Reginald was walking along the dirt path followed closely by the cat spirit, who was trying to observe the newly discovered Champion and understand why such a weird person was the chosen one.
“So while we’re on our way, can you please explain to me how I could do magic ?” the Champion asked, trying to hide his excitation to be able to get back to Reggie faster.
“Well if the theory is correct, you should be able to see little blue particles in shape of cats. Can you see them ?” said the cat spirit almost as excited as Reginald to be able to teach Myugic to somebody.
Reginald squinted but without his glasses, he couldn’t see any particle. He was disappointed but had not gave up on Myugic that quickly, it would be pretty sad if it was the case. So he told to the spirit “I can’t see anything, I think it’s because of my bad eyesight”
It replied “Oh. That’s a problem, then you’re gonna have to learn Uni-Dimensional Intimate Creation of Non-Organic Objects that you have already Looked at, or UDICNOOL.” and it was very proud to have said this without stuttering.
“Why is this name so long, you could’ve just named it Imaginative Creation, if I understood what it should do.” Reginald was saying that but he also thought that a longer name was way cooler.
“Now’s not the time to question the tastes of the ancient Myukins that names this kind of Myugic.” the cat spirit
coughed and took their wise voice,
“It is said in ancient times:
In order to control UDICNOOL,
You need to bathe in an imagination pool,
Closed eyes, appears a new image.
To be wise, you need to become a mage.
Focus hard enough on what you see,
This image will be in an empty sea.
After some time, it will seem real,
and in the world the image will reveal.”
The spirit was very proud of having recited this by heart but Reginald was more confused than happy with these informations. A poem seemed a little too much for something with a name as ridicule as UDICNOOL and he was starting to doubt the usefulness of it.
“It’s a pretty long name and a long poem for something that seems very simple, I only need to imagine something and it will appear is that it ?” Reginald asked confused and with a disappointed look.
“Yes but there’s some restrictions that you will understand after using it for some time”, after having recited all of this, the cat spirit didn’t want to admit that they didn’t remember the rest.
“So try to focus on an image of your glasses”
Reginald closed his eyes and tried to imagine his glasses, the feel of the cold metal of the glasses legs, the distortion of the view looking through the lenses and the cat hair of Reggie on the right lens. He then inadvertently thought about Reggie and the glasses fused with the aspects of a cat, with cat ears and fur.
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“When you have the image in mind, try to grab it and you will feel it in your hand if you done it right.”
He reached out for the weird, now cat-like glasses, and grabbed them. And after opening his eyes, the glasses were there in his hand. Reginald had successfully for the first time used UDICNOOL, or even any kind of magic. The excitement of Reginald was palpable, he jumped around screaming “I can use magic !!” and after realizing that he was ridiculing himself, he coughed and tried to recover his seriousness. After putting on the glasses, the Champion was finally able to see blue particles floating everywhere, he also observed around him and when he saw the cat spirit, he jumped in surprise.
“Why do you have 5 eyes ?!”
“How should I know, I didn’t ask you why you had only 2”, the spirit replied confused and quite angry about being judged on looks.
“Fair. Anyway, now that I can see those blue particles, what do I do with them ?”Reginald was impatient to know how to use Myugic
“Trying to change subject, okay…” the spirit said depressed “...well you should be able to tell to the particles what to do, try to concentrate them on your hand”
“Concentrate in my hand ?” Reginald said without much conviction
The spirit laughed, “No, you need to say it in ancient Myukin. It’s just the same but in reverse”
“Dnahw ym ni etartnecnoc ?” he said hesitantly.
Suddenly, the blue cat-like particles started to orbit around his hand.
“Wow it worked!” Reginald exclaimed
He felt a new weight getting heavier in his hand, so much so that it slowly started to hurt. “How do I release it ??” he screamed panicked.
“It should release when you hit something with your hand with the intent of giving the particles.”
The Champion ran to a tree on the border of the dirt path and struck it with all his strength (not much), and all the particles spread around the completely intact tree. He was perplex about what had happened, he had almost lost his hand and did absolutely no damage with all the energy concentrated in it.
“What… What just happened ??”
“You just said to the particles to concentrate around your hand, nothing more, so it didn’t know what to do and just stayed around your hand.” replied the spirit, itself not very sure about it.
“What can it do other than that then ? Because I don’t really want my hand to explode.”
“It can do almost everything you want, the power will only depend of the quantity of particles in the air. The more natural, the more particles there are.” the spirit was saying that, only because it had never heard about anything restricting these powers.
Reginald was confused, there was simply too much liberty to this power and with UDICNOOL, it gives almost infinite possibilities. Something had to restrict it, and the cat-spirit either didn’t know or didn’t want him to know what. For now he decided to settle with these bases and get back to reaching a city, but it wasn’t without using his newly acquired powers. Using UDICNOOL, he imagined a car and then reached out to it. But right as it appeared, it sunk through the ground.
“Huh ? Why did it sunk ?”, Reginald was getting more and more confused.
“What are you talking about” the cat-spirit answered almost as confused as him.
“Well I used UDICNOOL to create a car and it just... sunk through the ground ?!” After putting it in words he was even more perplex and confused about what happened.
“Oh, then I think I should explain to you why UDICNOOL has such a long name.” for the second time, the spirit coughed and put on his teaching voice trying to finally remember the rules of this Myugic.
“UDICNOOL has some interesting properties, firstly, there is the Uni-Dimensional Intimate part of its name. It means that only you can see it or interact with it, not even the earth is able to. It’s in its own dimension where it’s just space and you. Secondly, the Non-Organic Object part means you can only create non organic objects, I feel like this one was kind of self explanatory. Lastly, the that you have already Looked at part means that you only need to imagine it, it just needed to finish the acronym by a L so it was more cool and pronounceable.”
“That’s a lot of properties that I clearly needed to know. But thanks now I know it’ll probably be completely useless ” Reginald said sarcastically with a disappointed face.
“It’s not useless, you can…” the pause in the cat spirit speech was really awkward, it started sweating “… drink water infinitely ?” It wasn’t even sure it was possible but it met all the requirements so it was worth the test.
“Good idea!” he replied “And I’m even quite thirsty so I’ll try right now.”
Reginald started imagining water in his mouth, the sensation of the fresh liquid on his tongue. And after opening his eyes, the water appeared in his mouth. But by error, a little too much had appeared and slid down his throat, he started to have a bit of a hard time breathing. He tried to speak but only coughs came out.
“A… Are you okay ?” the cat spirit said with a confused look on its face.
The Champion continued to drown with the water he had himself created, his vision started to reduce and blur and then, it became completely dark. He was left unconscious. The spirit ran to him panicked to try and save his life...
Reginald was waking up for a fourth time in what seemed like the same day. Under him was a cold stone floor, the air was humid and freezing, and he was hearing cries and screams echoing from afar. The cat-spirit was also unconscious right besides him. , Looking up, he saw prison bars behind which was what seemed like a guard.
“Finally awake you cutie ?”