[Late night]
Spreading your ether like a sheet was too easy to just think or speak hypothetically. However, it took a lot of dedication and hard work to form a lump before spreading it in the surroundings evenly to not create any ripples.
He only slept for five hours last night and since the morning he has been training non-stop.
His mother was worried but she never told him to stop—believing in Richard's judgement and allowing him to do whatever he deemed right.
Lilia was also encouraged to train her master after seeing his diligence. She was providing every minute detail for him to form the perfect orb of ether and by afternoon he succeeded. However, since his control over his magic wasn't that good, he was only able to form an orb the size of an adult's fist.
Lilia suggested to keep on practicing and enlarging the orb but Richard said,
"No, it's okay. I need a small area of detection as of now."