*Tsuru and Calice are in their hotel room reading their books*
*Tsuru eats fish from the bowl while sitting on bed mattress reading a book*
*Calice sits next to Tsuru, she ate 2 fish, also reading a book*
*Tsuru reading "Octagon Myth" munched on a fish, first one has already digested on her chest*
*Calice reading "Enchantment Identification Volume 2" rolled her eyes*
C: "It is so overwhelming, i have to learn even more advanced japanese to be able to identify items on higher levels, do you know how many signs it contains? They call it "Kanji""
T: "You named me thanks to japanese, you are good at it *fish eating noises* so how many signs does it have?"
C: "It says there are currently 50.000 signs! This book was written 10 years ago"
T: "Fifty thousand? That is impossible for a language to have that many, you sure?"
C: "This is how enchantments work, they just have to be complicated"
T: "Maybe you don't have to learn all at once, if you are overwhelmed you should start from small steps"
C: "You are right, I can't stop skipping those boring pages"
T: "Maybe we could read together this one too?"
C: "You do not mind? What book you are reading by the way"
T: "This one is funny, "Octagon Myth" written by Rean Goldhorn"
C: "What is it about?"
T: "Have you heard of Elemental Octagon? There are few known theories"
C: "While I tried learning fire magic, that term did appear"
T: "There are theories about it and many of these are missinformations"
C: "What exactly is Elemental Octagon?"
T: "A theory says there are 4 basics elements"
C: "Nothing is a more common of a knowledge than that, it is: Fire, Earth, Air, Water"
T: "That is right, also it says there are 4 fused elements: Explosion, Thunder, Ice, Poison"
C: "What these are fusions of other elements?"
T: "Exactly, they are not, they are individual elements, let me explain how ridiculous that is"
C: "My senses are focused"
T: "According to that theory people believed that you need for example learn both Air and Water magic to have access to Ice magic"
C: "You learned to freeze water without knowing Air magic, you and Air doesn't go together"
T: "This is right, unless you are a creature related to Ice, despite being a specimen used to cold climates I do not contain any of Ice essence"
C: "You are related to Water and Light, what about Light?"
T: "Light comes later, anyway I learned basic Ice magic without learning anything about Air, The thing is that Ice is actually not connected to air, Ice is a Water's solid state, Being a creature of Water made it only slightly easier to learn the Ice magic"
C: "Ice is just related to Water, not Air, Air does not mean Cold, Cold is its own individual"
T: "Cold counts as Temperature, but according to that Octagon, Temperature doesn't exist"
C: "Fire and Hot are similar they both are individuals made from eachother, as my "Fire for Beginners" book says, a famous quote is "heat from fire, fire from heat", it is for changing voice or something"
T: "The voice thing is called resonance, but that is unrelated, but yes, what you say is true, Fire and Heat create each other, Fire affects Temperature and so on"
C: "So what is next?"
T: "Now that we talk about Fire, the myth says that Fire has two Fusions: Fire + Earth = Explosion and Fire + Water = Poison"
C: "You do produce Acid that digests fish you eat into bones, it is related to some kind of Poison?"
T: "Fire and Water does not create Poison in any way, ah, yes, also there are many types of poison, a lot, for example I can produce low amounts of digestive fluids, not enough to hurt anyone who touches me, it is just slowly over time"
C: "You are safe for cuddles, even extreme ones"
T: "Let's just get to the point, Fire does not make Poison, it might only do some specific type of Poison, the theory is based on that Fire makes you feel Burn and Poison makes you feel like Burning too, but it is not simple like that"
C: "Magic is complicated, of course simplifying everything in one triangle with eight edges just won't do it, if magic was that simple, I would be a proffessional mage"
T: "That is why Elemental Octagon theories are so funny, someone who made those up had to be so silly *giggles cutely owo*"
C: "Another so called fusion is Explosion one"
T: "It says Fire plus Earth is Explosion, whoever made this up just thought of gunpowder, it is quite uncommon Element, I do not know much about Explosions, but Earth does not go well with that, Explosion just destroys the Earth, again, it is silly"
C: "Explosion magic is apparently very rare, some people even call it a joke"
T: "It is apparently very powerful, so it must be rare to cast a magic explosion"
C: "It is easier to just get gunpowder, as you said it has nothing to do with magic"
T: "Okay, back to Water: Water + Air... we already covered Poison, nevermind"
C: "Let's do the Air then, what does it also "fuse" with?"
T: "Air + Earth = Thunder, the term is not even... as an Element it is called Electricity, Electric for short"
C: "How does Earth with Air make electricity, I mean Earth?"
T: "Earth does not make electricity at all, we are moving on"
C: "That is all 4 so called fused elements we learned"
T: "And also actually we call that Sub-Elements, because they do not count as basic, The idea the creator of that theory had is that everything is made from all 4 basic elements also including Light and Dark, but that is not true"
C: "What everything is made of then?"
T: "All those Fused Elements are Individuals, everything is made out of much more Elements, maybe even more than Elements, there might be answer that no science knows, things are might not be as simple as they seem"
C: "That is deep and overwhelming, are there more Elements in that Octagon"
T: "So called Special Elements: Light and Dark, actually we don't call them "Special", it is just Light and Dark, It is kinda like Temperature, these two are the opposites"
C: "You are a creature of Light"
T: "Yes, actually Octagon just lists Light and Dark as "Special" that is it"
C: "That is underwhelming, finally some Balance"
T: "Yes, Light and Dark make Balance, that kinda is an actual Fusion Element that is not mentioned in Octagon, how ironic, the theory is doing the opposite"
C: "I get what you mean"
T: "Also we have Physical Damage Types as: Slashing, Piercing, Crushing"
C: "My daggers are for piercing, wait, there is only three?"
T: "Yes, there are far more of those Damage Types, like Pinching or Tickling"
C: "Tickling is a Damage Type"
T: "It is almost zero, but yes somehow it is"
C: "So is there more Elements in that Octagon"
T: "No, there is only 10 Elements and 3 Physical Types of Damage, that is all we got to learn from that Myth"
C: "But you are still reading that in a half"
T: "I told you there are many theories, well, few known and many people still believe in those missinformations"
C: "Now i just need to process everything I heard now"
T: "We can all rehearse it now"
C: "Let's go!"
T: "So we know there are 4 Basic Elements, right?"
*and so Elemental Octagon debate goes on*
*As debate ends all left of fish are bones and a cute couple taking a nap together*
As the next day comes, the journey continues