Chapter 484: Storm Magic
…Vulture Woods… 3 days before the new moon… 3 days before the siege of Hollow Shade…
The dark hours of the night slowly passed as Stryg sat neck-high in the stream. The cold water flowed past him, the noise rushing through his ears. After a while, all the noise fell away and Stryg was lost within the flow of his own mana. He didn’t know how much time passed when he finally managed to isolate a thin thread of blue mana within his body.
Stryg opened his eyes and grinned triumphantly, “I did it!”
Lunae smiled, pleased, “Well done. Now, for the second step.” She stood up from the stone she had been sitting on and waded into the water. The current seemed to move around her small form instead of pushing it. She slipped through the water with ease and made her way behind Stryg.
He glanced up at her expectantly.
Lunae sat down behind him, the water rising right below her neck. Her long white hair floated up and around them, like a crescent moon. “A common misconception of storm magic is that the caster must always be in control of their emotions. It isn’t true. Once you’ve learned how to cast storm magic, you’ve learned how to control its current, you will be able to cast storm spells even under duress.”
“That explains a lot actually,” Stryg muttered. He had wondered how Nora had learned storm magic after everything she had gone through. He had always simply assumed she was a blue mage prodigy, which he guessed, she was, but it seemed to be more than that.
“It’s the ‘learning part’ of storm magic that is tricky. Don’t get me wrong, you can still lose control of your storm magic if your focus isn’t iron. But that is why we’re here. To forge your focus and will.”
“How do I do that?”