Chapter 117: CHAPTER 116: Advice.
"And what does this bird eat?" I asked while I gently stroke the shivering creature.
"Mostly insects," Beatrice replied, "But it can also eat grains and seeds if it needs to."
This meant that Quetzalcoatl would lucky be able to sustain itself in these fields surrounding the core of Atlantis without any help.
I placed the bird on the ground to see what it would do.
Still having no idea what was going on, the bird waddled around for a bit. Hoping that I would not attack it.
"Isn't it kind of cruel to name a flightless bird after a deity mostly associated with the weather and the sky?"
"Nah, I don't think that it knows what its name means. So, it should be fine right?" Allenya spoke. She squatted down if front of the bird and tried to get it to climb on her arm. of course, Quetzalcoatl had no idea what it was supposed to do with this and only gave her a questioning and helpless look. All this while still hoping that she could safe it from the blood red monster that was standing behind it.
"That reminds me. Elisa, can you please help me with something?"
Both Noah and Beatrice turned to Elisa. They probably wouldn't take no for an answer.
Elisa also noticed this and quietly nodded, a little worried about what I was going to ask from her.
"Don't worry. I just want jour help with learning new kinds of magic. I have tried it a little on my own, but you know a lot more than I do, so you might notice any flaws that I didn't."
Glad that I was not going to ask her to murder anyone or something along that line, she let out a sigh of relief.
After a while of playing around with the bird most of them went back to wherever they were residing in Atlantis. Only Elisa stayed behind to help me a little with magic.
We stayed in one of the ruins that was a bit more stable and far away from where the woman was killed.
I figured that it would be best to not show her the decaying body of someone that was brutally murdered here.
Elisa was standing right in front of me, and Quetzalcoatl was trying to hide in a corner. Not that it helped, but if the bird felt safer with that , then I would do nothing to stop it.
Both of them still looked rather uncomfortable with being alone in a room with me.
"shall we start?"
She nodded and took a step back to give me enough space.
After this I started to manipulate the air around me. it felt a lot like the manipulation of fire, so this was the first one that I learned on my own.
The currents of the wind that I created were clear to see due to the dirt and the dust in the room. I first let it circle around me before I let it clash to the sides like two blades. The parts of the walls that I hit now had clean vertical slices in them, no further cracking in the walls could be seen. But the cuts were not deep enough to completely slice through the walls.
After this I manipulated a piece of the floor to crumble and lift up. In the air the stone reformed into a crooked spike and slammed back into the place where it originally came from. After this I repaired the damages in the room and patiently awaited Elisa's advice.
She lifted her weight from one leg to the other as she was looking for the right words so that she could not offend me.
"Well… it is truly amazing that you got so far on your own. But I can see that you treat the air much like you treat fire. And tough they both are more manipulative than earth, they are completely different. The air is freer that fire, so it does not need a point to hook on to, nor does it need a centre. At least not until the eye of a storm is formed. As for earth. You need to be firmer and demanding when controlling that element. Tough it did eventually do what you wanted, it still had some of its original irregularities."
"So, I need to let go and take more control depending on what type of magic I use?"
"Yes. Tough it might be hard to practice both at the same time, I would advice you to do so. Learning magic is like walking the same route every day. Eventually the path you walk will become easier as time passes. But it will get harder to take a different route afterwards, so you need to make sure that the path you walk is exactly the way you want to go. Tough it is not impossible to stray from your path and create a new one, you will need to struggle at least a little bit."
I smiled. "Thanks for the advice. I see that you are a little more talkative than usual!"
She mediately became flustered and I could hear that her heart was beating a little faster than usual.
"I-I'm sorry if I annoy you with my talking."
I chuckled. The sound of my laughter slightly scared Quetzalcoatl who was still hiding in the corner.
"you should not say sorry for things like that. Especially when it is helping someone. And you really don't have to be afraid, you need to annoy me a lot more before I actually do something. "
She quietly nodded.
"Then, can I help you with something else?"
"Actually, yes. I was wondering if you could teach me non elemental magic, much like the illusions you taught me."
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