CH134 Thera’s Perspective

Thera sat in the training grounds, staff outstretched as she focused on using the skill placed on her. Telekinesis felt similar enough to how she used her earth magic, to the point that she worried she was using it by mistake, especially since she had no choice but to use it with raw earth. It may have been a skill that would let her move anything through mana, but the training ground near town didn’t have anything in the way or trees or water, so she had no choice but to practice with dirt as she always did.

At least after a couple days of using it, she felt like she was getting the hang of the skill and had gotten to feel the difference from her typical magic of choice. This was only at the zeroth level after all, and she could feel the mana drain significantly more compared to her earth magic.

Unfortunately, since the level was low her control was far worse and it took longer to pull together her spell than she’d expected. All she’d been doing to practice was pulling the earth from the ground to throw it, anyone watching would assume she was just practicing her earth magic, but unfortunately her options were limited when it came to ways of training the skill. If she had a normal level of magic control she’d be able to practice in a smaller way, maybe making cutlery fly around her home or something similar, but for now she had to take the options she had.

At the very least when it came to her earth magic she believed she was feeling the results of gaining multiple magic skills her god had mentioned to her since gaining life magic, though it was hard to be sure since her earth magic leveled up at the same time. Still, she thought she’d know for sure one she could test it against the effects of having gained telekinesis, and feeling that she was almost out of time before she’d need to go back to have it applied again went for a final push, throwing her lump of earth as far as she could and feeling her staff shatter in the process.

No longer anything to be concerned about since her mother had promised to back her she didn’t give its destruction a second thought, instead trying one last thing since the effects of the magic were still with her.

Using her earth magic, she gathered dirt from across the ground into a ball. This was already an improvement over her skill in the past. Before, if she lost her staff, she could maybe raise a cloud of dirt into the air for a few moments and do nothing with it. Now though she could actually shape it into a proper sphere, even if it was still far too large and she couldn’t do anything but have it hover in the air.

This amount of growth though was what made her choose to learn telekinesis of all the available options, and with an effort of will used it with her earth magic to throw her oversized earth bullet as far as she could.

It only traveled about fifteen meters, but it was enough. Even though it couldn’t go far, the size alone made it a threat to anyone unfortunate to be in its way, and she’d finally have a way to fight if her staff broke.

<ACQUIRED SKILL TELEKINESIS LEVEL 0>

Perfect timing! She thought to herself excitedly, a smile hidden by the hood of her cloak. With only a few minutes left before it wore off and with her staff broken, receiving the skill now was more than she could have hoped for and she rushed back to the shop where Ben and Zandale were still training to let them know.

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“Good news!” She called out as she opened the shop door. “I got the skill!”

“That’s great,” Ben said, or at least he tried to. He still hadn’t gotten his own skill yet, so he was laying on the floor being hit by Zandale and it interfered with any conversation. She couldn’t imagine what any customers thought walking into this, but then again the place already had a rough image from her uncle’s initial demeanor and occasional rough handling of problemed clients, so she tried not to give it too much thought and left him to it, but Ben got up and stopped her.

“Hey sorry Thera, I have a bit of an awkward request and I was hoping you could help me out?”

“Need me to hit you too to try and speed things up?”