Gaselirot: Caster skill - part 8

Ivan got out of bed, in his room on the fourth floor and a smile again blossomed on his face. He remembered that today they were to continue training his magical abilities. He was anxious to use a spell. * Knock * * Knock * "Hmm? Who needed me early this morning? Isn't it Master Dusiey? He personally came to me to start training me? Class!" Barsik jumped on Ivan's shoulder and they immediately crossed the room and opened the door to the room. Merion stood in the doorway.

- Eh ... It's you again ... - A little disappointed, Ivan lowered his head and looked at the floor.

-Hello, Ivan.

-Hello, Merion, why did you come?

-I came to tell you to go down to the second floor, now everyone is already having breakfast.

-Ah? I'm with you? Shouldn't I have returned with Nero?

-In the near future, Mr. Nero, definitely will not appear here.

-Well then, probably okay ...

-This is all that I had to convey to you, and now I think I'll go.

-Ah, yeah.

Leaving the room and overcoming the corridor, they got on the stairs, along which they went down to the second floor. So they entered the dining room of the magic shop named after Dusiey. In a small hall there were five long tables, along four on both sides there were rows of chairs on which the rest of the shop workers and students sat, except for one, the fifth, which was at the very end and was completely free. The atmosphere inside was cheerful and relaxed, conversations between students and employees were heard from all sides every now and then. It was a little unusual for Ivan to be in such a lively crowd, because earlier, in a past life, he spent all his time at the computer, as a rule, completely alone, and that is why society weighed him down. He decided to find a place somewhere away from everyone and sat in a corner where there was less noise. As much as he wanted to sit alone, he did not succeed, even in that corner sat two magical students. When they saw Ivan sat down at the table with them, a small smile blossomed on the face of one of them, and the second looked slightly interested.

-Hello! - Greeted Ivan, a guy with a smile on his face.

-Hello. - Frowning a little, Ivan greeted in response.

-Are you new here? This is the first time I see you. - Asked all the same smiling guy.

-A, yes, I was here recently ... - Ivan answered vaguely.

In fact, Ivan did not really want to waste his time on someone else, he wanted to eat quickly and go to training with Dusiey.

-What is your name?

-Ivan ...

-I'm Tuliy, and this is Reshi, forgive me, but he is a little taciturn, - Tuliy patted the guy sitting next door on the back. - nice to meet you!

-Nicely...

-By the way, who is this? - Thuliy pointed his finger at Barsik

-And this ... This is Barsik, my filletar.

-Filletar ?! Have you tamed the filletar ?!

-Well yes...

-That would be the case for me ...

Tuliy once again looked enviously at Barsik, but in the end he turned his gaze back to Ivan.

- Well, since you're new, I'll explain a little to you.

-Thank...

-First of all, do not take food until Dusiey utters his hetarin.

Ivan looked at the food in front of him and nodded. There were various dishes on the tables, although for this world they were quite ordinary and there was nothing special in them, but such food seemed unreal to Ivan before.

-I see...

-Who will you be? An employee or one of the students?

-I am a student...

-Oh, we too, I study within the magic of the laws of the element of wind, and Reshi studies the laws of the element of water, though I only have a high predisposition to the wind, and he has the highest predisposition to water! Can you imagine? Highest!

-The highest?

-Yes! You know that within the framework of magical laws there are different ranks of predisposition for this or that element: lower, middle, high, highest and super high! Eh, I would like to have such a super high predisposition, at least to one type of mana, the laws of the element ... - Thuliy issued a few more heavy sighs and lowered his head.

-Oh, by the way, at the expense of over-high ... - Ivan did not have time to finish this proposal, because at that moment Dusiey entered the dining room with Merion behind his back.

-Yes, this is Master Dusiey! The Master is already here! - came shouts from the crowd.

-Silence! - Merion shouted menacingly.

The crowd this very second calmed down and it seemed that in this silence one could hear, even the flight of a fly at the opposite end of the room, no one dared to think about breathing loudly. Dusiei walked past everyone and stood at the central table at the end of the room. Merion was still standing behind him.

-I would like to inform you all today about the appearance of my new, personal student! - Loudly and proudly said Dusiey and briefly glanced at Ivan, so that no one noticed except him.

