(TW: Suicidal Thoughts)
Iscandor marveled at the staggering heat, then gripped the hilt of one of his daggers, dispelling the boiling water and applying heat resistance to himself. Then, he brought down a large ball of water and wrapped himself in it, using the other dagger to grant it heat resistance. Finally, he made a slight hole inside it, manipulating the water just enough that he could breathe inside of it. He then, began to speak while taking the water out of his lungs. There was a lot, and it had almost started to get to the point of choking.
“The ocean is so vast and titanic only the sun itself could destroy it. The first rule of magic states there is always a drawback to using large amounts of power.” he’d warn, hoping his voice would make it outside the sphere.
“I don’t want you to die, you fucking showoff.” The young man would say this genuinely, giving the incredibly pissed off orc a look of guilt. Would his magic kill another?
Long ago, he had been found to have magic. At the academy, another young initiate had been playing with him in the pond, a place he had an affinity for, and the young man was giving his friend a ride on geysers, which he could make by simply throwing his hands up and using magic. Usually, how he did that was by focusing on a tiny point and gathering water to it, resulting in an explosion of force. He usually felt this happen. One day, as he was laughing and playing, he focused on something that felt like water. He did his geyser actions again, but this time much less gathered. As he was a child, instead of being concerned, he simply threw up his hands and next thing he knew there was screaming. He quickly located his friend struggling in the pool, and saw a red flower of blood blooming there. What he had latched on to was an artery in the other child’s neck, and his upward motion snapped the thing. There was so much internal bleeding his friend’s entire neck and chin turned purple as a violet.
Well, it did in the few seconds before she died, stopped struggling, and sunk to the bottom. He had not been caught because his buddy resurfaced a few days after the crime and he had no witnesses to testify that he did it. That very day, he swore off ever using blood magic again. Then, as all stupid and dishonorable children do, he ran. He ran back to the academy and never spoke to any of his proctors again.
When he was about 14, memories of the incident arose and he tried to kill himself for it, but before a sharp bullet of water could end him completely, he fell into a trance where he dreamed his friend told him not to do it, and that the mistake that occurred that day he had obviously learned from. Eyes flashing back to the present day as a giant wave of heat struggled to do anything to the ball, he told himself that if anything happened to the orc he was fighting, he would go through with his plan then, only this time nothing and nobody would come to stop him.
“My friend died because of me. I can see this going bad too. I’ll just…step out of the triangle. It’s not worth it. He would have done so as well, if a headache unlike anything he had ever experienced hit him as he was turning away.
What you see….as kindness….will more than likely….hurt her more…than your magic ever could. A voice would say, the voice of his best friend from all that time ago. He flashed back for a moment to when he had felt bad for his friend, who’s name was Tyris, she stared him straight in the eyes and said that he shouldn’t waste time feeling bad for her. Pitying her. As to make her claim more serious, she said their friendship was over if it ever happened again. Luckily, they never had such an argument again.
Steeling himself, he would lift himself out of the bubble and begin to feel very hot, but it was manageable thanks to the dagger enchantment. His movements were a teensy bit more sluggish thanks to the heat, but he still managed to split it into 6 medium sized projectiles without much difficulty and shot them at
Thraah. With another hand, he would bring a large ball to him and shrink it so that when he activated it with his magic it would burst into full size. He then takes the dagger connected to those six and touches the tiny sphere, transferring the power from the 6 fast moving water bullets to the small sphere, which he shoots at a much faster speed at his target.
Now, to only hope they didn’t notice.