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view, I was watching my mana recover slowly. Although the Wind
Bullet only took fifteen mana to launch, I still hadn’t fully
regained that amount back yet. It took over half a minute for me to
recover just a single point of mana.
    After
I left Rukh, I went to find the shaman instructor, who apparently
handled schools of magic similar to my Nature Magic. This one was a
young woman, another half-elf like myself, but seemed exceptionally
young for her position. I have encountered the fabled elf loli…
    Speaking
to her for a while, I learned that I wouldn’t be able to easily
do any poisons or anything like that with my magic, until I first
learned how the poisons were made. Sera, the loli elf, suggested I
learn alchemy to assist my Nature Magic. According to her, the
potential for this school of magic laid in the fact that it could
produce the effects of practically any potion, so long as the caster
was familiar with the process of making it.
    Hearing
that, I couldn’t help but imagine me using my magic to
eventually pump out potions one after another and selling them for
easy profit. Though, going by my current recovery speed, I’d be
lucky to do two or three potions an hour. Still, I got what I came
for, and was even awarded another point of intelligence for listening
to their explanations, and a point of wisdom for asking their advice.
    Moving
back to my previous practice spot, I decided to try something
different. What Rukh had said before inspired me to make a new spell,
which might actually let my bow be something other than completely
useless. Thankfully, by now my mana had finished recovering. Pulling
out an arrow, I nocked it and focused. Extending one finger from my
left hand, I used it as a guide in the same way I had when I
circulated mana between my hands earlier. This time, I was
circulating the mana along the path of the arrow.
    At
first, the mana kept floating away before it could reach the other
hand, but once it had managed to bridge the gap it flowed more
easily. Still… that was another ten mana I had lost just like
that, so I needed to focus. Now that I had the mana circulating, I
once more began attuning it to the wind, causing it to spiral around
the length of the arrow and focusing on the tip. I kept pouring mana
into it until I could faintly see the wind being distorted by the
spell. Then, finally, I let the arrow fly to the nearby tree.
    As
soon as I launched the arrow, I noticed how it spun far more than it
did when I fired it normally. And even though the tree I targeted was
barely five meters away, I still hit far from the center. It seemed
that adding the spin into the arrow reduced accuracy, but increased
speed and penetrating power, since the arrow actually dug in several
inches.
New Spell
Developed!
Lesser
Spiral Arrow – Wind Magic Spell – ★
    Create
a spinning current of wind around an arrow before letting it fly,
granting it additional power at the cost of accuracy.
    Mana Cost: 30
    I
couldn’t help but curse at the high cost, and that wasn’t
even taking into consideration the mana that escaped initially.
Rather than waiting twenty minutes for my mana to recover, I went
ahead and moved on to the next test I wanted to do, which was to
create a guided arrow. Since I still had over a hundred mana left,
there was really no point in waiting.
    Retrieving
my arrow from the tree was a splendid failure, as it was buried too
deep. As soon as I tried to pull it out, the shaft snapped in half.
So, one arrow lost forever… I continued cursing silently as I
went back to my previous firing spot and nocked another arrow. Using
the same method as before, I established a mana circuit between my
hands that traveled along the arrow. However, this time instead of a
spiraling force, I tried to compress it a bit more, and had the wind
moving forward in the direction of a tree roughly twenty meters away.
    When
the arrow launched this time, I tried to keep control over the mana I
had locked in around it