First Skill

When Jay touched the skill book on his forehead, the skill book turned into countless small red colored pieces and entered his forehead,

Information about how to use FIRE BALL flooded his mind, it was an overwhelming feeling, Jay grabbed his head, no it was not painful or something it's just, this was the first time Jay learnt something this way, it was both unique and fascinating.

"Was that painful?" Astrid asked seeing him grabbing his head, "No, it was just fascinating to learn something like that" Jay replied as he put down his hand,

"Ok, now try to conjure the FIRE BALL" she spoke, "Okey" Jay nodded,

Jay replayed the information in his mind, "Okey, according to information…"

He closed his eyes, focusing on his chest, below his heart, there he found a tiny marble of different color swirling in clockwise motion, 'according to information, this should be my mana core' Jay thought focusing on the marble, he manages to form five streams of mana, then guided them to his arms, legs and final stream to his head.

'According to book, if someone want to use mana, they mana connect their arms and head to mana core. This was a crucial step.'

After connecting his limbs to mana core, he opened his eyes. 'I can feel the mana running in my body' at first after the advancement, Jay stop feeling mana in his body, but he simply brushed it off, but after the information. He has to reconnect the mana in his limbs if he wants to use a skill.

'Now, according to book, I should focus on the fire elemental mana in the surrounding, and visualize them forming a spere on my hand'

Jay again closed his eyes, he stretched out his hand. His palm faced forward, as he starts visualizing the surrounding mana gathering on his palm, swirling in circles and forming a sphere.

Suddenly Jay felt a warm sensation on his palm, opening his eyes he saw a small marble sized fire swirling on his hand, 'Now I should inject my more mana in it, 80% surrounding mana and 20% mine'

'Slowing, don't rush' he muttered

Jay injected his mana in the fire marble and as the fire marble became a magnet after he injected his mana, the surrounding mana start entering inside,

Bit by bit, the fire marble became bigger, from a tiny marble to golf ball to baseball, Jay didn't dare to increase its size more, instead he starts stabilising it.

…

Astrid watched whole thing from start to finish, and she was quite shocked, why? Because for a first-time mana user Jay was doing extremely good, even when she first used mana she failed many times, and she was using most stable element, which was water.

'How can I compare myself with the destiny's son' she thought shaking her head. 'But for a first-time using mana and on one of the most unstable element, Jay you are a genius'

She was praising him in her head until, he starts making it bigger, it was dangerous for first time user to make it bigger than a marble, because if it explodes, the user might get seriously hurt.

Owns mana can't hurt the owner, but same thing can't be said for surrounding mana, so what Jay was doing was quite dangerous for him and also for Astrid.

Within a minutes, Jay stabilised the fireball, 'Haha, good, now time for experiments'

He was daring to think about experiments on his first try.

He opened his eyes and looked at the fireball, it was slightly bigger compare to a normal baseball, lazily swirling on his palm, illuminating the surrounding, it was emitting intense heat, but for Jay he was only feeling a slight warmth in his hand.

"Let's do this" he commended the fireball to move from his left hand to his right hand, but the fireball only flicker slightly.

"What are you doing?" suddenly Astrid voice entered in his ears, Jay turned toward her only to see wearing an armor made of water,

WATER ARMOR an E-Rank defensive skill.

"Can you stop playing with fire on your first try at least" she said worriedly, Jay could feel worry in her eyes so he stops his little experiment and threw the ball to the bolder where first goblin was hiding.

The fireball flew toward the bolder at leisurely pace before hitting it.

Boomm!!

A loud explosion shook the entire vicinity, smoke rose from the place where bolder was, hindering Jay's and Astrid's vision.

Astrid waved her hand, a wave of wind exited from her hand, dispersing the smoke.

When the smoke dispersed, Jay and Astrid looked the place where bolder was previously, now there only remains scattered piece of it.

Jay had a shocked expression, 'Was I really did that?' Jay thought, where as Astrid had calm expression but deep inside, she was also shocked, 'was this really his first-time?' she asked herself, as for a newbie, it was quite hard to even make a dent on such a massive bolder. And he not only made dent on it, he literally destroyed it.

"Krek-krek! Hssk... Shha! Noo grik tok?"

"Keh-keh, hoisin! Gyaan! Reba!" suddenly goblins voices came in Jay's and Astrid's ears.

"they probably came here after hearing the explosion" Astrid said calmly as her gaze landed on upcoming goblins "Can you handle them" she asked looking at Jay, as an E-Ranker killing some mere F-rank goblin was as easy as killing a insect.

"Of course," Jay replied hurriedly, he was excited to use his new found power, He take a running stance before dashing away,

There were 25 or something goblins, holding weapons ranging from crude knife, stone axes, hammer like weapon to bows, spears and even slingshots,

It takes Jay only few second reaching to them, and before they can react…

Jay grabbed head of one of the goblin who was holding a stone axe and was Infront of the group, threw it toward last goblin,

Then he jumped back and recalled how he made the fireball, 'visualize a spere of fire, supply mana form core, used surrounding fire elemental mana to strengthen it' he muttered as a fireball of same size as a baseball formed in his hand,

This whole process only takes 10 sec,

He threw it in the middle of the group, (Bom!!) (Seww~~) as this time Jay didn't stabilise it so when it came in contact with ground instead of a loud explosion, only a small explosion happened, but the unstable fire in the ball spread like a wave swiping all the goblin in it, killing them all.

"What was that?" Jay asked as it was different from a fireball.