Nathan

  Year 2851 | Month 1 | Day 30

  And that makes one more spell.

  A faint smile stretches across my face as I watch the geyser of molten lava shoot up from the ground beneath the enemy soldiers’ feet.

  The spell in question was the first spell Juan has been teaching me to utilize lava. Or rather, to create it by applying just enough flames and heat to rocks to turn them into lava without just incinerating them entirely. And then to utilize said magma by having an explosive force shooting it in a single direction.

  Magma special class magicians are a major threat on the battlefield, but fire magicians can do some of what they do simply through the use of fire mana. Which is the entire point of this lesson.

  To teach me that you don’t have to have a special affinity of magic to do what those special affinities can do sometimes.

  Of course, that won’t work with, say, space magic or something. After all, I can’t alter space to teleport me with fire magic.

  It’s just not going to work.

  But I can use fire magic to damage and forcibly alter the earth at a much less efficient pace to do that same thing some earth magic does. Or use fire magic to create lava or magma and fire it off like a cannon like magma special class magicians can do.

  On another note, I glance up at the enemy magicians who have been bombarding me with lightning spells for a while now with more than a little irritation. Because the lightning tickles, and it’s getting very annoying.

  So I do what any reasonable person would do and blast them with death flames, making them run the hell away if they aren’t killed immediately by them.

  Then I return my focus to the new spell I made. Which Juan calls lava pillar.

  The spell seems to work, but it needs a few more tests to make sure it doesn’t have any unseen problems with it.

  After all, surprises in a battle thanks to a faulty spell are some of the largest reasons for fatalities amongst magicians. Ignoring stupidity and arrogance, which are the top reason for fatalities.

  On another note, Juan mentioned a couple things to me during our training that shocked the hell out of me. Even more so because he mentioned them as if they weren’t important or shocking at all.

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  Like the fact that apparently our entire continent was designated by the rest of the world as nothing more than a trash heap to send criminals centuries ago. And that apparently magicians aren’t complete selfish assholes on the other continents like they are here.

  It makes sense though if everyone on our continent is descendant from criminals.

  Every last person.

  Especially if our nations were made by said criminals.

  Although his revelation that he came from the other continents to look in on ours isn’t as shocking. Since that is the general consensus amongst the people anyways.

  At least, his coming to our continent from another is. Not the ‘looking in on our continent’ part.

  Anyways, those revelations at least make me less disappointed in humanity. So there’s that.

  “What did I say about using death flames?” I suddenly hear Juan’s voice, which sends a chill down my spine due to his exact words.

  Well, shit.

  I turn around to look at him as I answer, “You said not to use it until my fire magic is ahead of my death magic.”

  Juan nods his head while floating down from the sky and ignoring the fleeing army beneath us that seems terrified of the man. And for good reason.

  “And is your fire magic ahead of your death magic yet?” Juan asks with his eyes narrowed a little.

  I simply shake my head.

  Thanks to all the lessons I’ve gotten from the skeleton over the course of multiple months, my understanding of death magic is quite a bit ahead of my understanding of fire magic. Even with Juan’s instruction over the past week or so.

  Honestly, I’m more surprised by the fact that he’s planning on letting me use death magic at all instead of trying to limit me to just fire magic than anything. Since I was honestly expecting him to try banning me from using death magic at all.

  “I’m letting you use death magic once your fire magic surpasses it only because a magician must use all available means of strength they possess,” Juan says, clearly reading my thoughts on my face or something. Which is still unnerving how he does that. “The next time I catch you using death magic before your fire magic has surpassed it, I will be throwing you into a pit to personally experience fire magic and force your understanding to catch up quickly. Since you want to use death magic so much.”

  “Understood,” I state with a nod of my head.

  Although I can’t help but feel a tiny bit curious about this exercise he just mentioned. Because it sounds like a good way to train.

  The man blinks in surprise at the sight of me not at all frightened by the idea of that training exercise. But he quickly recovers as he turn to look at the lava on the battlefield and says, “It looks like you’ve finished the fundamentals of the spell.”

  I turn to look at it as well as I say, “I still need to test the spell to find any faults in it, but it is acceptable enough to be used away from allies.”

  He glances at me before nodding and looking at the battlefield again.

  I, of course, say away from allies because the spell could backfire and do things that aren’t expected. So it could hurt my allies.

  Neither of us care about it hurting me though, since I’m immortal.

  So it’s fine to use it when I don’t have any allies nearby. And I’m not trying to make it target a single individual.

  “The next lesson is to focus on your understanding of mana itself,” Juan says while turning to look at me with his eyes narrowed a little. “I am going to begin teaching you the fundamentals of controlling mana without mana circles.”

  Oh.

  A smile stretches across my face.

  This’ll be good.

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