After Ray reached the city, he first went home to take a shower, normally he would shower in the river but for obvious reasons he didn't this time.
"Mom, Dad, I am home."
"Oh Ray you are back, come let's do some sword practice together." Aaron gave him a wooden sword, but before the sword fell into Ray's hand it was deflected by a light beam.
"No more training, look at Ray, he is all messed up, what happened?" Lune on the other hand was worried, she knew that Ray always went to practice in the forest but this is the first time he came back all dirty.
"I fell into the mud." Ray looked down as he said that.
"Mud heh?" Lune ofcours knew he was lying but she did not try to ask more, she just give Aaron a glare while point 1 finger up. Aaron was well aware that he would spend the night on the couch.
"Go take a shower and come to eat."
"En."
As Ray went upstairs, Lucy came to the garden. "Ms. Soel, Mr. River, how is your day?"
Both Aaron and Lune turned to see Lucy coming towards them.
"Oh Lucy, when did you come back?" Asked Lune
"Ah Lucy, how was the Magic Academy?" Aaron already saw her in the forest so he knew she would come, all he could hope was that the days on the couch would be as few as possible.
"The academy Is doing great, i apologize for the late visit, I came back last week and was hunting till today." Lucy smiled wryly, Aaron used to teach her before she went to the academy. Even though she is way stronger than him now, she still respects him as one of her teachers.
"No worries, no worries, since you are here, let's spar a bit, I wonder how far you have improved in the last 6 years." Laughing and readying his sword Aaron proposed to spar with Lucy. Lune just released a sigh and didn't even bother with him.
"Mr. River, I would love to spar again sometimes but this time I am here for something else."
"Oh? Do tell." Lune asked, she was curious what Lucy wanted.
"It is about your son, today I found him walking deep into the forest and even came across one of the golden furred worlds that I was hunting, if I was not hunting those beasts today, he would have probably been dead by now."
"WHAT? HE WENT WHERE!? AARON WHAT DID I TELL YOU?" Lune instantly raged at Aaron for he was supposed to check upon him?
"Calm down Lune, he is fine, that is all that matters, but yes. The forest is too dangerous, he will be forbidden from today onwards, thanks for telling us Lucy." Aaron was sweating all over, he now knew he should have told Lucy not to inform Lune. 'such a rookie mistake.'
"Mr. River, may I ask how old your son is?"
"He is 10 already."
"10? Ah, it is almost time for his Mana Ring to manifest then.
"'Yes, we think he would need a few months "
"Uhm, if you don't mind, I can practice with him for until he awakens, this is the least I could do to repay you for the kindness you showed me in the past Mr. River."
"Don't mention that, but indeed you practicing with him would put our mind at ease, but wouldn't that implicate you?" Aaron was very happy, with Lucy, a Magic Academy graduate teaching Ray, even the most basic advice can make a big difference for him.
"It won't, I only need to hunt enough for the daily expenses, I assume the two of you are hunting so much so that you can pay for academy fees?" Lucy asked curiously
"Hahaha, indeed, the academy fees are quite expensive, we should have enough for it in the next month and will send him when he gets his Mana Ring."
"That is true, alright Mr. River, Ms. Soel, I'll have to sell the corpses, tell Ray to come to the city gates 8 in the morning."
"Thank you Lucy." Lune was very happy that Lucy was willing to help.
"Don't mention it Ms. Soel."
After which Lucy bid her farewell and left, leaving a smiling Aaron and a frowning Lune behind.
"Don't be like that, he is fine and now he also has a someone to practice with." Aaron smiled wryly and tried to calm Lune down.
"You think just because everything went alright you can get out of this? I haven't practiced my healing skills for some time, you don't mind using them on you, do you?" Lunes frown turned into a smile while she looked at Aaron, who instantly had cold sweet running down his spine.
"Lune, baby, how about you safe that for tomorrow? We will hunt more, then you can practice it on the magic beasts" Aaron hurriedly shook his hand left and right and took a few steps back.
"Oh, don't worry, we can practice today, tomorrow will be extra." Lune went closer while still having a smile on her face.
"But am not hurt or anything." Aaron tried to reason with her, but to no avail.
"We can fix that too." after which she produced a ball of light in a hand each.
"Baby, Ray will hear us, during the hunt is better!"
"Woosh" "Woosh"
"BOOM" "BOOM"
Aaron could only choose to take her love head on and not resist, an angry mom with magic is not one you wanna go against.
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The next day, Ray was at the gates early in the morning, after waiting for a bit he saw Lucy coming towards him.
"Follow me, we'll be hunting first." He heard her say and for a moment he was confused
"Are you my trainer Ms. Lucy?"
"Lucy is enough, I am not that old for you to call me Ms. Lucy." Lucy just looked him in the eyes and replied.
At which Ray only replied like a kid would.
"Oke Ms. Lucy."
"Lucy". Lucy furrowed he brows, showing her mood
"En." At which Ray just nodded his head.
"We will first need to hunt the quota for the day, after that will be body practice and we'll end the day with some weapon practicing, any objections?"
"None big sis."
"Just Lucy, oke follow me".
"En" nodding his head, he found it very enjoyable to play a bit with Lucy 'she is just like Mile when she was young.' Ray couldn't help but shake his head, the past life was over for him, this is his new one. they both left the gates and into the forest.
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Deep inside the forest, there were sounds of fighting and every few seconds another cry of misery would sound after which there would be one less magic beast inhabiting the forest.
A figure in short pants and a long sleeved shirt was constantly using ice to impale many snake like magic beasts, those beasts are called pain snakes, that is because their bite, while not venomous, is extremely painful even a baby snakes bite hurt so much that you would wish you were dead. Because of that, they are used by many organizations to torture people for information or for their sick hobbies.
Lucy had Ray covered in a transparent ice dome and was shooting many ice made needles at the snakes, each penetrating a head and killing them. There were already about 200 corpses on the ground and about 50 more alive.
Ray's eyes were shining, he was so impressed, it felt like he was in a movie, but he was aware that it was not a movie. he had heard of pain snakes from his father and he knew how dangerous they were, yet Lucy was single handedly wiping more than 250 snakes out.
After about 10 minutes the field was filled with corpses, Lucy went to store the ammunition in her Mana Ring.
"Where did the corpses go big sis?" Ray answered curiously, he had no Mana Ring yet so he was not aware of their functions. It is like an identity card that everyone needs to have to use the government facilities but aside from that he isn't aware of them having any function.
"It is the storage function, it can be bought as an upgrade for the Truth Ring, but those are quite expensive, even the a 10 cubic meter storage will cost you 10.000 Gold, so don't think too much about it, when your mana awakens you will know all of its function." Lucy nonchalantly explained while getting rid of the ice dome surrounding Ray.
"Big sis, is ice your affinity with mana?"
"You could say that, enough questions, I did not expect to find so many, this should be equal to a month of hunting. Let's start with the body practice."
"En." Ray only nodded and started with pushups, by the time Ray completed 20, Lucy was at 500, he body was already very strong, even though she does not look muscular but the muscles can be seen and made her body look perfect. Ray had never such refined and beautiful muscles on a female's or even Male back on earth, She looked like an Battle Angel, truly a beauty without many rivals.
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"That was a good warm up, no wonder your stamina is so high." Lucy was completely relaxed, Ray on the other hand was sweating all over and his admiration for Lucy grow more than ever. Lucy was also very surprised, while Ray was weak, to be able to achieve all that without using mana was very impressive.
It took 2 hours for Ray to finish the routine but Lucy did about a 100 times more and she just called it a good warm up.
"Let's go to the training facility in the city."
"En"