Blood Successor
Chapter V
Wind Users
To the west of the chapel was the town which known for its systematic build and to the east was plainly forest. Walking to the north for approximately twenty minutes and people will get by the shore and the forest to the east was connecting to the south side of the chapel. Therefore the chapel was mainly covered by the so-called cursed forest.
The cursed forest was a maze with foul stench of corpse and filled with spooky flora and some was said to move and have thoughts of their own. Several occasion such as howling and screeching added the effect to these rumours.
Outside the chapel, Adel and the other guy were quietly listening to Peblo’s lecture. The old man sat on the stairs in front of the door while the two boys sat on the floor.
“Basically there are five elements in our world and that is fire, water, earth, metal and nature.” He paused a second and continue “these elements counter each others in nature but with an exception.”
“So what’s this other element and what exception you meaning, old man?” the other guys asked.
“Hold your horses Seth.” He took a glanced at Seth “Fire burns nature, nature devour earth, earth takes in water, water distinguishes fire.”
“Hey, where goes the metal?” Seth asked eagerly.
“Can’t you be quiet like Adel?”
“How can I be? I’m not him and he’s not me and he knows magic and I don’t”
“Forget it!” Peblo sounds a little mad “Element counter each other but they can support each other too.”
Peblo took a sip from the cup beside him and continue his lesson “Element can be combine, for example you casted earthquake and then you casted another element that is fire you transform your magic into an earth magic that burns.”
“You could have just said it’s a volcano, old man.” Seth interrupted.
“No, you cannot. To make a volcano from nowhere into somewhere you need to add a little metal and water element.”
“That is so very complicated but for a genius like me it has got no problem.” Seth self-proclaimed and he laughed.
“Too much of your self-praise and you’ll have a taste of defeat someday.” He paused a moment “Enough about combining magic and would you please explain enhancing magic for us, Adel?”
“To enhance element into weapon or for one own self the caster must be sensitive to the ambience of the target they cast.” Adel stopped.
“Could you be more detail as our self proclaim genius here will never understand that explanation.”
“Hey old man, even genius need to learn!” he shouted.
“Ha, this is the first time you make some sense!” he smirked.
“Why you!” Seth stood up and was preparing to put up a fight.
“Stop it, he’s teasing you can’t you notice that?” Adel stopped him and continued with his explanation “Ambience in here means the flows of particles in your target, for living object it is way harder to read them as their ambience change according to their mood and character while surrounding added extra effect.”
“Oh, so you mean to enhance element to a sword easier than to a human?” Seth asked seriously.
“Yeah, you could say that but still there is little difference between them as different material causes a little change to ambience.” He coughed and continued “That was only for making the near-perfect enhancement so you could probably ignore them.”
“What’s that near-perfect enhancement?”
“A near-perfect enhancement amplifies the weapon power 2 fold but a normal enhancement only amplifies its power by 1.5 fold which was a little lower.”
“So that was enhancement!”
“Well, now that we’re done with enhancement I’ll explain further about the other element.” Peblo began his lesson “Beside those five element we’ve got, there are a few more. They are darkness, light, wind and thunder. These are hard to find element which is useless if your base mana affinity is not the same type as it is.”
“Wa-wait a sec! What’s that base mana affinity?”
“Oh my, how forgetful of me not to told you that. Base mana affinity is that the mana you trained and gathered have their own preference to what element they like.” Peblo exercise his legs a little.
“Father Explanation was different, he says that a person affinity is affected by his character and may change and so mana affinity can be built to be suitable for all elements.” Adel interrupted.
“That is very true, but”
“Hey old man you try to trick me!” Seth shouted.
“Can’t you be quiet a little? That theory is only applied to those of wind element affinity since the start!”
“You should’ve said that earlier!”
“You’re the one who interrupt, you pesky brat! Now start collects your mana at your palm to test your affinity.”
Adel sat on the ground resting his body. His eyes focused on Seth while Seth tried to gather mana on his palm. A ring of silence echoed the forest; wind blew gently soft with the “dancers” on the ground swaying their body, bending toward the direction of the wind. The wind slowed down and energy began to gather around Seth. Beads of sweat rolled down his cheek, dripping away to the earthen ground. He tried harder to concentrate his thoughts of collecting mana to his palm and with force he managed to pull something deep inside to resonate. The wind picked up and blowing insanely, circling him up.
His sweats were still dripping and the wind carried it along its path, shimmering in his own sweats a gust of wind exploded. Seth fell onto the ground, looking at his palm he knew, he knew that he failed to draw his mana out. A sense of sadness flickered in his eyes and he bent his head down to make cover. When he was up, he casted away his sadness and put on a smile. Adel saw that and said nothing; quietly he waited for him to speak himself.
“It is almost certain that your element is wind!” Peblo spoke, he pushed open the door and walked into the chapel.
“Wind? But I haven’t collected mana to my palm yet so how did you know?” He was surprised; he summoned his strength and gave chase.
Before Peblo tried to give an explanation, Adel called out for Seth “You had the same thing as I am that’s why.”
“Same thing? How same was that?” he turned around and dash out from the chapel.
“The scene is similar and” he paused a moment “I’m a wind user too”
“Scene?”
“Yes, the way we try to collect mana and wind resonate with our thoughts”
Seth looked at his eyes and then to the sky. “Hey, the Sun is dropping?”
“Dropping? It’s SETTING!” Peblo walked out from the chapel “Come in and have dinner.”
“I like it to sound DROP!” after saying that he dashed to the kitchen in a brink of an eye, well to heal his stomach of course.
Adel slowly got up and walked up the stairs, into the chapel. He closed the door on his way in and locked it.
Lights slowly dithered away as The Moon rise. The lights inside the chapel were turned on under the pale moonlight. Chilling breeze began kicking in and fogs started to grow thick. Night animals lurked around, hunting for prey and some sang the night.
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