Author's Note

There is not much action here, it is more than anything an explanation of magic

5- Magic for fools

Two shadows moved between the branches of the trees, both in perfect synchronicity and without making the slightest noise, their march continued without rest until they detected movement, only a glance was needed and both shadows moved into a large bush, where they waited to pass his possible target

Minutes passed and on the cleared ground in front of them a large…rabbit appeared.

"Shit!" The sudden cry scared away the poor animal that was only looking for a good place for its burrow " Shh , we are supposed to be tracking, if you continue with your complaints you will let everyone know where we are" His companion just rolled his eyes without looking away from him “Tracking what exactly? Are you seriously going to tell me that the timberwolves are worth wasting my time on ? They're just a bunch of brainless sticks."

His partner just gave a tired sigh "That 'bunch of sticks' defeated the princess's student and in case you haven't noticed this is the first recorded timberwolf attack in Equestrian history. "

“Great thing, we both know that the unicorns of Canterlot , despite how much they presume their great magic, hopefully they know the simplest of combat spells and as for the wolves, what does it matter? Except for a few injured ponies the wolves immediately went back to the forest and even if they had stayed we would have torn them to pieces just like in training.

As much as it bothered him that his fledgling partner was showing some seriousness about his current task, he had to admit that some of his views had validity, ponies weren't like thestrals , they rarely fought even in self-defense, let alone the thestrals. timberwolf , they were so easy to destroy that they were used regularly to train novices or at least they did it on the night watch... that last thought made him realize something strange "Hey novice, how long did it take you on your first hunt?"

Although he was surprised by the sudden question when he saw the seriousness in his superior's eyes, it didn't take him long to answer "I think it was about... thirty minutes if I remember correctly and it was raining" his partner continued with a thoughtful look until he decided to share his discoveries “It's been almost a week and we haven't found a trace of timberwolves ”

"What are you implying?" The rookie began to understand where his partner's thoughts were heading, his group had not been the only one sent to the Everfree , there were a few dozen, but as far as he knew none had been lucky the timberwolves had simply disappeared

"Before they were the most common species in the Everfree and now they only leave overnight, don't you think it's suspicious?" The rookie was beginning to despair "That's good I know you're thinking about something tell me"

His partner gave him a smug smile "Rumors have started to spread of a dark magic user who can control timberwolves. " The newbie's eyes widened as his ears stuck to his neck. things were eradicated by the princesses even before Princess Luna's banishment and if there were any they would have sent more than just a few groups of guards, an entire battalion would have come to clean up the forest!”

His partner nodded. “If they had, but to do so would be to admit that the stories were wrong and there might still be some out there, so they won't do anything that drastic, or at least they won't until they're sure it's true. TRUE"

"Y-you're not saying what I s - I think you're saying, Princess Luna would never use us as bait!" The rookie was trembling and looking around as if he was suddenly surrounded by a herd of chimeras, so scared that he didn't notice the confusion on his partner's face “Didn't you hear? We are not here on the orders of Princess Luna, you know very well that if she found out about the possible existence of a being like that, she would be the first in line to confront him."

"WHAT? Who ordered us to do this then?” Although the main commander of the night watch was Princess Luna they were technically no different from the sun guard so anypony of a high enough rank could command them even though it rarely happened, no noble would want to bother asking the hideous thestrals for help when they had a respectable and brilliant sun guard to fulfill their every whim

"Prince Blueblood " Of all the names he could have heard that was without a doubt the worst "AAHHHH" The poor rookie took off at maximum speed to the nearest exit of the forest without noticing his partner who was chasing him barely containing his laughter and the strange bird made of twigs and leaves which camouflaged itself so well with the environment that no one realized that it was already the third time that night that they ran into one of those.

