The rest of our short travel day spent peacefully with Blue's company Hilda's mood has become much better and stable, although she is still worried about her sister I see her playing and petting Blue who is struggling to keep up. front, even if she doesn't have an advantage against a horse in a straight line her pride doesn't allow her to be overtaken by a magical animal inferior to her if it wasn't for the limited resistance of my mount I believe I could overtake Blue sometime of the day.
With dusk dominating the sky and our voyage being lit by the stars my monetary reached its limit he could barely trot anymore, the poor thing is about to pass out and I don't blame him I wish I had been camping already someone else I didn't hear him and I wanted to insist on traveling at night.
"Hilda, let's put it on today and resume the trip at sunrise, there's no point in insisting any longer."
"Stupid horse, you should have taken a better mount."
"It's not the horse's fault, even Blue won't get too hot anymore, taking her mount to exhaustion is n't a decision you knew Hilda."
Even though Hilda pretends she didn't listen to me, she still walked me off the road to set up camp. While she took care of the animals I started the fire and set up the rest of the camp. After a while Hilda and I finished everything and were resting by the fire while waiting for our dinner to be ready.
"Hilda, do you and Ingredi travel a lot?"
"No, because of our position in the family we had little chance of traveling the farther we go from the city the more dangerous it gets so our parents never took us on their trips and you?"
"I grew up in a small village to the south and only moved away from it after I woke up , so I came to write at the institute. This trip is my second time distancing myself from a city."
"Oddly enough I thought you had more experience in traveling, you don't behave like a hillbilly in a rural village and when I say that I don't mean to insult you."
"I've been called worse names."
"But I really do not understand how a second generation of nobility to behave as you do."
"What's so abnormal about me Hilda?"
"First of all you don't seem surprised by anything around you, if you've lived in a small village all your life you should have had a different reaction when you entered the institute ."
"Who said I didn't. In only met after that Ingredi decided to do the second test of survival with my team, we have spent months avia des we entered the institute . "
"Don't come up with that lame excuse, even during the first days of class you acted normally as if you were used to living in an environment like the institute if you were really a hillbilly from a small village, just the huge number of students should already make you uncomfortable , but you acted normally."
"I have thick skin and I'm not shy ."
"If you want to hide with bad lies I won't be asking. Because if it were, I would ask about her strange ability to perceive, she is not normal."
"I just have heightened senses than most people, Hilda."
"Of course, it is so simple to locate any type of animal or magical beast several meters away from your location. And ridiculous for you to dodge like that was a fucking magic beast with the shadow element even in the day and hard to spot them."
"I don't even have comment on that."
"Would you have a comment about your fight with Professor Balder?"
"I honestly can't confirm what exactly happened the professor has his theories, but I don't agree with them. I still haven't figured out what exactly happened or what triggered the episode."
"Serious? I thought you would be very happy to have gone through an enlightenment, even I with my heightened senses can see that you have become much stronger after going through it."
"Sacarmos doesn't suit you very much Hilda."
"My mother would disagree with you. Why don't you just admit that you've been through enlightenment and it's so hard to admit the truth to yourself?"
"Like I said I don't know what happened to me Professor Balder agrees with you about what happened, but when he explained his experience to me I realized that mine was very different than his. That's the reason I don't claim to know what happened."
"What 's the difference between what happened to you and Professor Balder's experience ?"
"Can I tell you, but why would I do that?"
"What you want? I'll let you know I 'm not in a romantic mood today."
"I don't know if your definition of romantic is like my Hilda and my prisoner and you tell me about your spear and your ice element."
"What's wrong with what I consider romantic?"
"If I gave you flowers what would you do with them?"
"I would give it to Ingredi, she likes planting and I don't like messing with soil. And why would you give me flowers? Flowers are not romantic ."
"Aren't flowers romantic ?"
"No! And I kill!"
"Aren't they pretty?"
"Maybe a polco, but they're not a gift. If you ever give me flowers I'll use them to beat you."
Could it be that in this world flowers are not romantic or Hilda is simply different.
"Noted. What would be a romantic gift for you Hilda."
"Isn't it your job to figure this out?"
"I am a person who advocates equality in a relationship. Yeah I don't see a problem in the question, just by getting to know the other person you can find out what they like and what they hate."
"OK. I think a well-crafted craft would be a good gift, not that it means it would be romantic. But a gift should be something well crafted no bush that you can pick up in a garden on your way."
"Interesting. Would a picture or an ornate dagger be more romantic for you?"
"Go to shit."
Now I don't know which option offended her.
"How about you tell me about your spear and its ice element ?"
Better ask Ingredi later she should be able to help me.
" It's a tricky question Ulric before I tell you you must promise me not to tell anyone and never talk or reference about it."
"OK. I promise."
"I inherited the elements from my mother and that's why I have a finity with the ice element the spear and not only a weapon but also a training tool the better I can control the ice element and use my own elemental energy energy to sustain it the greater my chance of achieving the ability to create it myself."
"Okay, but what 's the problem with that."
"Idiot. You are lucky to be beautiful if you weren't you would spend your life alone. The problem is the feelings of Ingredi I do not want to hurt my sister des our awakening the Ice element means that it has become a taboo in family conversations. "
"My grandmother who is the matriarch of the family and a powerful mage and famous for her skill with the Ice element, then my mother came as a powerful Ice mage even though the two were not born with the direct affinity of the Ice element but they dominated it using the Water and Wind element that is a point of pride for both of them. Ingredi and I have always dreamed of using the ice element like them, but after awakening Ingredi may not have talked about it, but she must have been sad to have my father's Earth element instead of my mother's Wind element."
"I already hoped that my awakening would make me a warrior like you I demonstrated in the years before my awakening a better physique than my sister's even though we went through the same training. So I had already given up on the idea of being an ice mage like my mother and grandmother."
"I understand her concern but I can know Ingredi for a little while but as far as I've seen about her behavior she doesn't hate her Earth element I see the same dedication and iron will in dominating her as when she practices her Water element. She may have been sad that she couldn't master the Ice element, but I think having the Earth element hasn't affected her dedication to becoming a powerful and relentless mage as far as I can see she wants to master her magic like even runes."
"I just don't want to hurt her. So don't talk about it when she's present ok?"
"You have my word Hilda. But I still think if you talk to her about it she won't get hurt at most she'd be a little sad."
"Now it's your turn to give an Ulric explanation ."
"I think dinner is ready so we eat now."
"Don't even try to dodge and just move the soup to the side so it doesn't go past the point. Now and moment of truth. "
"So I'll start with Professor Balder's explanation of what enlightenment is. His theory is that it is achieved when the warrior has a glimpse of the gods' domain and this causes him to gain or realize something new and important about how to use his elemental energy or aura and this causes a transformation in his body and mind. teacher went through this process a few times ."
"Okay, but what's the difference between what happened to you?"
"I didn't even have the kind of glimpse or gain that came from the realm of the gods and it wasn't something sudden like Professor Balder's experience. What happened to me was different I was extremely focused on the teacher I completely imitated his movements and his aura, while the test took place I deepened in a state of concentration every blow we gave I imitated him in a better way ."
"And when I got out of the focused state my body was already on edge and I passed out. When I woke up I was in the infirmary and after recovering my control over my aura and elemental energy improved. That simple. No mystery at all."
'And that?"
"Yes, I told you I can not explain right what happened. How about we eat now."
As we ate our dinner Hilda was still giving me some skeptical looks as if she didn't buy my explanation. The Silence was only broken when she entered the tent.
"Don't even think about trying to sneak in here. When it's my time to be on the lookout, we'll change and you can sleep here."