Sunset feels her mana is drained out after 2 hours of 'flying', but it is a good thing she has mastered mana control. Whitty looks at Sunset, who is presently lying on the ground, and yawns.
"Are you done yet?" Whitty asks in a boring tone. "We should begin the lesson now."
She feels Whitty hugging her again and she sighs, "Fine. You won't need to do that when you learn about magic."
"Sorry, can't help. Besides, you enjoy it, right?" Sunset nods in agreement. Whitty nods,. "I'm glad you enjoyed the hug. Now we'll start the lesson."
“Okay, so what will you teach? You already taught me a lot about mana, didn't you?" Sunset asks as the white dragon draws a symbol for the Elements of magic.
“Yes, but you took that lesson too well," Whitty smirks at her, "and those are not enough for mana lessons."
"You mean there are more types of spells?"
"Sorry about that, I forgot to explain two more types." Whitty rubs his head. "Anyway, it's not too late to explain right?" Sunset nods, "Okay, the fourth type of spell that I wanna mention is a charging spell. This is when you use your condensed mana when you use the spell."
"Like..... my "Wyvern Slash" that I used in the battle?"
"Yes, outside resources can be used for casting spells. Only one condition is that the resource must be an elemental same as the element of the spells you are going to cast." Whitty explains. "In this way, the mana wasting can be reduced. Although some elements cannot do that." Sunset put the hoof to her chin and thinks
Sunset asks, "Are there any disadvantages to this type of spell? This feels a bit like enchanting the weapon."
"You're right at this part," Whitty admits, "The difference between a charging spell and an enchanting spell is that a charging spell can be used only once. An enchanting spell can be used many times, or forever," Sunset thinks about the battle and remembers that Matt usually covers his sword with some red aura.
"I see, it makes sense that Matt sometimes covers his sword with a red aura to boost his slashes."
"Don't charge too much or you will explode," Whitty smiles at Sunset, who still rubs her hoof because she is thinking, "Now now, what are you thinking again? Remember your "Wyvern Slash" is a charging spell, the power depends on the times you charge at it. I see you most time charge less than one second." Sunset surprises by his sentences, "I thought you were smarter than that. Not only you, but many people have the same misconception about charging spells because they happen too fast," Whitty put his head on Sunset's back. "Today, I see a normal mage," Whitty grins at her, making her smirk.
"I'm a normal mage," Sunset rejects,
Whitty rolls his eyes. "Fine, if you insist," Whitty draws a human body with an aura around it, "The next type of spell I'd like to introduce is a buffing spell..." He turns his head to see Sunset playing with her dragon. Whitty knocks her head with his tail, causing Sunset to rub her head. "Focus. This kind of spell is easy. You just buff on your friend, and they will get stronger in minutes or hours."
Sunset replies, "I'd rather buff myself than buff someone else," and Whitty raises an eyebrow.
"How so?"
"I'm afraid that if I buff speed for someone who is already fast, they won't be able to keep up,"
"In short, if you always support the team, you will know what your teammate needs. But that's impossible for someone like you," Whitty laughs at Sunset, making her growl and snap out of Whitty's hug, "Hey, What are you doing?"?
"Draining my mana for training," Sunset says with an angry tone, and Whitty just lays there and waits. "Oh right, do you have any dark spells for me to practice?"
"Well, you can try this," Whitty creates a dark basin and throws it at Sunset, Sunset blocks it by her front hoof, "Well, that spell call "Abyssal Drop", a basic spell of dark element. Just hope that you don't 'upgrade' it like the one you do with "Light arrow".
"Fine, thanks for showing me." Sunset takes out the wooden staff and starts training.
Sunset inhales and starts to focus on the "Abyssal Drop" spell, she tries to create a simple basin but it not appear. Whitty just lies there and watches Sunset like watches a comedy for himself, that makes Sunset very annoying but she keeps going until she truly can cast the spell. Whitty starts bored and he decides to sleep and wait.
Three hours later
As Whitty yawns, he decides to see how Sunset is doing. As he turned his head toward Sunset, he was surprised to see that Sunset was using two medium-size magic circles, one up in the air and one down, put together oppositely. Moments later, the circles launch many basins at the same time, making it look like a massive laser beam. After casting the spell, Sunset sat down, exhausted from trying so many ways to complete the spell, but very happy that it had worked.
Whitty rubs his forehead and sighs. Then he drags Sunset and comes to him by an earth spell, Sunset struggles to get out but no use because she is tired. Sunset finally gets hugged by a familiar dragon. She smiles nervously and avoids the dragon's eyes contracting.
Whitty looks at Sunset, making him uncomfortable with his stare. "What did you do this time?" he taps his finger to the ground. "You 'upgraded' the basic spell again?" he glared at her.
"Can you please don't look at me like that?" Sunset gulps when the dragon keeps staring at her like that. "Why do you like to glare at me like this?"
"You know, if you stop being weird like this, then the mare before me is not Sunset," Whitty pokes Sunset's forehead for teasing, making her huffs, "Then how do you 'upgrade' this basic spell?"
" Well, when I complete your "Abyssal Drop" in like 45 minutes, I feel very tired. But I think that if I combine them with the magic circle, how will they go?" Sunset lies on the dragon's back, "Then I create a magic circle by chanting and combine this spell, it did not work at first. But I try like ... until now, it works perfectly." Sunset says with glee, " New spell invented, I guess?"
"Indeed, this is a new spell, Ms. Mystery mage. What will you call it?" Whitty rubs Sunset's neck with his claw, "Let's see how good you are at naming spells."
Sunset pushes Whitty's claw away. "I know it sounds edgy, but the dark spell is already edgy."
