The nascent Wall between Oberon’s hands slowly compressed, growing denser and more opaque with each passing moment as the Mana gathered together in a smaller area, yet there was no sign that anything special was happening. No message appeared to tell him it had worked and nothing about the spell itself seemed to indicate that it had changed form or purpose in any way, so he had to assume it hadn’t worked.

Was he even on the right track? He must have been, to an extent, since he had gained some experience towards the Wall spell doing this exact thing not too long ago, but something about this didn’t seem right. How was what he was doing now any different from when he had compressed a Mana Orb into a Mana Dart, or shaped an Orb into Mana Slice? All he had done was change the shape, but nothing said it was no longer an offensive spell or a projectile anymore other than it’s clearly unsuitably aerodynamic shape. What made the thing between his hands a Wall more than anything else? If he let it go would it just fly towards a target like an unmodified Mana Orb would?

The main different was that he had cast Shield on it, a spell designed to toughen the target by boosting its natural defences, which would perhaps make the Mana more durable if it did anything at all; that was it though. Was mixing an offensive spell with a support spell enough to change the spell type from ‘Attack’ to ‘Defence’? Did mixing not just the spells but the intent behind them make a difference? One was meant to deal damage and the other to protect, did mixing them create a conflicting idea as to what he wanted the spell to become?

It was possible he was overthinking things.

Intent, however, was important. He had seen this before, or at least believed he had. Perhaps all he needed to do to complete the spell was to use it as he intended it to be used? If nothing else it would be useful to see how well his creation stood up to damage.

Looking around him he spotted Torrent further down the stream, still practising her breath skills like before, and began to fly in her direction while carefully holding the Wall between his hands steady. As he grew closer he saw the ice crystals, slush and powdered snow atop the water and momentarily lost his train of thought; had she created an ice element spell? [color=f49ac2]“Oh, right. Torrent? Can you do me a favour and attack this thing with a spell and see if it blocks it?”[/color]

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