3 The Helper

"What are you doing in my head? And how did you get there in the first splace? And not to forget it, who are you?", Zale asked bewildered. He might have lost his memories but this occurence did appear to be quite strange nontheless.

"I am not allowed to answer your Questions. At least most of them and not right now. You can call me Zero though. As to what I can tell you, just shut up an listen for a second."

The voice in Zale´s head was high pitched, creepy with a tinge of sadness and anger. It felt like if he had a body he would punch Zale straight into his face.

"I came on behalf of my Master to support you and give you guidance. He DID promise you a little extra and my Master is one to always keep his promises. My main function is to record and relay what you do and not do to him.

As for what the little extra is, that would be the best for you to find out on your own. All you have to do is think "Zale" in your mind."

"Okay, that´s very... unusual. I think.", thought Zale. "Zero, can you hear everything that I think as well?"

-"Yeah, I can. It wouldn´t be fun otherwise, would it?", Zero chuckeled and Zale could have sworn that he had seen the image of a grin appear in his mind.

<Zale>, he thought in his mind. Suddenly a chalk board could be seen in his mind. On it there were a lot of values, numbers and strange words that Zale didn´t know what they meant.

Spirit: 10

Mind: 10

Fitness: 10

Abilities:

Proficency in Elemental Magic: Lvl 1

<I have no idea what these values represent. I can make assumptions About the proficiency. It should mean that i have some control over the Elements. They are categorized as followed: Earth, Air, Fire, Water, Gold, Lightning, Metal and Wood. So that would mean that I am better than the regular run of the mill Joe with any of these. Now… I wonder..>

"Hey Zero, can I get new abilities? Also Do you know if I can increase existing ones? Do you mind explaining what these three tens mean?"

-"Now now, Young one, where would be the fun with that? I told you everything that I am supposed and allowed to. I am just here to inform you if anything changes. The rest is up to you"-

While Zale was in Deep thought the night was getting later and later.

<I guess this won´t run away from me. I´ll try and figure something out later.>

Over the next couple of days Zale was trying to get as much Information from Zero as possible but the voice inside his head was stoic as a century old tree. it would have probably been easier to teach a cat how to swin that getting anything usable out of his head. Oh and Zero was annoying as hell.

"Zale, you use your magic wrong! Is that everything you got? How did you even manage to expel even a drop of mana with your lousy mana control? No wonder you only got one ability. You should count yourself lucky that you got me, otherwise you would be doomed on faith, with your lousy magic abilites…"

Day in day out, everything that Zero could do was nagging.

<I think this life might be too boring for him. Exiled into my head, he at least appeast to be a human, or other sentient beeing. I would be bored as hell as well. Not that I can change anything right now. With my lousy magic control I can´t even hunt a rabbit, not to say something dangerous like a wolf or a boar. I need to find a method to increase my control.>

Zale didn´t know what to do to increase his magic control and Kale never bothered with any of this stuff since he doesen´t like magic in the first place, so Kale couldn´t get any information from him either.

One morning while Zale was taking a bath in the nearby river he was trying to increase his control over the mana inside his body so that he could actually summon it without shouting the words at random.

Magic could only be cast if one had the corresponding words in his Grimmoire. Zale knew that as everyone else did. New words could only rarely be aquired. You start with them in your grimmoire, that you can materialize from the first moment that you can feel the mana in the world. There was no way to just scribble words inside your Grimmoire because it was actually a differnet kind of language. Only the owner of the Grimmoire could read the words in his own book.

Also the words aren´t really cohesive language either. It´s more like a feeling than that of actually reading a word.

So Zale was sitting in the river trying to conjure some water particles with the words: Water, Sphere and Move. Every element has it´s own words, so even if Zale has the words for Sphere and Move that doesen´t necessarily mean that he can also do the same for Air, for example.

<So I can feel the mana inside my body. It fills every millimeter of me. My hands, my toes, my arms, even my veins and my bones. Mana is everywhere inside me, and it circulates like the blood flows through my veins. Popping it out of my body proves to be difficult because my skin is acting as a barrier between my body and the rest of the world. That is probably so that I don´t constantly leak mana everywhere.

If that´s the case then all I need to do is bundle my Mana and pierce through my skin with high enough speed and also while thinking about the spell I want to cast. I need to simultaniously visualize the mana flow and the end result of the spell that I want to cast.>

So he did. Zale started circulating the Mana inside his body while simultaniously thinking about the spell, the words, the water essence that is alround the river. He repeated the spell like a mantra.

<Water, Sphere, Move. Water, Sphere, Move>

Once the mana reached a high enough speed it pieced through his body and with the help of the visualized spell it transformed into a round watery sphere.

His first real spell was a success.

Water Ball.