Chapter 29: New Spells
The figure was rendered speechless by my words. In the end, he ended up abruptly stopping the dream altogether.
As a result, I suddenly shot wide awake.
It was at this point I had to think back on previous events to find out how I ended up in Jess's bed, with Jess herself wrapped around like a spider. It took a second, but I rembered that we were in the bath together and Jess was being stubborn about not letting go.
I thought she would actually let go of afterwards, but it would appear that was too naive of . Despite her being asleep now, it was unrealistic for to slip out of her grasp because not only were her arms around , but her legs were as well.
It felt suffocating, and I could feel my body tensing up once more. I guess while I worked hard to do it before, that didn't an I could just do it on command.
Soon after I had tensed up, Jess slowly opened her eyes as well. It appeared she had sohow sensed the change in my body. There was a small smile on her face as she used a hand to stroke my hair.
"Shhhh... go to sleep, ok?"
It felt both comfortable and uncomfortable at the sa ti. A bitter smile ford on my face. If I really had to go through with this every single day... that would be exhausting.
Yet, I suddenly rembered sothing. I was able to ditate while eating food, blocking out my external sensations. And so, I closed my eyes and tried to focus on ditating. It was definitely a little hard at first, but with ti I was able to do it.
The mana in my body beca clear to .
While my muscles were still tensing up, it was easier to calm them down. At the sa ti, I practiced moving the mana around in my body. After perhaps an hour or so of that, I finally ended up falling asleep.
...
When I finally woke up again, I found Jess lightly patting my face, getting to open my eyes.
"It's ti to go to school."
With a yawn I got up, rubbing the back of my head. I still felt a little sleepy, but if nothing else I felt well-rested.
I was already clothed, so I simply went down to have breakfast. Jess hurriedly followed after , and it seed she was upset that I didn't wait for her to go with . It appeared like there were many tiny things that she wanted from .
Regardless, when we did end up getting into the carriage together, she didn't bother . I half expected her to force to sit in her lap or sothing similar, but thankfully she didn't do anything.
I spent the ti ditating.
Upon making it to the school, after just walking a few steps I felt soone tapping my arm.
"Hey, do you mind spotting a piece of gold? I want to buy an animal so that Edward can practice his blood magic on it. He gets too nervous when I ntion trying to help soone else drain blood."
I gave a quick nod before pulling out a piece of gold from my pocket.
By the way, there were roughly one hundred of them on . It made wonder how much Nathan had, because if a al cost ten gold coins, then surely a pig would be more than that.
It seed he was saving up quite a bit if all he needed was one gold coin.
After taking it, Nathan pocketed it without another word. Then the two of us proceeded to enter magic class. Raisa enthusiastically turned to with a smile and waved her arm unabashedly.
"Hi, Bryson!"
I gave a small wave back.
"Hey little ki- I an, Raisa."
Arianne clearly was hesitating, but she did end up greeting as well.
"H-Hello Bryson!"
She imdiately covered her mouth right after, probably because she said it way louder than intended. I simply chuckled lightly while waving towards her as well.
"Hello, Arianne."
I couldn't help but notice that Ela was staring at like a hawk, with her sa stern expression. It seed she didn't expect to get on familiar terms with this many people.
I didn't focus on it though and just went to my seat.
After the last few people walked into the class, Harold cleared his throat and tapped the board to announce the start of class.
"Today we will be doing sothing a little different. We will be learning the fire spell, but because of its more dangerous nature, we will be having the lesson in the target range. The fire spell itself doesn't have any propulsion properties, but you can still throw it manually with a flick of the wrist."
He stood up from his seat, gesturing for the rest of us to follow, and so we did.
I couldn't help but think of finally being able to burn the book, but in fairness, it seed like it would finally leave alone. For now, I wouldn't burn it, but if it started to act up then I always had sothing to fall back to.
It did not take too long for us to make our way to the target range. It actually ended up being even larger than the gymnasium. From a rough estimate, I saw that there were targets that were even a kiloter or so away.
There was also a chalkboard in the room, which Harold used to explain the fire spell. The rest of us stood around, watching him. Once he finished, he once again emphasized safety.
There were several different markers along the practice range in different colors.
Harold explained that we should use the gray markings to indicate how far we should be from one another. They were also the ones that were closest together, roughly two ters apart. It seed like when we needed to learn even more powerful spells, we would have to stay further apart.
