Meditating with Ael Gelmont

[17:53] "Your father brought his student's here when training, and so do I. I find it's a good place to focus, to channel heat through my body and circuitry. Aid's in manifesting magic, I'd say." He explained, a small shrug to follow as Ael drew in a deep breath. "We can begin here, training. You wish to manifest wings of fire, an inferno of glory?" He asked Eliphas.

Ael wanted to be sure of the lesson he intended to give, Eliphas was skilled, a well trained magi with the passion and potential of many great fire magi. Ultra-violet flames slowly rose and wrapped around his form, channeling raw fire towards his back as purple wings extended up and out. His chest began to burn, the marking reacting every time he commanded fire. Sometimes it burned at him more than usual, sometimes he could ignore it.

"To channel such raw fire power takes tremendous training and concentration. And lest we forget, we must care not to burn ourselves." Ael explained, exerting his mana-circuitry. Ael had much he could teach, but it was dependant upon what path a student wished to take in the end, where their focuses would be.

"First, I often get my students to meditate, to attune themselves to the heat around them, to draw upon it as they draw their mana." Ael continued to explain.
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[18:26] Following Ael through the Academy grounds, they turned and down a flight of steps before stepping inside of a cave.

"You know.. I don't think I've ever been in here before."

Sapphire hues glanced towards the cavern walls, wondering to where Ael was leading them too. But just as his question arose, they would be answered.

"My father took you through a series of a cave system to teach you?" he chuckled, not realizing the destination that the two would arrive at.

After long strides and several of minutes spent conversing through the intricate tunnel system, the two finally came towards an opening in the end.

The rush of rushing lava greeted them as the intense heat shimmered the very air they breathed. The walls were colored red, mostly due to the illumination of the pool of lava.

With wide eyes, Eliphas jumped back at the sight.

Awestruck at the very place that his father had taken Ael to train with how many years ago.

"Well.. I can see why." he laughed, amused at the scenery.

"Yes."

Responding as he took a step back, he'd allow for Ael to demonstrate the prowess of performing such a powerful art. He eyed their ultra-violet flames that licked away at their frame, pulsating with raw energy as it channeled upwards towards the base of their shoulders before wings sprouted out with all their glory.

The Aegeus stood back, astonished at the feat.

He's seen the magic being performed time and time again. So much one would even get bored of seeing it. But each time he viewed it? He reacted as if it was his first time.

The time it would take for someone to manifest something as such, their aptitude, their determination and patience to grow to such heights.

It showed him heights that he'd never knew of before, and now he had the chance to claim it for his own.

With a slight nod, Eliphas followed their directions. Slowly lowering himself into a lotus position as he closed his eyes to concentrate on himself, looking inwards as Ael's words replayed in his mental.

To attune himself to the heat around them, to welcome it as they do with their own mana.

"I can see why you bring your students here Ael.." he smiled softly.
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[19:14] "And likewise for Dallan's students, when he had taught years ago. It is an excellent location, I feel. And also makes me thankful my classes tend to be smaller in number. I don't think I could fit a room of thirty students in here without accident." He replied with a grin, though how true it was, was very likely.

"But yes, he brought us right through the cave system and into here. An excellent pocket beneath the school for Pyromancy." He remarked.

As Eliphas settled into the room, connecting his circuitry to the heat around them, did Ael too, join him. Ael's flames dissipated at his command as hs took a seat, closing his eyes as he tried to focus and clear his mind. Sometimes it was easy, quick. At other times, his mind was troubled and toiled making clearing it far more trickier. This day it felt a little easier, there'd been no trouble for the day, not yet at least.

His goal was to aid in Eliphas growth, to help hisstudent grow and expand his mind. "A fire magi's strength is in his passion, his growth within his ambition." Ael explained, "When you clear your mind, you can seek the source of heat, follow it." Ael continued, "To feel it course through the world like circuitry through the body."

A deep breath followed, Ael did not remove a cigarette, just aimed to empty his mind and embrace the heat around them. The journey to through the cooler portion's of Starfall's cave certainly contrasted to the heat they felt in here, but Ael felt this was a great source for a fire magi to experiment and grow their technique. He even had used it as such.

"As you feel your mind clear, focus on manifesting the heat within you, controlling and wielding it." Ael explained, opening his eyes and waving a hand above the lava, it reacted with ripples much like dropping a rock in water. He could command the streams of lava into flame, warping them into the wing-like structure he commanded when training or in battle.

"Shape the fire to your will. In a sense, imagine it, as silly as it may sound. But envisioning what you wish to command, I find aids me." He explained. Slowly beads of sweat even began to roll down Ael's forehead, sticking hair and clothes to his skin.

"You must wield your mana-circuitry in the right pattern to shape and wield a variety of fire techniques, each one requiring a different set of.. Almost like spell triggers, so to speak."

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[19:14] Ael Gelmont says, "And as you see how I command that circuitry to do this, I wish for you to try the same."
[20:36] Emptying his mind, Eliphas cleared his mind as he had always done.

