On a deserted island, the shadow of the setting sun cast. On the island was a compact-bodied man who's swinging his arms at the trees. Every swing he makes burns the tree.
Cato is still practicing Incendio. Fire here fire there.
"Cato I will teach you the mending charm now." An old rough voice spoke, not physically but spiritually.
Cato look startled for a moment then his deep but pleasant voice sounded: "Thanks, Guardian!"
Cato has always been looking for a charm that can repair his things up and when he found out about it through Guardian, he asked if he could learn the charm but the Guardian proposed that he needed to learn wandless magic on at least one of his spells.
Under the sighing of the air and the rustling of the nearby trees, Guardian taught Cato.
The pale crescent moon shone like a silver claw in the night. Cato took the night to finish his routines. Spell lessons, and physical education.
He trekked down the cliff passing through the rustling trees as he reached his destination. He was now on the shore, the crashing waves comes and go while the brisk wind hummed through the sea as he took off portions of his clothes tossing them by the side. He then proceeded to jump on the water and take a bath.
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The blue sky was dotted with fluffy white clouds that drifted lazily in the gentle breeze, Cato lazily opened his emerald-colored eyes, standing up he stretched his body emitting cracking sounds through the lonely hut.
"Cato here's a gift," The Guardian spoke spiritually. Suddenly, a reddish-brown branch appeared on his bedside table, a blue whiteish horn, and a blue gem appeared beside it too.
Cato's eyes shined: "These are wand materials! Thanks, Guardian."
The reddish-brown branch is from the cherry tree that is famously used in Jopan, the horned serpent's horn that is famously used in Fladwinns Magic School. While the horned serpents gem doesn't make a wand more powerful or any other stones for that matter- but it can be used as an ornament. But this time; Guardian asked Cato to try and imbue the horned serpents gem to make the wand more durable and more powerful.
Cato ignored the other request as he can rack his brain with it later. Cato then gathered the items and put them beside the furnace, he proceeded to light up the furnace with Incendio and drop a bucket of seawater in the furnace.
Cato put his hands above the furnace and he distanced his fingers from each other. Suddenly, salt floated from the furnace and stopped in between; Cato move his hands away from the furnace to his right side, and then he flick his fingers: the salt that was afloat dropped next to the furnace on the table without any mishaps.
Separatio (Separation Charm): it's a variant of the mending charm (Reparo) that was created by Cato. it separates two substances that are close to each other or are very hard to separate like sand.
When the water starts boiling Cato dropped the cherry wood on the furnace and covers the furnace with its lid. He waited like this for fifteen minutes, while sitting in a lotus position. Time passed and the unmoving person who seemed like a monk for the past fifteen minutes stood up: he opened the lid and put the horned serpent's horn inside the steaming furnace, he closes the lid and now needs to wait for an hour.
Cato was sitting on the ground that's close to the furnace, his forehead deeply scrunched: at this moment Cato was thinking of how to imbue the horned serpent's gem into the wand.
Normally he would just need to expose the furnace where the wand was in a lot of magic for the wand to be created, but the Guardian asked him to imbue the gem of the horned serpent to the wand- which has been tried by countless named wand makers before but everyone failed except one.
Marpolo Ruis.
A great wandmaker from the seventeens, he was famous for being able to imbue stones into the wands: making them more powerful and durable.
Imbued wands have overall great power, durability, and flexibility- it only has one drawback though: imbued wands are hard to master!
He was pondering about the predicament before him. He pondered. And pondered. And still pondering.
Until...