-New apprentice? Who! Dusiei's personal apprentice ?! Was I really able to witness this ?! Who is this lucky guy ?! - The crowd was bursting with shouts and exclamations of surprised students and shop workers.

-Ivan, get up and come to me.

Ivan got up from the table and walked towards Dusiey and Merion. Dusiey indicated with his hand that he should stand to his left, so Ivan did. Ivan was able to see surprise in the eyes of everyone inside, including the faces of Tulia and Resh.

- Introduce yourself. - Merion said in a whisper to Ivan.

Ivan immediately remembered how he introduced himself at school and repeated it.

-I am Ivan Legov and from now on I will study with you, I hope for cooperation from your side!

Small talks rolled through the crowd in whispers. Many now, barely audible, were discussing Ivan and his speech.

-Exactly, now Ivan will study with you! He has a super high predisposition to the laws of the fire element!

-Super high! Does he have a super high predisposition ?! Did I hear it? Is he really super high ?! - The whole crowd now exploded with shouts again, everyone began to discuss this statement even more furiously, some in excitement, and some, with disbelief.

- Don't you believe the words of Master Dusiey ?! - shouted Merion and stared at the noisy crowd with an angry glance.

The room quickly became quiet. All these surprised screams that came from her just a moment ago now seemed somehow unreal in such a dead silence. It was easy to understand how strong influence Merion had here, and even more so Dusia. "They are here clearly the embodiment of the law ... Everyone obeyed them unconditionally."

-Hope you keep going, it's still good to try and this news will not slow down your learning. Ivan, you can return to the table. - said Dusiey.

-Yes, Master Dusiey. - Ivan said and returned to his place at the table.

-Well, now what you were waiting for, hetarin! For successful training within the magical laws of the elements! - Dusiey raised a glass of black liquid.

-Yes! The crowd united in a single cry.

Immediately after the hetarin was pronounced, everyone began to eat food and savor drinks. Ivan also started eating, and Barsik also began to eat, jumping off his shoulder, sitting next to his plate.

-Awesome performance! A speech worthy of Dusiei's personal disciple! - Tuliy smiled, addressing Ivan.

-Ah, yes ... I just introduced myself ... - Ivan began to be embarrassed.

-Yes Yes Yes! I suppose you prepared? Do not belittle your dignity! - Thuliy laughed.

- Yes, I really ... - Ivan finally blushed, he rarely had to hear praise from others.

-Who would have thought that I would see another, personal student of Master Dusiey ... - Thuliy tilted his head back and looked at the ceiling.

- Okay ... I'm just ...

- All in all, I became a personal apprentice, the strongest magician in the city. - Said before, the silent Resh.

-But, you are also students ...

-We are only students of Merion, but he is already a personal student of Dusiey. - Thuliy answered.

-This is how ...

-By the way, you have a huge predisposition to the magical laws of the element of fire ... I heard that they have the highest attack ability! Eh, it's not like my wind ... - Thuliy wilted again.

-What's wrong with the wind? - asked Ivan.

-When studying the magical laws of the wind element, the caster gets the opportunity to move faster, and push the enemy away, and only at higher levels can he attack ...

-But isn't speeding up cool? - Ivan was surprised.

-Everyone says so ... - Thuliy again drooped.

After some time, everyone, having eaten and washed down, began to leave the dining room, including Ivan followed the whole crowd, but at the exit a familiar voice called out to him. Merion stood with his hand on Ivan's shoulder.

-You, the master is calling.

-Okay...

Ivan turned to face Merion and looked at Dusiey, who was sitting at the same central table at the end of the room. Together with Merion, he returned to the table and went to Dusiey.

-Mr Ivan, from this day on I will teach you, within the magical laws of the element of fire.

-Why exactly the element of fire?

-First, I can teach deep truths that I myself know only in two elements: fire and water, the rest have not reached high levels.

-But then why don't you start teaching me within the framework of the magical laws of the element of water?

-Because Merion is already exercising, within the framework of the magical laws of the element of water.

-But then we would be able to study together and help each other, it would speed up the start of training, wouldn't it?

-No, you don't understand, I have to spend my element mana from time to time when teaching this or that magic spell. But, in addition to this, I have to give my element mana to the student to debug the spell or replenish its mana, which allows you to speed up training without stretching them.

