After having learned the characteristics of my elements I thought about what I could change in my training, but I didn't have any idea how to apply my characteristics in my training. I could only think of ways to train my control of my elements using the characteristics I have, I will probably try to make my element vibrate, although this is considered a technique or art with great difficulty, I seem to have this characteristic in my wind element, so I'm going to start training her while I look for some art manuals that incorporate vibration in the wind element.
If I can use the characteristics of my wind element to its full potential, my attacks using wind will be much more lethal and this will help me face enemies that have a higher cultivation level than mine. If I can easily defeat someone who is at a higher stage than mine, I will be unbeatable at my own level.
The last thing I had to do before leaving the laboratory was to leave a large amount of elemental energy in some containers, this elemental energy is not able to last longer than two weeks stored, the elemental energy of a warrior and mage is not capable to remain stable outside its user's body without being assigned even a purpose in them. That's one of the quirks of elemental energy that comes from a person's core, and it's funny that the aura or mana has no such limitation.
I left my elemental energy behind for the teacher to do some tests that he doesn't have the patience to explain to me, he said it in a way that didn't make me feel like a complete idiot, but serves a second purpose for my elemental energy, it seems like some of the people who borrowed the fires and winds want to be able to verify the results.
As I leave the lab, I find Hilda and Wulfgar playing in one of the training camps, I still have a few hours to waste before the communication of the magic matrix results and the information for the next part of the test happens.
As Hilda bullied Wulfgar she asked me how my morning with the professor had gone.
"I found out the characteristics of my element, well I managed to find the ones that we were lucky to find a sample as it is impossible to get a sample for every kind of elementary variation, I'm surprised that a place like the institute doesn't do this kind of testing."
"It's very expensive to keep several samples of elemental variations, some pots may only cost a hundred gold coins, but there are some variations that you would have to pay thousands of gold coins to have a small sample. The institute has a test for characteristics, it is simply not done here but, in the capital, and as it takes a long time for the samples of the elements to return to their neutral state, it is a test that can only be done a few times a day. "
"I would go to the capital next year with Ingredi and my mother taking the test, but I don't know how it will be done now. It looks like the situation here in the southern part of the kingdom is going to escalate in the next year, but I think you already know about this it's like all the old ones and better not to speak secrets out loud."
"Didn't you know that a test of this type was issued at the institute in the capital?"
"It's normal, only high-level noble families have the privilege of taking the test or, if a student stands out, they receive a recommendation from the person in charge of the institute in their region, but just so you know, it is necessary to pay five thousand gold coins to take the test without the letter of recommendation."
"But for a family like yours, ten thousand gold coins is not a big deal, it should hardly be registered as a family expense, Hilda. To trade as your family does it is necessary to have a large financial capital."
"Well, when you put it that way I can't complain about the expenses, but what are the characteristics of your elements, maybe I know some art that you can learn to take advantage of your natural gifts, even if you're not from my family I can see with my mother for her to borrow one of the arts, of course she will charge a lot to lend you a manual, but this is something that has been done before in the family."
"Well, I have vibratory and cutting characteristics in my wind element, whereas in my fire element I have purification, heat and affinity with the lightning element."
"That's cool, purification and affinity with the lightning element are quite rare, when you are able to create the river element your offensive will increase a lot, if it is created with both elements, it will be able to merge with your aura very easily, this is the only advantage of creating a composite element rather than being born with it. My family developed a very special art, but it can only be used by people who create the ice element with the elements of wind and water, a person who was born with the element of goal cannot train it."
"I didn't know that, Hilda. Why is it easier to merge the aura into a composite element you created?"
"I don't know the specific reason, but it's an undeniable fact that a person who was born with a composite element goes through the same difficulties as a person with any element to unite his element with his aura, but a person who creates a composite element with elements Simple can easily blend your aura into the mix is the blending is much more effective. My grandmother said she believes this is because the elements that are made up of two elements of a warrior or mage are much more connected with it than an element of nature is, and difficult to explain, but it's like the ingredients are much more compatible with your aura or mana and that makes that difference the elements have already been processed once by your core is when you unite them into a new element they are processed again."
"My grandmother even joked that if there was a way to unite two composite elements created by the base elements of a warrior or wizard, the created element would be able to be strengthened in a ridiculous way by mana or aura, but that's impossible. A person would have to have a ridiculous number of elements that in the end should be able to come together in a stable way."
"Who says it's impossible? We have Professor Balder who has a large number of elements. "
"That's true, but you may not know how rare this is. Most people like Professor Balder end up dying when trying to advance, for us who only have two elements, we don't have many difficulties in advancing the initial levels, but when we advance to the orange core, our elementary seed becomes very violent during the advance, if we are not very careful or have outside help, we can end up seriously injured and even fail to advance because of elementary lack of control."
"People who only have one element only need to contain one element when advancing which is extremely easy or if you compare people with two or even three elements which basically doubles the difficulty of a person with two elements, it's very difficult to see one of them fail because that his element got out of hand during an advance. Professor Balder must have started to suffer disturbances in his elemental seed when he advanced to the gray core, and no matter how much money you spend to cure a failure to advance always leaves marks on a person's core, Professor Balder probably already can. advancing to the next stage of his core but when doing this he has to have an absurd confidence, because if he fails maybe he will die or be crippled, even with outside help the chance of him advancing again is very small."
"For the teacher to have his core he must have almost failed several times, if he didn't have enormous control over his elements, which makes him a famous person and reason the principal hired him specifically to guide students in controlling their elements, it would probably already be dead or locked with a green or even smaller core. People who have a lot of elements have to be very careful trying to advance because it's less dangerous to go to a war or break into a high-level dungeon with no preparation at all than trying to advance your core stage, that kind of thing is only known among high-level nobles, most commoners think that having more elements is an advantage in life."
"Why don't commoners know?"
"Why would we tell them? It is very rare for a person like Professor Balder to be born among the commoners, most would be noble who had the misfortune or luck to have parents with so many different elements that allowed a wizard or warrior with four or more elements to appear, it is a waste of time explain this kind of thing to the commoners."
The indifference that Hilda has for the lives of commoners is something that took me a long time to get used to in this world, as my mother was born a commoner, she never treated people differently because they are nobles or commoners, she cared more about the fact of the person being an idiot or being weak. Being the two of them close to her was the same as asking to be mistreated by her, she didn't even have a limit, she would mistreat a child or an old man does not mercy her, for her to be a weak idiot in her presence was an insult.
But for the nobles who are not even interested in abusing or taking advantage of their status of nobility against a commoner like Hilda, Ingrede and Torris who come from families that have been noble for several generations, they see commoners as something inferior and this is something normal and right, commoners are a resource to be used or nurtured to become something superior like them. Every once in a while, I dare some comments that sound pretty hard to ignore, but it's still better than listening to shit from the nobles who like to abuse commoners, they treat them like disposable toys.
Even in a kingdom like the one I was born in which I consider a good place to be a commoner, there is still discrimination against commoners, but it's not blatantly displayed that would be a breach of etiquette it's the noble that makes it the target of mockery and fun of other nobles, compared to other nearby kingdoms that nobles have much more freedom and customs to abuse and have fun with the commoners, the nobility with which I have contact are saints for the commoners.