Chapter 7
After an hour, he broke through to the second stage.
His Mana regeneration and Mana capacity are now a level higher.
To train your casting speed you need to practice a spell of your choice and for some time you're gonna get used to it and you will be faster in casting.
His daily training in the morning is a level higher.
He stretches for several minutes and he jogged for another hour.
He doubled his weights and did his basic exercises like hopping, push-ups, sits ups, curls ups, jabs and kicks, side steps, and heavy lifting.
He also practiced thumping the anvil with his two hammers for several minutes.
He rests and cast minor heal and thumping again.
This rigorous training helped him to form his muscles and he is quite muscular despite his age.
After thumping he ran for warm-up then sprinted to test how long he can last.
His sweat glands perspired heavily as he runs for thirty minutes.
He gasped air while he jogged to cool down.
He then rested and went upstairs to study his book in his weapon conjuration.
He tried to conjure boomerang and for a minute, he grasped the fundamentals and was successful in conjuring one.
In advance cases, there are also conjuring swords, daggers, axe, hammers, and protections.
There are also bows and arrows.
He tested his throwing skills in the forest and emitted beast aura.
He noticed that beast aura is heightening his senses and reaction speed making him see at the dark like it's daytime.
He placed exes in the trees on his targets and practiced sneaking then surprise throwing mid-air while moving in fast speed.
Of course, it's his first try so all of them missed the mark.
Stephen got bored and let h.e.l.ltooth appeared from his shadow.
Ok, let's play catch! Stephen conjured a boomerang and let h.e.l.ltooth catch it from afar.
Stephen then thought an exercise for him, and for h.e.l.ltooth's exercise, he throws the boomerang he holds and let h.e.l.ltooth give it a chase.
h.e.l.ltooth was confused for a while but guessed to the trajectory of the boomerang later on.
They continued like this and Stephen enjoyed the fun, they rest until the first streaks of light appeared.
They watched together the sunrise and then Stephen realized that he has maintained h.e.l.ltooth for an hour! His Mana regeneration can cope up with h.e.l.ltooth's required Mana consumption!
He smiled and he joyfully hugged him as he says "I did it! I did it! woohoo!" he shouted and shouted.
Stephen let h.e.l.ltooth to the house and her mom was amazed.
He hurriedly takes a warm bath prepared by his mother and take on the towel then wiped himself.
He takes on his uniform and then puts his pair of weights on his legs underneath.
He felt so refreshed after taking a warm bath and his body feels light.
"Honey I'm going to go back to work!", his father said to his mom.
"Good luck dear and be safe always," Isabella said with a kiss.
Stephen felt curious and disgusted for always watching those things.
Stephen said goodbye to his father and his father said that he will be safe then his father whispered, "you're getting good with your practice in the woods"
Stephen was shocked as he realized that he was watched by his father secretly in the woods.
"Promise I will train harder!", Stephen said.
"That's my boy!", Douglas was touched by his son's hard work and he held his son with pride.
They said their goodbyes and Stephen went to school after eating breakfast.
He met his cla.s.smates and they are gossiping that today they will know their elemental affinity.
The first affinity is given by birth and his second and third affinity will only be awakened in due time.
There are also job acquired skills that are only acquired by training from masters, for example, is the [marksmans.h.i.+p] of rangers and the [s.h.i.+eld bash] of the protector knights.
The cla.s.s is displaying an exciting mood for the others who didn't know their affinity yet.
Stephen is excited but he didn't know his affinity yet.
Sir Herbert Graham entered the room while carrying a ball of gla.s.s.
"Good morning cla.s.s and today I brought you the element identifier."
"It displays the color of your element. Red for fire, blue for water, white for wind, brown for earth, yellow for electric, green for nature, bright light for holy, dark for shadow and misty white for the spirit."
Now as I call on your name you stand up and touch the element identifier.
They are called one by one according to their family name and Stella was the first to be called out of the three.
She stepped in the front of the ball and touched it.
After her hands and the ball touched each other and the ball glow in a bright green color.
"A nature element! as expected of a druid! Next Stephen Burg!", Stella went back to her seat and Stephen stand up to go to the desk.
Patrick cheered Stephen as he walked to the desk of Sir Herbert Graham.
"Put your hands to the ball", he said and when Stephen put it to the ball, it glowed with white light.
"You're a holy element!", the teacher said
Patrick still cheered him but other students smiled with disdain looking at him with scornful eyes.
"The weakest element!"
"h.e.l.lo, Mr. support guy! heal me with your powers!"
The n.o.bles said to him but he didn't mind it.
"Hey who said that! stand at the back."
No one answered and the room was quiet.
No one wants to have problems with those n.o.bles. "It's okay sir they're just joking", Stephen answered
"Are you sure?"
"Yes, sir.", Stephen replied.
He knows better than anyone how his powers work.
Patrick then went to Stephen and said "Are you okay? I'm gonna beat the c.r.a.p out of them."
"I'm fine they're just joking", Stephen said as he Patted him.
Patrick returned to his seat and is not contented with his reply.
The cla.s.s continued on but Stephen is worried.
He never thought that the holy affinity cla.s.s is more on support and has a little offense.
