Jake's Magical Market by J.R. Mathews

Author:J.R. Mathews [Mathews, J.R.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-10-05T14:00:00+00:00

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The next month pushed me further than I had ever been pushed before. It wasn’t just physical training—it was mental as well. The angel brought in a specialist for me and the deer woman, who I learned was named Tawny. The specialist, who never told us his name, was an expert in using world energy for fueling runes. He never said anything about using the energy for personal enhancement—or even to mimic the abilities of spell cards, like I had been told was possible—so I didn’t bring it up.

We spent our mornings in basic physical fitness. Running, jumping, push-ups, all the classics of a boot camp. We then ate a large lunch and spent several hours with our specialist, learning about our form of charging runes. After that, the angel had us practice with weapons until the sun set.

The angel had us pick the weapon that we wanted to practice with, and I decided not to pick a sword since I didn’t want to reveal too much about my elven training. Instead, I picked a wicked-looking spear that had a sword on the end instead of just a point. The end of the blade was taller than me. It had no crossguard separating the blade from the haft. I found it a bit uncomfortable to practice with at first but quickly got a handle on it after weeks of nonstop practice. I also found the forms Prince Andrathath had taught me slipping into some of my duels, but I tried to keep them away for now and only practice the forms the angel was teaching us. The prince had said the forms could be used with any weapon, but I wanted to save them for when I could practice on my own.

The rune instructor helped explain a lot of things I hadn’t understood about the process of charging runes. He taught us there were three main ways to charge runes. The first was using internally stored energy. He said this was the weakest method and led to long-term health problems since the person would drain their life energy. He didn’t mention how factories full of poor people were doing just that every single day and nobody was telling them they were killing themselves . . .

The second method was to evolve a card of a specific elemental to the point where a person gained control over the elemental itself. He said every element could be evolved in this way and had us watch as the three obviously wealthy recruits practiced—I still didn’t know their names because they didn’t bother to introduce themselves to me and Tawny. A spell card began as a single concept and single effect: fire, ice, wind, thought, and so on. When evolved with another spell card of the same type, it became a Sense card—so Flame Sense, Ice Sense, and the like. At that stage, our instructor informed us, a person should be able to begin to sense their element and invoke their card.

I didn’t mention I had done that for my Time Sense card.

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