Magic

Chapter-18 Magic

No matter how powerful you become, never try to do everything yourself, otherwise you will fail. - Uchiha Itachi

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Three days later, in the training camp

Cain was sitting on the floor listening with serious expression to Edgard's explanation of what magic was.

"Magic, an omnipresent energy that originated more than five thousand years ago or at least when we, supernatural beings or humans became aware of it. Unlike us, vampires and other supernatural beings, humans could absorb magic and store it within their bodies in something called Sea Consciousness but we, vampires, use a very different method, instead of storing in our bodies we use magic directly from the air and form a bond with it and our consciousness..."Edgard spoke by lifting his finger and at the tip of his finger, a small black flame appeared, it gave an cold, chilling aura to the environment.

"But since everything has a disadvantage, that method isn't that different, we can use low-level magic quickly but our speed for using high-level magic is relatively low. Simple fire magic like this one needs 0.1 seconds to be formed, however, a large scale fire magic takes almost five seconds. I don't need to tell you what happens when you stand still for five seconds in a life and death battle" Edgard spoke to Cain as a little black flame was formed in one hand while in the other he formed a black fireball with a diameter of two meters, its height being the size of a head.

"To solve this problem we created a special, unique method called Spell Card, with that method, you store your fear inside it, in the case of Humans, they store magic inside the spell card. The spell card works as a catalyst that increases our physical and spiritual properties, along with this comes the increased speed of processing magic. For ten minutes you gain ten times the strength you had before in every respect, we call it invincible" Edgard continued while looking directly on Cain eyes as he raised his hand, a small black card with blue details appeared, floating on top of his hand.

"Of course, Spell Card is not invincible, when the time of ten minutes is up, the body will enter a state of extreme fatigue, physical and mental, basically, you'll be weakened. If you are lucky, you will be conscious, however, if you are unlucky, when the ten minutes are up, you will be unconscious. Here we finish the basics about magic and before you ask, don't say you want to do advanced magic, because you're not even close to being able to do that magic, you're still far from being able to use it..." Edgard finished his lecture on the basics of the world Magic for Cain, that nodded in agreement.

"When did we start learning magic?" Cain asked Edgard, rising from the floor while dusting his clothes.

"Making basic magic is not complicated. You just have to create a strong bond with the magic particles that are around you and gently put them together. Remember magic is a living thing, so treat it as one." Edgard spoke guiding Cain who closed his eyes and saw a colorful world inside his mind. Thousands of millions of particles of all colors floating throughout his vision.

Cain noticed that the white particles that he thought were the element of light did not come near him in any way, as if they were disgusted with him. But the dark particles that were the element of darkness, he felt so close to them that he heard little laughs of happiness coming out of the black particles.

Suddenly he felt that a connection had been made with the dark particles and gently he gathered some dark particles and a small ball of black energy appeared floating on top of his hand.

The dark sphere was small, one centimeter high and two centimeters wide, had no attack or defense effect, although Cain thought it would be interesting to be a street wizard with that.

"Congratulations Cain, you and the first in a thousand years to form a contract with the spirits of darkness. As you are descended from my master and he was the lord of darkness, you are naturally loved by the dark spirits." Seeing the dark particles surrounding his grandson's body, Edgard spoke with a smile full of gratification and satisfaction. He hasn't been so happy for centuries, training his grandson was one of the smartest things he's done in four hundred years.

"Now that you can officially cast magic, let's go to the second stage of your magic training." Edgard clapped his hands and countless cast-iron Puppets appeared in the middle of the training camp.

The puppets had a metallic appearance and no expression on their faces. The arms and legs of the training puppets were longer than usual, making the puppets look very scary.

"Cain, your goal is to explode, the head of all the training puppets, without using your talent or physical strength, you can only use magic as a form of attack. Just a warning, the puppets are extremely fast and know how to defend themselves so be careful, because each blow will hurt a lot". Edgard spoke disappearing from where he was and reappeared outside the training camp. He looked at Cain who entered the battle position with a smile full of fun.

"It seems that my dear grandson is about to start the second round of training." An old but calm voice sounded next to Edgard who looked away and saw the most beautiful woman in his vision.

"My dear Isabel, I hope you have rested well," Edgard spoke embracing the old woman with long white hair and small red eyes with affection as he gently kissed her wrinkled forehead with all the delicacy of the world.

"Stop doing this in front of young people, you'll lose the respect they feel for you," Isabel spoke rebuking Edgard with a stern face but the happy smile on her lips cannot be hidden.

"If they lose, the respect they feel for me. I'll make them witness how and hell on earth." Edgard spoke lovingly to Isabel who smiled seeing her husband's cold eyes.