"Hehe, cool down, tree boy. I won't corner you against the wall this time, it's just that you surprised me before."
"I-I see..."
"Excuse me for that... But let's go to what matters, since you say that you actually have almost zero knowledge about the magic, I must nurture you so that your talent is not wasted. What do you say?" That's when Marjorie got Blake's full attention as if he were a child watching ice cream.
"Please, that would be great!"
"I see that the thirst for knowledge is already in you, that will save me half the work. Well, come with me, this will take a while and it is better to be in a more comfortable place." The town witch began to walk with Blake following her until they reached the back of the store where many types of herbs could be seen with the naked eye, books, and lab artifacts. "Okay boy, take a seat and pay close attention, it's been a while since I've been teaching someone and I don't know if I've lost my touch, hehe."
Blake just gave a nervous laugh since he didn't know if he really had to laugh at Marjorie's comments, he took the first chair he found and leaned over to listen carefully.
"Okay, first of all, tell me you understand by magic." Blake didn't expect her to ask him something, but he didn't get flustered and searched his memories to answer the best he could.
"Basically, magic is the materialization of runic energy in the form of the elements that exist around us... Or so I understood." Once he said it and saw that Marjorie had closed her eyes without saying anything, Blake He didn't know if he had said something wrong, but his question was answered immediately.
"Well, you're right, that's the magic itself." Blake was about to let out a sigh of relief when he saw that he was not wrong, but it seemed that Marjorie had more to say. "Sure, if we talk about a concept basic, but if we want to go deeper, that description has several holes in it. Let me start from the simplest, maybe you already know, but I want to be completely sure that you understand everything..."
Blake didn't want to interrupt and just kept quiet.
"First of all, it is necessary to tell you about our world." And those same words, made Blake feel somewhat confused. "By your face, I can tell that you do not understand. Well, our world so to speak is incredibly vast and ancient, but it has always been known by the same name throughout the ages, that name is... Futhark."
That name felt strange and at the same time familiar to Blake, it is as if he knew it from the beginning and at the same time not, he was too focused on it that he did not realize that he was looking at nothing until Marjorie gave him another blow with her broom.
"Sorry!"
"Don't get lost, if you really don't understand something you just have to ask me and I'll slow down... As I was saying, at the same time our world is divided into four continents separated by the huge middle ocean, their names are "Raidu", "Uruz", "Gebu" and where we are at the moment, "Laguz"; And since our world is so old that millions of years would seem like a joke to define it, there is no true certainty of when the different races and species that exist up to this moment arose, many disappeared with the passing of eons and others were raised at the same time, in addition, that all those powerful beings that once dominated when they were alive now they have been forgotten forever, but what I can tell you is that what has always been present and that is part of the all life in our world while maintaining the order of the elements, is the runic energy."
"I see..." Blake was totally caught up in the new information that was in his head and didn't want to interrupt Marjorie's words.
"Runic energy is basically the life energy of the world, everything is governed by it and it has always been that way, and taking up what you said earlier, not everything is as simple as materializing runic energy in any existing element, everything must follow an order. Do you remember what you saw when you learned the spell that I gave you?"
"Yes. Just when I saw it in my head, some strange symbols formed that later can understand and explain how the spell works."
"Those symbols that you call strange, are what we call runes, they comply with the mediator factor to materialize the elements since each type of rune represents a specific element and sometimes some class predominates in a special area. It is not as if it is as easy to materialize a fire spell within the ocean as in the mouth of a volcano, it is something basic and the main reason for this is because runes are how we can see runic energy in its purest form, over time they have tried to decipher, but it has been impossible, the only thing that has been achieved has been to replicate them and translate them into scrolls to, as you have seen, recreate what we call spells."
"Why can't they be deciphered? Wouldn't it be as easy as comparing the runes with the spell descriptions?"
"Ha, don't make me laugh, kid, the reason for this is easy to answer if you know the other name the runes have."
"What is that name?"
"The language of the gods."
"Language of the gods?"
"I see you have no idea either... Sigh... This will take a while. As I have already told you, our world is so old that its origins are not known, but something that is totally certain is the existence of the gods." Gods, a word that was not unknown to Blake, but which in turn did not have an idea of which gods Marjorie was referring to or if the term for gods was the same as he knew, so again, he put all his attention on the explanation that would come next.