In the weeks after I got the book I had pretty much decided to consider it magic with spells on it. It’s basicly the only thing that made sense and until I acutaly got decent information on what it was that was what I was going for. Magic book, spells, unbelievable. I did the test in dozens of conditions and it basicly came back that It worked mostly by sigth and some by proximity. Barriers, electromagnetic fields, lighting conditions, humidity, time, none of that made any diference as far as I could tell.
As I got used to the spell and grew some imunity I managed to increac the percentage of time I spend with it. The page I copied seemed to suggest that I was correct in my assumptions but it was too out of context for me to uderstund. Like seeing the explanation for Lorentz contraction Equation without knowing how to do the basic operations.
The full moon comes and goes and I keep at it 2 days before the next moon I look at the book and suddenly the spell is gone. Thefuck?? I start reading it From page1 to the last It goes by quickly. I have always had a fast reading speed around 300 words a minute without skimming or anything. And I ignore anything I don’t understand in this first fast read. I feel elation. I mean 99 percent of the book is undecipherable, but any math book some read that didn’t already had things someone actually knew, would be like this. And I finally got so much that I didn’t knew. Basically this book was the personal grimoar from some kind of wizard. In it should go all that he truly understud. The start was an explanation of how magic worked. And it basically worked like people wanted to work, like telling stories, sure there is “laws” involved in it like don’t kill the MC in the midle of the storie and even that is not always true. Properly worked it can be a great movie or book or whatever. That doesn’t mean u just sing the huba hubba and lightning will fall from the sky.
There were all kinds of magics from believing in a deity for healing to sacrificing virgins for power. Some people tried to studi and understand all kinds of magic but in many cases what was true for one mage wasn’t for another. Some people took power from the sun, others, from the earth, others from metals, plants, from other people, or their own power. Sometimes with some of their own blood the spell woul increace in power, other times the act of taking a bit of blood takes that power from the actual spell. One of the few things just about all of them have in common is that the amount of power someone can use depends on how much he has practiced and increased his “power reserves”, mana pool, strength of the bold, or whatever other way the person calls it. For the previous owner of this book the power he used was the moonlight power. Every night even new moon a bit of power could be incremented the biggest amount would of course be the full moon. And the amount of power gathered in a single night surpassed half every other night combined. The other is parentage. If your parents praticed magic you will probably have a easier time with it.
There is plenty I don’t get and some of it seemed like it wouldn’t work, but the most import thing for any mage or wizard is to basically find their own way, find out how their magic works. I can’t get tired after finishing it even though it is so late. I spend the whole night copping it because with the full moon 2 days away the spell will comeback full blast. I make a couple preparations and on the full moon I go to sleep on the roof. It’s a bit strange, but kind of cool. I don’t know how my powers work, or even if I will ever manage to awaken them but I will try, and doing this seems like a safe bet, what is the worse that could happen.
In the morning before school I get on my table and look at a single strand of “hair” of a feather. I try to lift it with my mind. Having read the book I know that it’s almost impossible to do the telekinetic kind of things you see in movies. With enoutgh training raw power a mage genius might be able to accelerate a rock in his hand weighting a couple pounds at hypersonic speeds with only a though as long rock survives even hit something with it. The problem is control, telekinesis is like blowing on a feather and awaiting for a result. If you want to push in a directions it is actually easy, but blowing so that it keeps not only floating but steady in the air is hard. What I want however is simple to blow the feather this tiny weight is just perfect for it. Days go by before my first success kind of. What I do is basically make the whole feather close to “hair” move a centimeter, and it wasn’t my breath. I repeat the feat several times until a familiar head ache hits. And then it really begins.
Sure before I knew was real, now, I’m a wizard. Even with this massive head ache in my head I’m still grinning like kid who is just discovered M&Ms. I drink some tea and to my amazement manage to keep moving the feather. I tough I might reduce the amount I would be drinking but it seems like it is just the opposite. I will be drinking loads of it. And maybe, just maybe find other teas that increace my magic pool or what ever.
