Two years have almost passed, Xulphyr just turned 5, tomorrow was the end of the comprehension training, he didn’t talk much with others children beside John, he mainly focused on his comprehension to use magic more efficiently.

And for that physicals and chemicals law helped a lot, but physicals and chemicals law weren’t enough, they were just a small part in the comprehension of what is the nature, thus the sensation and experiment of magic use was really important to use magic.

With one hand he created a fireball the size of a fist, with the other hand he did create a ball of water and froze it while moving them around him for a second, using earth to increase the resistance of his skin.

“I still waste more than 80% of the mana used, but I succeed to not even consume 0.5 mana units, good good” Xulphyr said happily.

I remembered that, the teacher say even the best magician is not even close to understand the nature itself, then it make sense that there is waste on the process.

‘AhAhAhAh” Xulphyr Smile like a devil while laughing like the antagonist of a novel.

“Now that I've fulfilled my goal of the last two years, i can do an experiment, right? Will i be the first human in earth that succeed to make chemical fusion works ? The fusion of two hydrogen to form a helium, like the sun?”

Remembering everything he knew about nuclear fusion his eyes widened of excitation like he found a revelation and mobilise all his mana in his right hand, creating ice to protect his hand.

He begun to create a fireball made of nuclear fusion, a fireball a bit smaller than a peanut.

It wasn’t a viable attack on a fight, since you just use all your mana for a single spell. But for him it was a novelty for science.

Success !

I immediately release the fireball to the river.

“Pshhhhhhhh”

You could hear the water evaporating for a minute, joy and wickedness and could be seen on my dizzy face, while falling unconscious.

--------------------------------------------------John POV--------------------------------------------------

At the age of 3, when they tested my mana, they said i had 9.9 unit of mana.The man with the most mana ever known of our country had 9.8 mana and died long ago that make me the one with the most mana of the country.

During those 2 years i kept asking theoric lesson of the nature to our instructor Don, Don was really friendly to me and non stop teach me because he wanted to see the rise of one of his student as the strongest mage.

I got along very well with the other kids,i asked xulphyr to come with us but he said “ i have to focus on learning magic and be strong to fulfill my dream”

Xulphyr always have been mysterious,not that i had the feeling he was hiding something, but it was like he didn’t think like the rest of us.

He only had 8.2 unit of mana which is a bit better than average in this academy but i had the feeling that he is stronger than me.

He told me he trained close to the river, so i went to river spying on Xulphyr training to know if he was really powerful.

He stood in front of the river, close to the river, with one hand he created a fireball the size of a fist with the other hand he did create a ball of water and froze it while moving them around him for a second, using earth to increase the resistance of his skin.

I was watching that closely, not that it was hard to do this magic, every kid know how to do it. the thing is he did it with ease like it was easy and natural to create magic and he could do it without thinking, not even focusing to handle his spell.

I knew it ! Xulphyr is awesome !

but what surprised me was what he said next.

“I still waste more than 80% of the mana used but I succeed to not even consume 0.5 mana units,good good”Xulphyr said happily.

He did say he need only 0.5 mana unit to do it … Even me, that being praised by Don use more than 1 mana unit ! He surely must got wrong!

‘AhAhAhAh”Xulphyr smile in a demonic way while laughing like the antagonist of a novel.

I was totally confused, but his voice made me shudder. I was doubting that maybe, maybe he wasn’t a good guy. But there’s surely an explanation to that right, I was going to talk to him but.

“Now that I've fulfilled my goal of the last two years,i can do an experiment, right? Will i be the first human in earth that succeed to make chemical fusion works ? The fusion of two hydrogen to form a helium, like the sun?”Xulphyr

At this moment i feel sad for my friend, What nonsense he is saying, did he lost his mind ? he went crazy !?

It is really sad… He was a good guy , i must watch after him and say it to the instructor and …

But what happens next totally shocked me.

a fireball with a size smaller than peanut was warming all the surrounding, and the fireball went to the river.

But the fire were still intact, he went into the river.

“Pshhhhhhhh”

I could see a large amount of water evaporate into the air with the only reason that a little fireball went to the river.

I first had a feeling of incomprehension, then terror, then jealousy and finally admiration.

Because the world around me seemed so absurd i didn’t even see xulphyr lost consciousness, but he still had a wicked smile on his face.

Is he a Devil?

“Xulphyr, i had the feeling that you were awesome,but what was that !? “ shouted John

But after that i was sure of one thing, i will never be the best magician in the country.