Chapter 48 - Sword of the Light Element

  She drew a very beautiful dagger from its sheath.

  “This dagger outmatches my light sword,” she said, tapping the tip of the sword Chloe was holding.

  We watched the sword shatter into pieces of light that evaporated.

  “Elemental ons are fragile and for oime use. You'll always o repair them, and your mana will drain like a waterfall,” she expined.

  Chloe still kept a smile on her face.

  “Will I be able to do that?” she asked.

  The professor nodded.

  “You’ll only be able to do it with ice; few elements bee physical to the point where you toud hold them.”

  I listeo those words.

  “That’s exactly my difficulty! I ’t touch the lightning.”

  “And you never will; your element is pure electrical energy. You ’t create something physical with it. Unlike my light element, which bees physical and tangible, your element ’t do that.”

  So, I’ll never be able to make a on? Trying to use lightning for that is useless, it seems.

  The professor moved her hands, and a semi-transparent yellow wall appeared in front of her. Adrihna stood in front of us, and a small wall appeared, separating us.

  “Try to touch me.”

  Chloe and I approached and touched the yellow wall in front of her.

  “The light element is mostly used for defense. We make barriers of all kinds and shape them in various forms,” she moved her hand, and the translut wall shaped itself into a yellow chair, and Adrihna sat down.

  Kinue appeared and made a fork out of translut yellow.

  “I’m still learning,” she said.

  I held the fork in my hand, surprised by it.

  The light element is indeed very useful for shaping objects.

  Ki down again, and the fork disappeared. The professor stood up from the translut yellow chair.

  “What Kinue did requires high-level magitrol, and almost no one is capable of doing that. When ah mage builds a house, they keep it fixed and stop casting the spell. Making a on requires keeping the spell active at all times, and that’s very bor-intensive. What Kinue did was not only making a on with her element, but she also handed you the light element fork, and it remained active in your hand for a few moments.”

  I looked at Kinue.

  “I imagihe farther away from the person, the harder it is to keep the on active,” I said.

  The professor nodded.

  “Each element has its advantages and disadvantages. Ohing is to make a on out of the light element, and another is to shoot a ball of light. Magic has many uses, and each use alters how you wield it,” expined Adrihna.

  “I ’t make many physical objects…” said Kinue.

  “To me, what you did was incredible!” said Chloe.

  I agreed. Making a physical object like a chair or a fork has its advantages if you keep maniputing the element. If a troop on the road es across a broken bridge, a mage could build a new ohe possibilities fic go far beyond just defeating the enemy. No wohis entire society depends on magic.

  I tried to think of many uses fic, shaping it in various forms. A part of me, as a warrior, thought of many battle strategies.

  If a ncer came at me on a horse, I could create a wall at the st moment, and he would crash into it. Is that how mages use magi certain battles?

  “My element has many uses because it’s moldable and physical. You ’t make a chair with water, fire, lightning, magma, or wind. But you with ice, earth, light, pnts, and mud. Each element has its utility.”

  We listeo that and uood better the limitations of each element.

  “You said it’s possible to do it with the pnt element, but how would that work? I’ve never seen my mother use it that way. I’ve seen her create pnts, accelerate seed growth, and once she made a flower,” I said.

  “Your mother is blessed with a special ability because of her High Elf blood. If she mao create a flower, it means she is very special. Usually, on elves create wood, and some create vines, but most have the gift of having mana with healing properties. Your mother is quite special for being able to gee life by creating pnts; the elf blood in her was very pure.”

  I was intrigued when she mentioned mana with healing properties, as I knew a bird with healing powers.

  “Martha once healed my wound with the water element. Will I be able to do that?” Chloe asked.

  Thank you, Chloe!

  “If I give the answer, I’ll be hindering your development.”

  She saw our disappointed faces.

  “But I tell you that you won’t have mana with healing properties. Both of you have more thaure element. Only those with a single element have an ination to healing.”

  Professor Adrihna took her dagger and wounded herself.

  She touched the wound with her finger, and a yellow light glowed.

  “This process is very plicated, and the rger the wound, the harder it is to heal,” she said, then wiped the blood away, and there was no more scratch.

  “That was cool,” Chloe said.

  The professor smiled.

  “The elves’ element has an ination for healing. I only heal minor wounds; the pnt element is generally superior in healing.”

  “Every element has healing power?” I asked.

  Adrihna shook her head.

  “Only water, pnts, and light.”

  So fire doesn’t heal?

  I remembered the times Cyl had healed me.

  She’s special, so I ’t pare her to the standard magic people know.

  I sat back down.

  “Thank you very much, Adrihna, this information was very useful,” I said.