Since there was nothing else to do for the rest of the day after everything that happened with the Spider Waves, Hazel decided to read the Runecraft book to have a better understanding of what it was capable of. To avoid any interruptions, she went up to the roof of the Jetport building so she could be alone.

  Sitting with her legs crossed, Hazel opened up the runecrafting book and took a peek inside. Instead of reading it the old-fashioned way, she decided to do a little extra training and used Telekinesis to hold and turn the pages. In front of her, the leather-bound book floated in the air, and every so often, a page would be flipped once Hazel was done reading.

  While reading the book, Hazel’s brows creased irritably. “While I can understand some things, there are others that sound like gibberish,” She grumbled. “I don’t know how long it's going to take me to understand this Runic Pattern.”

  From what she could make out in the book, Runecrafting involved making some kind of formation or equation using The Runic Language. To keep it brief, the Runic Language was basically a set of words that held significant power. And if properly utilized, these words could invoke said power.

  The problem was how Hazel was supposed to do that. According to the book, to perform runecraft, she would need to understand and make a Runic Pattern. This technique was where a mage would inscribe certain runic words onto something to enact its power. However, the book stated that the mage couldn’t just randomly pick runic words to use and must choose the correct one to properly and effectively invoke the effect.

  And that was where Hazel’s first hurdle began: understanding the Runic Language. Much like any language, each word from the Runic Alphabet carried a different meaning and purpose. From what she could figure out, some invoked protection, others invoked divination, and so on.

  While Hazel could tell that she was slowly beginning to understand Runecraft, if only a little, she was annoyed by the slow progress. Letting out a heavy groan, Hazel buried her face in her hands.

  “There is too much to understand here,” She grumbled. “I won’t be able to make use of this stuff at all at this rate. At least for the battle against the Spider Queen.”

  One of the main reasons why Hazel was so eager to learn about Runecraft was that she wanted to utilize her knowledge for the Fifth Stage of the Spider Queen’s curse. She figured that by learning runecraft, she could have an edge against the queen. However, after looking through a few pages of the book, it became depressingly obvious that this plan was destined to fail.

  There was so much about the topic that Hazel couldn’t understand within a day. In fact, it would likely take her weeks or perhaps months to properly understand Rune crafting before she could make any use of it in the future.

  Realizing this fact, Hazel grew more frustrated with her situation. However, instead of throwing a fit, she took a deep breath and decided to change objectives.

  “If I can’t do much about Runecrafting, then let’s do something else,” She muttered to herself, her eyes trailing over to the floating leatherbound book. “Like training my Telekinesis spell.” A wide and wicked smile formed on her face.

  Instead of starting from scratch on a new topic, it would benefit Hazel more if she simply focused and improved her current capabilities instead. At least in preparations for the Spider Queen’s appearance.

  Putting the book aside with the help of Telekinesis, Hazel proceeded to levitate a couple of pebbles lying around her. Watching them float around, she then willed the small stones to rotate around her, like they were moons and she was a planet. At first, she performed this by waving her hands around, invoking her Telekinesis spell on them.

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  But after a few moments, Hazel lowered her hands. But instead of deactivating the spell, the stones remained floating in the air, and better yet, still levitating around her. And this was all without her gesturing with her hands like usual.

  Seeing this, Hazel’s smile deepened. “Looks like using my hands won’t be necessary, huh? At least, for the most part.”

  Hazel had been deeply curious about the mechanics behind her Telekinesis spell. While she could activate the spell using her hands, was that really all it was capable of doing? As a whole, Telekinesis was a spell that allowed Hazel to move things without physically touching them. So, if she did not need to touch an object to move it, then would it be possible to do this without moving her hands at all?

  What Hazel was testing out was basically if she could perform the Telekinesis spell by just using her mind and willing the object in question to do whatever she wished. And after this little experiment, she could confirm that it was possible.

  Watching the stones float around her head, Hazel then mentally nudged them to stop, all without using her hands to see how far this could go. The pebbles froze in mid-air, staying in place until Hazel said otherwise. A moment later, she willed the stones to come together and swirl around as if they were drawn in a vortex.

  Hazel watched this unfold, meticulously observing what was happening. With another mental nudge, the stones stopped once more before each one spun individually from the others while in different positions. Like one spun clockwise while the other spun counterclockwise. However, as this occurred, Hazel noticed that one or two of the stones weren’t spinning as fast as the other.

  Seeing this, she willed those specific stones to spin faster, only to notice that the other stones started to slow down in the process. Hazel continued to try and get all the pebbles to spin at the same speed, but unfortunately failed to accomplish this. Instead of getting frustrated, she looked more curious than anything.

  “Okay, so it seems that I’m unable to properly focus on all the stones to make them do what I want. Then again, I was dividing my attention on each specific pebble, so I figured that this would happen.”

  One of the biggest components in utilizing Telekinesis was the User’s mental focus when activating the spell on an object or person. This was extremely important because when Hazel attempted to control multiple objects at once, instead of one at a time. By focusing on more than one object, she was essentially dividing her focus on each one. And depending on how strong her mental focus was, it was bound to happen that one or two of the items in question would be less affected by Hazel’s telekinesis due to her lack of attention to it.

  To put it more simply, it was like Hazel was trying to run her stomach while patting her head. Only ten times harder. It was difficult for her to divide her attention equally on the desired items because she was subconsciously mentally focusing on one, which in turn, pulled her focus from the other objects under her telekinesis.

  Then again, she could control more than four objects, like her Cursed Spears. However, in that case, what she wanted to do with them was a lot simpler. All she wanted them to do was either stay in place or get hurled at a target of her choosing. She didn’t make her spears do specific tasks that differed from one another, like she attempted with the stones.

  So, from what Hazel discovered with this little experiment, in terms of controlling multiple objects at once, there were clearly limitations to this. She could move multiple items with Telekinesis but making them do different tasks and such required a lot more mental focus than Hazel currently possessed.

  But she knew that with a little bit of practice, this was still possible for her to do. And that was what Hazel planned to do for the time being.

  Keeping her eyes peeled on the floating stones, she then willed them to clash against one another. A loud stone clack could be heard as broken pieces of the pebbles fell off and landed on the floor. Hazel curiously stared at the stones for a few moments before lifting her hand in front of them.

  Then, she flicked her finger and shot the mashed-together pebbles forward like a bullet. Hazel watched the stones fly off the roof before descending to the ground below her, but she didn’t see anything else after that. Once the stones were out of her sight, she leaned back and looked up at the blue sky above, taking in the quiet scenery for a moment.