Magic

The hotel room was wooden, small, and cozy. The chilly wind blew in through the ajar window, alleviating the sultriness of the night. Two well-built men sat across a table. One had silver hair and pointy ears, the other with his ashen hair and wings. The small candle flame flickered under the wind that blew softly across the table and into the room, casting long quivering shadows of the two men.

The man with the long ears had placed his hand on the man with the wings. There was a soft glow at the contact point.

Whirr.

Damien's eyes shot open. The surrounding air gently quivered, as if heeding his commands.

"What you felt was mana, the essence of magic."

"How do I cast magic?"

Sylvie retracted his hand and turned his gaze outside the window.

"There are two ways of doing so. You can draw an external magic rune with mana, then cut off your connection with the rune. After disconnection, the rune will create a phenomenon according to the laws present in it."

He suddenly raised his hand and drew a complicated symbol in the air. When he filled it to the brim, it glowed slightly. Then he removed his hand, the supplier of mana from the rune. It collapsed into nothingness.

Suddenly a gust of wind blew out from where the symbol was.

"That was Wind Magic known as Breeze. One of the most basic and simplest magic in the Wind category. As the difficulty rises, the complexity and time taken to cast also rises. Not only that, but higher magic not properly executed can also cause backlashes which can even cripple a person for life."

"What is the other way?"

Damien knew that there had to be a better way to maintain the effectiveness of magic.

"The other way is to create compressed mana solids inside your spiritual place and then carve the rune properly on one surface. This surface will be the output of the magic into reality. Meanwhile, the other surfaces will be for the absorption of mana from the surroundings. At that time, you only need to verbally activate the rune and the magic will automatically execute. The required amount of mana will be utilized from the mana solid. Later, it will recover by absorbing through other surfaces. This is how you become a beginner mage. I do not know what to do next. Look into the tomes for more details, remember you can only utilize five types of elements in the spiritual place, so choose wisely. You can create the solid through the forest but only start carving when we have crossed it."

Sylvie got up after finishing his lecture.

"Anything you wish to ask?"

Damien guessed that he wasn't willing to talk any further that night. He asked an unrelated question.

"Why do the angels not fly in the Heavenly Realm?"

He clearly remembered when the fallen came from the skies to torture him.

"The God of Heavenly Realm, King of Archangels once said during a huge war that swept all the realms; Only beast will fly, the intelligent will walk with me, lest the devils disguise in. After he said that, no being that had the ability to think could fly in the Heavenly realm. No one knows how though..."

"Goodnight."

"Goodnight master."

He bowed and walked out of the door.

Damien started reading the tomes under the illumination of the candle.