"Yep, it sounds edgy," Whitty draws a fire symbol on the board, "Well, let's move on to the element lesson."
"So far, Natalie has explained to me the elements of magic."
"I would recall it to practice. This is you," Whitty points at the fire symbol, and he gets smacked by Sunset, "Okay okay, I'm just joking," Whitty rubs his head, "This is the fire element. This element represents the energy, if someone uses this element, they will be very energized." Whitty turns his head to Sunset, "Just like someone I know."
"Hey, I am not energized."
"Sorry, but you are because you never give up when you fail. I see that a lot when you try the new spell," Whitty rubs his chin, "I wonder if you can do another element," Then he got watered on his face, "Well, good answer."
"Maybe you're right. I just want to try new things with magic."
"You should try something else, such as music or alchemy, to help you relax when you are stressed."
"Well, I should give it a try. If... I can reveal myself."
"Okay, next is..." Whitty draws the Water symbol and Wind symbol, "this is Wind and Water. Honestly, I only know what fire represents which personality, so I will skip the personality. These elements are the most balanced elements when they hardly fail when casting." Whitty draws an earth element, " Earth element, defensive one because the earth always has defense spells while fire is opposite. Of course, Earth elements have some attack spell but not much."
"I should train more on these elements, right?"
"Yep, fire element doesn't have a lot of defensive spells. And you only have "Firewall", a semi-defense spell. " Whitty then points to the electric symbol, "Electric spell, fast and furious. They can counter some metals like silver and gold. Well, the power of electricity is not power like fire one but the piercing is different."
“I just realized that I still don't have any electric spells."
Whitty points at her electric dragon, "You are a bad liar." Whitty points at the halo and trident, "Light and dark elements. I don't know much about them because they are complicated."
"I see, but how did you utilize light and dark magic?"
"Well, just learn from the book and practice. Dark elements on the other hand are quite negative. "
"Maybe because they are easy to lead the user to do something negative," Sunset remembers the memory, "In my land so far, we have Sombra falls into the darkness." Whitty's eyes widened to hear this, " and the one I just kill is Black Mist, I see him falls into darkness too when he wants to kill Celestia."
"For me, I don't believe it." Whitty rejects the theory, " If you say so, then there are many out-controlled people who are doing the bad thing, and they do other things." Whitty rubs his chin, "And there are many people who cast dark magic but still help people, but there are many people who do light spells but they still can do others." Sunset is surprised about this. "I think the key is the user, not the spell."
Sunset sighs, "Maybe you're right. I'm taught that dark spells lead only to negative emotions." she put her front feet on her forehead. "Maybe because we have lived in peace for almost a thousand years thanks to Celestia, but she still misses her sister."
"I see. She is a very kind ruler, doesn't she?" Whitty put his head to Sunset's belly, "The crown on her head is very heavy, and she manages to keep her land and people, or ponies, in this case, live in peace in one thousand years. I should admire her," Then he hugs Sunset, "Ruling the land in over one thousand years, her face must be thicker than a concrete wall, and you still make her spill some of her life. You are her friend or something?"
"Well, I'm her student, but sometimes we share the moment together like friends, even if she has less time to relax, she still spends it with me."
"I see, but did she share any information with her sister? If not, there must be something wrong with her sister that prevents her from sharing."
"Unfortunately, when I ask about her sister, she always changes the subject."
"You should go outside more," Whitty suggests. "Oh wait, you already do," Whitty smacks Sunset with her wooden staff.
"Can you please stop teasing me for a while? That's annoying."
"Fine." Whitty rubs his head "Moving on, I forgot to introduce the leaf element," Sunset tilts her head in confusion, "What is that face? you already encountered that giant turtle carrying a tree on its shell already." Sunset now understands, "Anyway, the leaf element is very related to the jungle. If you were born in the jungle, you will master it."
"Sounds like being "one with nature."
"It is. However, you can learn some single leaf spells like "vine"."
Taking notes on Whitty's lesson, Sunset says, "I am not sure if this will appear outside, but I will need it when I review it.".
Whitty erases the board. "Now I want you to know that all elements react to each other differently." He draws a water symbol and an electric symbol with a plus between them. "This is a single reaction. Now you can cast the electric spell on the wet enemy."
"So, any condition?"
"Well, I don't know much about how elements react, so... Whitty rubs his head and blushes as Sunset sighs, "Well, this might be called the combination of the elements." He turns away from Sunset, "However, you can't cast two elements that contradict one another. For example, you can't cast fire and ice at the same time, or light and dark, or fire and tree, etc..." Sunset nods for understanding, "Well, that is just a normal human being. Not the one I am hugging."
"Then you know the reason why we can't cast two elements like that?" Sunset says as she gets used to Whitty's teasing.
"The reason is, when you convert mana to an element in your body, it still inside until that element is going out. This progress is very fast, people normally aren't aware of this." Whitty draws a fire symbol in a human body, "but if you use a counter element while this element remains in your body, they will destroy each other and no spells can be cast out."
"Has any human ever been able to do this?"
The only one I know is in the ground, I don't know how many years ago." Sunset becomes suspicious of this.
"Have you written a book about this knowledge that you discovered?"
"I am not the only one who writes a book, but mine remains in ruins until the day I first meet you, so I burn all of my research after that."
"Then... What made you do that? Are you afraid that humans might use those research to do something wrong?"
Whitty sighs. "Well, I'm afraid it is," Whitty pushes Sunset out of her hug, making her surprised. "You should also train, I'll tell you later."
She huffs at him and begins her training about the elements. As she is training, she realizes that she has no knowledge of the land, but she will discover more about this later.