Nearly the entire target range was covered in the sa black stone that the class had. There were large targets far off in the distance, with varying shades of gray, but still made out of the sa stone.
For us, we had target dummies just a few ters away that were similarly made of that sa stone.
While each of us took a spot, Harold called out soon after.
"Rember the first and most important step! It is easy to hurt oneself while casting the fire spell. The entire ti you must channel your mana to coat your body to prevent the fla from burning you. Keep in mind that this only works because the spells you cast are naturally attuned to your own mana, it will not work with others as they are differently attuned, so keep it away from one another!"
Hm... that was quite interesting. What if there was a way to change how your mana was attuned? Wouldn't that an you could theoretically cancel out another person's magic?
Well, that was a thought for later.
I focused on channeling my mana, forming a thin layer around my entire body. With the ditation I had done recently, this wasn't too hard. However, it was noticeably harder to cast the spell while also maintaining the layer of mana.
Regardless, I had ditated while eating before, so this much wasn't too hard for .
Slowly but surely, I ended up casting the fire spell, causing a tiny ball of fire to appear on top of my finger. My eyes flew open as I watched the tiny flas dance in front of . I could feel the warmth on my skin, but it wasn't painful because of the mana shielding .
I then flicked my wrist, throwing it at the target in front of .
A tiny explosion seed to be on the verge of occurring upon collision, but it rapidly dispersed right afterward.
Raisa let out a cry of surprise.
"You already finished casting?"
I blinked a few tis.
"Uh, yeah."
It was then I noticed most people were looking at in shock, including Harold. As for Nathan, he didn't care at all, which was expected.
Sam's eyes widened as he blurted the thoughts in his mind.
"Impossible! You... you must've..."
Harold rubbed his chin as he looked at .
"That is quite impressive. Have you already practiced the fire spell, Bryson?"
I shook my head.
"Nah, first ti."
Harold narrowed his eyes slightly.
"Your focus is impeccable! It's a sha that your talent isn't higher..."
I waved my hand dismissively and chuckled.
"Haha, I like to see it as being thankful that I have the talent in the first place. There are plenty of people that don't have it, no?"
Harold was stunned for a second, but ended up laughing as well.
"I suppose I was looking at it in too negative of a light."
Shortly after he said a large fireball ford among the students. It was Nathan, and the fire he conjured was nearly bigger than him. His eyes flew open in surprise while he awkwardly leaned his head back as he stuck the hand holding the fire spell out. There was a frown on his face, almost like he was facing sothing disgusting.
He seed to be sweating, but it was cold sweat more than anything.
"Ah, shit! I thought I put less power in this ti!"
Harold looked over and also began to sweat. He raised his hand and seed to be casting sothing to salvage the situation.
With a weak lob, Nathan threw the fireball forth. It just barely made it to the target, but that was more because of the size of the thing rather than anything else. It looked like a rather huge explosion was about to occur, but before it did the fires quickly dissipated.
Harold let out a sigh of relief as he lowered his hand, not casting the spell.
After the fires dissipated, Nathan put both hands on his hips with a frown. Harold called out to him.
"Natan! While your magic aptitude is high, your control is weak! You must work on that."
Nathan took a deep breath before leaning over dejectedly.
"Yeah, I know. And here I thought I was getting better at controlling it. Guess it's harder than it looks..."
I couldn't help but rember the number of tis Nathan had complained about the main character having difficulty in learning spells. He had always jokingly boasted about being able to learn all the spells in a flash.
And under normal circumstances, that wasn't too big of a deal to boast about, since a situation where you were required to prove yourself realistically wouldn't appear. I an, it's not like you could expect reincarnating as the very main character you always talked trash about.
Regardless, Nathan was actually progressing fairly well. By my estimate, it was roughly on par with my pace, because it was harder to control larger volus of mana. Still, I was pretty sure my learning speed was faster by a decent amount.
I guess the tables turned when we reincarnated, considering he was better at studying than .
Though, soon after soone clapped rather exaggeratedly
"Wow, you're so good at this Natan!"
I looked over to see it was Charlotte, one of the capture targets. This was honestly quite surprising as she was actually a noble herself. But even more than that, we were still in the prologue stage, aning there shouldn't have been an event for him to get to know her.
I saw that Nathan didn't seem pleased at all, only having a tired expression on his face.
Ah, it seed he attracted her unintentionally.
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