Chapter 8 First time using magic

“Could you repeat that?”, I ask.

“Take of your clothes, all of them. We are alone in this room, so don’t worry.”, she says again with the same deadpan face.

“Why?”, I ask in the smallest voice I can muster.

“Do you want a mediocre or a strong body strengthening spell?”, she asks me.

“I need to know exactly what you have done to your body and how your muscles are placed, so you will have to take off all of your clothes including your underpants.”, she says while looking at me with a completely serious expression.

My face immediately takes on the color of red paint. I know she can’t lie, so it means I will have to strip if I want to have a custom-made body strengthening spell. I grit my teeth. A custom-made spell is priceless. I can also see from her absolutely serious expression, that she won’t do anything harmful to me. So I take all my clothes of in one go, revealing my well defined muscles and the strange black lines that run all over my body. There is also see a very weak blue glow coming from the place where my heart is if you look close enough. I see tiny blue glowing particles going through those black veins on my skin every time my heart beats.

The teacher approaches me and starts going over my muscles with her hands. Her hands glow with a slight red brown color and I feel bits of mana penetrating through my skin probing into the inner structures of my body. She does this all with a completely serious expression, she just looks at me like a doctor would look at its patient. This process takes a long time. She furrows her brows from time to time and she sometimes even looks up to me with astonishment. I wonder what I did that warranted such a reaction.

“pfew, done!”, she says while wiping her sweat off from her brows.

“Your body is really the epitome of perfection!”, she says with an excited expression, “ the pathways that you created for guiding your mana through are even more perfect than those of the most talented magicians! This will insure that making a strong body strengthening spell for you, will be a lot easier.”

She immediately takes out a few sheets of paper and starts drawing out my pathways. Then she starts highlighting the pathways that I should use for the spell. After five minutes of writing in silence she stands up and walks up to me.

“I will show you with my mana which pathways you need to fill with mana and how much you need to compress and speed up the mana flow to create the desired effects.”, she says.

She places a hand on my back and guides the mana through my pathways. Then she starts to compress and disperse the mana in certain patterns throughout my pathways. Then she suddenly pushes the mana out of my pathways into the flesh of my body. When it enters my flesh it creates a magic circle that contains the strengthening spell within, this happened because the mana was compressed and dispersed in different patterns and those patterns then created the magical circle once it entered my flesh. You could see it as a language being translated to another language.

The magical circle glowed and then infused itself in my body. I felt my strength rising to an unprecedented level. I felt like I could destroy the walls of this building with just a nudge from my hand.

“this will be your spell to make your strength temporarily rise.”, she says.

She then continues to show me two more spells that I can use. One spell to increase my speed and one to strengthen the defenses of my body.

“These are all top tier versions in comparison with the same spells the school can give you”, she says with a smile.

“Are there no long range spells I can learn?”, I ask her.

Lazula looks at me and shakes her head.

“You bound your soul shard to your body and for casting long range magic you need to have contact with the environment with your main soul or soul shard.”, she says.

“You will have to wait until rank 5 before your soul becomes large enough to go out of your body. You will be able to cast magic through your main soul when you learn to stop subconsciously suppressing your soul inside your body and when your soul becomes larger than your physical body. This sometimes also gets called the magicians Aura or Soul domain.”, she says while looking at me.

“Of course you can also cast spells by using your dragon aura to resonate with the mana in the atmosphere, but the delicate control of aura will only become possible for you when you reach rank 4 with your main soul. You will have to keep refining your soul shard with mana and hope it evolves another time releasing the evolutionary energy your main soul needs to enlarge itself and reach rank 4.”

I listen to her explanation while putting my clothes back on and start stuffing the sheets of paper with the spells written on it inside my pockets.

‘So I need to evolve my soul shard one more time huh’, I think to myself while getting excited at the prospect of using ranged magic, ‘luckily I fused my soul shard with the mana core and mana distribution system that I planted inside of my body. It will probably only take a year before my soul shard evolves. That means I will be able to rank up my main soul within a year and become a real full-fledged magician!’

“I recommend practicing those spells I gave you all day long from now on, you will need them for the practical part of your studies later this year.”, she says while guiding me back out of the teachers dorms.

“What will that practical part entail?”, I ask her curiously.

“It will probably be some kind of beginners mission that requires a lot of people to work together, but even if it is a beginners mission for adventurers, I still urge you to be very cautious! The forest is a dangerous place no matter how vigilant you are.”, she warns me with a stern voice.

“Thank you for all the help Miss Lazula. If you ever need my help, I will be happy to oblige.”, I say with a smile.

I start walking away with a fast pace.

‘Luckily she didn’t say anything about my naked body, it was already bad enough to just stand in front of her like that. I would be embarrassed to death if she would have laughed or anything like that.’, I think to myself while sighing in relief.

“Oh yeah, one last thing Sieg!”, she says, making me turn around to listen to her.

“Your wife will definitely be very satisfied with you in the future, you are after all a very well-endowed person.”, she says while mischievously giggling like a little girl.

Aaah, why do I suddenly feel that I lost something important of myself?