Chapter 38: In the Meantime (2/2)

"Exactly! Watch, it can go even further" I de a yellow flaes still aflame

I didn't stop there The last demonstration took a bit more time, since I had to manipulate, very carefully, the fire attribute mana in my palm After a couple of minutes, I produced a dio wide Upon throwing the blue flame at the towel, the towel instantly co away at the towel until only ashes were left

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Just then, Elijah walked in, his hair a bird's nest and his glasses crooked He cast a drowsy glance toward us, taking in the sight ofhard at uys doing?" he said as he yawned, rubbing his eyes

"Training" We replied in unison, h avethe structure of his flaher-level fla the structure of the attributevocal incantations could condition the brain to change the structure of the mana in the at into a meditative position, e stage in order to learn this though?"

"The higher your er pool of her quality, so you can have more control over the, ht pal was a bit slower What I realized with Elijah was that his control over his main element, Earth, was unstable, metal even more It wasn't so much as a problem with mana manipulation of earth attribute mana, but more so the quantity Elijah's lack of control over the strength of his power made it so he couldn'tthat continued to baffle ic was how unfair it was Earth was powerful, yet limenters alike could only make do with the earth that was accessible to theave a certain aes used

Elijah, on the other hand, seee the structure ofI could think of thatakin to alchemy Elijah, for exas made of wood A limitation is that he wasn't able to conjure earth spells froe the structure of earth and its properties was frightening, even to ht about the possibilities of how his powers could be used, I thought of the spell, Petrification When normal earth conjurers used the petrification spell, it was actually just using the surrounding earth to for" hih, could literally change a huhtening thoughts At this point, I was just glad that Elijah was a friend, not a foe

Elijah's training consisted of playing around with a ss with the s the shape of it, expanding it, condensing it, splitting it into different pieces, etc This way, he could train both histhe so-called "theory" of how the spells worked

As , I headed back tothe two of theht ofso defenselessly onfro the a; fortunately, these periods of slue of the bed, I took out the beast coreof mana The mana inside had been depleted so I was curious as to why it hadn't dissolved However, upon probing a bit deeper, a sharp pain in my left arm made me drop the beast core

"What the hell?" I rubbed the rune on my arm that I had always covered underneath Sylvia's feather Carefully picking up the beast core again, I probed it once ued than before Suddenly, inside the vast black space of the beast core that I was studying, the shadowed figure of the elderwood guardian that I al at me with its lance pointed directly upward

"A beast will!" I trembled in excitement as I clutched harder at the invaluable prize I had obtained frorate with two beasts? Was that possible? Would I then have two? Or would this one replaceof these things, a sudden feeling interrupted me It wasn't as intimate as the mental transmissions I had with Sylvie, but a pri that it was frouardian, I injectedit would somehow allow me to have a better connection with it

"I see," Iof disappointo of the beast core Fro to express, if I were to try and absorb this beast's will, only the stronger of the tould end up being left It made sense, but what I didn't understand asn't my father able to absorb the beast's will?

I realized the answer al what Grandpa Virion, that crazy old elf, taught me a few years back There was the matter of coe's element attribute

I couldn't help but let out a sive this to

'Good ?' Sylvie cuddled up on my lap and let out a purr as I stroked her fur-like scales

"I' to be," I answered

"Brother! Wake …oh!" My sister slaup, I patted o eat!"