There was one thing that confused Feran, more than everything. According to the paper that Village Cheif has given him one can use the absorbing glyph spell as long as he wants without any major side effects.
However, he was feeling very tired and strained after using it for only a few hours. "Why is everything different than what's written on the paper? Is it some kind of test from the village chief to figure all this out on our own?"
With furrowed brows, Feran took in a deep breath and stood up from his position. The sitting posture and absorbing spell were useless for him, he could still absorb the mana around him while standing and it's at the same rate as before.
"Is there something different with my body? Then why did I not notice it till now? If my body can absorb mana on its own then why did it didn't do till now." As he was contemplating what was wrong with him, suddenly a shiver ran down his spine as he remembered something that he has heard when he was a kid.
There had been times when devils have possessed humans and have infected them with the devilish power, sometimes they possess when humans are kids, however, the best time to do so is when the mother is pregnant.
Many people have told him about it even his mother had done so too. "Devil..." He gulped his saliva and decided to hide this unique ability of his. "I will first see if it is a tets from Village Cheif... If not then I have to hide the fact."
He was sure that he hadn't been infected by the devil because according to his mother the Devil talks to the one he infects and he has never talked to a Devil before.
"This could be some unique thing about my body, however, if I tell this to anyone then they will think I am possessed and most likely I will be burned to death." Just the thought of it was terrifying for him.
He then looked at the second glyph on the paper, which looked like a cloud with some ancient-looking words written in it. It was hard for him to imagine it, however, after few minutes of repetition he memorised the glyph and then putting the paper aside he took in a deep breath.
This time he doesn't have to close his eyes as he was gonna perform the magic and closing one's eyes while doing so is not a great idea.
"Let's see if this time it's different from the paper too." Taking in another deep breath he raised his hand in front of him and started imagining the glyph in his head.
"Heatwave..." He created his own code word for the new glyph, as there were none written on the paper for it. Soon enough he started feeling hot on the top of his hand, and this time the tiredness came faster than the Mana Absorbing spell.
He started feeling numbing pain in his head in just a few seconds and with sweat covered his whole body he stopped using the spell.
However, the mana particles that were automatically getting absorbed in his body quickly calmed him down and replenished his body.
'Why is this second spell is even more exhausting.' Picking up the paper he read the instructions again and saw that this spell could tire someone, however only after one's mana is depleted.
'My mana was not depleted...' Suddenly an idea came to his mind and he raised his arm again in front of him.
'I should try it without the spell.' He focused on his body and imagined himself releasing the mana out of his hand. He didn't use the spell this time and just as he suspected, a gentle heatwave started to move out of his hand.
And this time it was not as stressful as the previous time. He could feel the energy moving out of his body however it didn't create any mental pressure. "Why are these spells working against me?" He had a lot of questions and was not sure who to ask answers to.
He was afraid that people from his village will cast him as a possessed and may even burn him down and he didn't want that to happen. 'I have to take things slow and not expose myself too much.'
After that, he tried to absorb and release heatwave again and again and he found one more unique feature about his body that wasn't written in the paper, the absorbing speed of the mana was faster than the release speed of Heatwave, so he could generate infinite amount of heat from his hand.
"What about fire..." He looked at his hand and gulped saliva. Generating a heatwave was not a big problem as it doesn't harm his environment too much, however, producing fire is not only hard but could be dangerous too.
Some people in his village who has a fire ability could not produce fire even after training for years. The spell for fire production was too hard to comprehend, although some people can produce fire in his village, they were very old people.
Only people with mixed affinities could comprehend their spells faster and become powerful, like Village Chief and his Son, now even Rocky has mixed affinity and he would develop faster too.
"Let me try just a little, I didn't need a spell for Heatwave, maybe I would not need a spell for a Burning Hand." Taking in a deep breath and making his resolution still, he focused his consciousness on the Mana inside his body and pushed it out in the condensed form.
During the Heatwave, he was releasing the fiery mana uniformly, however, this time he condensed his mana to produce fire.
After few minutes his face turned completely red, however, he wasn't able to produce any fire and this time the release rate of mana from his body was greater than his passive absorption rate, due was which the mana stored in his body was about to deplete.
However, just as his mana was about to end, Feran pushed himself to the max and released every bit of his mana in his final push and just as he did so sparks started to form in his hand and then his mana depleted which caused him to collapse down on the floor.
He started taking in deep breaths as he sat on his bum, there was a smile on his face. 'At least I was able to produce sparks.'
He knew some people that can't even produce sparks till now, even after few years of training, however, he succeeded in it from just a few hours of practice.