That night I reflected on Professor Liv's advice, I don't regret what I did, but I believe I should apologize to Torris and try to repair my relationship with him.
Torris is strong and seems to have a good temper even though he is pissed at me he didn't attack me that makes him a great candidate to be part of my team. Now I need to find out how to apologize to him.
I don't think I can solve this with just an excuse, but I have to start with something.
I spent the rest of the night studying the energy flow of the fire element arts that I am training. I want to apply my new knowledge that I got in today's class.
I managed to generate heat in my dagger and store it there for a while, but it dispersed quickly and I was unable to add enough heat to the dagger to improve its cut, but I think it is enough to melt butter to pass on bread does that count as training?
The next morning I went to Professor Liv's office to ask for her advice and to analyze the energy flow of the elemental arts of the fire element that I am trying to master.
"Good morning Professor Liv, do you have free time now to answer my questions?"
I was greeted by a smiling teacher Liv, it looks like someone had a good night 's sleep.
"Enter and close the Ulric door . What is your problem today? "
"Well teacher I am having difficulty in two elementary arts of fire element they are flaming fists and the Red Blade I trouce books with diagrams of the energy flow of them the last class helped me a lot to understand the Red Blade more'm still difficulties with the Flaming Fists .
"Not the need for me to see the manuals, I already know the two elemental arts."
"As you said during my class yesterday you may have already figured out what the exercise I taught you yesterday and great training to master the basics of the Red Blade, but I have a tip for you to master the Red Blade and share the flow of energy that is created inside the blade when you concentrate the heat on it by making it in several layers throughout the body of the blade.
"As for Flaming Fists, I believe that you probably didn't understand her purpose. I just discovered the truth of her shape by luck when I saw a monk wearing it during an exploration when I was still a novice adventurer."
"When I was your age, I also studied here at the institute. I obviously didn't study even an elementary art. but it helped him win a duel when his weapon had been broken by his opponent. "
"But when I saw the monk used it, I barely recognized the Flaming Fists when he used the third Flaming Fists movement to defend himself against an elemental water project from a naga she was the guardian show of the dungeon she ambushed my group and would have killed the healer of the group, if the monk hadn't saved her life by blocking the water project using the Flaming Fists I'd never seen a move to block an elemental attack without the use of a shield. "
"Usually the Warriors defend themselves using shields and use weapons to destroy an enemy attack, but that and something you already know to protect yourself from an elemental project you block with a shield or destroy the project using your weapon, but the monk had blocked using an offensive elementary art i discovered this when i asked him how he managed to block the naga project and he explained to me the art he had used. "
"That's how I found out that the art I had seen when I was a student here at the institute that I found weak was actually much more complex with the monk's explanation. I discovered that the Flaming Fists was not a skill made to attack but rather to defend yourself when a warrior is disarming the first postures and to interrupt your opponent the second and to attack when you are in a position that is controlled by your enemy and finally the third position and to block elemental attacks from mages. "
"After my conversation with the monk that day I bought a Flaming Fists manual, it is not an expensive art to buy I studied it weighing that I could use its energy flow to improve my magic I was certain I made some gains by studying the manual it helped me to improve my defensive magic and succeed in creating a variation of the fire shield that earned me a lot of prestige in the academic community. "
"I can probably be the only teacher at the institute who has a deep understanding of the Flaming Fists I can teach you, but I have a condition for that."
I have a bad feeling about the teacher's condition. She has a sinister smile on her face.
"What is the condition, Professor Liv?
"It's simple Ulric, you should apologize and try to make friends with Torris."
Seriously .
"Teacher, I can do this, but because you care so much about who I dueled with, I admit yesterday you were right about that I don't need to make everyone who challenges me to become my enemies I even decided to apologize to Torris. "
"But why do you care about me so much ?"
"Who said I care about you? You think your teacher is on top of you. You are cute mainly with your blue eyes, but I have no interest in a child and I already have a much more beautiful boyfriend than you. "
I am humbled by Professor Liv's mocking smile .
"So why do you care about my duel and not just to teach me a lesson in good manners or sportsmanship?"
"I wouldn't waste my time on something like that."
"You really don't know why?"
"No"
"You and my blind man."
"My name and Liv Yates and I am Torres Yates' aunt now you understand why I'm getting into your life."
Well to say that I am surprised by Professor Lev's kinship with Torres and little are they not alike.
"It explains your attitude, but you don't look like I should have known you are from the same family ."
"Well Torres really looks closer to your father than my sister, but it's not a secret that we are related if you asked some of your colleagues or some teacher you would find out that I am his aunt."
"So apologize to Torres and try to be friends with him and I will write a manual explaining the Flame Fist's energy flows to you ."
"OK teacher"
"Even more I find it weird that you get so involved in your nephew's life."
"I don't care what you think is strange, you brat."
"Now you can go out to your class when you do your part and I'll give you the manual."
Having permission to leave, I go to a training ground to train and think about how to apologize to Torres.
I have no idea if I can make friends with him I think I'll ask for help Erick he should know where the trains because Torres apologize on my gives class advanced combat not is a good idea.
At lunch I went to talk to Erick.
"Erick, do you go up where Torres trains?"
"I think he trains at training camp eight and a field full of rocks and without a lawn because you are bringing him will you throw salt in his wound?"
"Do I look like someone who would do that?"
"Yea."
"Fuck it, Erick, I'm looking for Torres to apologize for the duel."
"Why are you going to apologize to Torrs?"
"I have my reasons."
"Going to call him to be part of the group he would be a great tank for our team."
" Maybe ."
"I'm going to study runes before Professor Hank's class."
"OK"
I go to the library to study the runes used on the training tool handle .
I research the runes and confirm that not one of them has the effect of shining so I went after books on the making of runes I discovered that engraved runes can be painted with paints to hide the runes so if there is a paint to hide the runes it must have one to make them light up, but I didn't find a book on painting runes, maybe at level two in the library.
Unfortunately for me, I didn't find anything on the second level of the library about painting runes, but I found something interesting about runes. I found a manual for creating an explosive trap with runes. I can't use paper like a mine, but a very thin plate of stone or wood would be perfect for making a mine and hiding it in a metal forest would stand out a lot.
The mine has to be placed on the ground to absorb mana from the earth to detonate when it is stepped on.
It would be very useful to make some to use in the institute's next test, but I will have to ask Professor Frey for help in making the mines.
Leaving the library, I was no longer thinking about how to apologize to Torres, but about scenarios that could use mines to blow up my enemies.