Emiya here
I think I am going to try and fix my grammar a bit because I think the log needs to be a bit more digestible
So day 2, it was morning and we were all woken up, I barely slept because of us being watched by 2 guards. They weren't visible to the naked eye but my sage's gaze made it so i could see their emotions and know they were there
so people were wondering what I chose to use my sage's craft on, I chose to make a skill
'Mental interference immunity', just to make sure I cannot be manipulated, brainwashed or anything that can give me psychological damage through magic or curses, or anything.
I cannot afford to get messed up by getting mentally destroyed
On that note, this morning was something, it's around noon now and I have been practicing magic after the mandatory training ended.
due to the sage's grimoire's download ability, I am able to grasp the theory of magic pretty well, and just need to learn to apply it
In the morning we were all taken to the training ground and we were explained magic and how to use it, well just me and other 2 mages.
The people who got other classes were given separate training and the 'heroes' were given special mentors just in case.
our teacher Yewinda, she was very nice to us honestly, she told us to show magic missile as it is something all mages have and we all did so.
Next she showed us how to make a water ball and flame and explained the application of magic
magic is mostly applied in 2 ways, one is compressing it and the other is combusting it.
for waterball, we have to push magic out of our body as we compress it and keep it in control, imagining water and feeling it in a way. That is how we cast water ball
for flame, we have to make a layer of magic on the tip of our palms and imagine it combusting, like a spark and making either a burst of flame or a stable fire.
this lesson of explaining and application for all 3 of us took a good 2 hours
after which my classmates, 'Gwen' and 'Dori' left, the other two mages as they went back to their friends after training and just hung out and hopefully planned a bit.
I am not sure how the other kids are planning and deciding what their next move is but I decided to stay and practice more magic that I learnt from the books I got to read in the library today morning before breakfast.
first was a new application of waterball, trying to spin it fast and fast and changing it's shape by compressing it to be more long and then into a drill. I have to spin it faster and faster for almost a whole minute and then guide it myself
it wasn't the fastest but it does have a good amount of damage!
I first did lightning magic, it was basically the same as fire magic but it was much more volatile and hard to control, I had to focus it on a smaller area on my palm and then combust it fast
it made a violent bolt of lightning that was..... pretty cool. It hit one of the boulders there and made it split, it was cool
next I did wind ball, it was similar to the waterball but instead of pushing water out of my body, i need to only do compression, using magic to compress the wind and then push it out, letting the compressed with hit things.
It wasn't that fancy but it will definitely have some applications!
after this I tried a magic which I found very interesting, gravity magic and this one... took a good bit of time honestly, almost a whole hour.
but basically figured out that there are 3 main applications for basic gravity magic, pushing, pulling and amplification.
I can push magic out and make a push or a pull when it reaches a person, and considering magic is technically energy, it does so fast.
then for amplification..... it was a pain in the ass to figure out, it was extremely tiring and complicated, in the end I just understood that I need to make a 'field' of magic and cause the magic to compress, making me feel heavier and amplifying gravity
as I amplified the gravity, it felt like i was underwater, it was honestly just annoying but it can be very useful.
Finally I tried earth magic to, which was weird for me. Directly making stone from my body made me cramp up, it felt like i was blocking the flow of magic.
so from one of the basic magic books i found, i learnt that to perform earth magic, most people put magic into the ground itself and manipulate the magic they put into the earth rather than making it themself
so with that, I can make earth spikes or craters, which was honestly very useful
and the final spell i wanted to learn for now, Grease, it basically was the same as making water but the imagination and feeling were completely different, thank god for the sage's grimoire helping me understand the theory... it's a real cheat, i wonder what the other heroes have?
after so much magic application and theory that I put to use, Yewinda came around and saw that I was still practicing and she told me some things that made me realize i may have slipped up.
The reason why Dori and Gwen left and didn't practice more was due to the strain magic puts on your body, they didn't have endurance.
i may have technically had more endurance but I shouldn't be able to practice for so long, it was when i realised as the sage, my stats were simply higher than them from the start
In the end Yewinda just chalked it up to me having higher magic tolerance and capacity and asked me to show her some magic i learnt myself, i promptly just show her lightning bolt and wind ball as they were basic magic as well, gravity magic isn't something i can show as it can genuinely put me at a lot of risk
I am already on Yewinda's radar it seems, making myself more suspicious will only do me more harm.
After my morning, i decided i should stop actively practicing as to not seem suspicious and just head to the library and gather some more information and magic.
I used the grimoire to download a lot of books on magic and history.
For now I just focused on learning illusion magic, it worked in a way that consisted of making a layer of magic over myself or something else or even just the air to disguise what was under.
the disguise itself worked through my imagination, so i needed to imagine what the layer will look like.
not invisibility but camouflage helps a lot.
other than all the training and other applications, I talked to another person, let's call her 'Bliss'
she is a fighter and from her I learnt about what her group did during training, out of the 22 people
9 were fighters
3 were mages (2 in reality)
2 were priests
4 were the heroes i mentioned
3 of them were bowmen
and 1 was a rare class, not quite a hero but it was a cool sounding class, a paladin.
the heroes and the paladin 'Kei' all got separate teachers while others got general
also can i feel bad for the guys-
2 of us are heroes, me and Ben
1 is a priest
and the rest are just fighters
5 fighters.
there isn't much variety sadly for them.
either way, it is what it is.
aside from that, me and Bliss talked for a bit and then went our separate ways, she was reading up on geography which is something I am gonna do to, so I downloaded the atlas for the continent and god I feel like I have a headache with how much theory i have absorbed today.
my cooldown for sage's craft is gonna go up soon, I am gonna make the skill 'accelerated thinking' or 'magic absorption'
both of them will be amazing to have, for now. I am ending this log, I will make more of an effort to give more context about the country and continent I am in.
for now, this continent is pretty big and it's shaped a little like Australia, but bigger in size.
It has mountains near the top and is seemingly in the northern hemisphere of this planet as it is freezing there and it's always snowy.
the south has a lot of sandy terrain and there is a desert south west.
I am currently in the center of the continent, a plains area and the capital.
the east is close to one of the other continents is the place of trade
south of both continents is the continent that is trying to expand and you know, the said 'evil forces'.
Geez I have a genuine headache at this point..... please tell me what I should do, some advice would be great.
I'll make another log at night, they said they were gonna show us a monster in the evening so Let's see....
for now, Emiya out.