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Thoughts

[Emma POV],

I'd always been curious as to why Ace had never cast a spell before, despite his apparent interest in magic, but when I finally discovered the reason, I couldn't help but burst out laughing.

It was hilarious that Ace, who had always been composed, observant, cautious, and almost always made good decisions, would make such a rookie mistake.

Haha.

While it was understandable that he was attempting to mimic my actions, it was still quite amusing.

historical

Unfortunately, Ace was unable to share this motion with me because his face remained as flat as ever.

What a great way to ruin a good face. I'm pretty sure a single smile from him would make girls hornt up.

Unfortunately, this man was a block of ice who mostly acted on his curiosity.

Well, I'm not one to talk because I'm the same.

As I was thinking about these things, I told Ace about spells in general and what he did wrong, and Ace only needed my explanation once to understand, making things easier for me.

I suppose I should say as expected of Ace, who can figure out a whole story from a single hint.

I made a decision and told Ace that we should cast a spell together after explaining a little about spells to him and making sure he really understood.

At first, my intention for bringing Ace out was to show him a big move that I was sure would have an effect on him, but after discovering that the reason Ace doesn't cast spells isn't that he doesn't want to bother with them because they were indeed stressful to chant if one was still using the first method, but because he doesn't even know how to cast a spell right, I had to change my original plan, so I decided that while I show Ace to cast a spell.

Although I had knowledge of neutral magic, it all came from the knowledge I exchanged for my free tickets reward after stage one.

Basic Knowledge about magic, mana, and spells was the knowledge I exchanged for the free tickets.

It was expensive, but it was worth it because it had some spells I could use. I'm not sure if it was the primordial chronicle's doing, but the spells were all related to the light element, so I could only cast light magic.

Even so, I was still confident in my ability to cast a neutral spell based on what I'd seen briefly in the neutral spell grimoire.

It wasn't really that difficult, and it didn't appear to be difficult, but I still had to put in some effort to be successful in casting a spell from the grimoire.

After deciding to cast a spell with Ace, I led him away from our current location to a different one while I searched for a suitable object to practice our spell in since I already knew which spell, to begin with.

It was a magic arrow spell, but unlike the ones I and Ace make, this one was not from our element, which prevents us from performing certain spells according to the neutral spell grimoire.

That is why the term neutral magic was coined in the first place; it was magic that did not require the use of our element to cast spells because it was general magic that most people could use.

As I pondered this and other random thoughts, I came across a location that was suitable for us and to my liking because it had a large tree that could serve as a practice target for Ace and me.

We were obviously going to start with the first method used to cast spells, which was also the general one, incantations because Ace was completely new to spell casting.

We couldn't start with quick chants or anything because only I could do that and Ace couldn't.

I couldn't even use the quick chant to cast neutral spells because I wasn't familiar with them, so I had to rely on the first method, which was to say the spell's incantation, for a while before I could use the quick chant again because one of the requirements for using quick chant is to be familiar with the incantation of the particular spell.

But this wasn't a problem because I was confident that I only needed a short period of time to use quick chant again, but while I was confident in this, I wasn't so sure about Ace.

After all, just because magic was easy for me didn't mean it was easy for others, and while Ace was a smart person who seemed to know a lot about a lot of things, I didn't think he'd be able to grasp the knowledge of casting spells as quickly as I did.

This was not me bragging, but it was a fact because I appeared to be quite gifted in magical ways so frequently that it appeared as if we were companions.

But this might not be the case for Ace, so I was concerned that he might not be able to understand my teaching as well as not be able to adapt to spell casting quickly.

This could be me overthinking things because it was me who was assisting Ace with something and not the other way around, so I shouldn't care or bother with things like this, but I couldn't help myself.

I'm not sure when it happened, but I began to notice myself changing. The transformation was gradual, but it was taking place.

And perhaps other changes had occurred to me that I was unaware of, but the ones I was aware of were quite obvious in that they could be seen in my actions.

For one thing, I began to care too much about things that were not my concern.

Another thing that happened was that I began to believe it was my responsibility to protect people who couldn't protect themselves.

When I discovered this change, I realized that the changes I thought were appearing in my body were true, and when I discovered this particular change, I was scared to the point where I began to suspect that I was being manipulated by something or someone because it made no sense that someone's mindset could change all of a sudden.

While I could call myself a caring person prior to the apocalypse, I was far from a saint who would put others ahead of myself, but the question was if I was aware of the changes in my mindset, why didn't I stop or do anything to stop it?

That was where the problem arose because whenever I tried to kill these thoughts of helping and protecting people, they seemed to grow stronger rather than weaken.

And if I tried too hard, I'd start to feel disgusted with myself.

Aside from that, I've noticed myself developing some strange and disgusting traits, despite what my heart tells me.

For one thing, I was becoming more generous and selfless. I was also guarding turning to the very saints I had called a little foolish before the apocalypse, but even though I could see these changes happening, I couldn't do anything about it because I couldn't do anything about it in the first place.

There was one change that perplexed me the most, and that was that whenever Anna did anything involving magic, I felt a strong sense of disgust.

It was also because of this that I came to believe that the source of all these changes that were gradually but steadily occurring was due to my elements, and it raised a lot of questions for which there were no answers.

The most important ones were the ones I tried but couldn't understand.

Was it truly my light element that was transforming me, and if so, was I the only one, and if so, why?

I felt Ace's gaze on me as I came out of my thoughts and remembered that I still had something to do, so I got rid of the thoughts in my head and concentrated on what we wanted to do as Ace and I attempted to cast a neutral spell for the first time.

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