The Lost Princess (4)

Katerine's first reaction was confusion; I think she doesn't make much of a point of remembering people's faces.

William, on the other hand, looked surprised.

"You really brought her." He says

"Nice to meet you." Ryza says.

"Who is she?" Katerine asks me unpretentiously.

"My name is Ryza; Ryza Wanderberg, the princess of the Kingdom of Legorio." She presents herself in a cordial manner.

"Hey, you don't need to be so formal." I say whispering.

"Sorry, it's become a habit..." She murmurs.

"Oooooh" Katerine seems to be a little surprised, but she must not know the importance of a princess...

"My name is William Rods."

"Are you brothers!?" Ryza is surprised.

Ryza almost immediately remembers my last name.

"I hadn't told you yet, haha..." I reply.

"My name is Katerine Grifen." She introduces herself by petting Foguinho who approaches her.

In fact, this is the first time I've heard Kate's last name.

"Well, now that everyone has introduced themselves, I think we can begin." I speak, and everyone looks in confusion. "Ryza has never played with anyone, so we're going to have to teach her."

William takes time to think; Katerine runs from one side to the other, having fun with Foguinho; they must understand each other somehow...

"I think we can start with hide and seek." I say.

"Isn't it dangerous for us to do this in the forest?" Ryza asks in fear.

"Relax, night wolves only come out at night, obviously." I answer.

"But what about wolves that stay awake during the day?" She insists.

"I've never seen those around here." I say. "Just don't go that far, I also want to test out a new magic I'm developing."

"Magic? Can you use it yet?" She asks in surprise.

At Ryza's age, she should be almost releasing all her mana naturally. Maybe in a while she'll discover what her magic is.

"The three of us did it." William speaks.

"Heee?!"

After calling Katerine back, I decided that I would be the one seeking and they would be the ones hiding.

I gave them 1 minute to enter the forest and find a good place, although my magic will destroy any chance they have, he he.

"Here I go!" I exclaim towards the forest, entering it.

The new magic I'm developing is a magic to detect someone's location just by feeling the ground.

For this, I use Earth Magic.

With this magic, I can practically create a radar.

In order for me to locate it, I first connect my mana with the ground's mana.

However, since all things have mana, I can detect all living things.

This becomes a problem as the ground itself has countless living things, so the radar becomes crowded.

With this in my mind, I must make a "filter" of what I want to locate.

I should just connect my mana with the surface of the ground so that I don't detect any living beings beneath it. By the way, I use a technique similar to this to control the roots.

After connecting my mana with the ground, I must leave the connection weak so that I can only detect that which has a relevant amount of mana.

With that done, now all I have to do is activate the radar and look for something that has eye-catching mana.

There are two problems with this technique:

First, it consumes a lot of mana, so to prevent me from losing all of it at once, I need to send "pulses" of mana, just like a radar does. But, I must be careful not to lose sight of anything.

The second problem is the range of this spell. Currently, I can only detect what is 4 meters away from me. It is a very low number and still cannot be very useful to use.

If I wanted, I could increase the range, but the mana consumption would be greater.

I need to keep the mana pulse and range activated at the same time, I'm practically spending twice as much mana on a single spell.

Anyway, I named this spell Mana Radar!

But now, enough stalling, it's time for me to find these brats!