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3 – Hurricane
Kain’s POV
Early March. 4030. Bazell Coast. Territories of Cohen House.
That day I prepared Apple Mojito twice more. Baba did enjoy my recipe. “Jimmy will stay here for three months and I want you to stay here to study under Baba” Vurm insisted. “I won’t be able to teach you much, although I will explain you basics and any other spell that you will learn in the future will be based on what I will teach you” Baba added. I changed my mind to stay while Vurm will head up to north with rest of the squad. In three months, Jimmy and I will depart to southwest to meet with squad.
Most of the waiters and waitresses in Baba’s shack-restaurant were kids from wealth families of Vin and other nearby cities. Their parents had sent them to learn magic from Baba. Elle was one of these student-workers who had to literally work hard to learn magic. I could see hatred in their eyes towards me, as Baba was tutoring me personally.
“I’m not affiliated with fire but same as you I can use wind magic. Before I get to teach you magic, I want you to never talk about your fire and wind affiliation in front of anybody. Do not forget, people like you are rare” Baba told me calmly. He began to float and move on air going towards the rocks on other side of beach and I followed him.
“First of all, main difference between a magician and warrior is that warriors are more inclined to martial arts while magicians stick to complicated spells and chants. Nevertheless, even at an old age, a warrior may learn chants and spells of a magician but it will be hard for a magus to train in martial arts.” Baba said. “I want to learn both spells and martial arts” I questioned him. “Kain, its hard to carry two watermelons in one hand. But if you insist on learning both, then you are going to walk on a hard road. I recommend you to choose one of them as your chances of success will increase doublefold.” Baba stopped for a moment “By the way, what did you say was the name of that drink?”. “Apple Mojito!” I answered.
“Ok, its almost 10 kilometers from my restaurant to here. Sit over this rock and begin to meditate. It does not matter whether you are affiliated with fire or wind. What you seek for is mana. Its everywhere. Try to feel it” Baba told me. He asked me to form lotus position and sit properly.
We were standing by a massive rock, which was as tall as a big hill. Waters of sea has weathered bottom parts of it breaking into many small rocks size of an elephant or rhino in comparison to the original. “Do not forget, try to feel the essence of universe.” Baba said for last time and left back floating on air.
“He flies to everywhere, lazy man. That’s why he is fat” passed through my mind. I closed my mind and tried to concentrate. For few hours I had problems focusing as many things that had happened in past life and problems that I would be facing in this life did not leave me alone. I knew that I have to reduce thoughts and feelings of desirous attachment or else I would fail.
I stood up. Sun was almost setting down. For the last time, I sat down and crossed my legs. Palms upward, I placed my right hand on top of left. Thumbs were touching each other gently. Straightening my spine, I closed my eyes to meditate.
Slowly breathing in and out I lost myself to sounds of waves and noise of wind. It felt cold at first but feelings such as cold and hot vanished.
I had never known what peace is. For first time ever I clutched feeling of peace. It was as if a beautiful girl caressing me, running her hands over my body.
Tinglish sensation squeezed me into nothingness. Wherever I was I didn’t have physical body, without understanding nature of my existence in this plane, but my consciousness was here.
A single spark occurred out of naught resulting in a small flame. Watching closely, fire was made out of dark red particles of mana. It was flame but at the same time it was not. Instantly, blue wind began to circle around burning flame. Same as fire, it seemed as wind but was made out of royal blue particles of mana.
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Wind was creating shape of a ball, in three dimensions, and flame was burning in center of it. They were in balance, supporting each other, creating one single entity.
“Its enough for today, time to eat” I said to myself. Slowly I came back to myself. I opened my eyes to see Baba floating near me chewing toothpick in his mouth. “I hope you know how to swim!” he said. “Why?” I asked. Using his eyes, he showed downwards. I bent my head to look down and saw that both of us were floating on air over sea. I panicked and fell down to sea.
Splash!
Submerging down to depth of sea, using last of my strength I swam towards up. As soon as I reach top of water, I felt weak. I turned my head towards seashore and layed flat on back not to drown. Baba flew towards me and grabbed from neck of my shirt. He continued to fly to beach dragging me. Thank God, he was helping me out or else I would have died.
I lie down on warm sands as soon as we reached shore. I was breathing heavily. “I’m hungry” I said spurting water out of my mouth. “It’s been 20 days, so you should be hungry” Baba told me smiling. “Really?” I asked. “Congratulations on breaking to 2nd level” Baba replied. “Normally it takes years for most to reach it!”
“Jimmy, glad you came. Help him to restaurant..” Baba said. Sun was still shining bright in sky. I ate a lot, while Elle was angrily looking at me while serving food to Baba, Jimmy and me. “What’s wrong with her?” I looked at Baba. “She lacks temperance” Baba said with a glass of apple mojito in his hand.
Mid April. 4030. Bazell Coast. Territories of Cohen House.
“Do not force yourself. Open your hand and focus your wind affiliated mana into your palm” Baba explained. Royal blue colored dots began to appear and float on my palm. “Let go of them, and listen to me carefully” Baba continued.
“Wind Shield is the name of protective spell that I’ll help you out with. Once this spell is cast, you will be surrounded by fast winds swirling around your body. Ranged weapon attacks and spells casted by lower level magicians or warriors will be deflected by Wind Shield, although mages and warriors of higher rank will be able to break through it” Baba informed. “Moreover it’s an off-the-shelf spell, so you shall be able to improve it and as your rank increases its speed and power will increase too” he stopped and gave me papyrus. “Technical details of spell are written in here. Read, learn and practice!”
Few days later…
I was sitting on beach, a kilometer or two away from Baba’s restaurant, watching dolphins that were hopping from wave to wave.
Chanting a spell was much more different in practice than using mana to materialize it through a weapon. At least from my perspective it felt so. Simple wind shield spell was three paragraphs long, I had to chant it word by word each and every time to activate it. I had to find a shortcut but did not know how.
In an instant, my body was covered in sand dust. Covering my face with my left hand I peeked through gaps in between fingers to see Elle surrounded by winds. “Void, Wind Shield” she said and winds dispersed. I shook my head right and left for sand to fall off my hair. “Chant the spell while meditating and bind it to a simple name such as ‘Wind Shield’, that way when you want to activate it – calling out its name shall be enough!” she looked at me and continued “Don’t close your eyes fully when you meditate or you will end up in sun”. She left after giving me hints. “Thank you” I screamed although she didn’t even turn to look at me.
I sat in lotus position. This time half-closed my eyes, focusing them on point where thumb fingers were touching each other. As I entered half-trance state, I began to chant wind shield spell. A spiral of fast winds began to rise from ground to reach almost ten meters in height. Staying inside it, at epicenter, I felt no threat but turned back to see branches of a banyan tree were bending away from me because of wind shield’s power. “Hurricane” was the word that came to my mind and that was how I named my wind shield.
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