In the deepest area of a cave and so dark because no ray of the sun asked to go so deep was a figure that was constantly banging his head against the wall constantly repeating 'idiot' to himself

"Idiot- ouch!" I stopped after what I think was the sixth hit against the wall, at this point the headache was starting to affect me, how could I be so dumb? Obviously, if the most common predatory species disappears in an ecosystem, it would be noticeable. I stopped for a second to take a deep breath and calm down, then I started to look through some books, something that thestral said caught my attention

After the disaster in the town, name I refuse to mention, I went back to Zecora and explained what had happened, at first I was a little confused that the ponies could do something like that, then she told me how the ponies of that town were, she told me how kind they were what they seemed like and that I had never seen them act evil until I asked her why they attacked me and she did not know what to answer, it was there that I found out that she had never really met the inhabitants of the town she only went shopping, but always As she went there didn't seem to be anyone to attend to her, the face she made when I made her realize that the ponies were actually avoiding her, and the things I had heard the ponies say while they were throwing stones at me... I didn't feel bad about it anymore. had done in the village even if my body has something to do with it I don't care

The next day I decided to go back to the caves and get to work. I was a little worried about Zecora , but she told me that she would be fine since no one knows this forest like she does and that no one knew the whereabouts of her house, even so, I left a few fifty modified Timberwolf under the guise of helping her as her servants so I ordered them to follow any order given by her and distort the dirt road that passed too close to her house for me to feel comfortable

After that as soon as I got to the caves I got to work, I realized how lazy I had been since I came to this world, but now I had no excuse, I had almost a hundred books waiting to give me their knowledge so that he should make the most of it

I dedicated this week to doing my best and not only me but also my timberwolves . I created a new type called drone which is shaped like a bird and is mostly made of leaves which makes it very weak and slower than normal birds, but that's not what matters since I discovered that timberwolves they can communicate with each other as a kind of hive mind, that is why they have not been seen while collecting materials from the forest, my drones have much of the forest mapped in real time so my wolves know immediately what areas to avoid and in which there are more resources, as for my golems , I modified them a bit so that they could mine better, I made them bipedal, their arms were changed by sharp stakes similar to those of pickaxes, in addition to giving them an extra pair that served as shovels and I made more of them which resulted in his mining speed increasing to the point where he had to create more just for them to support

For my part I have been studying... I know it doesn't sound like much, but it is really important and I must add that for the first time in my life I have had fun studying, magic is fascinating and so far I have discovered that it is divided into three types : racial magic, common magic and spells

Racial is how the body naturally processes and releases magic like pegasus flight magic , dragon flames or mine, basically it depends on your race

The common is something that anyone can do, things like alchemy, transmutation, forging, etc, an example of this would be Zecora

And finally the spells the rarest ability and that only a handful of races possess thanks to a unique organ, the horn, thanks to this which is directly connected to the brain it is possible to release the magic within us with a specific command using runes which when mixed with environmental magic result in spells

I have been studying many spells as well as doing exercises that increase my amount of magic available, luckily my wolves prioritized magic and history books which only makes me wonder if they are as clumsy as they seem since I didn't give them that order, but now I had something else in mind

"Dark magic" I read the title of the book I was looking for and immediately started reading ' Dark magic one of the prohibited branches and therefore one of the least information is known, of the little that is known is that this magic it is mainly driven by negative emotions and its abilities are mainly focused on offensive magic and torture, its biggest flaw is that it has a habit of corrupting its user's mind driving them insane. Luckily the princess has confirmed the elimination of all schools and studies of this branch of sorcery more than a thousand years ago so you don't have to worry that...' The rest was just historical information that basically just repeated the 'dark magic is bad'

“Negative emotions, offense and torture… yes it definitely fits” I wasn't stupid, I had realized what this body was doing to my mind on the first day, what I didn't realize was that this seemed to aggravate over time I think I'll talk to Zecora about this, maybe she can do something to help me

Anyway that was only part of what interested me now 'offensive magic' these books had many useful spells, but there was nothing about combat magic only a few mentions, even so thanks to your explanations I understood that I would need them, the combat spells were specialized so they took advantage of all the energy to the maximum even in things that I thought were simple like the launch of the lightning bolts, in short I could do much more with much less, like the difference between throwing a stone with my hands and using a wave

But I didn't want to waste my time rediscovering the wheel to create something that would undoubtedly be inferior to any modern spell, instead looking for a target one that had all the spells I needed and could learn the best way to create my own.

Canterlot Royal Library , I needed to go to Canterlot , I needed to steal from the princesses