Chapter 105 Active And Passive Magic [Part 2]

"Normally, passive healing only works when the respective mage feels some kind of pain. Its that pain that allows the mana to locate the source of the injury and heal the body.

But in your case, the combination of light and dark mana can automatically locate where the injury is located in your body and bring it back to a healthier state." Hestia explained.

Jason, still feeling a bit shocked by the display of what happened earlier, nodded.

"However, your body might have nullified this if you weren't a half blood or if you weren't Erebus's follower." Hestia explained.

Jason felt multiple questions popping all over his brain but he held himself from asking them. He was more interested in what Hestia still hadn't explained.

"Half bloods have a different structure than their parents respective races. They can do many things that the two races involved can't and vice versa. This makes them quite unique.

But even after that, the healing a person can receive in this manner stops near tissue regeneration if I remember correctly." Hestia continued on.

"Is this where Erebus being my patron plays a key role?" Jason asked.

"Indeed. Erebus is the God of Shadows as per his introduction which means that he was one of the first to use this passive ability. After all, to control shadows, you must learn to control both light and dark elements." Hestia finished.

Jason felt enlightened and contacted the system.

'Does this mean that I can use shadows in the future too?'

[ That's what her words state. This also means that you are going to be one of the handful people who can use the shadow element in Clover. ]

Jason found this both exciting and grim. He was already a powerful person to have as an ally and being a shadow mage would only add more power to that scale.

'Oh well, let's see what happens in the future.' Jason sighed.

"Active magic refers to the magic where you have to control the mana yourself to do something. Passive magic means magic where the mana is used automatically to do certain things." Hestia reminded him.

"What about those skills that add permanent status buffs?" Jason immediately questioned.

"Such skills still use mana but they have already taken a fixed amount and your body will always have those buffs. They won't require any more mana," Hestia paused for a bit. "But I guess there are skills that are not related to mana at all."

Jason nodded. He could name a few skills that gave buff to one's attack and such yet they didn't use mana at all.

Or at least that's what he thought.

"However, those too use mana in one way or the other. Take speed for example. Suppose that your speed doubles when you are wounded badly. At that moment, your body would force itself to produce more mana.

That excessive mana will be used by your body to increase your speed by whatever means. That is why when you use such things in the beginning, you feel tired or drained out by it."

"I see…" Jason muttered in reply.

Both these kinds of magic were extremely important for Jason who wasn't restricted by anything. With the help of his system and overpowered abilities, he could create pretty terrifying skills.

'I just need to grow a built older and let my body get used to this much power.' Jason thought silently.

"I guess you should be able to use magic a bit better after all the explanations I provided you with." Hestia said with a smile.

"I definitely received an enlightenment after listening to you. It keeps reminding me how much I need to know about magic and how perspectives are present there." Jason admitted.

"Since that's clear, we should start focusing on improving your healing abilities. To do this, you need to get a control over your light mana so that you can squeeze more of it out of your mana core." Hestia suggested.

"Ahem, there's something you should know first." Jason faked a cough before explaining something to Hestia.

"Wait, you are telling me that you only have a single mana core that lets you use both light and dark mana!" Hestia exclaimed as she looked at Jason with a baffled expression.

That was one thing that the guardian had definitely not expected.

"Believe me when I say that I was just as confused." Jason commented.

"I don't know what to do then. Your dark element is perfect for your body but the light element definitely needs an upgrade." Hestia muttered as she tried to think of a solution.

"If it was that easy, I would've gotten the life mage job class by now as well." Jason reminded Hestia.

His guardian could only sigh. She decided to focus on helping Jason get a better arsenal of skills and get control over his new type of lightning too.

"Let's start with offensive, then go to lightning control before doing defense at last." Hestia explained.

Jason was ready to learn some skills and took a battle stance. For some reason, he looked odd while doing it in a shirt and trousers.

"Now try to use your imagination and tell me a super move that you can use to deal heavy damage to the opponent." Hestia asked.

Jason brainstormed for a few minutes before he finalized on two moves, one for each element.

"A charged lightning bolt and a curse inflicting attack." Jason said aloud.

Hestia nodded her head in approval. Both attacks were quite suitable for someone in Jason's age group. The better thing that was that Jason hadn't gone for 'cursed arrow' which had some limitations.

"Let's work on the first one." Hestia suggested before sitting down near a tree. "How can you create a charged lightning bolt?"

"Its quite simple. Its just a normal lightning bolt except once its created, I keep putting more mana in it and make it a charged lightning bolt. So when it hits anything, it will cause a huge explosion since it wouldn't be expected by the enemy."

Jason had already formed the basics of his news skill. If he learned it correctly, it would be a lot easier for him to do certain things.

The more focused one's lightning was, the more purer it would become. Being someone with the thunder element, Jason could use this to his advantage and try to use thunder magic is small bits too.

Hestia liked the idea as well but she first wanted to see Jason perform it himself. Only then would she suggest him anything.

"Let's get this thing started."