Of Might and Magic [Invited]

Tiamat stood there, a bit confused at Kyoha's reaction. Yeah, from his tone, he was being purposefully incorrect in his answer, but it still got a sigh out of Tiamat. Then, the Shinjin would shake the staff she had in her hand, hopefully drawing his attention to it for a moment.

'' Focus Kyoha, I'm trying to teach something directly to your brain, it's harder than you might think, pretty impossible in fact if you don't pay attention and follow what I say. So you have another shot at it before I do it again.''

She waved the staff again, to put some credibility into her threat. At least the bounty hunter did not seem to believe she was engaging in a spar, which would have been the number one assumption she believed he would have made. She also noticed Flubba had almost sprung into action when she hit Kyoha across the face at first, deep down, it seemed the jelly creature was of good nature.

'' Don't worry Flubba, I don't intend on hurting Kyoha... not too much at least, the degree of pain he'll feel will directly be linked to how fast he forgets some assumptions about reality as he knew it.''

Yeah, she knew Flubba wouldn't get ALL of that, but it might just give a good enough hint to Kyoha as to what he was supposed to do. Magic had that effect on mortals, it contradicted the way they 'knew' the world to function. The 'physical' way of learning magic was through deconstructing the assumptions made with a lack of exposure to magic. The rest, well, would come naturally, depending on whoever was trying to learn.

Tiamat took a deep sigh as Kyoha finally spoke, revealing that he had no idea what he was supposed to understand. Worst of all, he seemed to think that the pain had something to do with the lesson... and while it was not useless to the process, it was leading him on the wrong path. Well, guess a little explaining would be required, why not after all.

'' What happened, Kyoha, is that I manifested, out of thin air, a perfectly crafted staff, and smacked you with it. This should mean you are not 'seeing things and I did not trick you into believing I have a staff.''

She waved the staff around once more, trying to make a point with all of this. Brains were usually slower to understand something, so while Kyoha knew that 'magic' was a thing, his brain probably did not see it as something possible yet.

With a flick of her wrist, she made the staff disappear into a bunch of tiny lights, scattering into the sky.

'' Once you grasp that magic is possible, the painful part will come into play. Only you can really tell me when you're ready to try, so whenever you think magic is a concept you believe in. I can do some other stuff with magic. I know it's not very conventional, but that's the kind of thing you're trying to learn.''

With that said, the Shinjin would manifest a ray of light towards the ground, which after a moment, would sprout a few strange plants from the ground at great speed.

When presented with what Tiamat had wanted to convey, that she created a staff to hit him with, the Human would slump over, a twinge of frustration on his features as he continued to hear her explanation, until finally she ended by doing something similar again, but this time by making plants start to sprout from the ground. Rather simplistic, but at least her words seemed clear now.

From behind, he hears Flubba speak up, asking a question about why the Human would go through pain. Turning his head to the biodroid, he'd offer a simple shrug before answering, "Well you have to go through pain sometimes to do what you want. Not everything will be easy and painless. In fact, a lot of things won't be. If you're doing good or you're working hard at improving yourself, though, then it's worth it. At least, I think so."

Returning his focus to the demonstration, he looks back upon the growth spell and its, the sprouts now nearly doubled in size in the brief time he spoke with Flubba.

"I understand now, I suppose..." he grumbles at the end of it. Stooping down by the conjured flora, he reaches out to touch them, brushing his hand against the leaves sprouting out.

"Was this even really necessary, though, Tiamat? You know that I already believe this magic stuff is possible. I had you guard me with that one spell back in the north, or when you blocked the winds, remember? If I didn't believe in it, then I'd have a hell of a time trying to justify what you did there. That's without even mentioning how you even made a staff right before we said our farewells, too."

Standing upright, he gestures out towards the Shinjin. "So are we going to get this underway? I want to start making actual progress instead of answering more riddles."

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The answers given to his question, were too complex for the creature still. He didn't really know what they meant. He looked around confused trying to find the door that the shinjin was talking about. He didn't see anything resembling a door in the nearest vicinity. He would walk around in search for this unseen door that the Tiamat spoke of. He would look around trees and in the leaves and bushes, not finding this metaphorical door.

He would stop his search when he saw that the shinjin would begin to lower their hands and place them on Kyoha. Flubba still didn't know what was going on, but figured if he watched and listened he would understand. With this he would try not to interrupt with sudden questions if he could help it. But the blob was still very curious about the world, he didn't know how to learn more about it without experiencing it or being told what things were. Though as this creature watched and listened his knowledge and vocabulary would grow.

As the two used more complex words and throwing more words at him than he is used to.

Though while Flubba watched he would question why Kyoha would want the creature to get involved at first. The creature thought that maybe the human didn't know he didn't want pain. But Kyoha still willingly continues with the process of this even when Flubba turned down being involved. Flubba would slowly inch closer and closer to the two, testing the waters and see if he would be hurt badly just for being near them.

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The attitude of Flubba towards that whole thing, while a bit strange at first, was kind of funny. From the corner of her eyes, Tiamat could see him carefully approaching the two of them, which she did not fully understand why he was doing so, but it was still amusing to see it, the jelly was kind of adorable at times.

When she received the okay from Kyoha, she would clear her throat a bit, her hand still on his chest, started to glow a little with magical energy, a circle slowly forming on the bounty hunter's torso, which would tickle a bit for now.

'' I must inform you, the process is more painful with how old you are, so this might sting a bit.''

She said, not giving him time to back away before she activated the circle on his torso and took her hand back to her side.

In an instant, Kyoha would feel his insides boiling. His body's natural magical system would be forced open by the magic Tiamat has 'injected in him, kind of like drinking water with a dry throat, only painful. Magic was flowing inside Kyoha, first only Tiamat's, but then, if his body accepted the modification and sudden new capacity, his own would slowly start to produce, fully activating the whole system. Of course, the pain would be similar to being injected poison, or a powerful acid, directly in his veins.

While it was happening, Tiamat would look at him, staying close to help him whenever it would stop. Yeah, the physical way of learning magic was quite the pain, she herself went through it some times ago, after learning the mental way, in order to master both. She had painful memories of this very moment.

'' I reassure you, it won't last much longer. I put enough magical energy in you to make sure it would be fast, and not last more than a minute. ''

She would simply say, knowing that anything else would be inconsequential for the time being.