"Are you two just going to hug the entire ti?!" Eliza called down from up above, and Tallia pulled back from .
"Yes, you are supposed to be teaching ," Tallia said as she backed up, and my tails swished. The thing had a mind of its own, moving with my emotions more than my thoughts.
"Then co at ," I said with a smile, and Tallia nodded, dashing forward to punch straight at my face.
I raised a hand, catching Tallia's fist, twisting, and tossing her over my shoulder. Tallia flipped in that air, and the mont that she landed, she dove at again, going for the sa attack on my face.
I sidestepped Tallia, and it looked like she was going to fly by , but she planted a knee in my chest as she passed. I caught the knee, flipped backward, slamd Tallia to the ground, bounced away, and back on her feet.
"You aren't even using your strength against !" Tallia snapped as she got off the ground.
"Am I supposed to? I am trying to teach you so lessons, but I must know where you lack first. Why are you just coming at with fists? Where is the rest of your power?" I asked curiously as I dusted my sweats off.
"You want to go all out?" Tallia growled, and I nodded.
"Yes, but with less growling, or you will end up on your ass again. You have to stay calm in a fight, or you will lose more than your head," I said, and I could see Tallia visibly relaxed. "Much better. Now, co at with so magic. Don't worry about hurting ."
Tallia nodded, and I could feel the magic she was pulling in. I prepared myself, doing the sa, and placing wards and shields up to protect from whatever was coming.
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Points of light appeared in the air around Tallia and then shot at . This high-level binding spell would be used on a giant monster.
The pins of light slamd into but exploded on my shields, having no effect on , but that wasn't it. More points of light started to pepper , tearing off layers of shielding. Tallia was multi-casting and doing a splendid job, but she was just using the basic spell.
As my shields started to get down to the wards, I raised my hand into the air the sa as Tallia did. This ti, hundreds of points of light appeared around , and Tallia stopped casting.
"How can you make so many of them?!" Tallia gasped as she panted.
"You are very skilled to be able to multicast this spell over and over, but you should have changed the spell after the first ti failed. Doing the sa thing over and over and expecting a different result is the definition of insanity," I explained, dropping my spell.
"How am I supposed to change the spell?! You talk as if this is common knowledge!" Tallia snapped, and I walked over to her, moving behind her.
"Sorry, I don't an to make things seem like they are easy," I said, taking her arms in mine.
"What are you doing? Just because we had that talk doesn't an I am ready for you to start treating like the others!" Tallia growled, and I laughed.
"Yes, I get that, but that is not what I am doing here. If you want to learn how to change the spell, I need to show you how it works," I smiled.
"Fine, but don't get any strange ideas about this!" Tallia shot back, and I sighed. I wanted nothing more than to bury my face into her neck and surround her with my arms, but I would settle with this.
I called Pure Magic to , and I could feel Tallia do the sa. Changing a spell was not as easy as I made it look, but I had eons of practice.
"First, you need to create the spell without casting it. Do you understand what I an?" I asked, and Tallia nodded.
"You an to prepare the spell?"
"Yes. Let's start with sothing basic and easy to change. Both of us will create a Firebolt," I explained, and did just that, a small red magic circle appearing in the air.
"Firebolt," Tallia said, and the sa circle appeared, but she looked back at . "Why don't you have to speak to cast your spells?"
"Cos with experience and mastery. You can't wordlessly cast because you don't understand the principles of what you are doing. If you did, then you would be able to shape anything from magic. The spells that are taught are the basics of what the spell is. This ans that they always do exactly what they are supposed to. When you understand what you are casting, you can change the existing values and add new ones," I explained, and Tallia nodded.
"I think I understand what you an, but then why doesn't anyone else know how to do this? You can't tell that there aren't people in this world that understand magic like this, right?" Tallia asked, and I shrugged.
"There might be, but your world is so divided right now that most of you have no clue what the other is doing. Even though you are all connected through the Vine, you all act like you are living in separate worlds. What is the point of learning sothing if you can't share it with others?" I asked, but it was Tallia's turn to shrug this ti.
"I can see your point, but I am only one person. There is not much that I can do about this," Tallia said with a sigh, but Eliza called down from up above.
"Galio! They found Lady Katarina! She is being taken to the Barracks right now!" Eliza shouted with her hands cupped around her mouth.
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