Celeste~

I followed suit and did what she said again. The whip departed from my palm, I gripped it as I usually did while it cascaded down to the floor.

"See, it's like a perfect, thick line of golden energy, it hums but it doesn't crackle. Couldn't possibly be electricity."

"How much of your energy does this whip of yours take, you didn't use it much in the first two Trials." Wow they really took note of everything.

"A lot, I noticed that pretty quickly."

She wrote something down and then asked me another question. "And have you tried to manifest your energy into anything else before?"

"Yeah, kinda, my parents weren't around to show me how that movement of energy is meant to feel. The only thing I could end up creating was that line. It started off shorter to begin with but I trained to make it longer."

"And do you feel like you could make it even longer now?"

I looked at the whip in my hands. I hadn't tried to make it any longer than this point because it fulfilled its purpose of being a whip as a weapon and after this length, it would just become pointless.

I still tried though, I went through all of the motions I felt before when I was trying to make it longer. It was hard to describe but it was like the extra length was already inside of me and I just had to push the whip out from my palm like I was giving birth. Once it was out it was easier to get it back to that same length and with enough practice, I could make it get to that point without even really thinking about it.

The golden rod grew about an inch and a half with my full efforts before stopping.

"I see, and once you get it out I'm assuming it's easier the next time?" I nodded in agreement and she wrote that down as well.

"And it doesn't hurt or anything?"

"Nah, it's just like a pressure of some sorts."

"How easily can you retract and protract your whip during combat or just a regular day to day."

I didn't know that either, "Um, so my whip

just like takes so much of my energy away that I didn't really bother to develop it more than it is. I can just retract my whip at the same speed I put it out."

"I see, can you try doing it faster for me, and without allowing it to go back in all the way if you can."

While I needed this length of my whip as an immediately attainable weapon I could see how a short version of it would make good use in short-distance combat.

I retracted my whip, thankfully I didn't feel any pull back from within me when I didn't allow for it to go all the way in, I pushed it back out and confined this, It would seem that this particular aspect of my magic was easy for me to train because I had no issues doing this and I was only getting faster and faster as I continued. The downside being that my energy was draining, and at an exceptionally fast rate. I wasn't surprised because I hadn't done this before but I was still appalled by the way I

was starting to feel.

"Um, it feels pretty easy for me to do this but it's taking a lot of my energy."

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"Okay, you can stop for now."

Not doing what I thought she would she turned around and screamed for someone to come.

"Jared!, I need you!" She shouted louder than I thought her small body was capable of. A man came from the door that was behind where she was sitting. He was short, like very short at around 4 foot something. He wore the most circular glasses i's ever seen and resembled a short wizard. "Here!" he said before waiting for her command.

"Cut the rod with your sword, not too hard just test it out first."

He walked into the box with me and took out a Swiss knife from his pocket. "This may or may not hurt so prepare, I don't wanna catch you off guard or anything. You ready?" The bashful man spoke to me with compassion as he readied himself to use his weapon. "Thank you for making sure, yeah I'm ready."

I hadn't thought my whip had been hit before, it was either that or It just didn't hurt when it did.

He kneeled to the ground, to the tip of my rod and cut. "Fuck!" I audibly screamed when the metal grazed my energy. It was unlike anything I'd ever felt before, It wasn't like a graze or scratch it felt like it touched my soul. The pain wasn't the worst thing I'd ever experienced but it really made me wonder what I would feel if the knife went all the way.

He retreated at my pain with an apologetic look in his eyes. "Okay, that's enough of the knife, how did that feel?"

He left the box and I spoke. "Like my soul was on fire. Never experienced anything like it."

"I see. Jared! Use your electricity on her whip."

She shouted again even though he was right next to her and I was starting to see where his reserved nature originated from. He followed her direction and went back into the box with me to use his magic. "Ready again?"

"Sure."

He pointed his finger and a blast of what looked like lightning struck out from the tip of it. It was more controlled than anything I'd ever seen of that nature. The irrationality of the nature of electricity that was confirmed by the practitioner did not correspond with the way in which the single line of power moved. It was direct, it was controlled.

It still crackled and split like it normally would but it was way more centred than usual. It would seem like our innocent little friend here was definitely here for a reason. That kind of control only came from someone who had taken years to harness their skill and was born with the strength needed for that kind of power.

At first, he targeted it towards the glass, which actually seemed to just...eat the magic that was being directed at it.

He then turned it towards my whip. I flinched in return as a response to the previous pain that I'd felt when he used the knife on me but to my surprise, the electricity floated around the whip like it was water and oil.

"Up the dosage." She spoke from her seat. He gave me a warning look and blasted his electric energy from his whole hand. The lines that crackled were much thicker this time and in turn less directed. The energy still danced around mine like it did before.

"Okay, stop." He stopped and walked out of the box once again.

"So your energy does not seem to combine with other types of energy. I'm going to assume that your energy originates from somewhere inside of you. You will practice how to endure this."

She flipped to the other side of her sheet and she began reading what she wrote.

"Okay, now for your energy balls, have you ever tried to manifest those into something else?"

"No, it was the first power I got and it was almost like it had the blueprints for me. It was just a matter of filling the space of the balls that it gave me with energy and then they formed for me."

"So probably the power that's closest to you, the one that's like second nature." I nodded at her description.

"And how big can you make these balls?"

Now that I've tried. "Obviously the bigger they are the more energy they take. I've managed to get them to around the size of an exercise ball but it took so much energy I nearly passed out the first time. I can do it now with a little less of a cost but it still takes a huge toll."

"Can you demonstrate that now?"

I felt my palms begin to buzz like they usually did when I did this. The empty balls were there they just needed to be filled in the palm of my hand. I used my energy to fill them to the biggest size that I could, It was even slightly bigger than the last time I had practised which was not long ago. I guess they weren't lying when they said as soon as you get to this age, things develop very quickly.

I held it in my hands but did not fire them.

"I didn't expect you to be able to hold them so easily, does it take energy to keep them

formed?"

"No, just creating them"