Under Zeliel's control, more and more flames leaped into the sky at his command.
They wove around one another, joining end to end. Sometimes they moved slowly, sometimes in a rush, and they looked almost alive.
"Pretty, too..."
Even Zeliel had not expected such violent flames to behave so obediently in his hands.
With a casual curl of his finger, several Flame Rings quietly broke apart and flowed into the Flame Wave beside them.
After testing his control over fire, Zeliel moved on to another experiment.
He raised a hand, and the surrounding flames immediately bent to his will.
They spun together and stretched into a narrow, concentrated Flame Stream.
Snap!
Zeliel snapped his fingers, and the Flame Stream shot forward!
Orange-red fire streaked through the air toward a bare rock.
Boom! The flames struck the rock head-on and spread rapidly across its surface.
Scorching air swept out to either side.
Once the Flame Stream was spent, the fire gradually died away.
Zeliel narrowed his eyes and took a closer look.
The rock's surface had been scorched black, with a small crater blasted into it.
But...
That was all.
"Hmm."
Zeliel was not surprised.
After all, it had been a purely physical attack with fire, without any magic mixed in.
It was still somewhat rough compared with a proper fire spell released through a spell structure.
Even so, it was quite good.
He had controlled those flames at will.
With a mere motion of his hand, he had turned the surrounding fire into a usable attack. That counted as an advantage on his home turf.
Zeliel suddenly thought of Instructor Lena.
Of the three stages of Intermediate Mage, Lena had gained only one trait resembling [Flame Affinity]...
If she had gained [Flame Dominion], she would probably have been far more