On the day following my visit to Professor Liv's office, I began to feel a new sensation in my core.
During Professor Hank's class I asked him about the 'itch ' that I felt in my core.
"Well, you should be close to advancing to the middle stage of the black core, that's a good thing, but I advise that in the next few days you don't exhaust your core's mana and spend your time strengthening its walls and spend just a little of time nurturing the elementary seed more without using external resources in cultivation. "
"Making your advance this way has the best chance of avoiding an unstable advance, in reality it may even end up having the effects of strengthening your base remember the more prepared you are in a bigger advance and the chance of success."
"Thank you teacher."
With the advice of Professor Hank I will spend my free time strengthening the walls of my nucleus, although this is a minor advance since my nucleus will not change color I am still nervous since it is my first time going through this.
It took me not even half a year to have my progress I think I can reach the peak of the black core before giving a year of cultivation and a good speed is not at the level of a genius but still above average, but I will have to find a way to speed up my cultivation.
I spent the next few days quietly yet I was not the target of retaliation for my duel with the idiot but I realized that I am being followed by three different people being two students and an employee the employee can give me a problem since he has a gray core and has the best chance to screw me up using some institute rule or protocol .
My friendship with the brothers has improved, now I got used to the gossip that Erick is. Sten has been talking to me more, the subjects covered are about runes and the endless list of magical materials used mainly in equipment.
I tried to approach Ingredi since we have more than one class together but I only managed to have a cordial relationship with a classmate with him, basically she responds when the length of our conversation ends, her sister looks at me like a predator looking at something I wonder how much more time I have until she challenges me.
I feel Hilda trying to analyze my skills during class but I think she is just waiting for me to advance my cultivation since she is in the middle stage of the black core it would be dishonorable for her to challenge me to a duel before that, that's what Erick said to me .
I have had some improvements in my elemental control I can already strengthen my body with the strength attribute of the fire element for an entire hour although it will decrease after reaching half an hour of constant use. My wind element I managed to create a more sinuous wind flow around my body the next step and create two wind flows at the same time without hitting each other, I don't know why more my wind element is progressing faster than fire .
During my advanced combat class I spent boxing with Hilda alternating over my elementary coat during the fight I was at a disadvantage when I used my fire element against her water element but in the fight for both of us using the wind element I ended up gaining an advantage against my movements were faster and more flexible than hers.
This earned me a fierce competition look from Hilda I thought she was going to challenge me to a duel when the class ended, but I underestimated her patience only won an polite answer about the training well done.
After the end of the class I went to the teacher and told him that my progress is close and if he had any tips or warnings to give me since he is a warrior with several elements coexisting in his elementary seed.
"Well, I have some differences in the advance when you have more than one element the main difference between the advance of a warrior with an elementary seed and an element for one who has more than one is that during the advance the elements will become more active in their elementary seed if more than one element may conflict with each other the more balanced they are less likely to cause damage to their seed or their nucleus and if they have an opposite nature the chance is even less since the moment they they would collide has a greater chance that his forces will cancel each other out. "
"When one element strengthens the other it can happen during the advance that they unite in a way that can generate instability in your case the wind strengthens the fire so you must take care that their unity does not become unstable, you can train by manipulating the your wind and fire element out of your body and then trying to do it around your elementary seed will prepare you for its advance. "
"Thank you, Professor Balder."
Well more good news about my imminent advance I wish I had figured it out before to have more time to train.
One more control exercise to do.
When I checked in my room I tried the exercise that Professor Balder gave me.
I invoked my elements in my hands, fire in my right hand and wind in my left, brought my hands closer without letting the flame and the small air flow touch.
I directed the air flow towards the flame, obviously it strengthened the flame but the wind element was not consumed by the fire but started to make the flame turn as the wind did before in my left hand. So the wind element has kept its shape even when it is entangled by the fire element.
With the little ball of fire in my hand I use my perception to feel the iteration of the elements in my hand, I realized over time the wind element was consumed by fire even though the shape of the wind flow remained unchanged the wind element is disappearing. After a few minutes, almost every wind element was consumed by the fire, it ended up with the round shape of the flame, it is bigger than when I created it, but it also makes it more difficult to maintain it.
With this experiment I got a better understanding of the elementary overlap of fire and wind, it gave me the idea of trying to keep the wind element together with the fire, more protecting the wind so as not to be consumed by the fire.
I tried the exercise again this time and focused on the wind element to prevent it from being consumed by the fire, I managed to delay the wind being consumed by the fire a little. With that I have an idea of how to keep my elements stable during the advance now and just practice more.
On Tuesday, which was eight days after the signs of advancement began, I felt that it finally arrived.
I was sitting in my room in the morning concentrating on my core. The first change was that it started absorbing mana from the air as if it were empty. Then came the acceleration of the flow of mana in the core when the acceleration stopped at a speed at least four times faster than that normal the elementary seed was ignited the elements started to come out of it despite being little elemental energy I tried to restrict it on the seed surface and slowed down the interaction of the element fire with wind despite all the changes in my core I kept it stable this state lasted half an hour.
With the success of my advancement I felt my core strengthening despite the fact that the speed and eruption of the elementary seed are slowing down to normal.
When my nucleus normalized the elementary seed and the mana flow became stronger than before, but what changed most was the walls of my nucleus they became much clearer than before I could already see that in very small areas a color closest to gray.
After the advance I spent two hours feeding and reinforcing all parts of my core with mana to stabilize my advance.
I had already missed my morning class. I should stop by the classroom when the class is over to explain my absence to the teacher and then I will have lunch later as I will probably be challenged to a duel.
That afternoon I swore that Hilda would find me to challenge me but she missed the opportunity when I was challenged by another fellow in the advanced combat class Torris challenges me to a duel on Friday and I accepted.
I was surprised that he is in the fifth place in the rank of our year I already know that he is a defensive warrior with a functional brain, so trying to repeat my strategy of the past duel will come to nothing since he will not chase me as an idiot would.
I will have to find a way to break his defense since I have the mobility advantage because I saw him fighting boxing in the last class he has good control over his body so I think his shield defense will be well positioned for me block regardless of my upper mobility.
This duel is going to be annoying to break your improved defense with earth element, but I have a lot of experience fighting warriors armed with shields since I fought Luke for years.