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6.21% Spellcrafter's Demise / Chapter 11: Humanity's Mastery of Magic

Chapitre 11: Humanity's Mastery of Magic

After pushing the magic core into Edol's chest, the demon stepped back to observe his enemy.

Acquiring magic was… a bit anticlimactic.

There were no cinematic lightning bolts snaking around Edol, and there was no intense magical aura indicating the advent of a protagonist.

Edol hunched over, a simultaneously painful yet comfortable feeling spreading out from the slowly spinning magic core.

'This is… magic? Just like from those books back on earth? But why? Why would Ugly give me magic?'

A smile crept onto the demon's face as he observed the goblin in front of him.

"Ha! It worked! Serves you right for insulting my family, damn goblin! Now, you'll never be anyone important!"

'What… what is Ugly talking about?'

A deep, earthy feeling emanated from the orb, seemingly urging Edol to put its powers to use.

He instinctively felt that he could use the orb's energy to manipulate the ground, just as how the demon had been while fighting him.

'Isn't this awesome for me? I think this demon suffered brain damage from its last experiment...'

Edol glared at the demon, focusing on drawing the energy from his magic core, and directing it towards the ground.

"Ha! Prepare to feel pain! This is humanity's mastery of magic!"

Edol's control of the energy drained and disappeared as soon as it entered the ground, and he lost sight of the energy as soon as it left his feet.

The energy surged up, the first magic Edol had ever managed to cast! There was only one… no, two problems.

The earth spike summoned wasn't anything like what the demon had created. Despite having exhausted all the energy in his core, the spike made by Edol was only around twenty-five centimeters long.

The second problem-

"AAAGH! My foot!!!"

Edol had successfully impaled his own foot with the spike, not the demon's.

