With a new day more training comes with it.
My training in my elementary arts has advanced, but I am still far from reaching the intermediate level.
Mastering their postures was not difficult, but the flow of elemental energy and a different story. I can reproduce the flow of energy in my movement technique, but my control of the element of fire is not so good I am having difficulties in creating heat without using a flame.
The art of Flaming Fists I got a good progress, but the third and final posture is an attack with both fists by the text of the manual. It must be a blow with a very explosive effect, but I think it is weird an attack using the fists at the same time. time.
As the first few weeks went by, classes started to get out of basic exercises and started to be more interesting .
The first course out of the basics was my wind element class. Professor Clara taught us an intermediate control exercise for the wind element.
"As well as most of you achieved a basic mastery over the first control exercise, let's move on to the next one, but don't think you can stop doing the first exercise, you are so far from mastering it that the difficulty of it can be increased by creating more air flow and increase their speed only when you reach the level of creating at least five air flows and moving them at twice the current speed. "
"The new exercise aims to train your ability to concentrate the wind element. I will deliver to you all a disk made of a wind attribute ore. It is an auxiliary tool that will help you to create a concentrated wind flow within it. when you reach proficiency with the use of the auxiliary tool you will start to try to create a concentrated wind flow without its help. "
Professor Clara distributes a disc made of a yellow crystal with green lines in its composition .
"The training method is to inject your wind element into the disk and then manipulate it in a circular flow. You will try to concentrate the wind flow by decreasing its size. The disk material has the property of preventing the dispersion of the wind element that enters in it, there will obviously be dispersion of the wind element, but it is less than a tenth of what you face when you use your elements in the open air, that means you will not have any loss of energy so you focused on manipulating the wind flow of what sustains it it . "
"You can start the exercise .
With the teacher's extrusions, I take the disk and inject my wind element into it, but I don't start manipulating it, but I use my elementary vision to see how the disk works .
The particles of the wind element inside the crystal are repelled when they try to leave the crystal, but the part that repels the element is not the yellow crystal, but the green lines that are mixed in it. I thought they had runes on it but it looks like it was wrong.
When I started to manipulate the wind element I noticed the teacher's fierce and penetrating gaze. I was startled by that look but I could only smile at her and start doing the new exercise.
Creating a circular and easy flow, but concentrating it has been difficult even with the help of the disc, when I tried to decrease the size the flow ends up losing the circular shape I tried several ways to decrease the flow size but I didn't have better results.
At the end of the class I had not received any help or comment from the teacher, this and something weird she usually corrects me or gives me a tip to show me the right way and thus improve my elementary control.
With the end of the class the teacher dismissed us and said to be careful not to break the crystal disk it seems that it is not cheap.
The next class and with teacher Liv I intend to ask for help with the creation and manipulation of heat without forming a flame.
"In today's class I will teach you how to create heat without creating a flame for warriors and wizards, this manipulation technique has different purposes."
"Warriors use heat as a way to reduce energy expenditure and as a trick to concentrate the element of fire it is much easier to concentrate heat than to create a flame made of a concentration of element fire without expanding the size of the flame, and of course the other advantages of using only heat and not a flame as it can make your attack less flashy, but the disadvantage of not using a flame the range of your attacks will decrease and you lose the explosive capacity of the fire element. "
"For magicians, the disadvantage of using heat is the same as that of warriors, so the heat technique is used for defensive spells and not for offenses that have a long or medium range. Defensive spells that use heat tend to be used close to the magician's body so the first step for mages and the ability to isolate heat only in one direction so when they use defensive magic like fire ripening they don't end roasted or cooked by their own magic. "
"In this exercise, you used an auxiliary tool to help you create heat without using flames."
The teacher pulled a small metal plate from her desk with one side being covered in leather.
"This and the tool you used in training, the metal will not melt and the cable prevented the heat from hurting your hand, but the cable has runes that will light up when the cable is exposed to the heat of the metal."
"The exercise you did is to heat the metal plate without creating flames on it, but the difficulty of the test and not heating the part that is covered by the cable when you do that, you will have mastered the basics of heat manipulation."
"It will teach you to generate heat and the ability to isolate it, which is very important for wizards."
"You can start with exercise ."
Receiving one of the tools and studying it I did not identify the metal or leather used but I was able to identify the rune was a simple arrangement that starts with the rune that represents heat and four connecting runes after it they were drawn in a line.
From my understanding of runes I deduced that the binding runes do not have the property of igniting so they must have passed some product to generate light when the rune is activated the more heat the cable receives the more binding runes will be lit, in my next class of runes I will ask Professor Frey to confirm my understanding of this training tool.
The metal absorbed my fire element without creating a flame, but by increasing the fire element a flame begins to form on the iron plate with the use of my eyes I saw that the energy flow behaves differently when it generates heat without creating a flame. fire elements are more united and ordered when it is not in the shape of a flame, I believe that this is the key to mastering heat manipulation.
Isolating the heat and how to create an energy dam I made the particles of the fire element come together in a line to isolate the heat flow from one side of the line I was able to stop most of the heat so it didn't reach the cable, but it took all my concentration to make this barrier if I tried to do any other task my little success in isolating the heat would be lost.
As in every technique I learn, but it seems that my day has a few hours if I could increase my day to thirty-six hours it still wouldn't be enough to practice everything.
That is very sad.
With the end of the class, my plan to ask the teacher for help went without purpose since the whole class was about the subject I was going to ask her, but I still went to her to ask if she knows the fire arts I am learning she may have some tips or advice.
"Teacher, could you help me with the practice of the elementary arts of the element of fire that I am learning, I clearly know that the teacher is a magician, but my problem is about the flow of energy of the element of fire you could help me."
I am stared at by the teacher's fatal look.
"If I can help you, I can, but if I'm going to help you, it's a different question."
"What do you mean, my lovely teacher?"
"Don't even try to flatter me Ulric. I helped you before your last duel, but it looks like you only managed to hear half of my lesson I wonder what may have affected your hearing that day. "
"Well, teacher in my defense, you didn't say that I had to play the same game as my opponent."
"Don't be deaf Ulric I made it very clear that Torris challenges you to a fair duel is you use poisonous powder in the boy's eyes."
"Well, teacher, he may want a fair duel, but for me the duel was about defending my first place in the rank. I will not risk losing the privileges that come with my placing in the rank. They are helping to increase my cultivation."
"And just to be clear, I don't care about all the honor or sportsmanship that exists in school duels because they didn't stop William's idiot from using a level two artifact that was going to break me in mine!"
"I was taught to use any tactic to win against my enemies, there are no rules that will prevent me from winning a battle."
The teacher is shocked by my tone of voice.
" Ulric I can't say anything about your duel with William he didn't even break a rule just like you didn't when you used the powder in Torris' eyes to my point and that your actions in the duel with Torris are seen as you spitting in his face when he offered you friendship. "
"This may have burned your chances of being friends with him and for many people who have seen your duel. My reason for getting your attention and for you to think about maintaining your place in the rank was worth insulting your colleague and giving a negative impression to many students and some teachers I don't think you see the duel as a real and wrong battle in reality i agree with you to survive you must fight using all the tactics you can and to be a winner in life you have to be cruel to your enemies, but you don't have to make enemies of everyone who challenges you at school. "
"Think about it and look for me tomorrow to ask me about your problem with the elemental art you are learning."