6 Instruction (1/2)
The night had arrived, a cool smooth breeze started to blow, it had been a hot day and that wind was a nice change, having a good feel to it.
They walked to a clearing between the camp and the Endher forest, no one was around and there were no clouds in the sky... he could see for the first time the biggest ”moon”, sure he saw bigger on games and movies but the real experience was on a complete new level... it was astonishingly white and covered over a full palm of the sky, the night was very bright because of it and they could clearly see in the night. And maybe because of that clarity the other stars were scarce, the most of the sky were a black darkness with faint glimpses of light dots every now and then... but that moon, that moon was something else.
Maximilian looked at Riou appreciating the sky - ”Do you have one of those where you are from?” he asked
- ”Yeah, we call it moon... but it is not as big or near as bright as this one...”He replied...
Maximilian stopped- ”I think this is far enough...” and raised his hand showing his palm up... - ”Lets begin with an easy one... I believe you know the foundation of fire am I correct?” and a flame burst above his palm, it was a dancing red flame, big as a fist, Riou took the same position and seemed to be following the mage instructions with the utmost concentration, the mage continued - ”All you have to do is to concentrate the mana and imagine its formation, but here is the trick, imagination means nothing without knowledge to support it, use your knowledge of the foundations of fire to....”
Suddenly a humongous flame took place above his hand, it went big and high up in the sky, it was formed by a twist of yellow and red flames taking a form of a flame tornado, it shined so bright that it felt as day light, it was raging around with scary loud sounds gushing out of it, as if trying to break free from his hand vigorously, wanting to consume everything in its path.
As sudden as it appeared so was Riou reflex desperately trying to end it, in a fearful attempt, extremely concerned of what the heat would do to his hand, but for his despair he was not being able to.
- ”What are you doing!? Stop it!” screamed Maximilian taking many steps back to protect himself from the fire
- ”What do you think I'm trying to do?! You didn't explain that part yet!” Riou screamed back
- ”Stop the emotion fueling the fire!” Screamed the mage
- ”What the hell are you talking about?! That makes no sense!”
- ”Cease the emotion link to the fire!...”
Riou tried to calm down, ignoring completely the nonsense that the mage was shouting... a bit more centered now he finally noticed that his hand was not being burned... inspecting it he understood what was happening, his hand was acting as a channeling device to fuel the flame, and it was so strong that pushed the heat away from him, so thats why he was not burned in the process, and caused the flames to rage on vigorously... he then realized the fuel was his own mana, he had to cut its flow to the hand somehow... and began experimenting while the fire tornado was trying to rage off...
Took him a few tries to understand how the mana flow worked through the body, once he got it right the tornado disappeared into the night sky... and the night veil once again covered them.
”Very interesting... I think I got the general idea now...” Said Riou contemplating his achievement...
Maximilian approached him - ”What happened!?” Asked the mage in a mix of anger and surprise..
- ”You said to think of the foundation of fire, and so I did, you said to concentrate the mana and imagine its formation, using the knowledge needed to produce the magic, YOU said to use my knowledge of the foundations of fire... the fire come out and then you started that non sense of emotion crap, what was THAT all about?” Riou replied back clearly irritated because he clearly needed more explanation than the one that was provided...
Maximilian was getting more irritated as well - ”What do you mean by non sense!? The foundation of fire is the emotion inside oneself, the stronger the emotional link, stronger is its flames... you was the one that went on creating that.. that, thing, before I could finish the explanation!”
- ”What you are saying makes no sense! The foundation of fire is ”air”, heat and fuel! and that was what I did!” - Said Riou angrily back to Maximilian.
The fighting went on for a while, until both vented out and realized that their discussion was pointless, at thatmoment they realized that the differences between them both were greater than they had previously imagined. And a silence covered the field while the cool breeze started to blow again.