"Pfft! Karma's a bitch, ugly goblin! Grats on getting that 'mastery of magic,' now you can impale yourself in the foot! This is even better than I imagined!"

~~~

After watching Edol struggle to walk around with a hole in his foot, the demon eventually decided it was time to sleep again. With just the stomp of its foot, an earthen igloo rose from the ground.

Watching the demon flaunt its magic, Edol finally understood the demon's intentions.

Ugly had given him magic, sure, but it was too weak to be useful. Given how happy the demon was with the results of its experiment, there were probably more negatives than just having trash-level earth magic.

Seeing as how the demon was done fighting for the day, Edol made his way back to his makeshift hut- a pile of earthen spikes roughly collected into a dome shape.

Over the past few weeks, the demon had been relatively consistent in resting at regular intervals, giving Edol a rest from continuously dying to his nemesis.

Now, Edol had something more interesting to do than making a rough dirt hut.

Sprawled on the hard ground of the hut, Edol ran his hands over the dirt slowly.

The magic core within him felt connected to the ground, and his curiosity urged him to try using magic again.

Edol placed his index finger on the ground, slowly pulling some of the energy from his core. Despite never having any similar abilities in the past, Edol found it relatively easy to manipulate the energy in his body. Wherever he urged it, the energy would crawl through his body towards the desired location.

After roughly five seconds, the energy reached the tip of his finger, and Edol nervously pushed it into the ground.

'Ugly can make spikes and a dome shape, so there must be a way to control the ground more precisely.'

The energy seemed to act as an extension of his own body, even after entering the ground. There was a lot more resistance in moving in the ground as opposed to moving it around his body, and Edol's control of the energy seemed to deteriorate the further the energy got from him.

After moving it a quarter meter away, Edol felt the last bit of his control over the mana dissipating.

'Looks like this is as far as I can go… this really is… AMAZING! I HAVE MAGIC! Cool! This is so cool!'

Edol wasn't at all dispirited by the lack of power from his trash-level earth legacy. After living for the last nineteen years on magicless earth, the feeling of having any magic at all was incredible!

'Even if this isn't all that useful for fighting, I'll still be able to make some pretty cool stuff with this! Ooo! I'll make a cool little fox statue for Sophie! She'll love it…'

Sadness began to overtake Edol's face as he thought of his little sister. Back on earth, his family had always been extremely close. Every night of his childhood had been filled with joyful family dinners and game nights.

Two years ago Edol had moved to Bristol to go to university, but he still had his phone to chat with his family daily, along with coming home to visit them regularly.

Unfortunately, there were no phone calls back home in hell, nor were there holiday weekends to make a trip back home.

"Mom, Dad, Sophie… Will I ever get to see you again?"

A few tears began traveling down his cheeks as he thought of his family, but it didn't take long for him to pull himself together.

"Eh! No more being sad, I'll see them again after I find a way out of this place! Besides, I've only just learned this magic stuff! I have to be able to make perfect little sculptures for them before I get back home!"

Refocusing his will, Edol resumed his practice. The more he channeled his magic, the more natural it felt, and soon his quarter-meter control expanded to nearly a meter. It was still unfortunate that the amount of earth he could move didn't change, but he was still happy with the progress.


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Chapitre 12: Teach Me

One week later, Edol's control over his new earthen ability had increased greatly. After consistently practicing every night, he had managed to come up with a battle style that fits this weak earth magic.

With a single thought, a small knob shot up from the ground two meters away. At this distance, it seemed impossible to control the shape of the displaced earth, but that didn't phase him.

A few meters out of his attack range stood Ugly. In the last week, Edol had been subject to constant verbal attacks from the demon.

"Oi goblin, how do you like that gift? Are you going to use your "Humanity's mastery of magic" on me today, or is it still just as useless as you?"

The demon spit a wad of phlegm from the side of his mouth, then wielded his sword and advanced on Edol. Despite all his mocking, Ugly knew he needed to be wary of his foe. After fighting constantly for over a month, Edol could no longer be considered a rookie.

Edol brandished an earthen spike of his own creation, shaped into the form of a dagger. It was much easier to grip and use than the randomly shaped earth spike remnants from Ugly's past magic.

A light sigh fell from the human's mouth as his focus topped out, every bit of his being was focused on this incoming nemesis.

Five meters…

Three meters…

Almost there…

The instant Ugly stepped into the two-meter radius around Edol, the young man sprang into action. All of his mana rushed out from where it had been waiting in his left foot, shooting to the ground left of where Ugly's next step would land. Edol lunged towards the demon's right shoulder, and his enemy quickly sidestepped left. Edol's left side was entirely open, but a triumphant grin covered his face.

Ugly's foot landed on the ground, preparing to pivot his weight into a slash at Edol… but there was no friction. The once firm dirt had turned to slick mud, and even Ugly's rough feet stood no chance of gripping onto the soil. The demon felt something tear as his legs spread apart in an unexpected splits.

"AAAAAH!!! My crotch! Sadistic bastard, I will kill you!"

A moment later, the demon respawned.

"48."

Ugly glared at Edol but then shifted his gaze toward the ground warily. It wasn't hard for him to figure out what had happened- Edol's magic had softened up the ground beneath his foot, resulting in his unfortunate demise.

"I'm not sure why you look so joyful, goblin. With that trash legacy, you only have one shot at tripping me up each time you die. You will never catch up to my score!"

The demon charged back at Edol, not paying any attention to the ground. After all, he had given Edol a small portion of his own legacy. Ugly naturally knew how much mana Edol possessed, and knew that his last attack had to have used up all of his energy.

"Die, gobli- Ack!!!"

A small knob had appeared right as the demon stepped down, and the uneven ground caused him to trip, twisting his ankle. With Edol's new experience fighting, there was no way he would let his injured foe fight on any longer.

"49."

"What the hell is going on?!? Tell me how you're doing that, goblin!"

Inside Edol, the tiny whirlpool circled vigorously, pulling in what little mana resided in the dim red realm. Thanks to its tiny capacity, Edol's energy was completely refilled in just a moment.

'Now that I think about it, Ugly here always seems to run out of steam after using mana. Even after a night of rest, he hardly recovers any mana at all.'

In the past week of practicing and learning magic alone, it had completely enchanted him. All of his past mathematics and science courses knowledge floated to the top of his brain as he tried to define what exactly this mana was.

For the most part, it seemed to act as energy, almost like electricity. When directing it mentally, it was able to move through his body smoothly but faced much greater resistance when pushed through the ground.

Similarly, copper is a great conductor of electricity. Edol's body was copper to the mana, allowing it to flow around freely. The earth still conducted the energy, but with much more resistance, while the air stopped the mana nearly in its place, acting as an insulator.

'So then other elements can be conducted by different materials? Ugly has even made fire from nothing, so I don't think it is as simple as this.'

A spark of curiosity had already been lit inside Edol, and he needed to learn more.

"Oi Ugly!" Edol lifted up his foot, showing off his sturdy steel-toed boot, eliciting a shiver of fear from the demon, "Teach me more about magic."


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