Perfection

Hydraulic was Leus' new favorite

'The spell is completely silent until I launch it, And I can do it almost instantly!'

'This spell is so good'

'It is actually pretty good even with only the chant, Silent casting takes it to another level and allows me to increases its speed even more'

'I'll create a super sonic bullet!'

It took Leus around 2 weeks to accept the results he achieved

'It's not the perfect version that I had in mind, But it should be enough'

In his imagination, He wanted it to be faster, But there was a limit to his capabilities.

He was reluctant to finish this spell's training

'But there's nothing else I can do.'

And like that, He moved to Splash.

Splash was an extremely precise spell, And controlling it's precision was very difficult.

'This spell will take a lot of time for sure'

Fortunately, Leus only needed to focus on aiming the water accurately.

He didn't have to worry about controlling its speed or properties.

For example, he aimed it under his knees when sliding while running or under his feet to slide while standing.

It took a lot of body control to not fall while doing that, But eventually, Leus was satisfied with the result.

The spell already took longer than the other two spells combined

'It took me little less than one and half months to be able to use it correctly'

'If I wanted to only cast it, it wouldn't take more than a couple of days, But for it to have any practical use I needed to put in this much effort'

With that, Leus was done with his last Water spell, Which actually was the very last spell too.

'And now I have nothing to do ...'

'Well, I still have time'

'There must be something to do'

' ... Right?'

Leus found himself standing alone in the yard with a blank mind.

He always had a plan or something to train on, But now there was nothing.

After training relentlessly for months, Having nothing to do felt very weird

'What should I do now?'

Is all that he was thinking about

After thinking about that for a couple of hours, Leus got an idea

'The book had the spell Mana Vision'

'I know how to silently cast it, but I don't know how to convert Mana from Neutral to Elemental Light Mana'

'I should try that!'

He closed his eyes, focused on the Mana inside and around him, and tried to slowly transform it from Neutral to Light ... But

Nothing happened

Leus tilted his head

' ... I have nothing to replicate'

Whenever he trained on transforming Neutral Mana to Elemental Mana, He tried to replicate the feelings the spells evoked

But now, He had nothing to replicate

That confused him, So he activated Mana Vision

'Interesting'

Leus de-activated Mana Vision, then activated it again.

After repeating the process a couple of times, Leus realized what was wrong.

'I have no idea how to transform Neutral Mana to Light Mana because I've never done it before'

'For some reason, This spell doesn't do that'

' ... It's so weak'

Leus tried Examination, The other spell he learned from Remedy

'This spell too, It is as weak as Mana Vision'

'So what's the difference between these spells and the other spells?'

He didn't know that, But he came to understand something else

'To be able to transform Neutral Mana to Light Mana, I need a spell that already does that, Then I mimic the spell's job'

'I need better Light spells, Not only that, I need Darkness spells too'

'Now that I think about it, This must be the reason I felt differences between spells like Mana Vision and other, harder spells'

'Spells that convert Mana are harder'

Still, he didn't know how or why it was harder, But thinking about this wouldn't lead him anywhere, So he concluded this matter with

'I'll ask Arno about it later.'

Leus crossed his arms as another realization dawned on him

' ... I went back to square one'

'What to do now?'

With nothing new to do, He decided to go back to the old things

'Fine, I'll just spend some more time perfecting all my spells'

'I will also experiment with some spells against each other, Like Fireballs against Bubbles'

'At the same time, I'll increase my Mana Pool'

'After I'm done with these, I'll talk to Dad and tell him that I'm done'

With a new plan on his mind, Leus felt satisfied and started the supposed last phase of his training, Perfection.

He kept depleting his mana pool on random ideas, Like hitting Shield with Fire Balls, or hitting Fire Balls with Bubbles, And so on

The results were like this

'If Shiled is hard enough then Fireballs are helpless against it'

'Hitting Fireballs with Bubbles often extinguishes it, but if the Fireball is much bigger then it evaporates the water and continues forward but with a reduced momentum'

Basically, Nothing out of the expected

'Common sense and laws of physics would be enough to understand what would happen in such situations.'

Leaving all the experiments aside, Leus had a specific idea that he always wanted to try

'I want to create ten Daggers around me at the same time'

'I'll look so cool!'

'Three daggers on my right, three daggers on my left, and two above my head'

'The last two will be in my hands'

Leus imagined that if he did that, He'd look like some sort of a superhero.

He called it (The Dagger Hero Theory), And spent countless hours trying to perfect it.

He'd often walk in the garden with all the daggers floating around him and a stern look on his face

When his family saw that, They had different opinions about it

Viorica thought it was scary

Amethyst and Merlin thought that it was SUPER COOL

Blaze thought that he looked funny

After spending a month on all these experiments and theories, Leus decided that he was done

'It's finally time ...'

At this point, He was 3 years and 6 months old, which means that he still had 6 months left until the deadline

'But I don't have anything else to do'

'I'm ready'