Agent of the Grave - Secrets of Death Question

[Maybryn]

We have an evil PC in our campaign pursuing the Agent of the Grave PrC from the Broken Moon adventure path, and wanted clarification on the Secrets of Death feature.

Here's the ability for reference:

Secrets of Death:

At 5th level, an agent of the grave draws upon secrets held by the Whispering Way to gain insights into necromancy. At the time he gains this ability, the character may add a number of necromancy spells that are not normally a part of his class’s spell list to his spell list. The number of spells that the character may add is equal to his Intelligence modifier. For example, an agent of the grave with levels of wizard might choose to add spells like death watch, inflict critical wounds, and slay living to his spell list, while an agent of the grave with levels of cleric might choose to add spells such as enervation, magic jar, and vampiric touch. An agent of the grave may choose to add spells he cannot yet cast—this does not allow the agent of the grave to cast spells of a higher level than he normally could, but rather merely grants him access to those spells when he reaches the level required to cast them.

The question is that, if a spell has multiple levels, which level would a character use for determining if they can cast the spell.

As an example, a wizard who gains this feature can select Inflict Critical Wounds, Mass for her spell list. However, the spell is listed as Cleric 8 / Witch 9, so would the character treat this spell as an 8th or 9th level spell?

[Spacelard]

Maybryn wrote:

We have an evil PC in our campaign pursuing the Agent of the Grave PrC from the Broken Moon adventure path, and wanted clarification on the Secrets of Death feature.

Here's the ability for reference:
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The question is that, if a spell has multiple levels, which level would a character use for determining if they can cast the spell.

As an example, a wizard who gains this feature can select Inflict Critical Wounds, Mass for her spell list. However, the spell is listed as Cleric 8 / Witch 9, so would the character treat this spell as an 8th or 9th level spell?

I would go Cleric...I assume the PC has completed his years apprenticeship to qualify for this PrC and is plotting against the PCs to ensure the success of The Way?

EDIT: Actually, after thinking a bit...you could take either if you really wanted. Not sure you would pick the Witch version though...