>>6058213>>6058202>>6058002>>6057986>>6057963>>6057938You settle for the tracking scent spell. It could be used to navigate in the dark, or to find something that you can't see but smell. It looks like it just has way more utility than the rest.
Life spells are pretty tricky to learn, mostly because you're applying them to yourself. It doesn't help that everyone's body is different, and you're always very scared of messing it up. Worst of all, Delayed Double doesn't seem like it's doing much since the effect of the spell is not very visual. You've read somewhere that Delayed Double could replicate the effect of other senses, but that's way beyond your level right now.
You run out of mana really fast, as it looks like life spells really are as mana hungry as they can get. You're not sure why, but maybe it's because bodies are more complex and change all the time, so the spells might need more mana to adapt.
"You're out of mana again?" Table asks. "Alright, come here."
She pinches your cheek, and after a few uncomfortable seconds, she...doesn't let go.
"Err, didn't you just poke me before?"
"What do you mean? I always pinched your cheek like that. It helps the mana flow," she pinches you a little harder, and you can't help but feel like she's messing with you, but you aren't |i]sure[/i:lit]. I mean, maybe she did pinch you every time, and you just forgot? It'd be kind of rude to assume she's lying to you, you feel.
"I think my mana's back already, you can uhm, stop."
She lets go, and smiles. "Okay, fine, I was messing with you. I only needed to poke you, feels kind of mean to gaslight you like this. Speaking of, do you remember what we talked about with Ivy yesterday?"
"I remember her being angry and screaming, something about us going to the dorm, I think?"
She ruffles your hair, it feels weird. "Yeah, she was just jealous she couldn't get into your dorm and steal your stuff, that's what we talked about."
You really have to figure out a way to tell when she's lying to you because you literally cannot tell with her.
Table is also very good at life magic, and since she already knew a few of the basic utility spells, she spent most of her time helping you with yours. You're actually capable of getting a good grasp on the spell despite its complexity rather fast, and you think your biology class back in the human city helped greatly with that. To your surprise, you're not the one that's doing the worst, the fish girl is harming herself at every cast. Now that you think about it, she hasn't done that well in most classes, but that's her problem, not yours.
As for the scent spell, most of the students actually have a very pronounced unique smell, which sounds like a thing a creep would say, but no one would think 'each student has a very distinct look' is a weird thing to say, so you think it's totally normal to be able to differentiate each student by their scent.
