Eiro activated the 'Blink' spell on himself and his body imdiately started being pulled apart. His arcane magic enveloped his physical body and his cells, carefully cradling each minuscule fragnt of his being. The demon could feel that arcane magic then pull those fragnts away, like they were blown away in the wind.
Of course, that wasn't the case. The magic moved with specific, particular intention. His fully deconstructed body moved through the space in front of him. Luckily, his consciousness seed to stay fully intact within this body as he moved along through this spell, so he could potentially use this spell on other people without worrying he would accidentally kill them in the process.
Just an instant later, a fraction of a second from an outside perspective, Eiro's body was perfectly reconstructed. His body felt fine, he didn't lose any health points, and his clothes and other items were in great condition still. It seed like Eiro had managed to develop a wonderful spell.
The demon took a deep breath. Instead of creating the magic circle around him, he now reshaped his magic circuits into the form of the blink magic circle, allowing him to activate it almost imdiately. The only thing that he still had to do for now was speak the supportive chant, but Eiro was sure he could compress it down even further over ti. For now, actually using the spell was the best way to get a good feel for it, and the spell should beco a lot more efficient over ti.
For the ti being, though, Eiro figured he should have a bit of fun with it. He knew that shi had a similar ability, though it was an advanced ability developed through the high mastery over the freerunning skill. Eiro's 'Blink' spell was very different in nature to that.
The demon stepped up to the window and opened it up just a crack, waiting for the right mont. shi and the freerunning aspect were currently training outside, and should get to a nearby spot in the gardens soon. With a slight grin, Eiro blinked outside into the gardens. His magic carried his body outside, and he appeared in the middle of the small gravel path.
Eiro saw shi turn around the corner, hopping over a part of the nearby fence. The freerunning aspect was following behind, trying to keep up with the master's movents. Seeing the proxy original standing in the middle of the pathway, shi's mischievous side ca through as well. shi had a habit.
It's actually been rather annoying to Eiro. In the middle of training, shi would randomly pop up behind the demon and pat him on the shoulder. He would disappear again almost imdiately, before Eiro could even react. Of course, shi was lucky that Eiro had currently sealed away the effects of 'Ultimate Agility', and that he wasn't particularly keen on using the 'Stopwatch' card at the mont.
Eiro looked at shi and smiled lightly, and the demon knew exactly what was about to happen. He could feel the master's presence fade, and imdiately activated the blink spell.
Just as shi's hand was about to touch Eiro's shoulder, the demon's body fell apart into magic and appeared right behind the master, being constructed starting from Eiro's hand, which was placed steadily on shi's shoulder.
Startled, the master turned around, "What? How did you- What just happened?"
"I developed a new spell," Eiro replied, patting shi's shoulder. Excitedly, the master looked him up and down.
"What kind of spell was it? Was it so kind of illusion? I'm usually pretty good at seeing through those..."
"It wasn't an illusion. It's a 'blink' spell. Since I can't use spatial magic yet, I've improvised a bit," Eiro explained, "Basically, I break my body apart using arcane magic and then rebuild myself at my destination. The range isn't great, but I can move practically instantly."
shi's eyes widened, "A blink spell? Seriously? Teach it to !"
"I an, can you use arcane magic? Can you create 5-layered cascading magic circles? And can you compress around five hundred syllables into a single one?"
"... I can use a bit of air magic, if that's enough?"
"It's not," Eiro replied, "But hey, if i manage to simplify it to a point that makes it more practical for others beside , I'll teach it to you. You'd still have to improve your magic a bit before then, though."
"Ehh..." shi groaned, letting out a long sigh, "I'd rather not... Can't you just, like, zap it into my head?"
Eiro thought about it for a mont, but quickly shook his head, "I can teach you the theory of the spell like that, for sure. I can take Knowledge magic, turn it into a physical representation, and then place it inside of you. That ans you'll understand it for a little bit, but... you won't be able to do anythin with it."
shi clicked his tongue, "Fine. But you have to promise to teach it to then, alright?"
"Sure. I promise."
"Hah! Now you can't-"
"You know for a fact that I'm not bound by demonic oaths," Eiro interrupted shi, "I told you that's how I killed the devil."
"... Worth a try," shi looked away, "Anyway, keep up the good work. You're improving at a breakneck pace."
"Thank you. It ans a lot to hear that from you. I'm sure my freerunning skill is going to level up by leaps and bounds once my evolution is over," Eiro explained, smiling lightly, and shi raised his brows.
"Right, when is that happening, by the way?"
"According to the tir given at the start of my evolution, it should be another month. But it's not always perfectly accurate. Even so, the original body is currently at the beginning stages of reconstruction."
"Well, well, well... I'm very excited to see what you can do with your new body in a month, then. What would you say about a small race?" shi asked excitedly, and Eiro raised his brow.
"Am I allowed to use the blink spell and the full extent of my agility stat?"
"Of course! It wouldn't even be a challenge otherwise. No offence. Oh, but that stopwatch is cheating. Obviously."
"In that case, sure. Let's do it," Eiro responded, and shi imdiately grew even more excited.
"Perfect. I'm looking forward to it!"
With that, shi and the freerunning aspect continued the training, while the proxy original body continued to test out his new spell. It did require a lot of arcane magic, but he was able to gather quite a bit of it at this point. He just needed to syphon a bit of it from his bedroom where the actual original body was currently being bathed in massive amounts of it.
First, Eiro had to really test out the range. The further away the destination, the longer it would take. That in itself was logical, of course, but the issue was that it didn't seem to be a linear increase. It was like his arcane magic slowed down, very quickly losing its montum. It wasn't a big issue at short distances, but the blink spell left Eiro completely defenseless. Soone that could manipulate magic well enough might be able to completely ss everything up, taking advantage of that brief mont. So if Eiro's magic slowed down, that was too much of a risk for him to take, especially right now.
Though, theoretically, Eiro could travel to any point that he could directly see. Which, due to his eyesight, ant that he could travel as far as the horizon at any point, as long as the view wasn't blocked by a wall. Because of the way that the spell worked, the starting point as well as the destination had to be pre-determined, and the visual component was an important stabilizing factor in the spell's construction, so Eiro sadly couldn't just 'blink' to wherever he wanted.
Even so, that didn't an Eiro couldn't change the spell in the future. He was still developing it, after all. But even right now, the spell had a lot of advantages. Mostly, the fact that 'montum' was no longer a limiting factor.
When moving at extrely high speeds, stopping wasn't an easy thing. It required extre reaction and planning for Eiro, which ant that he wasn't able to move at his fastest particularly for short distances. But with the blink spell, in the middle of combat, he could move to a different position and even stance almost instantly.
Not to ntion, he could get into places that he couldn't get to as easily before. Like that window earlier; as long as he had a line of sight and a gap for the magic to flow through, Eiro could get practically anywhere.
Which actually gave Eiro another idea for sothing that he really wanted to try out with this new spell.
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