Red Lotus

Thanks to her outstanding talent, Quylla was able to execute Loop in the third lesson. Even though he practiced night and day, Lith needed until the fourth one, ending up as the tenth to complete the exercise.

At first, he had been frustrated by his inability to keep up with Quylla. Despite her private lessons on dimensional magic and the long hours of hard work at night, he was always two or three steps behind her.

But then, he understood that being tenth on over two hundred students wasn't such a bad result, especially since most of them had a long way to go. On top of that, his mana perception was slowly but steadily improving.

It was an odd experience, feeling the energy flow with his mind rather than his eyes. Dimensional spells seemed to have hot and cold spots at the same time. The secret to stabilizing a Gate, was to infuse water magic only on the hot spots.