Chapter 8: Sense of Magic

Nao was in bed sleeping, and Alistor was closing the door, as he felt the pain of Nao, because he had a similar past, but he doesn't care anymore, he went on and face the future, there in deep thought he was startled by Aurora.

"Hey," Aurora said with her hand tapping his shoulder.

"Gah! please....don't do that." Alistor said while his hand on his chest as if he had a heart attack.

"Sorry..." Aurora said as her hands go at the back.

"Do you need something?" Alistor said as he fixes his necktie, and starts to walk slowly.

"I Never thought an Arcane Elemental will come to you, are you sure you are not a magnet or something?" Aurora said while walking with Alistor.

"No I'm not, I just have a soft spot around people who tend to be lost or without shelter or thugs beating some kid up," Alistor said as he continues to walk straight and went head down the living room and sat down as he drinks tea served from Micreal and continued "So, any news from the squad who you sent finding the base?"

"About that, My men searched this area of the capital..." Aurora then shows Alistor the map of the capital and circles the area where her men found a lead, it was from the northeast of the capital and there they found a lead, "...and we may have found a lead, they said they found a suspect that is with the cult who wishes to revive belphegore."

"And where is this person?" Alistor asked while he drinks tea.

"It seems we need to pay a visit then?" Alistor said as he stands and while holding his cup of tea and goes to the fireplace and looks down the firepit.

"Visit? we can't just barge in a house, without some kind of permit, that's against the capital rules." Aurora said as he follows Alistor going toward the firepit.

"We don't need a permit, I already know where the base is." Alistor said as he looked at Aurora.

[Few Hours Earlier while Aurora was down stairs drinking tea before checking up on Alistor]

The black figure appeared inside the room of Nao, and tells a very weird language, that only Alistor can understand.

"Really? you found the Base? That was fast, where was it then?" Alistor asked the shadow Figure.

[Wierd Noises from the shadow figure]

"Huh, Far east outside the capital, then we must make haste, You can come back now, take a rest" Alistor said to the shadow figure.

The shadow figure then disperses from sight.

[Present]

"So it's outside the capital, far east at that..." Aurora said as her hand was placed under her chin.

"Is there something worrying you?" Alistor said as he looks out the window and looks at Aurora at the edge of his eye.

"Far east, its the dead forest and mystical beasts live there, plus a dragon flies around, no one dared to go in there, didn't know that there already was. Your shadows is really handy when handling these kinds of things huh?" Aurora said as she praised him.

"Aw, you're making me blush miss Aurora, but yes, it is kinda handy when It comes to these things, but I tend to keep a low profile when using it, some can sense magic from these shadows." Alistor said as he drinks tea, while Micreal was in the background dusting off the dusts from the stools and table.

"Magic?" Aurora said as she wonders.

"You see Miss Aurora, My master's powers can be sensed by a high-level Elementalist, but since my master is good at using his abilities, he uses that sense of magic an advantage of the situation," Micreal said while holding a broom.

"How?" Aurora asked.

"It's a secret," Micreal said as he winks.

"Then I must expect some surprises in the future," Aurora said as she drinks tea.

In some place Dark and creepy, there was a castle on the cliff edge and there was a figure who is likely to be human, sitting on a throne with head leaning on his hand on his left cheek.

"My liege, The experiment was a success but we still need more time to produce some more." the lady said while bowing in the long hallway.

"Good, then we must use this Experiment as a weapon, and turn the country as a never-ending war." the man said as he smirks and stands up, and continued "Go, fasten the Process, the ending is approaching.

"But sir-" The girl wanted to say something because there was a slight malfunction in the experiment, but she was stopped.

"Is something wrong Miss Shire Blackwood?" The man said as he releases a scary glare at her.

Shire Blackwood then looks down and said "It will be done..." as she clenched her fist.

"Good, now be a good girl and fetch me a drink while your at it." the man said and left the room.

Sometime later at the day, Micreal was fetching some vegetables and meat to the merchants at the capital while Alistor was reading a book, while his legs were crossed together and he was drinking tea, Nao came down the stairs and saw Alistor looking like a fine, well-mannered prince, she was shocked and paused for a second then she came down, and sat beside Alistor, and then little by little she came closer to Alistor.

"Nao, what are you doing?" Alistor said as he drinks tea while reading a book.

Nao was a bit startled because she didn't know that she was gonna be noticed "hehe, you knew?"

"Of course I know," Alistor said as he continues reading.

A few minutes past as the time ticks, Nao fidgets as she wanted to say something, Alistor noticed her fidgeting on the edge of his eye, he closes the book and puts it not the table.

"Is there something you want Nao?" Alistor said as he puts the book on the table.

"Well... Please teach me how to use magic!" Nao said as she looks at Alistor while bowing her head.

"I thought you knew already?" Alistor said as he drinks tea.

"Well, I don't really know how to use my magic yet..." Nao said as she fidgets her knees.

"Ok then," Alistor said and he stands up.

"Really?!" Nao said with excitement in her as she stands up also.

"Yes, I might not be able to know Arcane magic but I will do my best to develop it and make you know how to use it." Alistor said as he stretches and there the room became a black room and was really dark, then it transformed into a training field of magic, Alistor used an Ability from his younger days, A training Field, it is a space where he creates anything from his brain, all long as he saw the place or object for the first time. Nao was shocked at first but was amused and got used to it. Alistor continued "So, let's learn the basics."

Meanwhile, in the travelers' tavern, Aurora was in her office and was looking at the window, she was worried about something and was holding an object.

"So First is harnessing your mana." Alistor said as he explains

"My Mana?" Nao said as she tilts her head.

"Yes, depending on your element, it comes with different sizes and shapes, you can harness it by channeling your body and focusing on where you want your magic to appear, for example..." Alistor then opens his palms and closes his eyes and there a blue source of mana appeared on his palms it was shining brightly "...The more mana you have, The more the light goes brighter, as you can see, my mana is a perfect circle because of how well I can control it, now you try."

"Ok!" Nao then closes her eyes and channels her body into her palm and focuses, there she opens her eyes and there was the blue mana, it was shining brightly almost as Alistors' mana, but it was still far from his mana, she said while she has an amazed look "Look! look! I made a mana!" as she shows it to Alistor.

"Not bad, now you form your element, its easy, you just imagine your element and focus on that only, I'll give you an example." Alistor then Closes his palms and opened it again, then Alistor's Blue mana went blue into Purest black and was emitting black ring crossing each other, Alistor said "See?"

"Okay let me try." Nao then focuses her mind and Imagines what arcane magic would look like, then the training field was glitching and pink glowing particles came into Naos' hand and was forming into a shape, Alistor was able to handle the glitches from Nao as he had strong resistance against light elements

{Arcane is one of the light elements used against shadows such as a weakness, but Alistor has High resistance to it because he trained himself against it back from his world.}

Nao then opens her hand and saw a diamond with small particles roaming around it, she said "Look! Look! I did it! I finally know what my Magic look like!!" as she said excitedly, Alistor looks at Nao as she accomplished the basics, he smiled and thought "She might be able to surpass me."

[Chapter 8 End]