Mage's Path 1 by DB King

Author:DB King [King, DB]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-08-30T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 13

“Don’t get discouraged,” Lachlan chided him, as Jack’s frustration with his own failures began to mount. “You said you would try not to be too hard on yourself, and doing so will not achieve anything anyway. If you’re too self-critical, it will just stop you from performing magic at all, because you’ll be too uptight to control your mana. A mage has to always be relaxed and easy-going as water in a river. As soon as you let your frustrations get the better of you, all your ability will go.”

Jack nodded and took a deep breath. “Okay,” he said with an effort. “You’re right—it doesn’t matter. This is how we learn.”

“Take a break,” Lachlan said. “Walk around a bit, stretch your legs.”

Jack realized he had been crouched over a bug on the ground, trying to force his mana to link up with it. He almost laughed out loud at himself. Of course that wasn’t going to work. There was no point trying to do anything like that.

He stretched, heard his back crack, and then began to wander around the glade aimlessly, breathing deeply of the scented, green-smelling air. The leaves on the trees were just starting to turn, and there was the faintest edge of a chill in the air. It will be the fall soon, Jack thought. Up in the mountains, they’ll be setting stores aside for the winter.

Glancing around, he thought how pleasant the valley and the tower would be in the fall and in the winter. I wonder how long I’ll be here? I wonder how long it’ll take me to learn enough magic to go out on my own into the world as a mage in my own right?

He chuckled at his own eagerness. After all, he was still in the early stages of his training. No need to try to run before he could walk. A blue dragonfly zipped past him and landed on top of a tall grass stalk. It was beautiful, a gleaming iridescent blue against the green backdrop. Idly, and without thinking about what he did, Jack reached out to it with his new sense. His mana pool responded.

Before he could think too much about what he did, Jack let mana flow to his hand and then out. It flowed to the dragonfly and merged with the creature’s life force. Jack had done it! He carefully regulated the flow of mana, but it seemed to surge wildly back and forth all of a sudden. He felt the mana flooding out of him and slammed the connection closed.

The dragonfly expanded rapidly in size. Blue flames flashed across its surface and sparks of blue light crackled around its wings as it expanded. It lifted off into the air and circled once, and its wings flashed in the late afternoon sun.

“You did it!” Lachlan shouted.

“I did,” Jack said, “but I’m not sure if it’s quite how it’s supposed to be. Something has gone wrong… look!”

The dragonfly was suddenly weaving about in the air. It had grown huge, its body and wingspan closer to that of an eagle than an insect.

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