With the end of class coming up I finally had the opportunity to demonstrate my swordplay to Professor Týr, but while I waited for the professor to finish teaching a set of moves for each group I tried to come up with a plan to get him to use his aura. I decided for a simple and straightforward plan when demonstrating my swordplay I will make the suggestion to use the teacher as a target so he will have to use his aura to harden one of the wooden swords so I can see how his aura behaves is a simple and straightforward plan but I believe it has the best chance of success.
"While the rest of the students practice you can demonstrate your swordplay for me."
"Sure teacher, but I believe it would be better if I had a target to hit, I think the best way to demonstrate my swordplay would be in a duel. What do you think about this teacher?"
"It may be more during the duel you can only use your swordplay without aura or elemental energy. Remember that this class is to improve your swordplay.
While I wield my sword and dagger the teacher still holds a thin short wooden sword the last group he taught were the students who will choose the short sword as a weapon. I focus on the inside of the teacher's body and see a thread of aura traveling from its core to the wooden sword the teacher's aura is thin as a hair, but as I enter the sword it branches through the entire body of the sword I record this image in my mind to try to replicate later.
I advance against the teacher just like the teacher did before I tried to lock my aura inside my core, but obviously I failed to do so it still sent a small stream of aura traveling through my body even though it strengthened very little it still showed the difference between my ability to control versus the teacher's control over his aura.
My attacks started with basic moves as this was a demonstration of my swordplay I attacked the teacher with the same type of attack just varying the starting position of my sword it took me several minutes to demonstrate my most frequent forms of attack demonstrating both the variation between my weapons as for my body positions.
Even without using elemental energy I still moved like I was using my movement arts. As I attacked the professor he blocked all my attacks easily, but what frustrated me wasn't that but that his aura was completely static in his arm and sword the thin thread of aura didn't warp or shift no matter how I cone stopped my strokes to force the teacher to move his arm in various blocking postures his aura is fixed in the same shape.
After twenty minutes I had no idea how I could attack the professor to force his aura to move.
"It's enough young man your fencing is quite interesting and a variation of two swords handling that is very compatible with your body, but your preference for the size and shape of your weapons has more bird with your mental image than a physical attribute of them yours. fencing has not demonstrated a single move that clearly explores the customization of its blades."
"But I have to admit that your fencing is well developed, although your various attacks your fencing is a bit chaotic, but that doesn't change the fact that your fencing has already taken shape that is the first stage of a mature fencing style. A true swordsman doesn't have hundreds of moves but a set of moves that reflect the nature of his swordplay. The same sword move can have multiple forms of movement, but it should only have one intention."
"Thanks for the compliment teacher, but how can I improve?"
"It's a little complicated, but the reason for that is not the point that I couldn't point you in the direction of improving your swordplay, but the fact that you basically reached the goal of this course the only point left for you to complete the course would be to demonstrate a basic knowledge of swordplay with different types of sword by pointing you in the direction of how to improve your swordplay. I would be giving you the advanced fencing class and that would be against the institute's rules."
"I hope you understand why I can't teach you how to improve your swordplay and I hope you quickly master the basic moves of the other sword types when you're done I won't force you to spend your time on this course. I'll give you a final test and with your skills he won't be building for you so your intermediate fencing course will be complete."
"Thank you teacher, I will strive to finish the course quickly, but if I finish it soon, will I be able to take the advanced fencing course?"
"Unfortunately you won't be able to start the advanced fencing course as the class will have their first class tomorrow. But I advise you not to take so much prey to do so you must remember that fencing and the core of your attack is what gives shape to your offensive power, but only the combination of it with the aura and elemental energy will allow you to use your power completely."
As I was left behind by the teacher I realized that copying the movements and energy flow of more experienced warriors caused my swordplay to quickly improve as my elemental control even though I hadn't noticed it before. I have to pay more attention when training using the information that is visible to me they can have more uses than I've discovered so far.
