The chirping of morning birds from the forest and the warm sunlight seeping through the window indicate that it is the start of a new day. The usual morning routine in Mark's house is suddenly disturbed by Isaac's constant reminder of Mark's promise the day before about wanting to teach him more about magic.
Isaac, who is actually one of the early birds of the house besides Lily, forced Mark out of his comfy bed as early as the sun rises with his constant nagging
"Dad, when are you going to teach me magic?"
"After we eat breakfast Isaac, please don't bother me yet, it's still my sleeping time"
"Dad? Breakfast is almost ready, let's wait downstairs so we can eat the moment it is ready so you'll be able to teach me magic earlier!"
"Dad let's get out of bed, breakfast is ready! We need to hurry up and eat so that there will be more time for you to teach me magic!"
"Dad?"
"Dad!"
"Dad!!!"
"YES ISAAC I'M UP, THANK YOU FOR WAKING ME UP."
"Yes now let's go eat breakfast! Mom is already waiting at the table."
Isaac then proceeds to lead Mark by the hand and drag him downstairs as soon as possible.
At the dining table, Lily is busy arranging their plates and utensil for their breakfast, the breakfast for today is sausages made from a magic boar meat and scrambled egg, and of course Lily didn't forget to add some vegetables so that her 3 babies will have a healthy diet.
"Isaac, where's your brother?"
"Ah yes, I forgot, he needs to hurry too since he will be learning magic as well, wait I will wake him up"
"No need thank you, I'm already up since the moment you start annoying dad with your constant chattering," Aiden said while walking down the stairs, with his eyes still droopy and his morning hair could be described with one word which is messy.
The once calm atmosphere in Mark's house today is ruined by one of his sons who is really passionate about magic that Mark is starting to regret giving him the promise of teaching him magic today. He knew that Isaac really love magic, but he didn't know that his peaceful morning will disappear if he ever made a promise like that to Isaac. If he knew that this will happen, he won't be making any promises and just tell them on the spot, right before he start teaching them. 'At least the breakfast is still as good as usual.' And so he sighed and ate his breakfast.
'Oi Faust, I know that your brain turned to baby mode when it's about magic, but how did it really get this bad?'
'It's nothing Gra, I just want to get stronger faster.'
'I also want to be stronger, but why is your baby brain when seeing magic syndrome suddenly got worse?'
'I don't know Gra, but what I know is that I don't want to get my ass kicked again. Passing out with my consciousness floating once is enough, that won't happen again.'
'Ah, I understand, just remember to do it properly and don't make more problems for mom and dad to worry about.'
'Yes thank you for your gentle reminder brother.'
'Stop using the word brother so often, it weirds me out.'
'Yes I will be more careful about it brother'
'You…' Although Faust annoyed Angra greatly, a threatening glare is the only thing he is able to do since doing anything else won't solve the problem and maybe even will give Faust more opportunities to tease him.
After the family finished eating breakfast, Lily started doing other chores while Mark and the twins went to the backyard to fulfill Mark's promise to teach the twins magic, and for Mark is to regain his freedom from Isaac's barrage of question about when he will teach him magic.
"So boys, what I will be teaching you guys today is about conjuring solid magic."
"Wait before you ask any questions, I will show you now what it is rather than explaining it," Mark said in order to stop one of his sons from opening his mouth.
Mark then picked up a stone as big as the twins' head from the forest using attributeless magic to make it float then brought it back to their backyard.
"Now when you make a sword using fire attribute and use it to slash the stone what will happen to the stone and the sword?"
Isaac raised his hand then said, "The flame sword will pass through the stone and the stone will heat up a little from the contact with the flame sword."
"Yes you're correct Isaac, but do you know that you can do this?"
Mark then proceeds to conjure a sword purely made out of fire in his hand. The sword doesn't have a concrete structure and the flames are burning wildly that even Isaac and Aiden can feel the heat from 3 meters away. Before Mark slashed the stone at the ground, the wild burning flames calmed down and consolidated making the sword look solid and sharp. Mark brought down the sword onto the stone and what happened next was that the stone was cleanly sliced into 2 pieces and the severed part have slight red tones on them showing that it was hot.
Seeing the cleaved stone, Aiden looked at it with interest while Isaac is really amazed by what he just saw, which can be seen clearly by his mouth gaping and eyes sparkling while looking at the stone.
With his curiosity that can't be contained anymore, Isaac hurriedly goes over to see the stone up close. When he looked at the stone closely, he could see that the surface of the part where it was cut was smooth, he then tried to splash a drop of water using water magic, and the water quickly evaporated the moment it touched the stone surface.
"Dad how…" Before Isaac finishes his sentence, Mark puts up his hand as a sign for Isaac to hold his questions first.
"Let me explain first."
"So what I've just used is a method called solid magic. Do you boys remember what is keeping all the elements around us balanced?"
"It's because of the attributeless element right?" This time it was Aiden who answered Mark's question.
"Hey, I'm just about to say that you know!?"
"Whatever, Isaac"
"Stop it, boys. It doesn't matter who answers it, as long as you two still remember it."
"And yes, Aiden is correct. So to use solid magic, what you need to do is to shape the elemental attribute using the attributeless element."
"You need to visualize clearly how you want to shape it, just like how you usually conjure elemental arrow Isaac, but this time you need to shape the attributeless element then consolidate it by adding more mana to it, the elemental attribute contained with the shape then will integrate with the constructed shape made by the attributeless mana, giving the construct the characteristics of the elemental attribute inside the construct."
"Integrating it with fire attribute will give us the result like what you have just seen, if you use earth attribute, it will further strengthen the earth construct, if you use wind attribute, the sword will be able to move even faster and, and if you use water attribute, the sword will have the characteristics of the water element."
"Dad, Isn't the water blade essentially useless then?"
"Not true Isaac, when you fight magic beasts that are related to the fire attribute, then using water attribute is the perfect counter for them."
"Umm dad, how about me? It's harder for me to conjure magic and with Isaac being the conjurer I hardly ever conjure magic other than for training, I use my fusion all the time in my day to day life and for fighting."
"While it's true that we who use fusion magic will rarely use this technique while fighting, but it can be useful for us if we don't have our weapon with us, we can make a constitute for our weapon if such situations ever happen using this technique."
"And Aiden, can you conjure a flame sword?"
"Yes dad, I can"
Aiden then focused on his hand right hand, then slowly fire attributes gather around his hand and slowly turned to the shape of a sword.
"It seems that you're still not that fluent in conjuring, for this solid magic training why don't you try it like this."
Mark then straightened his five fingers on his right hand, used fire-fusion then a blade is formed enveloping his five fingers, making it as if the five fingers is a spearhead. Using the solid magic, the hand-blade is now as solid as the flame sword he made earlier.
"If you use fire fusion then made a blade as an extension of your hand, it will be far easier for us fusion user to conjure stuff that functions as an extension of our body rather than conjuring stuff outside our body like a sword. Go ahead and try it."
Aiden then proceeds to make the hand-blade as instructed. Although he couldn't conjure it in an instant, it is still quicker than when he made the fire sword.
"Alright boys, that's it for the instruction I'm going to give you, now you two should practice how to do it and don't ask me the moment you encounter a problem, try about solving it alone first because giving you all the answer to a problem will be bad for your future developments."
Mark released a sigh of relief now that he had fulfilled his promise, while the sun is still warm and the air is still cold, he went back to bed to catch some sleep before going hunting later in the afternoon.
Mark then slept peacefully in his bed leaving his twin sons alone in the backyard experimenting with fire magic.