Chapter 387 (2/2)

“Where’s Boo?”

She laughed, kicking her feet in the water and splashi+ng us both “He was terrifying the dwarf children in the food lines, so I sent him to hunt in the tunnels” She frowned suddenly “I hope he’ll be okay What if so? I should have thought of that sooner”

“I can send Regis to keep hi my companionback froree Both of theis’s curiosity about Boo several ti

Ellie ses “Hey…why didn’t you come down to see us? You’re…it’s not because of Moather hts “It was etbut love for her It’s just…”

“Complicated?”

I kickedas they went “I don’t knohat’s best for her, El Ti that’s happened, starting the conversation, waiting for her to take the lead…”

Ellie shrugged “It’ll take time But you need to know that Morinned “And not just because you’re sohed, pushi+ng her sideways She slid down the ot soaked up to her knees, then splashed water at hter subsided, she noticed the keystone in my hand for the first tie keystone It’s like…an instructionon this one for a while, and I can’t seeress, I just end up at another dead end Except…” I hesitated, weighing rayclosely at its surface “How does it work?”

There was no way to separate these parts of h Not anymore “Do you want to help?” She nodded excitedly, so I quickly explained the training process I’d used with Enola and Caera “It’d be just like e used to practice for different shapes with your mana back at the castle”

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Ellie’s face scrunched with concentration as she held up a hand An identical cube forht, pureto go into the keystone It's hard to concentrate on my other senses, so Iuntil I come back, okay?”

“Got it,” she said seriously, letting the cube dissipate as she prepared to conjure a different shape

I nervously slid back into the keystone real any hopes or expectations For a an toamidst the otherwise forrayina ball of clay be h but recognizable bear I could see Ellie continuing to work at it, thinning the body, widening the legs, adjusting the bear's heavy brows When the bear began to walk, I lost focus

My eyes snapped open and I stared at the water in front of Ellie, where an identical little bear of pureacross the surface of the water She was so intently focused on her creation that she hadn’t noticed me return

Read first at " ReadNovelFullcoes adapted an affinity toward a specific element quite early on, but Ellie’s menter, Ellie used the pure mana from her core to cast, but used a bow to focus that er range than menters eventually revealed an affinity for a specific ele on aspects of that element due to the abundance of elemental mana in their core But Ellie’s had stayed pure She was the only non-elemental caster I knew Theain, I returned to the keystone realm There was the bear, out of focus but clearly visible, pacing around in the darkness Then the bear melted away, and a simple silhouette took its place At first the silhouette was featureless, but Ellie slowly addedhair, a little face, and distinct horns

A girl…Sylvie

I felt my throat constrict as her face came clear Molded from the blurry mana, she looked uncomfortably si her dissolve all over again…

Sensing ain, I pushed those old, painfulentirely on the shape

What a?

The purpose of the keystone was to guide ht over some principle of aether The first keystone had ledhad been bizarre, alht It was the journey that provided wisdom, not the keystone itself Less of an instruction e again It bloated out, ure expanded, for neck Sylvie’s draconic foroal was atheof a spell

Although I couldn’t be sure, I doubted that the djinn could see individual mana particles the way Realave theain soht

But what could that be? And why can I sense Ellie’s pure nedabout aether, not ht it provided had to be related to aether Caera had been able to see the reater understanding, and I doubted it even could, since she had no affinity for aether

Growing frustrated, I released my hold on the keystone realm and let my consciousness drift back into strouble with the complex motion Her face was pinched in a frown of concentration

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The djinn may have needed the keystone to see and understand howcast, but I didn’t

Earth, air, water, fire…

My gaze jumped from the cavern walls to the steamy air to the warm pools Mana was drawn to the physical elements it represented This roo cast, however, the atitate it

“Ellie,” I said, louder and more forcefully than I’d intended

My sister jerked out of her highly concentrated state, and the dragon vanished “Oh, darn”

“Never else,” I said in a rush “Create shapes that interact with the elements in the room Disrupt the water, stone, air…shoot it, whatever Get creative”

Without waiting for a response, I dove back into the keystone

After ain the dark Distantly, I heard the cracking of stone In the keystone, I watched a ripple spread out from where the arrow had vanished, inky black but not for the way thedown a hill

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This time, I watched the spot even more closely The arrow appeared, flashed, then vanished

Ellie shot arrow after arrow, and each impact set the at blades to push the air, and finally spheres like cannonballs to hurl into the peaceful water

But, although the treed nothing about how I saw the the inky black disruptions within the keystone realan anticipating how they would react to Ellie’s spells

I understood theit But… There was no new insight here

What aht back to ht e And Xyrus Acade to focus on my weakest attributes Then Epheotus, and how I’d needed to entirely change how I looked atnew techniques to adapt to the challenges I faced And then I learned about aether

Lady Myre had told me that aether was creation It was like a cup, mana like water Aether shaped mana It controlled the forons’ understanding of aether was limited This simplistic comparison was flawed…but that didn’t mean it couldn’t be useful

I atteh my body It didn’t work; my mind and body were too separate, tooto reach back forto er or force a bone to bend

I needed to sense two things at once, hold two separate ideas in an to feel the hard edges of the keystone infro in and out of

“Yeah, should I—oh! Are you…?”

“Still in here,” I said,to try so…”

And then I pushed I didn’t try to for a pulse of formeless, harled to keepthrough the roo the invisible mana particles move inside the aether reale to leave the keystone realain I wasn’t sure how long I kept trying, with Ellie continuing to disturb the atmospheric mana in whatever ways she could think up

Slowly, two opposing pictures formed in my mind

One was the shape of the aether The way it ardless of the physical space around me Then there was the itated by Ellie’s ic

I understood how the aether ht to cultivate there But where they interacted with each other…

The aether siave shape to the mana, and yet the mana continued to move exactly as expected of its nature

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My perspective shi+fted Suddenly I wasn’t just sensing the aether, but the shape of the ned itself to my new perspective, and, between one breath and the next, everything changed

Instead of an endless field of black nothing, I saw the rough shape of the grotto, painted in the colors of loith it, all the eleh her channels to be purified in her core

The colors ran together, the scene disappearing into a spinning vortex of mana, with me at its center Unlike the previous keystone, I didn’t feel the scouring sensation inacross my physical body, while at the saht bathe hts

My eyes fluttered open

Ellie was staring ather spells I sensed for the Godrunes They were there, dorive theainst my skin

I pushed aether into it

“Whoa,” Ellie breathed “You’ve got glowing purple tattoos under your eyes That’s so cool”

As before, e This new Godrune had a name, a purpose, a history, but it felt inco that was incomplete, but the djinn’s I instinctively understood that they had not taken this aether art to its full potential I could do more with it

And so I abandoned the name it had come with Asthe cave appeared all around me, I decided what I would call this Godrune

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