During the rest of the class I recorded in my mind the movements of each group and started to experiment with them until the end of the class I have already started to master the basic movements of each group I think it won't take long to finish this course.
I spent the rest of my free time thinking about the fencing class I only stopped when I had taken the time of my rune class when I entered the class I didn't even have a surprise in this type of course not to several students in the room counting me only to three students .
I sat down next to the couple who were talking I just see them talking about runes Sten and Ingredi has a pretty big passion for the job of runemaster. It takes a long time for them to notice my presence in the classroom.
"How long has it been since you entered the Ulric classroom?"
"Not so much. You were very focused on your conversation I wonder if it will only be the three of you in this subject?"
"Probably only in the three he doesn't even remember the first runes class we did I think taking us just one more student step and as far as I know he barely passed maybe he gave up studying runes. Even with the large number of students entering the institute, there shouldn't be more than fifteen students studying runes here."
Before we can continue talking to Ingredi since the moment I show up Sten I don't speak a word anymore, Professor Frey entered the classroom.
"Good morning Ingredi, Sten and Ulric. I'm glad you decided to continue studying runes and it's very common to see students who drop out, but in your class only one dropout would like more classes to be like that."
"As only three students do not need to be very fit during class. In this course you learned how to make various rune arrays pick up and tape off from each other by creating an array of runes. It's not a very difficult theory the hard part is in practice during this course you did several rune arrays because when a rune matrix fails the rune arrays that compose it are damaged. So you're going to have to fabricate several runic arrays."
"But don't be put off by it and better view this issue as a training opportunity the more rune arrangements you make the faster your rune carving skills improve."
"The most simple ways to create a rune matrix are to engrave the rune arrays on iron plates and then arrange them side by side to create a matrix. This type of matrix is simple and extremely easy to make and break it and very simple let's start with them because it is easy to assemble them and understand the rules of how to choose the runic arrays so that a matrix is created in the correct way."
"The rules for choosing the runic arrangements are very logical. I'm going to give an example of the simplest form of rune matrix which is cone clearing several equal arrangements each one of them will intensify the effect of the previous one and create a matrix with the same effect as the matrix. Let's take Ulric's favorite arrangement who likes to blast his enemies by using six blast mines together you'll have an explosion with twice the normal power and it will have a big aria effect, but if you created a rune matrix with these six blast mines its explosion will have the power of six mines and will cover twice as much as the explosion aria."
"But before you get excited Ulric if you try to do that you will end up blowing yourself up because the rune arrangement of the explosive mines is very simple when trying to cone clear six of them and form a matrix it will be done successfully plus the mana and elemental energy will be too large for the rune array to support. So the matrix will detonate immediately upon completion and will likely kill you."
"A rune array as simple as the explosive mine can only form a matrix with three arrays and with the support of a few more binding runes in each rune array just so the array will be a larger, stable version of the rune array of the explosive mine. It will likely have the explosive power of the three mines, but the blast aria won't be much bigger than a single mine."
"Given this example, you may have noticed that the more rune arrays in the composition of a matrix, the more difficult it is to keep its energy stable, the more catastrophic failure and when the arrays of a matrix do not have the capacity to support the energy of the passing matrix by him when this happens, the matrix always causes an explosion."
"The second most common error is to clear arrays that have an opposite or incompatible effect. This generates instability in the matrix, but generally this only causes the runic arrays to be damaged in the worst case if the plate or the location that the array is carved will break in bits and pieces a chance to cause an explosion and so small that I've never seen it happen. This error may seem easy to avoid, but when the energy of one arrangement transfers to a different arrangement that energy changes with a matrix formed by several arrangements, the initial energy goes through several changes and if it has a different change than expected there may be incompatibility when she tries to move to the next rune arrangement."
The teacher continued for the next two hours to give more examples of incompatibility and examples of runic arrangement combinations so that we could try to assemble some matrices in the next class.