After that I started practicing with wind magic instead. I thought it'd still be just as dangerous because my default spell was wind blades which were pretty good at cutting, but apparently wind magic was inert by nature and needed special rhythms to turn dangerous, whereas dark magic was more or less the opposite.
Thus all I had to do was remove the pulse patterns of the spell the system taught me, and just focus on the channeling of the mana through my mana veins. Though it was rather challenging at first to learn the alternative way of converting my non-elemental mana.
Darkness magic had a cold, chilly feeling like a breeze running through a graveyard. Wind magic was more like the refreshing, but wild scent of spring. Learning to convert my mana to the first was easy, because I was just following the system's directions and didn't really have to think about it much.
