LUCIA

13 Training: Lucia's Magic

Lupin

Lucia took her hand off her creation and brought it to rest by her side, while the creation remained floating in place

"Very impressive" Luke praised, as he stared at the flowers and water creations floating in the air. "I honestly wasn't expecting you to get it on your first try" he said and a smug look appeared on Lucia's face

"However, Luce was only able to create that with the gap you opened for her" Marcia said and Luke stared at her blankly, "What? Why are you looking are me like that?" she asked

"It's true. I overlooked it, but...I never knew that you'd point it out" Luke said, and Marcia felt a vein pop as he quickly ignored her and turned his attention to Lucia "Make that thing disappear and sit up straight. I'm going to close the gap and then you can try again" he said

"Um....how do I make it disappear?" Lucia asked

"You just have to imagine it disappearing without a trace" Marcia said "Those water creatures and the water that surround the flowers you created, are a source of life, but they aren't living. If you just stop thinking about keeping that source of life available, it will naturally disappear by itself. However, if you want it to remain available even if you cut your control from it, you simply have to think of cutting off the flow of mana between you and your creation" she said "Typically speaking, hearts and spirits have the deities' powers of creation and destruction....some hearts and spirits, more than others. However, there's a limit to this power. Although the things we can create are both alive and inanimate, the inanimate things we can create, are unlimited. Whereas, creating something that is alive, is limited to only plants, animals and monsters. We can't create people who are alive, however, making illusions of them as an inanimate thing, is possible"

"To elaborate, things like the water creations you created, disappear when you stop pouring mana into it, and lack the wish for it to remain available even after that" Luke said "However, things like those flowers you created, have to go through a different process because they're alive"

"A different process?" Lucia repeated, as she turned her body to look at him "What do you mean? Isn't it the same process?"

"When you created the water creatures, you only thought of animals and insects in the form of water. However, if you had thought further..." Luke started as he packed some dirt in his right hand

Luke clenched the dirt tightly while his eyes began to glow and he lifted his hand towards the sky "...if you had thought, 'I want this to become alive', you would have created something alive" he said as he opened his hand, and three birds took off from it "What you created would have been born with a bit of your mana and a bit of your life force. For hearts and spirits, these things are unlimited, so giving a bit for the sake of creating something alive, is not impossible, but a mere task"

"Wow" Lucia mumbled, as she stared at the sky

"But....how do you make such a thing disappear?" Luke asked "Whatever you created as alive, will be born with its own mana and life force which it had collected from you at the time of its creation. This means that it becomes its own living thing, just like the other living things you didn't create. It'll grow, feed, sleep, mate, parent....and die"

Luke called one of the birds back

"However, the only difference between it and other living creations, is the fact that it was created by you. It was created from your life force and your mana which means, you can control it" Luke said, with very cold eyes, but before the bird could even reach within a metre of his hand, he immediately clenched his fist and the bird's corpse dropped to the ground "Just imagine connecting your mana and life force with the ones you gave to your creation. Then imagine taking all of it back" he said, before dropping his hand by his side, while Lucia stared at the dead bird on the ground "That is how you make an alive creation that you created, disappear. By taking away its life force and mana, all that will be left of that alive creation, is its dead corpse" he added