Months go by with me always testing new stuff. It seems the Original Miag’s tea was the best option after all but I managed to gather a couple more that I can drink as much as I want. I also found out some drinks like coffe diminish slowly my mana reserves. In my room I work an incantation. I have drew all the simbols in a virgin wood slip with treaded chalk and few other peculiarities. With the help of the board basic movements of telekinesis becomes easier. A book goes over it I use my power through the incantation to levitate and achieve a good result. The book a bit over a pound levitates as steadily as if I had being lifted by my hand. And I hold it. Ten seconds And I drop it. Power runned out. Mana pot. Repeat. I do this four times and my daily quota runs out. I think It’s time to bring John in the secret, I mean before it was like I didn’t even had anything to show for it but now I not only have a bit of telekinesis it can move heavier objects too. I sleep on the roof again and meet John next day.
-Hey man.
-Hey. – We talk a bit and soon he realizes I want to talk about something so he just let me stear the conversation.
-So, look there is this thing like I was talking about about how if we ver got powers, or something just as amasing happened to us we would talk and stuff, so like…- I pull a small magnet from my pocket and levitate it a bit resulting in it shooting about a feet in the air.
-Cool but that is a magnet.
-Yeah, let me do it again. – I show my hand place the magnet in it and repeat this time about 3 feet high. Then same thing with a stone, finally he picks up a stone and on his hand without ever touching it I do it. Before each time I did it he looked like was watching something cool, like a good parlor trick. But after the last one he just freaks out and just comes up with some excuse that he needs to get home fast, and goes like a bullet to his home.
Damn, the fuck is wrong with him? Never mind, it seems like a good insight on what most likely would happen If I showed it to anyone else. Hell probably even worse, we trust each other, I mean When we need to do something that would be complicated otherwise and can’t meet up I give him my login password, for Email games anything he needs and the other way around as well. I mean It’s not 100 percent trust I do keep my porn stach private. But that is the bottom line, just about everything else is in the open. And my banking password, not because I don’t trust him but because I don’t trust that he wouldn’t write it somewhere and I have never written it anywhere, I randomly selected all the digits, and never even spoken it aloud. When I say randomly I do mean randomly. I came up with the best system I could to explore the chaos of things. But that is beside the point.
Maybe he will calm down and come to his senses. And if he profusely apologizes I might just lend him the keys to the palace and try to teach him. He s gonna se reason.
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Months later I see John at a distance and he basically avoids me. It’s nothing obvious but still makes me remind of what he said.
-I, mean, ok I got your secret but if you want to continue hanging out you going to have to give it up, and I don’t think you going to do it. I don’t know where u got those from but it sure as hell from god so that only leaves the other option. That means, men u in dip shit, if u ever want to stop it and confess and stuff ok but now bye.
I can still remember, almost to the word what he said that day. The fuck he knows, power from the devil, sure if that was the case a third of the word would have already starting curses and fireballs and stuff. And he was freaked out, like I was a ragging lunatic with bombs strapped to my chest, though deactivated bombs but still. He couldn’t catch his breath, sweaty palms, fidgety and fast talking barely hearing the end of my answer when flat out going over the middle of it, and worse of all not listening, hearing sure but just in a daze. We never talked after that, not even a single time. On the only online game I still played because I just couldn’t forgo the 5 years it took me to get to that level He left the alliance with some bs excuse, over 200 players baffled at his choise, but he just left. I having pretty much droped the game before only doing the daily runs to gather all resources for scientific research dropped it all together. The few tv-shows I still watched dropped to the barely essential witch at this time of the year consisted of only weakly Suits episodes. I pretty much dropped everything else and focused on my magic with an intensity that defied reason. I kept at it until I could keep the book up for a whole minute and the tea wasn’t as much help as at first but the four doses increased a little in effectiveness so each dose gave about 15 extra seconds. The only day when this would be diferent was the full moon on my roof receiving the most efctive recharger I manage to basicly fill up my power in 40 min. When on the rest of the month it would that up to half day.
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