move the key from beneath the rock, or to stop the rock from dropping back?

There should be something else in the Reading Hall to help you out.

Ah, It took me a bit to do the whole thing too. Surprisingly, the levitating part was harder for me to figure out rather then the other one.

This puzzle still may be hard if you have the item. You have to think like a riddle, its logic. A simple solution, but people will exspect it to zoom into there hand and overshoot the mark. You think you cant do thing A because of thing B, catch 22, but its simple, like a chinese finger trap. If your charcter were a theif instead of a mage in the Adventre game it would occure quickly.