65 Chapter 65: Magic Tutor Alex (2)

Alex was standing in his room with a book in his hand, 'How to teach magic to hillbillies '.

He was speaking about the concepts of magic and what magic is while in front of him sitting on a big pillow, Tosca was paying attention like a good student, her eyes shining every time Alex explained a new concept or answered one of her questions.

With a wave of his hand images appeared in the air, giving visualization to his words, making it easier to understand and to learn.

At the moment there was a third-dimensional image of a tree standing tall next to Alex. Half of the tree was dead with rotten wood and bare branches while the other side had lush leaves and healthy bark. Strangely both sides bore fruit, but this fruit had all looked different from the other.

"This is called the 'Ancestral Tree', it is what was used to teach magic to aspiring elven mages as well as a way to manifest one's manna in the physical world. Each fruit depicts a different element or concept while the two half of the tree represents life and death, the eternal cycle, reincarnation, and some other stuff philosophers and sages thought of, which you do not need to know. Just know that this means life and death while each fruit bears the power of a concept or element."

Alex calmly explained while hovering the image of the 'Ancestral Tree' closer to Tosca so that she could get a better look. She stared at the tree in curiosity but then she was confused by something Alex said, so she raised her hand and waited.

Alex stopped speaking and nodded to her in acknowledgment so that she can ask her questions.

"Master, you said that we can use this tree to manifest our manna in the physical world, what does that mean."

Alexx thought for a moment before answering.

"Bringing forth our manna in a much more concentrated form while helping us affect the physicle world by controlling the manna around us. The manifestation of our manna will be in the form of an 'Ancestral tree', each person's tree will look differently and might not be a tree in fact. The reason it is called an ancestral tree is because the person that invented this way of using magic manifested his manna in such a way. First it would be better if we go somewhere els or I might destroy my room."

Alex said as he grabbed the surprised Tosca by the shoulder and they both disappeared from the room. The last thing they hear is Aura screaming from somewhere in the room.

"Wait for meeeee!"

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Tosca looked around her in surprise, a moment ago she was sitting on the big pillow listening to Alex's lectures but now she was standing in the middle of a desert, she stood up and felt the sand as she dug her toes into it.

She looked around in wonder as she saw the massive desert thoguth soon she found something weird about the desert, the sand was all red and far in the distance she could see red rocks and red mountains in the horrison. She then looked up into the sky and her eyes widened as even the sky had a reddish hue.

"Ahem"

Tosca snapped out of her daze as she looked to her left were alex was standing looking at her in amusement.

"Where are we?"

Tosca asked as she felt that her surrounings were too weird.

"Mars"

Alex said with a smile as he saw Tosca's eyes widen even further.

"Haaaah!"

She made a weird sound as she quickly started looking around curiosly at the barren planet. But a thought suddenly occurred to her.

"How can we breath right now?"

"I have surrounded the area of one kilometer diameter in a field, it has oxygen and prevents you from freezing at this moment since the planets average temperature is well below freezing point."

Tosca nodded and then started looking around again which made Alex have to fake coughe to get her attention again.

"We are here for a reason"

Alex said when she looked back at him.

"Now I am going to show you what the manifestation of manna is, so pay close attention."

Tosca nodded and looked at him curiously as he walked away from her untill he was about a hundred metres away.

"Here I go!"

Alex shouted before evrything became so silent you could hear a needle drop on the ground.

BOOM!

An explosion suddenly happened behind Alex as a massive tree sprung up from the ground reaching hundreds of metres into the air in a few seconds, Tosca's eyes nearly fell out in shock as she quickly retreated, massive roots metres wide surrounding her and trapping her in a circle as half of the tree started growing leaves while the other half started withering into scary looking branches and its roots started decaying leaving a heavy aura of death surrounding them.

Tosca stared at Alex as the roots of the tree spread out from behind him as if protecting his flanks. Her attention was then brought to the the fruits hanging from the tree each one giving her a scary feeling as she looked at them, causing her to quickly look away wich made her just realise how much the world around her had changed. She no longer stood on a barren desert but in a forest the ground under her feet covered in all manor of flora, massive trees were covering the sky all around her, but what caused her to have goosebumps was that half the forest was bare of any leaves with many of them rotting from the inside and all kinds of nasty looking infections covering them, the other side looked much better, with massive healthy trees with vibrant leaves and strong roots.

All the trees be they dying and decaying or growing and flourishing, they all had fruits on them which had striking resemblance to the ones and the massive tree in the middle which Tosca presumed was the ancestral tree.

"This is the manifestation of my manna, my 'Ancestral tree', manifesting itself in this world in its most natural state.

"Is it all real?"

Tosca asked as she looked around at the trees, which literally terraformed the landscape. Were it not for Alex's barrier keeping them hidden some orginisations on earth would have gone crazy as they saw a forest instantly appearing on mars. Another thing Tosca did not realise due to her low magical ability at the moment was that the air around her became satiated with manna boosting her body and increasing her manna bit by bit.

"It is as real as anything els, but it can also disappear as if an illusion by a mere thought from me while it may transform to my will to aid in my spell casting, by defending me while I cast, manifest in the element of the spell I am casting or absorbing more manna from the surroundings to lower my own manna consumption."

Tosca was lost in her own world as she started walking around while touching the trees as if to make sure its real.

After giving her time to take in her surroundings Alex grabbed her on the shoulder again and they disappeared once more, with there dissapearanc the worlds returned back to the way it was before there arrival and the protection dome dissapated.