Reader Mage-Stubbing August 10! Chapter 12: 12-Deconstruction Failed

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Merlin was so bamboozled his eyeballs almost fell out of their sockets. Had he been dreaming? Nora really launched a spell? So soon? There was no way that was possible; it had just been a day. Spell launching was a skill in spell casting that required practice upon practice on the aspect of perfecting one’s mana control. How in the world could she have achieved such an outcome without even practicing? Hadn't she used her time to create a new spell instead? A thought suddenly flashed through Merlin’s head, widening his eyes, and making him feel even more stupid than he had thought he was earlier—back at the apartment. Merlin glanced at his sister as the Air ball she had launched vanished when it was three feet away from her. “You weren’t playing Tower Raider all night, were you?” he asked. Nora scowled while flexing her wrist. “I have a life, you know? Do you think I just sit on my ass all day playing games? Tsk . What do you take me for?” She wasn’t exactly wrong, but for as long as Merlin had known his sister—which was for as long as she’d lived—that life she talked about was significantly conjoined with the game that was Tower Raider. And that was why the fact that she had focused on practicing her spell launching instead of farming XP, despite having missed out on her chance to move up to legendary because of him, was so out of the world that Merlin would not have believed it if only she hadn’t just successfully launched a spell. He chuckled dryly. This makes me feel like I’m not serious. While I was sleeping, she was practicing. She’s the A-Class Mage, Merlin. You should be putting in more effort than her. Perhaps his internal turmoil showed on his face, because Nora sighed at that moment, the pompous look she had been wearing trading places with a somewhat plaintive one. “What?” she started. “Are you feeling down because I already learnt how to launch a spell?” Merlin jerked his head back slightly, his lips pursed. “I am not.” She narrowed her eyes, folding her arms as she angled her body, her Grimoire still hovering beside her head. “Then, were you perhaps hoping for me to fail? Ugh…Merlin, what kind of a brother are you? Consider what people will think!” Now she was toying with him. But…that was good. It had brought him back to his senses. Why had he become so somber? He was such a downer, wasn’t he? “Fine. Fine. I get it, alright.” Merlin tried to smile. “I was just surprised, is all. Face fixed now; all better?” Nora snorted, looking away from him and down at her palm. Then her brows pulled in. “It’s still all wonky, though,” she said, vaguely. But Merlin knew that she was talking about her spell launching. However, he was not quite sure what she meant by it being all wonky. “In what manner?” he asked. Nora’s Grimoire fell into her hand. “Well, I can create the spell and connect the mana whip to it without losing control of either or both, but launching it is still tough.” She looked up at Merlin. “Didn’t you notice?” Well, now that he thought about it, the spell only moving three feet from her left a bit to be desired. And there was also the speed. It had been very slow, comparable to tossing an item at someone rather than hurling a baseball ball for a home run. The way it was currently, he doubted launching the spell would do any damage to a monster—a human, most likely, but a monster was a far cry away. In fact, Nora would have better chances of dealing damage by hitting them head-on herself. But it was not like they were going to be engaging any monsters any time soon, so that was a reach of a comparison on his part. That aside, Merlin wasn’t quite sure what to do here to help Nora’s cause. In Singularity Mage, after Kieran’s enlightenment on what he could do to launch his spells, there had been a timeskip, only mentioning that it had taken him a week to get it right. Merlin had not walked through the entire process with the protagonist, and so his knowledge was not exactly helpful at the moment. Nora seemed to no