Creation Mage 3 (War Mage Academy) by Dante King

Author:Dante King [King, Dante]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-10-29T06:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twelve

“Hey, Nigel,” I said, “I just thought, do you even need one of these things, being a flying Wind Mage and all?”

“Why would I use up my own mana reserves and risk crashing to my doom when I’ve got one of the best broomsticks in the world at my fingertips?” Nigel asked me.

“Makes sense,” I replied. “I’m using similar reasoning for not casting my Flame Flight spell.”

The five of us moved a little way away from the bar, and anything else that we might potentially smash into on takeoff, and mounted up. Bradley and Nigel, having come from well-to-do magical families, had prior experience with flying broomsticks, but it was a totally new experience for Rick, Damien, and me.

“Now, the best advice I can give you is this, chaps,” Nigel said, once we had all thrown a leg over our brooms and were standing in a loose circle. “Broomsticks in general are intuitive magical objects. These Solarphine’s Sticks are bound to be even more finely tuned to a rider’s thoughts and movements. Now, they will channel mana out of you via your vector. The vector acts as a conduit of sorts, actually. It’s quite interesting, the way that—”

“Nigel,” I said, “I understand that you’re just trying to be helpful, but will you hurry the fuck up before winter descends.”

The others laughed.

“Right! Yes, sorry!” the halfling said. “Basically, they will drain mana from you, but at an extremely slow rate due to the special converters that are built into the broomsticks. Now, you ride them, simply, by imposing your will on them to accelerate or decelerate. Lean left and right to go left and right.Forward for down and back for up.”

“Sounds pretty straight forward,” I said. To be honest, as soon as Nigel had started explaining how to fly our brooms, I had immediately been visited by a memory from my childhood of playing Ace Combat on the PlayStation 2.

Thanks to being a child of the noughties and growing up with everyone’s favorite cupboard-dwelling wizard, part of me wanted to kick off from the ground to take off. Just before I did this though, I recalled what Nigel had said about using my vector to control the speed of the broomstick. I established the link with my crystal staff, which was always there now, humming away in the back of my head like elevator music, even when the staff itself had not been summoned. Then I pulled gently back on the neck of the broom handle and imagined taking off at the speed that you would if you were on a bicycle.

My broomstick wobbled into the air and began moving forward. It wasn’t the smooth ascension that I had been after, but at least I hadn’t crashed into anything. I slowed the broomstick with a thought and brought it around in a slow circle. It was, in a way, like riding a bike. The slower you moved the less maneuverable the broomstick was.

“Not bad for an Earthling,” Bradley said. He took off with enviable smoothness and hung about twelve feet in the air.

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