356 It's your turn!
Adrian was lying on the wet floor, staring at the ceiling exhausted and regretful. Luke was holding back from laughing at the whole situation, but when the young magician left, he completely fell over laughing.
When Adrian stood up, he quickly made himself available to clean up the mess. Drying up the place. With one of his hands, the young mage created a sphere of wind, which acted like a vortex. Sucking the wind in and blowing it out in an infinite cycle. The energy that small sphere had was gigantic.
With his other hand the young man created a small fireball. Concentrating his mana, he created that massive sphere of mana and heat. It was not large enough to be dangerous to hold inside the laboratory, its size should be that of a grape or an olive. Anything larger would be dangerous and could burn the extremely important books and research materials. The heat that this small sphere of fire produced was very great, radiating an extremely strong energy. Although it did not produce flames, it was extremely hot.
Adrian then carefully put the two spells together, joining both hands. The small fireball stood in the center of that larger sphere of wind. Creating a hot air that flowed out in all directions. Since that sphere produced no flames or sparks, the wind was not feeding the fire. The sphere remained the same size, just heating the wind from the wind vortex. Adrian then ran that spell through his clothes and over the floor.
The water that was scattered on the marble floor of the laboratory, was slowly evaporating, sucked up by the wind sphere or disappearing with the hot air. The young mage’s clothes were also drying with the hot wind, although still a little damp, they were no longer soaked. Adrian’s hair swayed in the wind from the sphere, and it didn’t take long for it to dry, although it was extremely messy.
Adrian began to tidy his hair with his hands, trying to leave it parted as he always keeps it.
This display of magic, although it seemed small, opened Luke’s eyes. The versatility that a magician had was amazing. Imagining the various possibilities that would appear to him with a greater understanding of the different types of elements was something that made the half-wolf extremely excited. There were, apart from wind magic and fire magic, three more basic types of magic, and the young man’s new goal was now to master the basic groups of magic.
Luke’s eyes were shining, with a will that showed his determination.
‘Before I leave the academy, I will master the basic elemental spells.’
Thought the half-wolf.
Although he knew that this task would be difficult, and was aware that his stay at the academy would not be that long. Proposing to complete a challenge was no doubt something beneficial to him, his mind was so turbulent with thoughts that even Balance was beginning to be bothered by what was occurring.
With the skills Luke already possessed, his combat ability was extremely high. If it weren’t for the curse, he would easily be able to conquer many dungeons by himself. But the possibility of being able to combine his skills with spells and blade mastery would make the half-wolf invincible.
Various plans and possibilities began to pop into the half-wolf’s head. He began to remember how Zhanid was able to combine several different types of spells, and how useful it would be for him to control this together with the use of his skills.
Amidst all these thoughts, an idea crossed Luke’s mind.
‘What would happen if I used Vind with wind magic and fire magic?’
[You would have two ways to control wind and one way to control fire. It would be hard to keep stabilized, but it would probably give you more freedom in how to determine the wind’s path].
Balance’s response left Luke excited, putting a smile on the half-wolf’s face. Which left Adrian with a confused face, watching the boy as he tidied up his hair.
“Are you okay, Luke?” The boy asked, still trying to fix his hair.
“I just thought of a good idea,” replied the half-wolf, who walked off to look for Megan.
In order to be able to test the use of magic with his skill, Luke would need to be in an emptier place, the beach at night time would be the ideal location. However, he still had reservations about how to control fire magic. The best person to teach him would be Megan.
They had already arranged to train together after they finished their research, so Luke went looking in each of the doors of the lab, searching for the young mage. After passing through half the lab, he finally found the girl, who was reading in a chair with a still angry face.
The half-wolf then closed the door and walked over to a chair, sitting down next to the young girl.
“You two really don’t get along very well.” Luke said, letting out a small laugh.
“I don’t know why, but he makes me so angry.” Answered Megan, closing her book. She then looked at Luke and continued talking. “I wish I could understand why there aren’t so many gentlemen like you in this world.”
The moment Luke heard this, he let out a small laugh.
“I’m a long way from a gentleman. Megan, maybe I just know better how to treat a pretty girl.” He spoke.
Hearing that made Megan embarrassed again, her cheeks flushed and she lowered her face a little, looking down.
Luke noticed this, and worriedly tried to change the subject, asking the girl for help.
“You know, I’m trying to unite wind magic with fire magic… But my mastery in fire magic is still pretty low, can you still help me now that we’re free?”
The girl then became excited, getting up from her chair quickly.
“Come on! Any you can take any magic-related questions with me!”
The girl didn’t even wait for an answer from Luke, just walking out the door and heading for the beach. The half-wolf got up right away and followed the girl.
Now they were both in front of an empty beach, the sun was already starting to go down, and the tide was starting to come in. The waves on the beach began to act with a little more force, pounding with much greater energy on the beach sand. The sound of the ocean waves soothed Luke’s heart, it was relaxing, clearing any problems that came into his heart.
Megan then put her hand out in front of her, pointing to the sea.
“Fire magic only needs two things, a direction and a fuel”
She then threw a small fireball towards the water.
“However, if you, for example, try to fuel a fireball with wind magic, the fire will consume its mana and the wind, increasing in size.”
Now, the young magician’s incantation created a small fireball that quickly grew in size. As the wind fed the fireball, it gradually grew larger, until the girl released that spell into the sea.
*Ruuuft*
The fireball flew off into the water.
*Pffffffffffffsss*
The sea water was evaporating, until that fireball went out.
Megan then turned to Luke.
“But there is the most important part, if you want to be able to control the trajectory or what your fire is going to do. You need to control the mana that you are putting in.”
The young mage then created on top of her index finger, a massive sphere of fire. It was the size of a small grape, similar to the one Adrian created. That sphere of fire was smooth, with a white and orange color.
“That is a concentrated Fire Ball, it will not consume the wind and can be directed where you wish. To increase the size of it, just put more mana into it. But be careful not to stop condensing it, otherwise it will become a simple spell and the wind will spread fire all over the place.”
Megan then pointed to the sphere of fire out to sea. And with a gesture of her hands, that little sphere went flying into the sea. Still during the trajectory of the small sphere, the young magician moved her finger, causing the fire sphere to make a curve. Back to the two of them. Megan then snapped her finger, extinguishing the small sphere just before it reached the two of them.
“If you control the wind around it, you will be able to alter the trajectory. If you decrease the mana you gave to the spell, it will disappear. It is only necessary to control it.” Concluded the mage, placing one of her hands on top of her chest. Proud of the explanation she had given.
Luke was surprised at how easily the girl had controlled that spell. Now it made sense how earlier, nothing had caught fire in the lab.
Looking deep into the half-wolf’s eyes, Megan megan pointed at him and said:
“It’s your turn!”