" Just now, the energy flowed inside my body was fluent. From my soul sea, I slowly led the spiritual energy to flow out and into my right hand. Then, the energy accumulated on my palm with a fluent flow and constant rate. "
" But when the time I almost cast it out, I lost control of it. the accumulated energy burst and hurt me. Can I find any information from these experiences "
Kane kept questioning himself the reasons he could make a bigger fireball, and why it burst in his hand. The answers were the key for him to successfully cast the Fire Ball magic, thus he put a lot of effort into finding out the answers.
" The last try had consumed me much of my spiritual energy. This is equivalent to my ten times of failed tries. "
The real fireball would probably consume much more spiritual energy, he roughly estimated the energy needed to cast a fireball.
Kane closed eyes, controlling breath and calm his mind. After a while of taking a few long breaths, he concentrated his mind, sensing the energy flow inside his body. Energy softly flowed along his veins to all parts of his body, his mind was calm, his heart was peace.
Until the much energy to the right hand, he slowly raised his hand and pointed to the tree in front of him. Kane talked inside his heart, " Steady… Steady… Concentrate your mind, stay focus. "
That feeling! The feeling he once experienced in the fight with the beast king.
The energy kept flowing to his right palm, slowly accumulating on his hand. The energy flew faster and came out of his hand, he was imaging something hot and heat on his brain. His hand started to tremble as the fireball grew bigger quickly on his hand, he had reached his limit.
" Fire Ball! "
Pong!
His hand was shaken vigorously by the great backward momentum of the fireball, the fireball cast out from his hand. The fireball moved with high momentum and hit on the tree, making a great sound.
"Yahoo! I make it! Finally, I can cast out a true fireball, not little sparks or fireballs with tennis-ball size "
" I have succeeded to cast a fireball. I finally make it. Wooooh! "
Kane was extremely excited to the point he wanted to scream out as loud as he could, but he didn't do as he wished because it was night and probably would disturb the others' sweet dreams.
" I finally… I felt tired. I need to rest for a while before I return back to my home. " Most of the spiritual energy wiped out. He gasped slightly, felt exhausted and quickly had a sit on the ground.
He muttered, " This is enough for today. At least I could cast a fireball, it had already reached my expectations. "
Before training, he had planned his training way. Firstly, he just needed to cast a fireball without concerning its power and distance. Just after he was able to cast the magic, then he started to consider the magic power. Thus, he had reached the first step and left the second step for tomorrow… not tomorrow, but today's morning.
Looking at the dark sky, Kane could tell that it was midnight already. Great tiredness suddenly got into his mind. Although his soul was stronger than before, he needed less time of rest than others and could worked more. But he had yet to reach Rank 1 of soul power, thus he couldn't endure this amount of tiredness. Plus, he kept using his spiritual energy to train himself nonstop.
He returned back to the village after he cultivated for five minutes until his soul sea was half filled. As he regained back some of his energy and found his breath rate returned to normal, he stood up and walked towards the direction of his home. When he had returned home, he cleaned himself up, had a very deep sleep with loud snorting.
The tree on the forest which being shot a fireball by Kane. When he succeeded to cast out a fireball, he had accomplished the first step of his planning. The power of magic was not considered at first, thus he didn't take a look at how much damage he caused on tree stem.
But if you took a look close on the tree, you would find out the tree stem was burned partially. The effect of burning was not obvious, it was just normal effect that a fireball hitting on a tree.
But after his leaving for a while, the upper part of the tree, with consideration of the burning area as the middle line, fell to the ground when a strong wind blew on it. It showed that the fireball possessed a huge momentum and caused the inner part of tree stem cracked. Thus, the tree fell blew by the wind.
Is this still considered a basic magic fire? He had yet to notice that he had mixed some theory of Flame Burst into this basic magic, so the fireball possessed great momentum, moving in high speed and surely causing effect damage on enemies.
Yet, he didn't know these, walking happily to his home and deciding what he was going to the next morning.
…
The next morning.
The sun had raised from the east of the mountain range, its shone warmly to the small village in the middle of forest. The villager wakened before the sun rising, work diligently to start their daily life routine : Women did their house chores and man hunted in the forest.
The sunlight radiated through gaps of wooden window, fell on Kane's sleeping face. Yet he had yet to notice it, but slept sweetly on warm bed and snorted loudly. He was very tired as he had trained of Fire Ball magic whole night until deep midnight. Nobody knew about it, moreover, even with the thought of their neighbour was a lazy young man. Still sleeping while the sun had shone brightly in the sky.
