The wand really seems to be very fragile, I'm afraid it will break if I drop it.

The difference between a cheap wand and an expensive one is mainly in its durability and strength, just like that gentleman said.

However, the quality of the spell cast is not affected by the quality.

What wands do is serve as a mana saver.

Every wand has a kind of "funnel" of mana, where not an iota of mana is wasted.

When you cast a spell with just your hands, you don't have a specific point to cast the spell, this causes the mana to be spaced out, making your spending and wasting greater.

With a wand, all you have to do is focus on it for all the mana to pool and thus cast the spell.

The downside is that this spell can only appear at the tip of the wand.

If I want to cast something outside, I'm going to spend the same amount of mana I normally would.

Staffs work in a different way than wands, they actually increase the strength of a spell, but I haven't studied them very deeply yet.

Since then, a month has passed, and I am now training in a forest close to home, Hera finally let us go.

In the forest, the trees are coniferous and spruce-like.

I found a small pond in the woods, and William and I usually train near it.

The forest is east of our house and takes about 15 minutes to get there.

It is possible to hear the noise of nature and its animals. I'm not sure, but I hear noises similar to crickets and cicadas.

I could already hear a howl similar to that of a wolf. That day, we left as fast as we could.

Reading an animal book, I saw wolf-like animals that could reach up to 2 meters in height.

I don't want to risk my life like that...

My progress with magic is happening much faster thanks to the wand.

Nowadays, I can cast between 5 and 7 spells a day, and William can cast up to 10!

Our progress has been greatly optimized thanks to this tool.

But we can't get caught up in it. If we become dependent on wands, we won't be able to get the most out of our spells.

My plan is to stop using it until I can cast as many spells as I want in the day. I believe that by the age of 5, I will already have reached this level.

Walking with William towards the woods, I feel the autumn breeze on my face.

Arriving at the forest, I go forward until I find the pond where I usually train.

It's still morning, and we still have plenty of time to spend our mana.

The first spell I usually start with each day is earth thorns.

Focusing the mana on the ground with my hand, a small spike comes out.

The dirt quickly takes shape, but the hardest part is getting it hard.

The earth slowly becomes more resistant, and I can see it because of its more rocky texture.

Now comes the spinning part!

By putting in a lot of mana, the thorn rotates intensely.

Without wasting much time, I fire, hitting a tree trunk!

The thorn pierced a hole in the trunk of the tree in front of me, but it couldn't get through.

I did this spell without using a wand, as it would be more complicated with it.

I'd have to create a thorn of earth out of thin air, and that's a lot harder than me using the earth itself.

Looking to the side, I see William with both hands on his wand.

At its tip, a kind of small air ball is formed.

He fires it towards a trunk, and the air ball pierces.

Approaching the trunk, I see that the firing area is much smaller than my thorn, but William's magic pierced the trunk much deeper than my magic.

So my magic has a better chance of hitting, but William's does more damage, huh?

They are quite opposite.

"I don't feel comfortable with that..." William says looking at his wand.

"What's the problem?" I ask.

"I don't know. I think it would be much better if I moved around more, but it won't let me." He says.

So his problem is versatility.

I believe combat without any objects would be better for him.

"Maybe wands aren't your strong point." I answer.

"Hm..."

I've been studying a little more about mythology during this time.

Mythology in this world is treated as a religion, not as a collection of legends.

People believe faithfully in the gods, there seems to be no doubt about their existence.

Well, I'm very skeptical about this, but I don't rule out this idea. Because, in a world where magic exists, the existence of gods wouldn't be that surprising.

From what I read, there was a war whose impacts were in the real world.

The War of Power—that's what they call the battle between the army of the god of Dragons and the god of Thunder.

It is said that the gods do not stay on the material plane, they are on a kind of "Spiritual Plane", where they live in a Divine Land.

The problem is that the gods never interfered in the material world, but the god of Dragons thought this idea was stupid and that the gods should rule over all mortal beings.

In this, the Divine Land was in debt between those who supported the ideas of the god of Dragons, and those who believed that interfering was not something to do, led by the god of Thunder.

It is said that dragons once existed in the world, but thanks to war and hunting, they became extinct.

This was one of the reasons why the god of Dragons was so furious and wanted to subjugate all races.

An intense battle in the Divine Land was fought between the god of Dragons and the god of Thunder.

The battle was so intense that tremors and flashing lights could be heard across the land.

Until, in a deadly attack, the god of Thunder launched one of his rays over the belly of the god of Dragons, causing him to fall from the divine land and reach the Continent of Mountains, creating the Lightning Slit, where people still live today.

I took a map to check, and the Lightning Slit really exists, but I couldn't find any other proof that this battle actually happened.

Well, the god of Dragons is not dead. The gods are immortal, so what he did was ascend to the Divine Land again, but this time he gave up on his plan and continued to live his life isolated from everyone.

It was a very tragic ending for him.

He saw his entire race dying little by little, and when he decided to take action, he was defeated.

After this war, the god of Thunder became the leader of the Divine Land, and everyone considers him the supreme authority of that land.

It's curious how the books treat the god of Thunder as a hero.

I'm not going to give reason to the god of Dragons, because if he won the war, all races would probably be doomed.

But I believe there were better ways for them to resolve this conflict without having to beat each other up.

The Divine Land is the place where the dead go.

Of course, you only go there if you are a good person.

The books don't say what exactly it means to be a good person, so it's up to each person's interpretation.

In this religion, there is also the underworld, where the god of the Underworld rules, which is where bad people go.

Again, we are not told what it means to be a bad person.

Speaking a little more about the world itself, there was a big war a long time ago.

In the past, there were only 3 large empires in the world. They are Skylar's Empire, Voel's Empire, and Grando's Empire.

With this, the Voel Empire decided to form an alliance with the Grando Empire and attack Skylar with the aim of increasing its territory and influence over the world.

It is worth mentioning that Voel is an elven kingdom and Grando is a kingdom of demi-humans.

This caused prejudice and hatred between races to increase.

Skylar's Empire was mostly made up of humans.

Skylar dominated much of the world, from the mountain continent to the desert continent.

Looking for help, Skylar asked for support from the dwarves.

They accepted, however, they placed a condition: Skylar's Empire must leave the mountain continent.

Desperate for help, Skylar accepted the dwarves' proposal. The dwarves weren't good at fighting, but they were good at making weapons.

So the Great War, as it is called, started.

The war lasted for 149 years until a meeting with the leaders of each empire was scheduled.

The destruction and killing of war were no longer worth it, and there were people who were no longer agreeing with the conflict.

Not only that, but the kings who had started the war had already died, making the battle meaningless.

Many cities were planning to claim their independence because they no longer had resources to send to the battlefronts.

The long-awaited meeting between the emperors began.