Chapter 43 Risa’s Teachings

"Exactly," Risa smiled as she vanished the two balls of light. "Light and dark elements are basically the same despite looking different. That is why I, a light magic user, can use curses the way I did before."

Her words made sense to Jason, making him put away his previously known knowledge of magic and listen to her carefully.

"Similar to how I can use curses with the help of light magic, you can also heal yourself using dark magic. The normal mage won't be able to tell the difference between the two."

"Then why is it said that dark magic is only focused on certain things and light magic is only focused on certain things?" Jason inquired, remembering how Issac had explained the two elements to him.

"Jason, if I told you something that would change your change your mindset on how you view magic as well as make you stronger, would you go around spreading it for others to use?" Risa questioned.

The realization finally struck Jason as to why the two elements were introduced in the manner in which they were introduced.

"So that means that most of the population has no clue about what light and dark magic truly are…" He mumbled in reply.

"Indeed. There are only certain places where this knowledge. The only other way to get it is to have a teacher that can teach you." Risa nodded in agreement.

"So that means only certain dark and light mages ever get to know the truth about the two." Jason felt as though he had gotten some sort of enlightenment after hearing the explanation.

'System, how far am I from unlocking the dark mage job class?' Jason inquired.

[ Around eighty percent has been done. Perhaps after this training session with Risa is over, you might unlock the job class. ]

'I see. Remember to tell me the difference between that and my main job class then.' Jason replied before asking something different from Risa.

"Grandma, a dark mage who can also use light magic will always be superior than the normal dark mage, right?"

"Hmm, that's true in most circumstances whereas there are certain times when the normal dark magic user might prevail stronger. It depends on a lot of factors." Risa answered honestly.

"Jason, who taught you that lightning movement skill yesterday or if you created it, how did you create it?" She then asked while raising an eyebrow as Jason coughed.

"I fought two goats and their horns made me create that skill…" He replied honestly.

"Uh…" Both Risa and Jason felt suddenly awkward at the mention of such a thing but it was not Jason's fault.

He was telling the truth since Karna had pitted him against two goats and had made them chase after him.

In the middle of it, one of their horns had been inches away from piercing his butt which had been a traumatizing experience for a child his age.

He had only managed to get away by experimenting with his lightning element which had led to him creating the skill.

'You should have told me earlier that I could create skills. I would have created overpowered skills.' Jason grumbled to the system who started chuckling.

[ Then why don't you create some now, host? ]

Jason didn't have a reply for that so he decided to tell Risa the entire tale. After she was done hearing him, Risa wondered whether it was a good idea to let Karna teach Jason further on.

But then, it was not like she could teach him anything as well.

'I guess it's still better to let him do it instead of doing it ourselves.' Risa sighed aloud before she resumed what she had been teaching.

"Going back to the topic, go ahead and try summoning your dark element."

"Ok." Jason then raised his right hand in front of him and thought of the dark element.

This time, he thought of the dark element as something present inside his body instead of anything related to darkness.

Minutes passed by in such a manner but nothing appeared in his palm.

"Ehhh?" Jason felt confused as Risa smiled and raised her right hand.

The next second, a ball of purplish-black mana appeared in her hand which seemed to surprise Jason. His eyes slightly parted when he realized that the mana was none other than dark mana.

"How…"

"What did I say earlier? Dark and Light elements are the two sides of a coin. They are opposite yet are joined at the center." Risa replied as her ball of mana suddenly turned white.

'I wonder why Aiden was overreacting then. Any opinions?' Jason thought while focusing on Risa's actions.

[ Perhaps there is something we don't know of? We need history books for that. ]

"Grandma, please show it again," Jason asked aloud.

"See closely." She showed the entire thing again as Jason asked the system to record it for him.

He then summoned his dark mana once again but this time, he decided to use the third form of physical representation of mana, gathering.

Jason made the mana gathering in the palm of his hands move all around his hand before fixing its point on the thumb.

Suddenly, a semi-transparent layer of mana wrapped around his palms yet Jason was far from done. He knew that the layer was so thin that it would vanish soon.

So instead of trying to improve it, Jason joined his hands and forced the mana to move to the top of his thumbs.

He gathered all of the mana there as both of his thumbs were then covered by a layer of purple-black dark mana. He repeated the same process all over his hands before they were completely covered in the purple-black mana.

"That should work," Jason muttered while pointing his hand in the direction of a very small tree in the garden.

[ Calm down host, we are not trying to be an overachieving Chinese main character with a system! ] The system suddenly interrupted as it realized that Jason was going to use the mana to create a skill.

Jason however didn't stop and instead, shot out the dark mana from his hands...