"Ummm… Did I say something which I shouldn't have?" I spoke with a puzzled look.
They looked at me as if I were a freak, leaving only Dion with the same puzzled expression as I. The white guy on the bed, ummm… what was his name? I forgot… If I remember it correctly… Thyle.. Yeah, that's what it was. So, Thyle, here lying on the bed, looked at me with a perplexed look before glancing at Nyx with a guilty expression before looking away with a slightly bitter expression, furthermore giving me a questioning look once again.
"Zero… Can you repeat what you just said now?" Zuriel asks with the same complex expression which she had before and I sighed as I repeated the whole thing I said about Thyle, overusing his magic more than once which caused him to have a mana overload turning everything about him entirely white.
"Can you… explain more about it?" Thyle looked at me with the same guilty look. Looks like he had hidden this from others but oh well, I guess since the cat was already out of the bag, might as well tell them about it.
"To be honest, mana is like air. If you compress it while applying pressure, it will turn into liquid form and on further compressing it'll turn into solid form. It's a process called condensation, which under normal circumstances is not possible…eh? Why are you guys looking at me like that?" I observed the faces of Nyx and Zuriel being taken aback… this time Dion too was making an expression of fascination as he looked at me.
"What do you mean by… compressing liquid will turn it into solid?" Thyle asks with a really puzzled and curious expression. I could look at him gulping as his throat was getting dry by the moment.
"Hmm…. have you guys… never thought about the reason why a water mage can use ice magic or reverse??" I questioned, a bit confused, and they looked at me as if I were a fool before Zuriel spoke,"that is… not possible Zero. A mage can have only one attribute or at max two.. Any more is not possible… Are you sure you know what you are talking about?"
'Are they retarded or something?' I thought while contemplating whether I should show another element that I can use, but in the end I decided not to. Rather than that, I thought of something else as I spoke.
"Bring someone who can use water magic."
Nyx, without wasting any time, instantly moved out and then brought in a young girl who seemed to be in the middle of something. At first, she was surprised and scared before she looked at Nyx and then sighed a little before asking,"Lady Nyx, what can I do for you?"
There was slight irritation in her words, but she didn't seem too bothered about her being brought here in the middle of her work…
Nyx simply pointed at me as she spoke,"follow his orders for the next 5 mins no matter how foolish or absurd they might sound." and the girl looked at me with a bit of interest as she nodded at Nyx.
She then moved towards me and bowed before introducing herself as,"I am Ariel Sphyne, nice to make your acquaintance. I will be working under you for the next 5 mins."
I looked at her petite young body. She looked like a nerd with those huge round glasses and her brown curly messed up hair. Wearing a dark green coloured robe she looked like a student of a magic school or something and I couldn't help but wonder if she was really good at water magic.. But hey! Appearances can be deceiving so, let's not think much about it.
"Create a magic water ball in the air," I asked her and she didn't even take a moment as a water ball appeared instantly. I looked at that water for a few moments and felt that there was something… something different about it…so…
"Water magic, colourless symphony," I created a circular ring around the water ball, not caring about the reaction of Zuriel… or perhaps even Hygeia at this point. Thyle, Ariel and the others weren't really shocked because… well, they did not know about my other elements… however…
"Fire magic, silent fury of an elemental," I spoke again, creating another ring this time of fire between her water ball and mine and I saw that my water ring was starting to evaporate but hers isn't changing one bit.
At this point… everyone in the room turned completely silent… they didn't have words to speak. It's as if something caught their tongue and was preventing them from speaking. Ariel looked like she was more scared than mesmerised about this whole ordeal… still she didn't move from there.
Though… I wonder how long she can last… after all…
"Light magic, Purification syndrome. Dark Magic, Decay of time," I spoke and a cloud of dark magic formed above the water ball and simultaneously a cloud of light magic formed below it, while I connected them together. I tried to burn her water ball by enhancing the fire magic while maintaining its intensity with the help of light magic.
Though after a few moments, it felt like there wasn't any visible effect on the water magic at all. At worst, it just got cancelled at places rather than being evaporated. I then close my eyes for a little before sighing and then speaking,
"Elemental recapitulation."
It is one of the best spells I ever learned… It allowed me to expand the basic structure of any spell I come into contact with, thus allowing me to learn about them with more accuracy.
The water ball expanded, and I undid my other magic under the fixed gazes of everyone else in the room.
"Make the ball smaller, apply lesser and lesser magic," I spoke and Ariel, despite being in awe of all that was happening, perfectly followed my command.
The water ball expanded up to a certain point before it stopped doing so as both my magic and her magic balanced out each other.
After a few minutes I looked at her and said,"stop here." and she did so. I then looked at the basic structure of the water ball and found traces of magic condensation. These condensations… these f*cking condensation was alive…???
I just gulped as I observed the magic in front of me with exhilaration.
"It is alive… isn't it?" Ariel spoke as she too was taken aback with what she saw in front of her, and I nodded at it before I spoke,
"Black Shadow of Reaper, Miniature show of Elementals," and began using precise magic to control the movement of the alive magic particles and separate them into a corner. I saw them getting attached to each other and increasing their mass slowly and slowly.
I slowly burned them from the side to check their reaction, but unfortunately I did not find them reacting to it. Then I tried pushing a condensed mana form towards them, alas there was no reaction again as it simply floated there.
"Try using condensed mana of water and fire both from one side, while also burning them with dark magic from the other," Ariel spoke with a slightly hushed voice and I followed her command ever so slightly.
What happened next flabbergasted all of us at once, those beings rapidly started consuming fire and water mana particles when they were being burned by dark magic from the other side. I could only look at them wondering about what kind of effect they have on the magic here and if I could find out the reason behind it… perhaps I could use this to my advantage.
I then removed my magic and so did Ariel as we both fell down on the floor as we both saw each other sweating profusely.
She looked at me and just chuckled a little before speaking,"what kind of monster are you?" and I could only sigh as I answered her,"I just function differently."
She could only nod at her while Nyx and the others had a really tense face as they looked at Ariel and asked,"What… just happened?"
Ariel just laughed at herself before speaking,"I would like to know that too.. Miss Nyx I would like to borrow this monster for a few days… perhaps a week."
Nyx just stared at Ariel, baffled a little before she spoke,"well… you have to ask that monster yourself about it."
"I don't mind honestly. This whole thing has really piqued my curiosity as well," I answered as I smiled at Ariel who nodded with a gleeful smile before standing and speaking,"come to my quarters when you are done here. We will start as soon as you get free."
Then she darted out from there without speaking any further. Nyx just stood there stupidly before Zuriel asked out loud,"Hey! Wait, wait, why is no one questioning about him being able to use multiple elements at once?"
Her question raised the curiosity of everyone in the room once again as they looked at me wondering the same thing Zuriel did. I could only sigh before speaking,"the answer lies in what you just witnessed right now."
They looked at me for a few moments before recalling everything that had just happened. When they really thought about it, it kinda made sense… even if they understood nothing about it. Still, I was not going to tell them that using two opposing elements at once was still something that I only possessed… Not something they need to know.
Dion had that look of admiration as always and I could only smile at him as my mind questioned once again,'He isn't really normal, is he? To act so cheerful when his family was literally massacred less than a month ago… among all the people I have met here… he seems the most dangerous to be honest.'
I then put this thing at the back of my head cause if it is really important, I will get to know it later… or maybe it's just how things function in this world?
"Now that we are done with that, let's cure him. We can discuss everything else later," I spoke before moving towards Thyle. In all this confusion, I kinda forgot for a moment that I have to cure him too…
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