just some alchemy

As you near the large tent you were told is Usaria’s you begin to smell a rather atrocious smell. It smells like too many smells all mixed into one so even though each individual smell is good together they are gross.

As you near the tent you awkwardly pause unsure how you’re supposed to enter a tent, are you supposed to knock… how do you knock on a tent… ahhh… uhhh. As you stand there Usaria speaks out of the tent and says “ahh Yorrick you’re here come in”.

You awkwardly enter to see Usaria hard at work mixing a potion and she turns around. Her eyes widen with surprise as she sees your arms condition. “We just healed you… what did Gartha do” Usaria says with a caring worried tone.

“Um I kind of manifested again… it seems that i have crystallomancy as well”.

“What's with the metal thing then… Oh no is that Petra’s” Usaria says exasperated “How’d she get you into that”

“She just kinda offered it and I didn’t say no” You reply honestly

“That sounds like her. Well why don’t you show me… uh….” Usaria pauses and looks around her tent. Her eyes stop at the foot of her bed “There, summon a crystal there” she says excitedly looking at you.

“Uh I’m not sure if I can control it that much but I’ll try”

You begin to focus on the spot behind her bed focusing on trying to make a small crystal just something to show her. Uhh… it isn’t working, you focus harder trying to remember what you did during the fight. Maybe it was something about the adrenaline or something. You try one last time focusing every thing you have into this stupid crystal magic. Suddenly a ten inch blue glowing crystal finally pops out of the ground. Well that’s a little bigger than you planned for but hey at least you could do it.

Usaria doesn’t say anything she just scoots closer to the crystal and begins inspecting it. “Well it’s very hard” she says as she slowly strokes the crystal feeling it’s surface. “It’s a good size and shape, most crystallomancers I know can barely make one 3 inches tall”.

Usaria eventually stops paying attention to the crystal and begins a very long and very boring lecture on magic. You are actually intrigued by some of the stories of great mages and the talents they have and how they used them. It seems like magic here isn’t like that of a superhero, it seems every mortal only has a small mana pool that they can draw from and that mana pool can never be increased, so many people can only do small little things with magic before there pool is drained and they have to rest, this has caused people to have to find unique ways to use there magic so they don’t do like huge fireballs or lightning strikes they just do light blasts to aid there combat skills.

Usaria points to your crystal near the end of the lesson and says “that crystal is still there which is surprising, crystallomancy requires the user to create two distinct flows of magic into the crystal one flow is used in the summoning and determines the size of the crystal and the second is used to sustain the crystal. You must have put a good amount of the second one in there too which is weird since it’s so big” Usaria says.

The lesson continues a bit more and you begin falling asleep. It’s just so much stuff to take in and you were already tired when you walked in… here… THWACK you feel a hand slap the back of your head.

“Pay attention Yorrick this could be life or ****. If you don’t know this when the time comes you could die please pay attention” Usaria almost begs.

“I’m sorry Usaria I'm just not able to focus anymore today, I can't take in anymore info” you say apologetically.

“Fine go can finish this later” Usaria says with a motherly tone.

She leads you back to the tent you can sleep in and you climb in the bed to rest.