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“Are you sure about this?” Mizza asked.

“Oh yes. You remember I cast this in the arena yes? And with the mana support, it’s going to be even better.” I rubbed my hands together.

This was going to be awesome!

“Is everyone ready?” I called back over my shoulder.

“Aye!”

“Don’t forget the plan! Don’t stare!”

“We’re fine, go ahead.” Parks, who was holding my left shoulder, poked me. Mizza’s hand was on my right one.

“The swarm is passing,” Ness said. “Do what you’re going to do now.”

“I’m on it. You better go back with the healer and others.”

“I don’t believe this will work, but very well.” The fighter nodded and jogged off to the rear, with the other non-mages.

“Start the incantation!” I called.

Behind me, the mages, in two rows, as the cliff wasn’t wide enough for a line, began casting the mana-share spell.

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A second or two later I felt the mana build up behind me.

“You too!” hissed Mizza.

Oh, yes.

I ran my spell code, and gasped. Power began to flood into me! It was like nothing I’d ever felt before. Still, as much as it was, I could do more.

I began my incantation. This spell, as an Ultra level one, needed me to speak it aloud, and I wasn’t used to doing that. I started to sweat as I went along, as the magic built up and up, pushed into me from those behind.

Overhead the sky darkened. Clouds formed at an unbelievable rate, blotting out the sun, turning the day into twilight.

The incantation was finally done, but I wasn’t ready to cast yet. Now I also started pulling in mana, as fast as I could. I’d not done so much since my incident under the academy, with the fireball, but this time I knew what I was doing.

I hoped.

The air around me began to howl as the flow increased. My hair and cloak blew about in the gale and I laughed with glee.

Here it was! Here it was again! That level of power that only I could manage!

The sky overhead was now black with clouds and pent-up energy. A bolt of lightning a few hundred metres to my right cracked down, hitting a spire of rock, causing it to explode.

The howl turned into a scream, and my vision began to turn white. The power kept flowing, becoming one with me, taking over my being. It was joy, it was ecstasy!

I roared as my feet, literally, left the ground. Sparks crackled around me and the mana storm turned into a mana hurricane.

I was in my own world now. My own, white world, at one with the magic. Floating, all powerful. All…

“Theo!” The voice screamed in my ear. “Theo! Snap out of it! Cast the spell already! We can’t hold on much longer!”

I reined myself in, pulling myself, with great difficulty, back to the real world. Slowly my feet floated downwards again, to land back on the rock.

Reality returned. It was as black as night now. Lightning strikes lancing down all around, and a gale of epic proportions raged. I could feel Mizza clinging on for dear life, trying not to get blown away.

“Cast the bloody spell!” screamed Parks, above the gale.

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