Magic is hard. he had it ease and it was still hard. Not that he had a cheat. He was told there are no cheats the ones that looked like cheats was because something was giving them that power for a reason.

The two examples he was given was a hero arch mage. The hero had been summoned by grand immortal. What is a grand Immortal short answer a god long answer later. After the hero had finished his task for the grand Immortal he had been given a choice go back home or stay. After the hero chose to stay all of the power the Grand immortal gave him was returned to the grand immortal leaving the hero helpless. The hero actually had a happy ending the three girls that he had fallen in love with and the reason he stayed in this world stayed by the hero’s side and helped him reinvent some of the abilities that had been granted him before and was even able to make a kingdom that lasted for over two hundred years by the way the years on this world is 2193 days so on earth that would be more like 1000 years.

So what is a Grand Immortal any mage who has gained so much power that the concept of life span has become meaningless the vast majority of Grand immortals have gotten to the point where simply exerting themselves could kill every one in miles of them from the shier level of distortion in world laws. Hence the need for intermediary’s when they need something done. Also it is common practice that if you know you have a grand Immortal keeping tabs on you that you register it to all relevant parties and were the regalia of your grand immortal. Helps prevent problems and allows grand immortals to protect the people they want to.

The arch mage did not have a good end he made a deal with something when he was the apprentices to a war mage. Only he could tell you with what and he is dead. To make a long and depressing story short after that the mage had what he referred to as a system only he could see and it gave him points for killing things. So he had it ease after 12 years he became the arch mage of a kingdom two years latter the kingdom was destroyed in a bloody ritual of his making. Before the mage could do much more a grand Immortal moved. Twenty billion souls died because the Arch mage. half of that number was because the grand Immortal stepped in after his children where all killed by the mages ritual.

Magic is hard. I am just glad I have a teacher who is willing to help me, even if I cant learn to use one spell in 378 days of trying.

We know the spell will work because I can cast the spell I just cant use it. The spell I am learning was suggested by Natalia’s husband Organt. I feel so embarrassed about flirting with a married woman and it was also the most toxic and crass kind of flirting ever. When will the mortification I feel go away.

Ugghh The spell suggested by Orhant is called the Skrying spell it is used to see things fare away or by a mage that has gone blind to see again. When I am thinking with the perspective of a tree I can cast the spell like talking with my friends. No I am not kidding the way I talk with the trees and flowers around me is. I feel the essence around me use my soul to gather the essence and capture would energy with it. I did not know it was would energies when I was learning to talk. After I had the essence and world energies I would focus on the need to communicate until the whole thing solidifies then I would make my message and throw it at the intended target of the message.

Casting the spell is just a little bit harder requiring me to do all of the steps several times each time considering a different concept each time during the solidifying stage. After I have assembled the spell I just use it and it works. if you can call the fogged up bathroom mirror behind one way glass working. When I switch to the human perspective after I have the spell going I find myself looking at a movie clear high definition picture for all of a blink. It took my tree self three days to have the spell memorized. And a week after that of casting the same spell over and over again for Natalia to deiced that the human perspective has to cast the spell himself at least once before we can move on. And so her we are 368 days later for a grand total of 378 days to not learn one spell.

Magic is hard. In case you missed it trees are soul based creatures the question is not if a tree can cast a spell the question is will the tree cast a spell and why. But it is not the perspective of a tree that needs to see it is the perspective of a human.

Argnthait Winternest walked out from under the canopy of the ancient wood to one of the fields of new growth. the demi grand had considered Gnigit Summerstar’s words vary carefully and found she was right in the short time since the wounds of his last conflict had burned down a third of the forest many of the trees had gotten to the point where it would take little more than a nudge from an active tree or a meditating elf to start the thirst for knowledge. Had he not began the process of shielding his power from the world in anticipation of becoming a grand ancient he would have already felt it was time to start sending the aspirants and apprentices to find and awaken a tree. But before he did any more than he had he should take the exception into consideration. Time to visit the Sunning Tree.

