Chapter 784
“And are the circlets absolutely necessary?” Thera asked him, looking like she was willing to do anything else if it meant avoiding putting one on while leaving Ben to think over how he intended to teach them.
“Hmm, I suppose I have something in my back pocket that might help you get a level immediately so I guess you can hold off on using yours until the harder bits of enchanting start. Jake however has no choice.”
“What? You’re letting her off the hook but not me? This is tyranny! This is favouritism!”
“Yes it is, but it’s also inescapable. Now, put yours on or I’m making sure to tell Amy and your teachers you haven’t been working hard enough.”
“...Ugh.”
He slid his on, feeling his mind split before Ben materialized a bucket for him.
“Okay, first things first Jake, dedicate four of those minds to materializing marbles of any substance you can think of. If it feels like you keep doing the same ones I’m going to go in your head and start instructing you on which ones to make instead so do your best to be creative. With your last two and for Thera as well, let’s begin applying the basics of enchanting.”
Despite the fact that they were both holders of non-affinitied magic, a second-tier skill that was by its very nature in essence already an awakened form of enchanting, or at least included those aspects within its broad power, Ben started them off on the absolute beginnings of the branch he wielded, not worrying about finer techniques at all but instead getting them to place down a spell on a knife each, not doing anything fancy but just having them blanket the item with their magics to create the outcome they sought.
Both were simple earth spells out of consideration for Thera given she had less options, designed to help strengthen the items as much as such a simple means of enchanting could accomplish but despite both being new to it, neither showed any issues when it came to such an application. It was the easiest way to enchant that even holders of the zeroth level of the magic could accomplish, for two who were by all accounts masters of their skill in non-affinitied magic, such a spell was nothing.