-This is how ...

-But, my mana is also not infinite, and if I have a second student who needs to transfer water mana, I will quickly spend all my strength. So if I have two students of different kinds of magical laws of the elements, it's better for everyone.

-I see.

-Well, okay, it's time for you to go, soon Merion will come for you and you will go to the backyard for training together, but for now, you can rest and yes, in no case do not talk about your real predisposition to all elements.

-Why?

-If high-ranking people find out about this, they will want to get such power, and if you refuse, they may even kill, you must understand that it is better for you to be inconspicuous.

-Many thanks...

After that, Ivan left the dining room of the magic shop and walked along the corridor towards the stairs to go up to his floor and return to his room. But Thuliy noticed him.

-Ivan! Come here!

-Tuliy ... Has something happened?

-You will participate in training today, I would like to see the power of your magic!

-Yes, I just started studying, within the framework of the laws and have no idea in any spell ...

-What?! Are you serious?!

-Yes, I was only able to manipulate the mana yesterday, when Master Dusia gave me his.

-Wow, so you have already trained in mana manipulation? How much time did you spend on this?

- A whole nine hours ... - Ivan sighed, it seemed to him that Dusiei was just trying to cheer him up yesterday.

-Nine?! Just nine hours and you were able to start manipulating mana? How long did you enter the meditative state?

- It took me nine hours to enter a meditative state and manipulate mana ...

-Both?! You are something! How could you do all this ?! Geniuses are so incredible ...

- Didn't you hear? Nine o'clock!

-Yes, I heard! That's nine hours in total! He could not have praised his exploits so openly ...

-Ah? Isn't that a lot?

-Many?! Is it too much for you to learn what some take years to do in nine hours? Geniuses are truly amazing ...

-Uh ...

-Oh, I beg your pardon for detaining you, about great master Ivan! Thuliy bowed in a comedic manner.

-Hey! What are you doing?

-Oh, nothing! I just expressed my respect for his cleverness, Ivan!

-Oh you! - Ivan hit the back of his hand on the back of the head of Tulia, who all this time was standing bent over in a bow.

-Hey! It hurts ...

- There is nothing to arrange clowning here ...

-It's already impossible to joke ...

They chatted about a lot more as they strolled through the magic shop. Quite a lot of time has passed after such a friendly and cheerful conversation. And now Merion finally approached Ivan.

-It's time to go, training has already begun.

-Yes! Already going.

They went out into the backyard. Seeing Dusiey on the landing, Ivan immediately stood next to him. The rest of the students have already stopped their training and crowded around, wanting to watch the training of a new, personal student, everyone respected by the master and owner of the magic shop Dusiey. Ivan was uncomfortable in such a crowd and Dusiey, noticing this, looked around the whole crowd and said, lowering his head:

-Alive, continue your training! There is nothing to watch here!

The crowd slowly dissipated and each student retired to his place. Everyone returned to their training and already, almost did not pay attention to Ivan.

-Thank...

- Not at all, it's time to continue what we started. Ivan, can you already excite the mana within yourself?

-I'm going to try now...

Ivan sat down in the lotus position and closed his eyes, after a while he again found himself in a meditative state. Absolute darkness and complete silence. Ivan tried to find in his body that same multi-colored liquid. But something went wrong and he couldn't find anything. He remembered Dusiei's words:

- Remember this feeling.

Ivan tried to concentrate on the moment when it happened and tried to strain his whole body. After several attempts, he realized that this was not correct. All his actions are wrong and you need to come up with a new plan to excite mana. He remembered how then the power was poured into him, which was the agitated mana of Dusiey. It had colors and was a kind of bubbling liquid. "Maybe I don't have the mana itself? How can I collect it? Or is it there, but I can't see it until I activate it? What should I do?" Suddenly, one small thought reached Ivan and he concentrated on one point, his body, his back. He tried to mentally imagine a liquid that would boil and shimmer with colors. Suddenly he began to notice small veins inside his body and by concentrating on them, he was able to squeeze mana out of them. Right now, Ivan was absorbing the mana located directly next to his body, but it did not boil, as it was then, just a simple liquid. Then Ivan tensed and concentrated even more on this liquid, thinking about the rise in temperature. He tried to imagine how the water in the kettle boiled, under the influence of heat from the fire. And suddenly the mana began to slowly heat up and boil. He was finally able to arouse the mana within himself. Then he opened his eyes and looked at Dusiey with eyes full of confidence. Dusiey, seeing Ivan's expression, was surprised again and approached him from behind. He put his hand to her and was shocked.

