Aethernea : Soulbound [Book 1]

Episode 4 - Aethernea of Sight

I said I'd pick out a comment and mention it in this episode. You guys left me a bunch of great comments, and I am really grateful to every single one of you!
Special thanks to caramelsmiles, nateisfunny,  and AuricHalcyon for commenting and voting!

Alas, I have to pick one comment, and this time, the winner is caramelsmiles for being Aethernea's first fan and doing everything a fan can possibly do to support Aethernea on Wattpad. <3

caramelsmiles says:

"Pretty good! I wonder why elaru is singling him out tho. Hm can't wait until Thursday! Thanks for the great chapter. Really good plot and I'm looking forward to what happens next."

In the previous Episode:

Elaru Wayvin reveals that Kiel is a non-mage - even though he has extraordinary magic abilities, he has almost no mana. Because of this defect, Kiel cannot enroll in the University of Magic nor become a true mage. He attempts to run away, however, even after completely exhausting himself Kiel is unable to escape from Elaru.

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He was completely aware that he should run. If he stayed in her net any longer, he would not be able to escape. Kiel was aware that she had a power he could not comprehend or defend against. And for the second time in his life, he experienced an utter and devastating hopelessness. He was not the predator, but the prey.

Elaru continued, paying him no attention.

"What you lack is not skill, it is ability. On the exam, you would have gotten an exceptional score in every category other than Mana Flow Speed, Mana Pool Size and Regeneration, Multicast and Special - that makes 125 points."

"Since you are very skilled in magic, I bet multicast is not difficult for you, and you could have easily gotten an exceptional score in it as well, just like the rest. But you don't have the mana to cast that many simultaneous spells. So you can't even demonstrate the skill that you do possess."

"I'll give you 10/25 for the Simultaneous cast."

"As far as I know, Rroda family doesn't have a magic branch they specialize in therefore I'll guess you don't have any skills for which you would have gotten special points."

"Your mana pool size and regeneration is abysmal thus you got no points there. If there were negative points, you would have certainly got them. I bet you didn't get any points for mana flow speed either. You have a pint-sized amount of mana, even if you transferred it instantly that would still constitute as a slow mana flow. You'd get 5 points at most."

"With 140 points in total, you are 5 points short of the minimal entrance requirement."

By the time she finished her monolog, her healing magic had completely removed any physical pain Kiel felt. It was like he had never run at all.

The only remnant reminding him that all of it was not just a dream was his racing heart.

Kiel had never heard of healing magic that could heal effects of fatigue, but even without knowing details of it, he could understand the scale of the spell. It needed to fix damage to the muscles, rejuvenate his tired cells with hydration and oxygen, and more. And all of that needed to be done permanently. Such a spell would be quite complex, requiring high precision and no doubt be a real mana drain. Just that one spell would require two or even three orders of magnitude more mana than he had in his entire mana pool.