He waited until it was Patrick's turn and Patrick Stand up to determine what is his affinity.
He touched the ball and it was electric.
An electric element was the fiercest and the fastest while fire has damage per second and has explosive damage.
It was a super offensive affinity with tremendous damage.
Worthy for damage dealers and a.s.sists.
"He's a genius! a prodigy!"
Some girls have taken a liking to him because he is a kind-hearted n.o.ble and now he is an electric cla.s.s!
He is also a person with good looks. In other words, he is on the top of the hierarchy.
"An electric affinity student! you have a bright future ahead of you child", Sir Herbert said with a smile.
Stephen greeted him and he said, "wow imagine you are an electric cla.s.s you can fight any enemies with the powers you can save me in times of trouble Mr. knight and s.h.i.+ning armor, being a weak and fragile healer like me, you can easily save me!" Stephen laughed and Patrick is embarra.s.sed.
"h.e.l.l no! like I'm gonna save your b.u.t.t! I know your father is a fighter and he thought you how to fight."
"You can even fight me without offensive magic and even save numerous people".
"You're indispensable when it comes to the survival of the team".
"You're special because you're the only holy cla.s.s in our room."
"Such a person is the weakest inoffensive but is the greatest in survival."
"Don't say that you're weak or I'm gonna beat the c.r.a.p out of you!", Patrick said to him
Then Stephen said "Oh I'm touched but still I'm gonna beat you
Patrick let Stephen enjoy for the meantime to forget being humiliated and the time pa.s.sed without a trace.
In the afternoon cla.s.s, we went outside to the playground and there stood Sir Ernstine in the center of the big circle he draws.
He called the attention of his students and let them gather around the circle and let out an announcement.
He is holding a sword that he trusted to the ground and standing firmly.
"Everyone will have a sparring match for this afternoon against me."
"Everyone will train one by one with no weapon combat and basic swords combat"
"All must learn at least basic combat to strengthen the body and mind"
"By enhancing the body you will have longer stamina and last longer in the battle."
"Now let's start! who's gonna go first?", he said with an intimidating voice
The students were silent and they're somewhat unconfident with their talent to land a hit to their teacher, how much more to defeat him!
"Okay if no one's gonna volunteer then I'm the one who's gonna choose."
"Stephen Burg step forward!"
"Huh me sir?", Stephen was dumbfounded.
Stephen was nervous about confronting an ex-captain but he has confidence in his abilities.
The problem is he lacked actual battle experience because he didn't spar with his father for a long time and is only training in seclusion.
Stephen stepped forward and he was teased again by those three n.o.bles.
"His affinity is for weaklings he will be a thrash supporter until he dies", One of them said.
Stephen was annoyed at what they said but his confidence didn't waver.
Thus he is looking forward to the fight.
Sir Einstein lifted the sword and throw it to Stephen.
He draws his own practice sword and then made his fighting stance.
Stephen takes the sword and then take a stance.
This time he will know how far his training will get him.
"Go, Stephen! show him what you've trained for!", Patrick shouted as he cheered on Stephen.
Stephen, I'm rooting on you! Stella added.
"Hey Holy support guy don't forget to heal your face after you're beaten up."
"Ahahahahaha!!"
The three n.o.bles booed at him.
Stephen has one chance to prove that he is strong despite being support, he wants to prove it to the ones who are looking down on him.
"Okay the first rule is to show me with all you've got and not to step out of the line that's all for the instructions", Sir Ernstine instructed.
He watched Sir Ernstine with a murderous look and attacked.
Stephen sprinted to sir Ernstine and then paused halfway to make a vertical slash.
Their blades clashed with a bang as Sir Ernstine blocked it and make it slide in the instance.
"Such a force of a kid! If I didn't Parry it at the last moment my knees will bend itself because of the force", Sir Ernstine said in excitement.
After Sir Ernstine parried it, Stephen turned and kicked him with a roundhouse kick.
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Sir Ernstine was thrown away for several steps.
Stephen then closes the distance and punched him at the stomach but this time it has no effect.
"Are you underestimating me?", his sir said
"No sir it's just you're not attacking", Stephen said.
Sir Ernstine smiled the audience was shocked at the moment.
They're like on equal grounds!
Stephen stepped back and he holds his sword horizontally near his face.
He runs again a bit faster than before and slashed but sir Ernstine evaded.
Sir Ernstine slash him from his back but he repelled it on the last moments then he slide it with a combination of a reverse sweep.
Sir Ernstine stumbled because of the force he applied in his last attack and it backlashed, making his momentum irreversible.
His body smashed the ground and Stephen made an axe kick, then sir Maldous dodged making Stephen's kick land to the ground.
He rolled and he stands up nimbly. Stephen let out an uppercut but he received it with his hands gripping it with whole force.
Stephen kicked Ernstine's chest to release him from his grip and then they gained distance.
Stephen executed a slanted slash but sir Ernstine ducked and evaded making a counter.
Sir Ernstine successfully landed a hit on Stephen's stomach and Stephen was knocked outside the line.
"You're out loser," said the one who is behind his back.
