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against you.”
    Ready to continue with the lesson, I stood back and eyed the six casters as they looked on with eager eyes. Now it was time to put my mastery of Lightning Magic to the test.
    “Take your stances and gather energy between your palms as you normally would,” I said calmly. “Don’t overthink anything yet, just gather it much the same as if you were about to conjure a lightning bolt. Right, just like that. Now hold the charge, condense it, and shrink it… yes, exactly, good job.”
    Before my eyes were six pairs of hands all performing the task as I had described. Electrical energy building between their palms and then shrinking into one small condensed ball as they held the harmless charge. The next step was the complicated part, and one I wasn’t quite sure how to explain.
    “Now for the tricky part… repeat the process,” I said sternly. “Without releasing the electrical charge you’ve already accumulated.”
    As soon as I finished my sentence three people failed and lost their charge as they turned their heads towards me in confusion. Astrid maintained her charge but was clearly struggling as well, as two others failed.
    Not long after, Astrid joined them.
    “Sir Sigurd… how exactly do we do this?” asked Astrid innocently.
    “Ah, trial and error,” I bluffed without any real clue. Players weren’t supposed to teach advanced spells to others. If it weren’t for my Relic I wouldn’t be able to do anything… yet somehow I was qualified to teach without a guide or any information on how to do it.
    Trial and error all right, for me too.
     
    “Okay, try once more then take an hour break,” I said after two-hours of failure.
    This wasn’t nearly as easy as teaching the first tier and second tier spell. With the first spell [Lightning Bolt], they already knew the basics so all I had to do was correct their posture and guide their natural ability to control it. With [Arc Lightning] it was a simple case of teaching them to extend the energy outwards much the same as a [Lightning Bolt] but without releasing the spell to fly free, keeping the energy locked and connected.
    I was out of ideas when it came to [Chain Lightning].
    “Yeah, good work guys, go grab some food and take a break for a bit,” I called out as I waved them off. Dropping down onto my ass in the snow-covered grass, I was at a complete loss. The basics of the spell were four miniature lightning bolts that were shot forth at a singular target with the end result being a split off of the four bolts onto nearby targets. Astrid was my star and yet she couldn’t manage it either.
    Ah this is a waste of time , I thought to myself.
     
    As I was lost to my own mind, eyes staring blankly at the cold gray wall in front of me, a pair of hands were placed on my shoulders as a woman stood directly behind me. Recognizing the scent of the female, I closed my eyes and leaned my head back into her thighs as I let out an audible sigh.
    “How’s your day been Kate?”
    “Quite pleasant my liege ,” she said with a giggle. “I finished teaching those four casters with an affinity for the dark arts the third spell in the holy art classification. They picked it up rather quickly to my surprise, no issues to speak of.”
    “Fun,” I mumbled while leaning forward and throwing my arms up in frustration.
    “Hehe it didn’t go as well for you, I see,” she said softly as she maintained her position.
    “No not at all… maybe I should wait to see how you teach them holy barrage,” I mumbled to myself. “That’s a complicated spell… sort of like chain lightning.”
    “Are your problems concerning the visualization of the spell forms?” she asked after a few seconds had passed. “Or is it a more technical aspect I’m unfamiliar with?”
    “Visualization?” I asked in turn.
    “Yes, the first step to mastering spell casting of any sort is the mental aspect,” she started to explain. “Without a solid grasp of the image of what one