Determination

After Leus experimented enough with Fireballs, He decided to go for the next element

'Only three elements are left!'

Leus decided to start with Earth

'I'm not really sure, But common sense says that Ice and Water will be similar in some way'

'So it's better to start with Earth and then master both Ice and Water together'

Leus went and opened the book and read about the next spell

(Spear: A spear that can be used for defense against swords or simply thrown at opponents.

Keep in mind that the spear will most likely break if you decide to fight swords with it.

If you're lucky it'll parry one hit or divert its direction, but that requires both skills and timing.

The main use of spears is obvious, Throw them at enemies, Just like Fireballs.

However, -Apart from the elemental difference of course-, Spear is better than Fireball in some cases, For instance

If you're in a small, enclosed room, then you don't want to burn the room and kill yourself by choking to death, Right? That's when Spear is better

Note: Spears are physical objects made of mana, They won't harm you as long as your will controls the mana, And they will disappear after you stop controlling them)

Leus liked this spell

'Interesting, I wonder if I can adjust its size to make it the size of a dagger when I silently cast it'

He closed the book and went to the garden

'Hmm, What do I throw these spears at?'

After thinking about it for a couple of seconds, He didn't find a solution, So he decided to try the spell and think about this later

Leus repeated the incantation and a spear around the length of 2 Meters appeared

Leus took note of everything he was feeling

'There's a faint control over the length and the speed of the spear'

'Not as much control as Silent Casting gives, But it's still there'

He also noticed something else

'If I spend more Mana, I can make the spear sharper or harder, But only to an extent'

There was something like a set limit which no matter how much Mana Leus added the hardness won't exceed

'I guess that has to do with the quality of my Mana, I remember that Sal's companion said something like that when she was explaining about Magic'

After he was done focusing on the feelings the spell invoked, He decided to hurl the spear into the sky like he did with fireballs

Leus willed the spear to launch up

Whoosh

It flew in the air

He repeated the process a couple of times and then noticed something

'If I spend more Mana and make it stronger, then the spear takes longer before it dissipates back to Mana'

'So it doesn't only control the sharpness but also its vitality'

'Fireballs didn't have such complicity'

He thought about the reason for that and then came to a conclusion

'I wasn't able to control the temperature of the fire, only its size and speed'

'This means that the sharpness of the spear is equivalent to the heat of the fireball'

'Interesting'

He didn't need to train for long, after only a couple more tries, he understood everything about the spell.

However, To begin silently casting it he would first need to learn how to transform his neutral Mana to Earth Man

'And that'd take a while'

He began training and quickly became disappointed

'It's as difficult as the wind'

He sighed

'It will take me two months ...'

That wasn't a pleasant realization

'But it's not like I have other options'

'I need to do this to make Mom happy ...'

'Also, Power is good to protect me and my family'

'Maybe it will provide us a decent lifestyle too'

'I need to strive for it'

He encouraged himself

'Power will give me and my family safety, wealth, and happiness'

'It's worth suffering for'

'Without power, Mother wouldn't have been healed by now'

'Power is good, If the price I have to pay is to keep training for a couple of years, then so be it'

'I have to do it'

'I will do it'

With that mindset, Leus' determination never wavered

Power was never Leus' goal, but only a means to achieve his goals

He wanted to become powerful to both protect his family and be happy

'It'd also be nice if it makes me rich too'

Leus smiled wryly, But quickly he removed the smell off his face

'My father keeps risking his life for us'

'It's only natural that I keep training'

And like that, Leus resumed training

He'd spend all his day training, The more he trained, the bigger his Mana Pool became, And the more his Mana Pool increased, The longer he was able to train.

It was an eternal cycle of training

'At least, because my Mana Pool has become bigger, I should be able to finish it in sooner than two months'

And so, He kept training

Days passed

Weeks passed

The first month passed

Two more weeks passed

One more week passed

And that was it!

After a month and three weeks, And when Leus was almost two years and ten months old, He mastered transforming Neutral Mana to Earth Mana!

'Fourteen months are left'

'Time is passing really fast ...'

'I need to work harder.'

After he learned how to create Earth Mana he decided to begin silently casting Spear

As always, he was in the yard, Then he tried the spell

As he expected

'There's much more control over everything'

'But that makes it much more difficult than just chanting ...'

He was able to control the length, sharpness, and speed

'Well, Just like with Fireball, I've to fully master the spell and then adjust the variables as I like'

Leus decided to create three different spears

'One with more sharpness and less length'

'One with more length and speed but less sharpness'

'And one with very short length, Like a dagger'

He had many ideas in his mind, And he wanted to try all of them.

'This will be fun.'