-You could! So fast! None of the students have yet aroused mana so quickly and independently! Only a few hours have passed, and you have personally refilled and aroused mana!

All the students, hearing the happy exclamations of the master, directed their surprised looks towards Ivan. No one could believe in such a huge gap between them and Ivan.

-I just typed and aroused mana ...

-And it took you only about five hours! Such a quick learning curve!

-But...

-Now it's time to teach you the simplest spell of fire! Let's see how you can control fire mana!

-Yeah! - Ivan nodded several times.

-First, get up and stretch your hand aiming at that scarecrow. - Dusiey pointed his finger at the scarecrow in front of Ivanov.

-Yes!

Ivan got to his feet and stretched out his hand in front of him in the direction of the indicated effigy. Dusiey glanced at Ivan's pose several times and corrected it.

-So, now try to enter a meditative state while standing like this.

- Standing?

-Yes.

-But how can I ...

-Just do it.

Ivan closed his eyes and tried to forget about everything, concentrating on himself. Suddenly Ivan's legs gave way and he fell to the ground. Barsik, who was not far away, jumped up to Ivan, poking his face into his faces, trying to support his friend. After making sure that Ivan was in order, he left again, so as not to interfere with him.

-Hey! - Ivan jumped up and began to rub his hand on the place on his head with which he hit the stone.

-Hmm ... You still have to work with the counter. Let's try again.

Ivan stood up again and closed his eyes. Ivan collapsed again, hitting the ground. Ivan subsequently repeated these actions several times. And in, t after a while, he achieved what he wanted. Ivan swaying a little from side to side stood on his feet with an uncertainly outstretched hand forward, his eyes were closed. Suddenly he opened his eyelids and, with a smile on his face, looked towards Master Dusiey.

-You really learn too fast!

-He heh - involuntarily, shyly Ivan laughed, rubbing his head.

-So, now listen carefully. Now you will have to concentrate the mana of the fire element in your palm.

-Fire element mana?

-Mana of the element of fire, has a red color, though you are not able to see the color of mana yet, but I will help you.

Dusiey came up from behind to Ivan and put it on his palm. But Ivan felt nothing.

-What have you done?

-Nothing yet, first concentrate all your mana into a ball and get it somewhere away from your back.

-Okay...

-I see.

Ivan closed his eyes, again stretching out his hand in the direction of the stuffed animal. And he again concentrated on moving the slightly red ball, trying to get it out of his body, but he could not make it leave his body. Then he cut off a small portion of the mana and it moved faster than a whole ball. Then Ivan realized that managing a small part is much easier than all at once. Thanks to the speed that appeared, he was able to break through the barrier and spilled reddish mana outward. The air around Ivan's palm began to distort slightly due to the rising temperature, but she quickly slept, returning to normal. Ivan's hand turned red and he opened his eyes immediately began to wave it.

-Hot! - Ivan furiously shook his hand and from time to time brought it to his mouth, blowing on it.

-Ha ha ha! Everyone who trained in fire magic had this at first!

-Not the most pleasant consolation! - Tears appeared in Ivan's eyes, and Barsik rushed to Yi van and, climbing onto his shoulder, began rubbing against his friend's cheek, showing his devotion and support.

-It's already pretty dark ...

-Ah? - Ivan looked around and realized that the sun was already beginning to set over the horizon.

Most of the students have already left the backyard and went home.

-We need to go back and go to bed in order to gain strength, tomorrow we have to work hard on your magical abilities, so you will really need strength!

-Yeah! - Ivan nodded.

Dusiei, accompanied by Ivan, headed back to the magic shop. Inside, Merion was waiting for them.

- Already finished?

-Yeah! - Ivan answered cheerfully.

- Well, fine, good night.

-Yeah!

Ivan went up to the fourth floor and went into his room. Barsik jumped off Ivan's shoulder and lay down on the table. Ivan himself undressed and lay down in his bed.

During this day, Ivan finally managed to experience, albeit small, but the power of fire!