"Hahahaha," A bellowing laughter filled the room, what are you! a child!" She laughed.
"How about you stop laughing at and begin teaching magic? I’m useless in this state!" Ryan grumbled, though a hint of amusent flickered in his eyes.
Well, I guess I am not completely useless as I am slightly stronger than the average human due to those berries from the forest... But how can that compare to being able to send people to sleep by command or throwing a fireball? Ryan mused, rubbing his chin thoughtfully.
Eleanor smirked and said, "Alright, fine, let’s start with which attribute you are! Have you cast any spells yet? Successfully?"
"I have casted one spell successfully, ’Lux’!" Said Ryan with a proud smile.
Eleanor’s eye’s raised. "Hmm, light elent, you’ve lucked out there, Ryan!"
"Why? What’s special about the light elent?" Ryan asked, a joyous smile crept up his face.
"Well, it’s a pretty versatile elent with very few counters! You can do a range of things using light, from attacking to healing to... many other things! To be honest, light is quite a rare elent, and I have t few light users, so I’m not that well inford about the light attribute." She said, shrugging her shoulders.
Eleanor continued, "Light is even rarer than my second attribute, psychic... I would have preferred water but this one’s not too bad." Eleanor said it with a sad smile.
"How will we find out what my other attribute or attributes are?" Ryan said excitedly.
I hope I have the Earth attribute as well; I’m guessing it’s the best attribute for defence, which is probably going to be the only weakness of the light attribute.
"Well, you could try to cast a spell in each attribute and see which one succeeds; however, there are many attributes and your mana capacity is quite low as a first-tier mage, so that wouldn’t work, and... well I am a bit fearful of trying the normal attribute checking technique because of what happened to Toris, even though that will hopefully, only ever happen once. It’s not worth finding out whether that theory is true or not. So I think we’ll just use an attribute-checking stone later."
"An attribute-checking stone?" Ryan asked.
"Yes, they went out of fashion when the attribute technique was created, but they are still used in so Elvish coming-of-age traditions. We can obtain one from a rchant; however, they won’t open for a while. Any other questions?"
"Just one more: how do you test a person’s mana capacity?"
"Another good question, there are multiple ways: similar to a magic attribute stone, there is a magic capacity checking stone; once you touch the stone, it glows the colour of your attribute; dim if low capacity, such as an apprentice; and extrely bright if high capacity, such as a sage. Another way to asure your mana capacity is to check it yourself; however, as a newbie, it will be too difficult to use. If that’s all the questions for now, you and I are going to ditate until the rchants open!" Eleanor imdiately sat down in a lotus position and closed her eyes, shutting off her senses.
Why is she so eager to ditate? Psycho! Ryan followed suit, closing his eyes and searching for the elusive mana. Now, thanks to unlocking his sixth sense, the ditation technique had beco much easier to perform.
Inhale, exhale, inhale, exhale.
Ti passed quickly while Ryan and Eleanor were ditating; the sun had already risen to midday and it was becoming afternoon.
Suddenly, Eleanor’s multi-coloured eyes opened wide and gazed outside, following which she said, "Oops! We went a bit overboard on the ditation!"
"Ryan! Co on, let’s go eat sothing!"
...
"Ryan?"
A few hours ago...
Soon after Ryan entered his ditation state, his mind entered another realm.
"Where am I?" Ryan wondered aloud as his eyes scouered the new area.
The realm Ryan found himself in was unlike anything he had ever experienced before. It was the polar opposite of the void where he t the spirit and Jake. It was a place of boundless energy and vibrant colours, where the very fabric of reality seed to shift and twist with each passing mont.
As he looked around, Ryan noticed that he was standing on a vast, open plain, with rolling hills stretching out as far as the eye could see. The sky above was a swirling tapestry of light and dark, with streaks of color dancing across the horizon like ribbons of fire.
Curious, Ryan began to explore his surroundings. There were no other living beings here, bar him and the mana itself.
But as Ryan ventured further into the realm, he began to sense sothing stirring beneath the surface—a presence that seed to lurk just out of reach, watching and waiting with bated breath.
Instinctively, Ryan reached out with his mana sense, probing the depths of the realm in search of answers. And then he felt it—a flicker of recognition, a whisper of familiarity that sent shivers down his spine.
"Who’s there?" Ryan called out, his voice echoing across the silent plain.
There was no response, only the faint, distorted sound of colourful mana and the distant murmur of unseen voices. But Ryan could sense that he was not alone, that sothing or soone was watching him.
Ryan could tell that whoever was watching him was not soone he had to worry about; no, whoever it was, cared for him deeply.
But before he could explore further, he was yanked back into reality by Eleanor, who was shaking his shoulders back and forth.
"Ryan? Are you okay?" She asked, concern etched on her face.
Blinking away the remnants of his vision, Ryan shook his head, trying to clear his thoughts. "Yeah, I’m fine," he replied, his voice tinged with uncertainty. "I think I just had another strange... dream."
"That’s very odd; I’ve never heard of soone dreaming during ditation... are you sure you didn’t fall asleep?" she said with a sly grin.
"I didn’t fall asleep... I think?"
"What did you see?" She questioned.
"I’m not totally certain, it was another world full of colours flashing around, and... I think soone else was there."
Eleanor shrugged her shoulders, "Yeahh... You are probably just insane; did you at least recover your mana?"
"Recover? I can feel that my mana has recovered and the mana capacity has increased! but I can’t tell by how much." Ryan exclaid, which was followed by his stomach rumbling.
"Great news, let’s get so food and then go test your attributes and mana capacity."
The duo exited their room, making sure to lock the door behind them, and hopped down the winding staircase into the dining room.
The inn was much quieter today, so they quickly found a table near the window. Freddy the innkeeper soon approached them with a friendly smile.
"Back again, I see! What can I get for you two today?" Freddy asked, wiping his hands on his apron.
"We’ll have the Sunday special - 2 of them actually, one ad, and two waters, please," Eleanor replied, returning his smile.
Freddy quickly returned with the drinks and, a few minutes later, two massive stacks of roasted at and vegetables, accompanied by two small slices of toasted bread.
Ryan was over the moon at how delicious the mountain of food in front of him was, If the food from this world is considered bad by her, I wonder what her world’s food tastes like.
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