Turning around, Fejiro noticed a familiar. slightly tall young girl with a long sword which was green in colour like an emerald.
It was Sprite.
"What do you want?" Fejiro said feeling a little bit troubled.
"You made a big mistake coming back here. You think I had forgotten how you humiliated me?" Sprite sounded quite angrily.
Pretending not to know her Fejiro tilted his head and said;
"Do I know you?"
This came as a shock to Sprite as she didn't believe that he had forgotten about her so easily.
"Don't act foolish, I know you remember me so stop with this act."
"Oh right!" Fejiro said pretending to suddenly remember her.
"Last time I remember that I beat you fair and square, does that mean you now accept me as your boyfriend or do you want a rematch." He said this to stop her from continuing.
She simply made angry noises and left with her followers.
Fejiro then turned around and returned to the lesson that had started.
In the open field were several training equipment. There were several wooden dummies against whom the students could practice against testing their fighting styles.
There were also multiple targets mostly for those who focused more on range attacks.
The students then moved around and formed a circle around their teacher for this class, Mr. Raphael.
"Now I would like to say welcome everyone to this second year." Mr. Raphael began.
"Now before we begin I would like to say that the is your last year here and whatever results you showcase will go a long way to enable a peaceful life and become a powerful warrior. As you all know there is a treaty between the five realms but it is a forced peace, the chances of a war breaking out any time soon is very much possible. We must all try our best to become stronger and increase the strength of our realm, after all it would be ironic if the Realm of Power had weak soldiers. Am I right?" He said finally.
The students then nodded their heads, most took his advice strongly while some of the others simply ignored it.
But out of those who felt the weight of the words, one held on to it the most. And that was Fejiro, he too wanted to get stronger, he wanted to protect the only one he cared about and contribute to his realm in any way.
He also felt like his teacher was a honest man who believe in justice and equality. In the eyes of Fejiro he was much better than the other teacher.
"Alright let us get started with some simple target practice." He said as he signaled a student.
The student then brought over several wooden dummies with their vital points marked out in red.
"Ok the goal of this exercise is to consolidate your energy into a blast and aim to attack the dummy at it's vital spots. This is to help you with your energy control and also enable you to target one's vital areas. So do we have any volunteers?"
Fejiro hated this part of the training as it would require him to use his energy for attacks and he had very little to begin with.
A few minutes passed as students one by one took turns to attack the dummy. Every time a noticable damage was made, it would immediately be switched for another.
As Sprite came up, she positioned one of her hands towards her side and a few moments later, a green ball of energy appeared.
It was quite considerable in size resembling that of a large pebble. It twisted as if it was rotating and was quite bright.
She then moved her hand forward releasing the ball of light which moved with a steady stream of light.
It was aimed for the chest and it caused a dent in the dummy going almost half the way through it.
"That was a very good shot. Who is next?"
As Sprite walked to the group, Fejiro walked out nervously. Almost immediately, all the students started to murmur.
"What is he doing?"
"Why did he bother showing his face?"
"I know, he is just too weak to perform that attack."
The class continued but Fejiro looked like this didn't affect him but deep down he was hurt. And it seems Mr. Raphael saw this.
"Quiet down, everyone deserves a chance to show what they are made of." Mr. Raphael said thus stopping the murmurs.
Fejiro then stood in front of the dummy and very slowly moved one hand over another with a space between them.
Then slowly, he moved his hands to his right side of his body with his legs apart.
'Ok, I can do this.' He thought.
He then began to initiate his technique. From afar nothing was seen between his palms but on closer inspection one could see a faint red light ball struggling to stay lit.
Then quickly moving his arms forward, he released all of the strength he could muster. Only a tiny red line could be seen and it moved only a few meters stopping far away from the dummy.
Almost immediately the whole class burst into an uncontrollable laughter that even Mr. Raphael loud words could not stop them.
"Ha ha ha "
"Did you see that, that attack was so pathetic."
"I knew he was weak but I could have not imagined anyone this terrible."
The students began to mock him. Deep down within his mind he was disheartened. Even the person he saved last year also joined in the mockery.
'Is this it for me? Is this all I am capable of doing? For as long as can be remembered my family has always been weak and I turned out to be the weakest of them all. Will this be my legacy? No! I can't let this be it, not until I have given everything thing I've got.'
As he thought of this, he stood in his former stance with his hands by his side. This surprised the students and even the teacher was shocked.
Beginning his attack, the same weak red ball of light was seen.
"This is not enough, I need more, I have to be the try harder."
As he said this to himself, the strange energy stone around his neck started to glow two distinct colors with the outer layer emitting a red glow while the core glowed a little bit of golden colour.
Everyone was shocked seeing this. In their minds, they wondered why he wanted to try and break the stone at that point in time. The truth was Fejiro himself wasn't trying to break the stone and was wondering why it started glowing all of a sudden.
As he thought, he could see energy from the stone enter into his body and he could feel it too. And soon a reddish aura enveloped him and at his palms a golden energy ball started to grow in size as the ground began to shatter beneath him due to the shear weight of the power.
Feeling this abnormal pressure, he had no choice, he released it towards the dummy with all his strength. Words could not describe the sight being witnessed.....