I am still waiting for Ingredi's response, but today I received Professor Liv's manual. I am very interested in seeing the differences between the library manual and the modified one.
Although Flaming Fists are an art learned by warriors, Professor Liv has managed to gain knowledge that allows her to modify her defensive spells. I wonder if learning about the energy flows that magicians use in their magic can help me, but that is something that I will only study after mastering the basics of the elementary arts.
After Professor Lev's class ended she handed me two books, one of them and the Flaming Fists manual modified by the teacher and the second and her study of the energy flow of their fire element, a kind of step-by-step guide on how to shape the energy.
And to my surprise in the energy guide she wrote some tips for adding the wind element to it.
When I went to the training ground to read and practice my new manual I was already reading the teacher's notes and I discovered that the method I was using in my past advanced combat class was called elemental strengthening and not elementary overlap as I found it.
It seems that a union of two elements has several forms and each one of them has different stages for elementary strengthening. It consists of using one element to strengthen another one. There is no union of them. I used my wind element to feed my fire element. I couldn't create the composite ray element that consists of the union of my elements no matter how much element I put in this method or how I shape them, there cannot be a union between the elements.
In order to create a true union, I must first master the technique of elementary overlapping, as you can guess by name and use my elements together at the same time without letting one of them consume the other.
In the book with Professor Liv's experiments she comments a little about the wind element interacts with the fire element in the book she shows two main points one was to use the Flaming Fists art using the wind element instead of fire and the second was to use the element wind to strengthen the fire when using the Flaming Fists.
The books I received today are a treasure for me. They fit perfectly into my elements and my goal of improving my ability to use my elements at the same time.
I decided before studying the modified Flame Fists I was going to focus on the notes on elemental strengthening.
I spent the next few hours reading and experimenting on the training ground and I was able to better understand the interaction of the wind and fire element.
The elementary strengthening technique that was explained in Professor Liv's manual was divided into levels. The first was simply to use the wind element to sustain the fire and I already learned that part.
Second level consists of using the wind element to shape the fire but I cannot manipulate the shape of the fire element I must only shape the wind I had some difficulties, but I managed to learn this level after learning it I realized that I needed much less effort to keep the shape of my elements on my sword.
The third level that I have not yet been able to learn was to increase the intensity of the fire element without releasing more of it, just increasing the amount of the wind element. My difficulty was to keep the flame wrapped around the sword when I increased the wind element, the flame grew further away from the sword. I tried to shape the flow as I had tried it in my last advanced combat class.
That's how I realized the mistake I had made the first time I tried to use the flow composed of four parts that were intertwined. I tried to shape the fire element at the same time and that creates a tangle of elemental flows, but following the manual that said for only shaping an element i managed to reach my goal even though it is still a little unstable i managed to create an elemental coating around my sword it's around the blade without losing its shape and i was able to control the intensity of the flame.
I still had my limits to increase the intensity of the flame, but I have already managed to achieve at least twice the destructive power of the simple elemental coating. The next level was to strengthen the flame until it started to change color in the manual says that if you increase the temperature of the fire element to a point, the color of the flame will start to change.
When I manage to master the next level I will be able to create a blue flame, but the next level of elemental strengthening for the fire element is only mentioned in the manual and has no explanation of it.
With my small success at the third level I turned to elementary overlap it was also divided into levels and the first level I had already learned was to create an elementary coating using two elements without them interacting with each other.
The second level was more complicated was to compact the different elements the closer they had the stronger the elemental coating will be, but trying to do this without the fire element consuming the wind element has proved to be a challenge I spent the rest of the day trying and even after After a lot of training, my progress was small I think I should go back to that level when I have more proficiency in concentrating my elements individually.
After doing the aura training I ended the day's physical training.
Before I sleep, spend my time reading the modified Flame Fists manual.
I noticed a small difference in the physical part of the postures mainly in the third one, but the real change was the flow of energy. position for it to defend itself against a specific element or a specific form of attack in a more effective way .
I think the teacher's main study was in the third position, she basically transformed the wing into a new elementary art. I spent the rest of the night studying the energy diagrams in order to be able to practice them tomorrow.
At dawn on a new day, I was already heading straight to the training ground to try out the modified Flame Fists.
With the beginning of the training I already noticed a clear difference with the last time I performed this art the first position I was performing it with a higher speed than normally .
When I did the second position my movements were faster and with a more natural connection between the movements I managed to generate more strength in the curved movements of the second position.
I have already felt a great improvement in positions one and two. I am very excited to try the third one, which was the focus of study by Professor Liv.
When executing the third position I felt a small improvement but it was much lower than the previous positions, but I don't know if this is more because of my lack of dominance or if it is because I am not using it to defend myself but to attack.
He went to practice a few more days and then I have to look for a training partner to use the Flaming Fists in a practical defense.
Aside from the time spent in my class for the day, I spent the rest of the time training the Fiery Fists.
With that two more days passed and with my improvement I think I have to go after a magician to have a practical experience in the third position and luckily for me today I have already given the time that I determined to go after Ingredi for an answer.
It was after her, but I didn't find her in the library so I started walking around the training grounds for wizards after her.
After looking for some training hoods I had already formed a short list of wizards in case he said no to my offer.
I found her on a training ground that consisted of a lake and a lawn with some rocks.
I approached her only when she had already noticed my presence. I will not approach a magician when he is in mine to cast a spell. I think that doing something like this and asking to be the target of his magic.
"Good morning, Ingredi, it's been a few days. I wanted to know your answer to my invitation?"
"Hi Ulric I thought about your invitation I intended to refuse more I went to talk to Torris and he confirmed his story and he said that I would have a good chance of reaching the first place in the test by joining his group."
"Spending the last few days thinking about it and talking to my sister I decided to join your group but my sister is already forming her own team so only I will join your team."
Now only the last member is left to complete my team.
"I am happy with your joining my team now our team has five people and I intend to call one more offensive warrior to complete the team."
"But I came here not only to ask for your answer, I came to ask for your help with a training I wanted to try."
"What kind of training?"
"I have been training in the art of Flaming Fists and to train her third position I wanted your help I wanted you to attack me with your water element magic."
"You want me to attack you with my magic so you can practice a fist art, you think it 's made of iron to block my magic without a shield!"
"Calm Ingredi, I'll be fine. It is an elementary art made to defend against elemental attacks and water is easier to defend than its earth element. I should be fine."
Later, I regretted that it would be easy to defend myself against the magic of the water element. I left that training ground soaked and bruised and that was because Ingredi was easy with me, otherwise I would have a few fingers cracked and maybe it will be difficult mastering the third posture of the Flaming Fists but seeing Ingredi's shocked face when I managed to block one of her spells made my day.