Kenn frowned “What about these last two in my book?” he held the page out, showing the basic cast and incantation sigils

“Oh, those. Yeah…” the demon looked embarrassed, “those are, as they say, the simplest known versions of their spell types. No needed elements, no specified effect, nothing. When you use them your mana kinda just… does what it wants. For example, if you activate the basic cast with fire mana you’d just end up with an uncontrolled stream of flames, with ice you’ll freeze everything around you, wind you get a tornado, you get it. Super dangerous and unpredictable.”

“Uh… then why did you give them to me?”

“Because frankly, I don’t have any spells for your time affinity. I’d never heard of it before, so… that's the best we got. I’m hoping that when you use these we can at least get some ideas for what we’re working with.” The demon shrugged

Hailey raised her hand. “B-but they don't even know how to cast. I mean me and Ali could use these but…”

“Rub it in why don't you” Giel huffed

“Oh shut it, Giel. The only reason you can't cast is that you never bothered to learn! In Kenn and sandy’s case they only just gained access to their mana. What's your excuse?” Ali lectured

Giel seemed to flinch at the comment but brushed it off just as fast “Fair fair. I still don’t know though are you gonna teach me?”

Ali Glared back at the Demon King, who twiddled his fingers in a wave

“You know what I will.”

What followed was around thirty minutes of Kenn, Sandra, and Giel being yelled at by a scary miniature woman with intermittent explanations on forming sigils.

The way Ali explained the process you would think it was as natural as breathing and her words could be shortened to ‘you just do it’ without losing much of the contents.

Hailey’s attempt at explaining was better but still confusing. Mainly on the account of the unsureness of her words. It was like despite having her magic for years at that point she didn't really know how she used it.

It took both of their explanations and some pointers from the Demon King until the trio finally figured it out.

Casting a spell was kind of like using your mana like ink. Kenn had to write the sigil out in the appropriate node when he did he could feel it activate then he could feed mana into it and sort of push it out to activate it. There would be a draining sensation and his core would dim a bit and that was it.

The Demon King had them practice with a mage hand spell used to lift small objects, included in the back of their books, once he thought they finally had a handle on it, he moved on

“Great! Now l want you to try the spells in your book. Practicing them is the best way to get them memorized so let's start on that.” He grinned a grin that made Kenn want to run and hide “And what better way to do that than in the field. And that my padawans is why I got this.”

He pulled out a piece of paper from his pocket

QUEST

C RANK

Collect 10 vials of wiswater, per party member.

The wispools are found at the end of the dungeon north of town, a map has been included on the back of this page.

Vials will be provided upon request.

Reward: 30 Goldkart per ten vials, plus the value of any other loot found in the dungeon