That is it I am angry now, I know this spell works for my tree perspective. and I still cant cast it in my human Perspective I just want space. Screamed the human perspective in a fit of frustration as he failed to cast the spell as a human or make the spell as a tree and pass it to the human perspective with out the spell falling apart. Thinking about space he thought about how it would be fun to see it again but he would need a telescope since there are no satellites on this world but that was only…

he had magic now he could not see it for more than a second. but he could see it by casting his spell in the sky. Is there a spell that is used to remember an image and display it. No he does not need some one else to tell him that is possible he lived with pictures all his life as a human. The humans of his world could get to space without magic why could he not with it.

How would someone without magic do it. Step by step first he would calculate where they want the satellite and why. Geosynchronous orbit for a relatively still image. How would he calculate where to put it on earth it was fifty milled above see level or was that when atmospheric pleasure stopped but hear he had no idea he had no reference of size without being able to see. He would not be required to all he needed to do was make a tether and send the object straight up into the sky and guide it into geosynchronous orbit using that. After all he had gone more than fifty mills on a tether every year when going to the dancing grounds.

It was at this point that the tree that was thinking and dreaming like a human man felt that he was gathering essence and world energies into a ever more complex knot. The tree decided to go on, he had a low success rate of succeeding his spells but he could turn this half backed idea into an attempt. Next was how he was going to get the spell up there. you now what I am using a tether any way might as well use it. If I set it so the tether will transfer electric signals from the satellite to me I can send it higher using an ion drive. all it takes to get thrust is to kick one big something or a lot of little something in the opposite direction of where you want to go.

Now that I can get the satellite up there I need to see. So equipment camera but how should I set up the camera do I want more than one camera one for each different image. No all I need is one camera all I half to do to change what spectrum of light I am looking at is to change the light absorbing properties of the lens I am using. And after that how am I going to remember the image send the image down the tether that is what it is for I will have a small little thing to store format and display the image. Which leaves the defenses after all I doubt there is nothing else out there. Lets go for a simple bubble shield that has the properties of transparent aluminum except that I can program what light can pass threw it and done now all I need is to give the whole assembly a good starting velocity so that the ion drive does not halve to compete with escape velocity. How about a magnetic rail. And to start the hole process going pump all of the world energies I can and done.

Argnthait Winternest continued his jaunt threw the new growth not a single tree over five hundred years old but so much life every where it was good for him to come see this he had been grieving over the loss of his friends for far to long. look at how there children are coming into there own and he had almost missed it. Braking form his internal revelry Argnthait continued in the direction of the third order spell that was gathering so close to him. It was sending his hair on end having a spell of war strength cast so close to him. Cresting a little hill Argnthait took in the little valy no more than ten feet acrows dominated by a cotton pine tree that had sunbeams streaming down on the flowers mingling with its roots. He could understand why such a tree had been called the Sunning Tree switching attention to the non flowers. Argnthait recognized little Gnigits apprentice and the apprentices mana bound since he could tell they both had the same signature. Seeing that the apprentice was communicating with the sunning tree Argnthait turned to the man hue had a training sword in his hands the elf was still sweating from the exertion of binding the mana to his body since physical exertion was the only way to bind many to you body if you cant put it in place directly.

“What spell is being cast.” breathing hard the man hue had recognized him simply bowed and said.

“My wife is teaching the sunning tree the skrying spell Lord of the Winter court” interesting the elf had not bothered to lie but why here might as well ask.

“you do know that this location has words to prevent magic harmful to the forest and scouting magic that could be used to single out a particular plant is considered harmful to the forest I mean any tree could get around the words but why would a tree need to.” Argnthait stopped talking when the young elf seemed to pale.

Argnthait seeing that reaction realized something was wrong and took a closer look at what was going on. He could see the laws of mettle, tension, light, strength, communication, electromagnetism and nestled in the center of the mass was indeed the most complex skrying spell he had ever seen. But he could immediately see the caster was casting the spell with out the little quarks that a tree would naturally do unless the tree was trying vary hard to not think like a tree.

Not thinking like a tree having an idea of what was going on he reached out to the wards he had laid long ago and set it so that the sunning tree has call to cast the spell he was currently casting with out interference. As he put a trace of using his mana into the spell so that he could learn on how the spell was using the rules it was standing on. He found he had lowered the wards just in time because the whole spell just shot up into the sky the moment he had set them aside and when the spell shot into the sky. It was when the spell stopped and he could see how the spell worked and what it was supposed to do he was impressed a for it was war spell class indeed.