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Chapter 17 - Ch 17

"Good morning," I said to myself as I woke up and looked around me, some of the guys were still sleeping but some beds were empty.

As I yawned and stretched my body a bit while leaving the bed, as I glanced at the wall clock.

"8 AM… still an hour till breakfast," I said, mostly to myself.

I turned to my side. Alex was still curled up, sleeping peacefully. His hair was a mess, mouth half open. I smiled a little.

"Sleep while you can, kid."

I slipped off the bed and grabbed my towel and toothbrush, heading down the hall toward the washroom. The stone floor was cold under my feet, and the place still smelled like old soap and damp walls.

When I pushed the door open, I saw Jay already there, brushing his teeth with one hand, leaning against the sink like he hadn't slept at all.

He glanced over at me through the mirror.

"Hey, good morning." He said with a smile as I waved at me.

"Morning," I replied to him with a smile, as I walked up to the sink beside him and turned on the tap before brushing.

"You training today?" Jay asked as he finished brushing as I nodded. "After breakfast, you?" I asked as I sized him up.

Compared to a few years ago, he has changed a lot.

Previously if he wa on a leaner side and now, he is a lot more muscular, and even his height has improved a lot, almost making him look a couple of years older than he really is.

Well, all this is because of the knight training he ho through under his teacher, who is one of the guards in area and is hired to teach kids during his free time... He isn't just any guard though, but a captain too.

"They are running a drill this noon," he said with a sigh, "Damn I hate it, it's so tiring." He said, and even though he said so, he was actually looking forward to it as being a magic swordsman and become a knight was always his dream.

"It seems I will have to carry you back again like last time." I said with a laugh as I walked out with him beside me.

"Naa, I will make sure to save energy to walk back home myself." He said as I just smiled at him before rolling my eyes before I looked at Alex... He was still sleeping.

"Hey. Wake up, sleepyhead." I said while pulling his blanket as he grumbled, pulling the blanket over his face back again.

"It's gonna be breakfast time soon."

He peeked out with one eye open, groaning softly.

"Oh come on," I said, standing up. "Let's not miss all sweets cause we were late again."

Alex slowly sat up, hair looking like a bird's nest as he hurried to the bathroom making me chuckle.

Another day had started.

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We made it to the dining hall just as the last tray of food was being set down. Warm air, the smell of bread and soup in the air and something sweet being cooked... Which made alex visibly brighten up.

Soon, mira waved at us from across the hall, where she was already seated with her tray.

"Over here!" she called us as I waved and walked towards her with Alex.

Jay too arrived soon enough as he sat beside Alex while I had Mira on my right.

"You barely made it," she said, taking a bite of bread. "One more minute and we'll, you would have missed the sweets." she said as the guy on duty put food on our plates too before walking towards other.

"Blame Alex," I said shrugging a bit as Alex just looked away, well he is just a kid so leave it... I thought as Mira just chucked.

I grabbed my spoon and started eating as Mira nudged me lightly with her elbow.

"By the way, I finally got through that flame burst chant."

I raised an eyebrow as I looked at her, "The one that kept exploding in your face?" I said, that was the spell that took her longest till now, almost an year to master.

"Yup." She said as she grinned proudly. "Three clean casts this morning. No burns, no smoke, and nothing on fire. Well, except the target."

"That's great," I said as she nods, "I have now learned Fire Burst, Fire ball, Fire wall and Wind Blade. I can learn one more wind element spell, any suggestions?" She said as I put my hand on my chin.

Since she have High blessing of fire and low of wind, she can learn only two spell of wind element and they aint as strong as her fire so spell so its probably better if they are more of support type than attack or defence.

And so, I suggested her this too as she nods, soon breakfast was over as Mira left in a hurry, probably to her magic instructor to show her achivement and buy to learn a new spell.

Soon after, Jay and Alex too left, for thier drill probably as even though it's around 12, they still gotta prepare early... Life of a knight sure is tough.

Anyways, after they left, I too went back and sat down before I started practicing... Or more like reading and following to be honest.

Since I have already learned Silent steps, silents wind and reflection as well created a spell knowing a Heat Control through some external help as my master instructed me too.

"I only have blessings for Wind, Water and Earth but you, you have fire element too, you can perfect the spell that I never was able to do. Even my invisibility? I was always able to decieve other but fire element users? They were always able to feel my presence somewhat due to my body heat, thats why, I want you to master a spell to control all the heat your body gives out."

Was what master said before leaving and I have already done that... Through it took me a while to master that spell, I indeed did it in the end.

Well, that was the easy part of the homework tho...

"Now, the main part, my inheritance, my hardwork my everything, is in these books, the invisibly was just a by product I created in the end, a failed attempt to master this one spell, they are in this book, I never get a chance to master this because I lack the necessary blessings but you... You have them, so you can do what I failed to do... For now, these spell can be called elemental bombing but once you master it and recieve your second blessing, I will give you the final product, the godly spell I made..."

Remembering those words, I looked at book in my hand, it was thick as my hand and as big as my arm.

A failed attempt to master these spell end up in the best invisibility spell this world have ever seen so one can just imagine how wonderful the original spell can be.

'Master sure is talented,' I thought as I started practicing the spell again...

According to the spell, there are close to a million different pathways points in a body, making up different pathways, which includes organs like heart, liver, to bones, blood even muscles.

Evermy pathway start from brain and went through different point, channeling mana in different way to trigger that unique spell and a basic spell like Fire ball has to go through like 500 mana points before making up that unique pathway.

More complicated spells have more complicated mana points pathway but even then most spells won't more than a few thousand mana points but the spell master left me?

In it is recorded the bold attempt to triger all those mana points!!

What's more, master must have succeeded in this operation because if didn't, he must have blasted himself up.

However, through the spell might sound grand, all it does is discharge all the mana in the body without self harm.

For example, if I attempted this spell with fire element, I will probably burn fiercely, almost as if I am fire spirit which are known to have pure mana body, and it won't bring harm to me which is a good thing.

However, that's it, as I will have to no power to use any other spell as all my mana would already be used to transform such state, and all I could do would be hug my opponent and burn him to death.

'Sign, according to master, once I mastered this spell with all four element, I will get a godly skill... I wonder what that be...' Well, to know that, I have to master this spell in one year cuz that's when I will turn 10.

Fortunately, the spell though complex, has only to be mastered once and repeated with different elemental mana I have as every element change mana in one way or another, so I have to use every attribute to unlock that pathway for that element.

And so, soon... An year went by...

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