From his extensive training with Xuelian, Saga and others.

Spacing everything out, he felt his essence growing. Each second that passed, he felt the heat from the lava pools gravitating towards his form. Enveloping him with it's presence as he continued to find that simple peace of mind.

He had little difficulty entering this state of mind, relaxing as his breaths relaxed.

A fire magi's..

It was small, but he was able to hear the Gelmont's words call to him as he continued to meditate.

Eliphas had known this for a long, long time. His passion, the burning drive that thrusted him forward. Was the simple will of reclaiming his parent's heirlooms, on murdering their killers and everyone involved.

Grim right?

Reopening his eyes, Eliphas found himself in an empty space. A place where he stood on top of water with lessar spirits, wisps, floating about. A clear blue sky riddled with clouds covered the sky as he stood standing on top of the watery plane.

Turning side to side, he'd find an idly flame hovering above the water.

With each that he took forward, the landscape would change. Showing him a vision of the future that he was searching for.

Step by step, the waters slowly transformed into a desolate wasteland. The grounds he now stepped on were a ashen formation. Geysers filled with lava exploded every so often as blood rained down from above, bodies slowly piled up from afar. Littering the landscape with gore. Instead of wisps floating about, it would be the lost souls of departed spirits.

The closer he got, the brighter the flame rose brighter. More intense, more brilliant than ever before.

This was the path that he was heading towards, and he fully accepted with open arms.

Ael's words echoed through his ears once more as he took a hold of it. Nothing about Ael's words sounded silly, or superficial.

Sweat grew at his brow as he felt his nerves screaming at him, he felt the heat protrude from the flames before him. Burning away at his skin as he held on tight. Quickly, bringing towards his chest as it cloaked his form.

"AAHH!"

Snapping awake in a cold sweat, he blinked frantically as he looked around to find the two still sitting within the volcanic cave.

"Ooh.. It was nothing more a...."

Sighing heavily, Eliphas wiped at his brow before looking to Ael with a soft smile. "Also, I heard everything I think.. I don't think it's silly to visual it either. It actually helped me realize the path I am on... And with the advice that you've gave? Pretty sure that it'll help accomplish the feat of the glorious inferno."
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[21:09] After a few moments, Eliphas mind too was clear- good a much needed requirement to focus and wield greater fire within a place such as this, a distraction could lend to causing destruction, or worse. He very much remembered bringing the students on their first day, and an explosive magi's reaction when using magic within. It was wiser to be better prepared.

After Ael's explanation and small display of magic, the two once more in deep mediation with Eliphas going over Ael's words, trying to envision his path, envision the fire he would wield around him. This was the first step, Ael felt was needed to wielding greater fire magic, and so he would have Eliphas aim to do as he had once before.

For a while it had been silent, with both concentrated, envisioning, wielding fire around themselves, mind's following the stream of heat that gave and flourished Eternia with life. Ael's eye opened as Eliphas began to shout, time having certainly passed, multiple hours to say the least Ael had thought.

"Everything alright?" He asked, though vision through the eye of Ifrit was amplified in such a place. He could feel the heat from Eliphas soul, the desire for Vengeance just as Ael had. To bring his own justice to the world against his foes.

It could see the fire that wrapped around Eliphas, burned at him, tugged at his soul. "Yes, good. We will continue to train and practice, to focus in this place and other's. Sources of heat to aid when drawing upon greater reserves of mana. Whatever it may be, a great fire burned within Eliphas, ready to unleash.
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[21:10] Ael Gelmont says, "Hmm. It seems we will need more time in here, more concentration."
[21:38] "Yeah.."

His breaths labored, as if he had ran for miles on end.

"It's just that I.. I guess that I found something within myself." shaking his head side to side, he clapped his cheeks before dropping his hands into his lap.

"I just need to concentrate harder than before." he chuckled softly. "It's just that I've been at a cross road Ael… And now I know what lies ahead of me."

"It's just that.. I don't know if I'm strong enough to do it yet... Or to be capable to do the things that I want too."

Eliphas's head rolled to the side as his digits massaged the other, his gaze drifted towards the reddened walls as he inhaled the sulfur from the magma pools.

"I guess what's holding me back is my own... How would I phrase this... Like.. I feel like I'm holding myself back." he sighed.

"If you don't want to hear my problems, just let me know. But the jist of it?"

He frowned as blue hues darted towards the Gelmont.

"I don't know if I'm strong enough to do anything that I want too..."

"Each one of my fights with the Docro's have been nothing but close calls. Literally me being one hit away from claiming the victory of my own, and don't get me wrong. I do have my moments." he obviously referred to the moments he was able to best Ael and Saga. "But there has to be something that I'm doing wrong.. Right?"
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[21:43] Eliphas Aegeus says, "Seth Docro plans to break my father's bow two years time."
[21:44] Eliphas Aegeus says, "I need to get strong enough by then to take it back by then."