The Coming of the Traveler

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From that day on, my life became a series of recurring events. I would get up in the morning and spend two hours practicing Rush, usually enough to drain my reserve by three-quarters. Following this, I practiced passing the obstacle course. Do not think that this band was one and the same. Kerantil was still an experienced mentor and therefore created a complex that almost instantly changed its parameters, and every time it seemed to the magician that his student passed obstacles too easily, the conditions of the strip became more complicated.

Did I get stronger? To be frank, I could not give an exact answer to this question for a very long time, but on the twentieth night, Kerantil greeted me with unexpected news.

“Student, tell me, what is the most important thing in mastering magic?”

All sorts of answers came to mind, mostly based on the words of the teacher, but then I decided to discard them all and say what I think:

- A wish.

— Ha! This is the first time I've gotten a correct an