After Stephen turned it was one of the n.o.ble called Peter, standing beside him is Alan who is also a c.o.c.ky n.o.ble and behind him is John.
Stephen didn't mind them at first but now he actually remembered their faces.
Stephen stands up and bowed to mister Ernstine and said: "Thank you for your guidance".
"Look the loser is being thankful to the one who thrashed him", Peter whispered to Alan but Stephen heard it loud and clear.
He then turned around and walk outside the crowd.
Patrick then finds him and he saw him outside.
"You have improved greatly in these past few years!"
"Who thought that you can stand against him for a minute!", Patrick said to him
"No it's not yet pa.s.sable, I still need to have actual battle experience", Stephen said in disagreement.
"Wow, that was great! you actually made him pushed back!", Stella said joyfully.
"Do you know those other students are amazed by your performance!", so cheer up a bit.
After a second, the second student Sir Ernstine dueled was thrown out of the ring.
"See told you!", Stella said as she pointed out the student.
"Well let me try out next", Patrick tried and then thrown out again in a minute but he put out a fight.
He is clas.h.i.+ng with his sword and he is able to land a hit with sir Ernstine.
They continued clas.h.i.+ng with their swords until Sir kicked him off guard and he's thrown outside.
"He's so strong! His attacks are heavier than I thought", Patrick said in shock.
He cleaned his s.h.i.+rt full of dirt and they watched it again for Stella.
Stella was knocked out easily because it's not her style to use swords but she displayed great hand to hand combat.
She landed several hits with her hands but Sir Ernstine has strong blows making her hurt even she blocked it.
The show did continued on but they were thrashed easily with their teacher.
The n.o.bles were disappointed but they were happy that Stephen, the holy affinity guy lost too.
For them, he is a weakling that is considered as support because holy affinities are supporters in the beginning and have difficulty in progressing later on.
Little did they know the true capacity of his cla.s.s because not many in the history became a master except one, but he is rumored to die in battle after blocking the horde at Tirad pa.s.s by his team singlehandedly.
He is called General Frank Williams the general who is called the hero of the new generation.
He is the reason why the Almaria kingdom still exists.
The general with only one team but composed of the legendary team members.
The cla.s.s ended and the top student that excelled will have a high score in this subject.
Stephen was nervous but he knows it's not him.
He crossed his arms and watched the sky thinking on what will he do next in the future.
"And the one who excelled is Patrick Wallace! let's give a clap to our hands!", Sir gave his announcement
Stephen was silent because he failed to prove that he is strong enough to defeat his teacher, but he is contented because he displayed his best today he thought to himself.
Stephen was glad that he at least know now the result of his training and his hard work.
"And for the other one who pushed me to this extent, I know that you will be great someday", Sir Maldous winked at Stephen and he said "You've impressed me"
Without many words, he ended his speech and dismissed the cla.s.s.
The cla.s.s ended and Stephen cast [minor heal] to Patrick and Stella.
They were amazed that holy magic can heal light wounds and bruises, even the pain is gone!
Now Patrick realized that his friend is like a treasure in a party and said that he has to train more his healing capabilities so that he can heal more persons.
After the cla.s.s, he went home and see Hanna and Patrick bonding together at the canteen with Stella.
Stephen didn't show up to them and he hurriedly went home.
Stephen realized that his path will be hard to walk to but he recovered afterward after Patrick encouraged him.
He needs to be stronger fast.
He jogged towards home and conjured throwing knives to improve his casting speed.
He arrived at the home and his casting speed is now faster.
He can now conjure two from his two hands but has to train more his throwing speed.
He went to the forest again and practiced and practiced for an hour. His throws are now more accurate and faster and his movement is now more nimble.
After his dagger throws practice he makes a wooden dummy and then practiced sneaking in the forest and make surprise attacks like striking the head with a practice dagger.
He let out his attacks coming from the burden in his heart and poured out his feelings to every strike that comes from the frustration in his heart that day.
After venting his frustration to the dummy, he went home and saw that his Uncle Mark and Isabella is talking.
"Stephen your uncle will leave after a few days to attend some village business and to report to his father of your progress", Isabella said to him
"Yes Mom", Stephen replied to her.
"Okay I will leave but I will come back later on"
" I have thought you the basics and even exceeded my expectations."
"Breakthrough your limits and practice your transformation first."
"Try to be a good boy because a good Lycan is a good boy", Mark said with a dignified look looking at him with seriousness.
"Okay, I will be a good boy!", Stephen agreed.
"Now I will go!", Mark left hurriedly and didn't look back.
"Mom let me help prepare dinner!", Stephen said to her mom.
Okay son but change your sweaty s.h.i.+rt first.
Stephen went upstairs and changed his clothes and helped her mom prepare chicken adobo and he cooked rice after slicing the chicken.
Her mom cooked it and they ate together.
After the meal, Stephen washed the dishes and take a toothbrush before going to bed.
This time he devotes his time to conjure a katana.
He first imagines the picture in his book but he has a hard time making it.
As expected of a second-tier conjuration, but I will definitely know the secret to it.
He closed the book and tries to expand his Mana capacity and to cultivate his Mana regeneration.
He continued for an entire night and he fell asleep afterward without even knowing it.