Chapter 66: Chapter 66 - Differences
"Alright now that my mana is filled to the brim let's start doing some magic."
"I did the light one before so let's try the dark one next."
I start the process the same as I have done before and think about forming a black ball instead of a white ball. Slowly over the course of time a small ball of darkness starts to form in my hands and I look at it and then look towards the same wall as before.
But before trying to shoot it I look at Clawdia and tell her "Clawdia don't try to to do anything this time. I am trying to do some... Experiments, Okay?"
Clawdia nodded and sat on the floor overlooking her master and his little experiments.
Before I shot it a thought came to my head as I start putting more mana into the darkness ball before it got as big as the same size as the light ball from before.
I look towards the wall before aiming the ball at it and shooting the ball towards it as strongly as I can.
The darkness ball flied through the air before it struck the wall and contrary to my expectations there weren't much of flash or sound as it was before. The moment the darkness ball made contact with the wall, it made a small 'Boom' sound and completely evaporated itself.
'Did I put too less of a mana or is the darkness ability weak like this too began with?'
Before coming to a conclusion I go towards the wall and see that there is a small dent on the wall. Not that noticeable to the eye but if one looked for it than they will find it.
'Why is there only a small dent on it? Shouldn't it have a bigger effect like the previous one or close to it.'
'No, I'm thinking the wrong way. It wasn't the light ball that was stronger but contrary to it the power that Clawdia unleashed on it was too much for it to handle so that's why there was so much disturbance.'
'But how do I know which one is different than the other in power? Well... there's only way for me to find it and.. It's to try out the light one as well.'
I back away towards the place I was before and again start the process of making a light ball. After a while I made the ball the same as it was before. I look towards where I shot the dark ball and move my trajectory a bit before shooting the light ball.
The light ball was released and it hit the wall quite fast. And there was a small flash of light as well but the sound it made when it made contact with the wall was almost non-existent.
Going towards the wall I see that the light ball hit just beside the dark one. The dent it made was much smaller than the dark ball but it had went quite deep unlike the one before that had a bigger radius of impact.
So now that I have seen both the affinities power I made an estimate of their skills.
The light affinity is faster than the darkness affinity but in terms of power the darkness one had more than the light one. BUT the light one as seen before had more penetrative power.
In conclusion I see that the light affinity has speed and penetrative power and the darkness affinity has power and bigger radius of offense. So if I want to take down a tricky opponent then I will need to use the light affinity and if I were take down someone who was a little bulkier than I will need the darkness affinity.
"Alright, now that I know the distinctive qualities of them let's see if I can make strange shapes using both affinities. But let's look at how much mana I still have."
[ Mana : 4989 ]
I furrowed my brows as I look at the numbers. there was something seriously wrong here that needed explanations.
It only cost 12 mana to use both of them. Making them cost me 6 mana for each of them.
It wasn't much costly but thinking carefully it shouldn't cost me so much mana at all. If I calculated correctly than it should cost maybe one and a half or just two mana for each of them. But it cost three times of that.
Maybe it was because of my body's 'E' rank potential. And it shouldn't hinder me so much as I already have the shop from where I can buy mana potions to get rid of the disadvantage.
But what if having a huge disadvantage like this wasn't the only one, what if there were more?
If there are more of them already there without my knowledge and are slowly but secretly doing harm to my body then I need to do something about them.
And what if Baphomet finds out about this weakness then it can use it for its own benefits and nothing good will come out of that for me.
'I quickly need to find a place for me then I have to get myself a new body as fast as possible or who knows there might even be one of those problems where it might cost me my lifespan because I was training so constantly.'
'Alright now which shape should I create and which way do I create it?'
'Sword or lance or a curved dagger?'
As I think about making them I suddenly realized how difficult it might be to create one on my first try so I thought of what would be more easier for me and came to the decision of creating a pole first.
'A pole might be easier for me as It doesn't have a difficult shape or any curves too. And I can make them smaller as well.'
With a shape in mind I try to make a pole as I send mana to my arm and use the light affinity for it. But even after a while I couldn't make it come any closer to a pole because it always shattered when I forcefully tried to make it longer. So I stop for a moment and think about how to make it more effectively.
'Trying to lengthen it's size is getting too complicated and whenever I push more mana and forcefully try to make it like a pole, it shatters like broken glass.'
After thinking for a while I get only one mildly effective idea.
'Only one idea comes to the mind. It's to first thing of a shape in my mind and trying to make it by using its descriptions... Well it's not going to hurt me so might as well try it.'
So I again start the process but this time I don't just pore mana and try to bend but I also think that there is already a empty pole there in my hand to begin with and start to pore mana into it to fill the pole.
After a moment I open my eyes and exclaim "Wow, now that's what I call a light saber."