Cecelia stared at his face and spoke in a low voice, " Not bad. Learning to cast out a fireball with just five hours of time, you are quite talented as well. What you need the most is intensive training to allow yourself to truly cast out a fireball which is really can cause some damage. "
Kane didn't knew that the little fairy, always with full of cold words in her mouth, was praising him with nice words. If he did know it, he would probably felt that something weird was going to happened to the world. Maybe the world would be turned upside down or the sun raised from west today.
" Hey! Lazy bum, time to wake up. It is already late morning, and the sun has already hung highly on the sky. " Before speaking, Cecelia flew near to Kane's nose and knocked on his nose.
" Ouch! Who is hitting my nose? " Feeling of a small hand hitting on his nose, Kane opened eyes and wondered the culprit hitting on him.
" Oh… It is you, Cecelia. Good morning. "
" You waked up too late, it is already afternoon. "
" Huh? Are you kidding me? " Kane jumped from his bed quickly. He had planed himself that he needed to continue his training in morning. If what Cecelia said was right, it seemed that he was lazy and slept for too long of time.
He rushed to the window and opened it, looking at the sun. " You told me a lie. Is the day of the sun just up atop mountain range called afternoon? "
It was just morning, but Cecelia deceived him. She just wanted to make him wake up quicker, it just like most of the mother would tell their children the time was already late and required them to get up quickly. The theory was the same here.
" Whatever, I am actually glad you waked me up. Because I have to continue my training, I hope today I can already cast out success fireball. " Kane didn't blame her to disturb his sweet dream. What Cecelia did was helping him, he had to clean him up quickly and get to the training ground in a hurry.
Upon Kane tidied clothes and ate bread given by the kind aunt of his neighbour, Cecelia sat on table elegantly, folding his right leg on left and hanging his chest with both her hands. She stared at Kane and spoke.
" Where did you go at night yesterday? "
In fact, Cecelia had known what was going on. Just after he left from the house for a while, she waked up and followed him to the forest. The whole night, she sat silently on a tree and looked Kane trying hard to cast out a fireball, and he finally made it. But she just pretended that she didn't know it.
" Last night, I went to the forest and had some training. " He simply explained.
" Oh, I see. How was your training? "
" Not bad. "
" Fine. " Cecelia replied. In her mind, she thought that Kane would probably share his excitement to her as she still remembered his smile of victory last night. But, he just simply said what had he done, no detail. This really made Cecelia a bit unpleasant, Kane being not honest to her.
Some expression of unpleasant could be seen on her face.
All of a sudden, one question flashed into Cecelia's head.
" Where had you been yesterday evening? " Sudden disappearance of Kane made her curious. She wondered his whereabouts.
" You suddenly disappeared, instead the book replaced your position. What had you experienced? And what had you found? "
Cecelia's words made him wondering, " I was being replaced by a book? "
Perhaps, once Kane traveled into the book, his position would be replaced by the book.
" Yup, the book suddenly appeared on the table, and you disappeared simultaneously. " Cecelia explained what she saw yesterday.
After listening to Cecelia's question, he was thinking this mysterious phenomenon and the meaning behind this phenomenon. At the same time, Cecelia also wanted to find out the reason as this phenomenon never happened on the previous owner of the book.
" Maybe we need to do something if we want to find out the answer. Cecelia, I will enter the book realm and you investigate the book appeared. "
Without any hesitation, Kane connected his mind to the book, entered the book realm. He came to this realm again, the white light sky, bottomless chaos and waving partially transparent platform shown on his eyes. The scenery surprised him again although he had seen it before.
" I hope Cecelia can really find out some useful information on the book. " He muttered to himself. In the period of time Cecelia inspecting the book, he decided to reread again the Fire Ball magic book. As he had some practical experience, he probably could understand the text clearer this time.
Some of basic concept was also recorded in the book, not only the concept of casting out fireballs only, that was why this book was the must-read book for the person who was dreaming to be a Magus. These concepts certainly came in handy when he learned other magic in the future.
" Had I read this line yesterday? "
" Oh, I see. This is what called using mind and spiritual at the same time, only then I can use a fireball. One can tell the feeling only when he gives it numerous tries. "
" The previous blurred image on my brain is cleared now. Although this sentence is about general knowledge, but telling an important mindset as a Magus should possess. How can I ignore it yesterday? "
Just by reading the first two pages, Kane felt refresh on his brain. The ideas and pictures on his brain became clearer. He certainly could do better with new and clearer understanding of the knowledge, added with aid of his practical experiences.
During focusing on the book, he suddenly felt that he was pulled out by a force.
" What happened?! "
Waoh!
He lost his stability and being forced out of the realm.