Chapter 33 - 33: I can finally cast spells
A couple of months later, Erik could be seen in Eleonora's mansion studio, where they held their lessons. At first glance, the studio seemed more like a workshop than a traditional study. It was filled with countless metal objects of intricate and complex shapes, with solid stone desks and worktables covered in tools of all kinds, from hammers and pliers to magical artifacts whose purpose only she knew.
"Well, Erik, now that you've mastered the basic techniques, how about we move on to the intermediate and advanced ones?"
Eleonora looked over at Erik, who was sitting at a desk forged in something like bronze that shone with a rich, deep patina, almost organic in appearance, with its legs and edges adorned with a series of runes precisely engraved.
"Of course, master," Erik nodded enthusiastically as he grabbed his notebook and prepared his pen.
"Then let's start with the first one," Eleonora extended her right hand, and a sphere of mana appeared above it, which then moved towards Erik and started to circle around him. "This is called emission, and as you can see, it's the ability to send your mana outside your body."
Erik watched the small mana sphere in surprise, quickly jotting something down in his notebook as the sphere disappeared, and then he asked, "Master, is it like my flying slashes?"
Eleonora smiled slightly and quickly corrected him, "Not exactly. While it's true that your flying slashes use this technique, they do much more. But I suppose you had to discover emission when you created them, and since it didn't give you the results you wanted, you added more things to it."
"Yes, master, that's what happened at the beginning. I wanted to mimic the void blades of the mystical wolves, but what I initially created was very weak and didn't resemble the power of the originals at all, so I tried many things until I got them to what they are today, which are pretty close."
"Yes, we'll talk in depth about your flying slashes later. For now, let's continue with the techniques, though the next one is something you're also familiar with. It's called reinforcement, which allows you to enhance the physical or magical properties of an object or being through mana."
"Isn't that a basic property of mana, master?"
Eleonora smiled bitterly at Erik's sincere confusion as he looked at her with doubts. After shaking her head slightly, she responded.