James' suggestion to sit upright in his seat was met with a chuckle. To further emphasize his confidence in his balance, Maddox leaned the chair even further back. Though, to compensate for the harsher angle, he kicked his feet up onto the table. With a grin, he put his hands behind his bed. The red-haired mage looked oddly comfortable. "I've had enough confrontations with gravity to know what I can and can't manage," Maddox explained. This was somewhat of a pun. It was true that he had fallen out of enough chairs to know how far he could go. But it was also a reference to the gravity mage of Phoenix Wing.

Before James would get another chance to question his balance, Maddox changed the subject. "Paladin Magic, huh," Maddox noted aloud. "An interesting magic. Almost perfectly designed to battle darkness. A rare magic, even. It takes a lot of conviction and strong morals to use." His gaze went back to James now. "You can't always tell a lot about people by their magic alone, but you have a relatively [I]pure[/I] magic." His expression was deadly serious for a moment. But only a moment. A goofy grin formed on his face after he sufficiently stared James down. "We need more guys like you in this world." Maddox began laughing with that, and almost immediately regretted it.

His balance suffered briefly and it appeared for a moment that the chair was going to fall backwards with Maddox going headfirst to the ground. However, before such an event could happen, Maddox stretched his left arm back and placed his palm against the ground, stopping the fall. Now in a precarious and somewhat comical position, the red-haired mage let out a sigh of defeat. "Perhaps I don't know my limit..." With a simple shove, he pushed himself all the way upright, bringing all four legs of the chair to the ground again. It looked almost like nothing happened. After running his right hand through his hair, the smile returned on his face. "Let's pretend that didn't happen." The wizard looked to James and propped his head up with his elbow against the table. "I now know your magic, so I suppose it is only fair if I tell you mine."

Before he could make any demonstration, Maddox heard a voice behind him ask for the guild master. Turning around to look, he saw a young, redhead girl holding a letter. "Master Jamie's office is that way," Maddox answered, pointing across the guild hall. Taking a brief glance himself, it seemed that Jamie was approaching the office with Lazarus at that very moment. "He may be busy for a few minutes. But make yourself comfortable. It's pretty easy to spot Jamie whenever she leaves the office." With that done, Maddox let out a sigh. Directing his attention back to James, his grin returned. "I actually know a few magic styles. But I was given a nickname for one of them. Blink, they call me." The red-haired mage pointed toward an empty seat on the other side of the table. Once James looked to see what he was pointing at, Maddox vanished and reappeared in that very chair, still holding his head up with his hand. After waiting a few seconds, he teleported back to his original seat to further emphasize the skill. "Blink and you miss it," he elaborated with a smile, before sitting upright in his chair. "Now I hope to see your Paladin Magic in action later. I've read about many different kinds of magic, but I haven't witnessed many with my own eyes."