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Chapter 5 - Chapter 5 "Weak"

I emptied my soul out of magic energy and emitted it in the environment. Then I started to collect it again from the environment. I only gathered 25% of my capacity. But Lady Puncella was able to gather 120% out of the surroundings! That's on a totally different level! I need to make achievements to prove her my worth! At that time I couldn't know, but 25% would normally achieved after a year or two by training this method. Lady Puncella took it 3 Years herself! But how was I supposed to know that I was a genius? I didn't have any comparison. Furthermore I couldn't guess what she was thinking at that time. She then responded rude to me like this:' Ereadim, what the hell are you? Just 25%? Yes 25% only? At my first try I had 39%! How are you expecting that I will teach you with that worthless talent of yours? Is should leave you be'. Then she walked away from me and showed herself not so soon again. But in that time I needed to train. As hard as I could. As fast as I could. And even far beyond my limits. And far beyond what was good for me. I trained and trained again. This state of gellish training shouldn't end for me so soon. After 2 weeks I was used to the hellsih training of hell. At the beginning of sunset I rested till sunrise and continued. It didn't matter how big my achievements during the day was. After all I would do the same thing and with the growth of my capacity advancing was also slower than before. After 2 and a half week I was able to gather 38% again after emitting 100%.

Normally that would be totally impossible and impressive if that would be done. But that was different for me and my case. I needed to impress Lady as hard as I could. And after I was able to gather 40% there was a hurdle for me. It could be compared to a wall. This wall could only be overcome by climbing, but for me it was 200 ft. (roughly 61m) tall. And every time I did a wrong thing I was again on the ground. Even holding on the wall was difficult in its own way! This picture in mind helped me to concentrate. I focused on my breathing, my body and my blood. All of it was fake but I made it in my head real. I needed it as real as I could to feel comfortable after all. In this state of 'body creating' I started to feel my bones. My inner organs. Heart. Liver. Stomach. Large and small insestine. Pancreas. Teeth. Skull. Brain. Nerve and blood vessels. It was clear in my head. I couldn't just feel it. It was like I was them myself but in the same time not. It was a strange feeling which should not be felt so soon again. After focusing on the body I focused on the environment. The air I was breathing I could feel it directly. The smell of grass and dirt. It was very hard to not focus on them. The sky and the energy, which seemed endless, it was emitting. I could focus and sense everything surrounding me. And then I started to gather the energy from them. I couldn't sense how much it was but I felt powerful. It was around 50-55%.

After one and a half week Lady Puncella showed herself to me again. It was finally the time to shine. The advancement I made in a month! But the feeling I had around ten days before I could not feel it again. But she poked at me and asked directly:' How much?'. I was stunned by how directly she was asking me. The only thing I could do was to sound confident but how can you sound confident when you aren't? I was trying to impress her,but what if she wasn't the least bit impressed? If she was just mad at me for being weak? My own weakness...

I couldn't stand it! Threrefore I tried to sound convinced but Lady knew I wasn't. After one or two minutes I responded:' I managed to get to 50-55% roughly. Forgive this humble student of yours for not being able to evaluate himself to a better degree.' I said. She had a complete poker face so I had no chance to guess what she was thinking now! I mean how am I supposed to know that? Of course my survival was here at stake but at the end of the day I would most likely be killed.

I had the 'small puppy which was asking a favor' look on my face and started to even make puppy sounds. Lady Puncella became somewhat furious and I had no choice but to cry like a small child. She then patted on my head and I got the feeling that she was a real caring woman. Atop of that she was now looking really smooth compared to a month before. Before I knew it myself I was already on her lap. She was still patting me and I forgot all the strong feelings I felt this long 4 weeks. Everything was starting to feel so heavy all of a sudden. But I could feel a gaze of admire on me which made me feel really good. As time flew by I happened to be awake and thus wanted to apologize. Soon Lady already knew and just raised a hand. But when I was asleep she changed her appearance completely! She was now a beautiful woman who was around 30 years old or so. She had sharp eyes but a gentle look which made them smooth as water and the childish green was now a polished emerald in her eyes. Her hair remained me more of gold than hair. Without a doubt she matured much when I was training the past month. Also she was talking now friendlier and more polite to me than before. I could tell because before my eyes shut she said in a gentle way which she never had done before to me:' Rest well little boy! It must be tiring, right? Rest as much as you want.'. I was now curios about the woman who was supposed to be the same as the rude little girl. I wanted to talk about that but she was still one way of me ahead. She began like this:' I already know what you are thinking. My Master Special Ability is reading thoughts. So I knew all along what you were thinking. The reason why I wanted to fuse with you was because to cure myself. I was sick from a super rare disease. It sucks the life energy of spirits dry. It's called 'Nerver ending Life ender' . But that is the name spirit's around here give it. It's real name is also known as 'Life absorption'. I was in the appearance of myself as a little girl because I was on the verge of death. When you collected parts of the magic of the environment before that I sucked lots of your magic dry. That's why you couldn't start properly at the beginning. And now of course I won't fuse with you. Please forgive your foolish Master for being so rude as to make trading for her disciple in the first steps harder'. When I heard this I was completely overwhelmed. She won't kill me! It must be because I impreeswd her. I was proud of myself but I couldn't guess what has yet to come. But before any more thoughts would start corrupting my mind I said as fast as I could:' Master I'm thankful that I could be of help. Also that I'm allowed to be your desciple. If not for that hard start I would not know where I were now. And lastly I thank you from the bottom of my heart to accept me instead of using me to fuse'. The moment these words left my lips I could feel a lot better. Finally I met my doom and survived it! And now Master Puncella would be really teaching me! How can I be not blessed with such luck?