31 Chapter 31- Exposed Plo (1/2)

Dubs once again found himself in the training rooms with Alt, practicing his control.

Upon arrival, Dubs immediately began to channel some energy into his hands, and to his surprise, a much larger number of magical particles began to gather in his hands.

6 balls of magic formed in Dubs hands, each ball a different type of magical energy. If they were connected, the lines connecting the centers of the balls would form a hexagon that was rotating about its center.

Each of the balls was not a whole ball in of itself, but rather a nucleus with particles orbiting it, forming a sphere. 5 particles orbited the central, larger particle of each type of magic.

Dubs controlled all 6 of the spheres simultaneously, and they lined up forming a 'rainbow', beginning with the white light magic, followed by the flaming red fire magic.

The air magic particles were no longer clear, but rather a yellowish color, and they sparked like electricity.

Following this was a mix of green and grey particles, the green ones which resembled chloroplasts, and the grey ones which resembled a fine granite.

After this was the sphere of water, which looked like a number of raindrops swirling about, except that they were as blue as the ocean.

Finishing off the 'rainbow' was the final sphere. This one was significantly larger than the others. Each particle's radius was approximately twice the size, however the radius of the overall orbital remained the same, therefore the density of the sphere was much greater.

Alt snickered. ”Looks like after synchronizing between the training and the mission, your control for each type of magic has increased sixfold!”

”What are the numbers looking like right now?”, Dubs pondered.

Alt laughed. ”By looking at the numbers alone, you would still look pathetic compared to your squadmates. Previously, you were at 0.025% mastery for each skill, and you've improved to 0.15% mastery for every skill, set aside dark magic, which you've improved to 0.3% mastery.”

Dubs looked down, a bit disappointed. He had made significant progress, but still couldn't even compare to the skills of his squadmates, who began with skills around 20 times higher than what he had right now.

Even so, this didn't concern Dubs too much, because he had improved physically far beyond his squadmates, and combined with his resistance to magic, he was unbeatable when it came to a fight.

Alt smiled. ”Going by the numbers, you have a mana of 10.5. The reason your mana is only a few times lower than your squadmates is because of your mastery in all fields of magic. If you're progressing in everything at once, of course the individual progress for each type is going to be slower.”

This made Dubs feel a bit more confident, but what Alt said afterward was what made the largest difference.

”The thing is, there is once more statistic we haven't taken into account. Mana and control determine how much magic you can handle at a time, but energy density is what determines how potent the magic you control is.”

Dubs turned towards Alt, eager to learn.

”Do you remember when you took off that dummy's head?”, Alt asked Dubs.

Dubs nodded, remembering back to the destruction his small ring of particles had caused to the dummy.

”Now think back to the mission with Drodus- when he cast the flame blanket spell, it covered a large amount of ground, but only managed to singe the boots of the thieves who were walking through it until I increased the power. Do you know why that is?”, Alt questioned.

”Because the temperature of the flames wasn't high enough?”, Dubs guessed.

”Basically. The energy density of the magic wasn't very high. The higher the energy density, the faster the particles are moving in a small volume, and the more destructive they are when they make contact with another object.”, Alt lectured.

”On the contrary, if the energy density of the particles is put to an extreme low, while the volume density of the particles is maintained at a very high value, this creates an extremely hard substance that can be used like an armor or a barrier, since the particles are extremely resistant to movement.”

Dubs nodded, understanding. It was like in physics, how the greater the temperature of a gas, the greater the pressure would be exerted, and similarly, the colder the object was, the more solid it became, to the point where it would even exhibit properties that it didn't exhibit before, such as conductivity.

”I assume that is how you managed to create the body you inhabit?”, Dubs asked Alt.

Alt responded ”Exactly. Your energy density is much greater than that of your squadmates, and as such your spells are much more deadly than theirs. Keep practicing and you will be able to control much more of these high energy particles.”

Dubs continued practicing for the rest of the day, with the help of Alt. Upon finishing for the day, he exited the training room and once more headed to the dining hall, where he saw his squadmates sitting together with Lilith and her squadmates.