I talked with Amael for a few more minutes to meet my new teammate and first member of my team, he hesitated for a few minutes to tell me about his weaknesses and strengths, but this is a natural thing for a leader to know. And I also asked what had happened in the matrix before this one, he opened a big hole in it, I'm really curious what prompted him to do that.
In short Amael Etna, is a very talented wizard who was born into a family focused on warriors, he wasn't mistreated or neglected for being a wizard, in a family that the last wizard in her must have lived several hundred years maybe even thousands, don't even listen a tasteless cliché in your story, but obviously your family's tradition of creating strong warriors has influenced your current fighting style.
Like Amael, most of his family members have an affinity for the fire and earth elements, the father is Amael's main aspiration is an earth element fighter, but he's not a defensive fighter, he's quite the opposite. A warrior focused on destroying his enemies with his two-handed warhammer, he is famous for his control over his body weight, as the wind element can interfere with its user's weight making it lighter for him to move. more easily.
The earth element can also influence its wearer's weight, but obviously most skills are focused on increasing weight, but Amael's father is famous for being able to nullify the weight of his earth element, by doing that he is able to of moving at a very fast speed for a warrior who only has the earth element, but when attacking he increases the weight of his attacks to cause a blow with an extraordinary force.
It takes a lot of control and knowledge about your element to be able to fight this way in an effective way, after hearing Amael talk about his father who is his hero and source of inspiration, I became a fan of his, I really admire his abilities.
Amael has developed a very straightforward style of magic, but it's not at all simple, in fact it's quite complicated. Amael had to spend a lot of his time studying and practicing in order to create a rudimentary version of his ideal magic, inspired by his Amael's main father is to have absolute control of gravity, he not only wants to dominate the density and weight of his elements, he also wants to be able to control the gravity of everything around him.
This is obviously impossible for your current one, maybe when he has a yellow or red core, he might be able to have the fuel needed to use a complex spell like this, gravity spell is known and is part of the spells that a wizard of earth element may have, but it is one of the schools of advanced magic that is generally only dominated by a few high-level mages. I admire Amael's ambition, but since he can't manipulate gravity, he focused on manipulating the weight of his earth element.
Probably with the help of his father, he is able to use his earth element as a brutal force in direct combat, his fire element has become his support element in his fighting style, Amael is able to create lava by uniting his two elements, but he's still not a true composite element but a forced union, so his moves using lava are pretty simple and serve more to create obstacles than direct attacks against an enemy.
But I have to admit he's better than me, my composite lightning element is far from being applied to my attacks, but I don't get to upset about it. The lightning element is pure energy and that makes it difficult to keep stable but it is easier to move it or use it with my aura, lava is the opposite of it, easy to keep stable but difficult to move it.
If it were easier to manipulate, Amael would have already mastered the basic magic of the lava compound element. But his fighting style consists of powerful blows using his staff which is a very unique staff, it must weigh several kilos, its main ingredient is a metal full of earth elemental energy, which is widely used by warriors in the alloy of their armor and shields, but Amael used it in great quantity in his staff, making it have a very high weight is a huge resistance.
I would not doubt that with his staff Amael will be able to deliver a blow capable of deforming a shield warrior's shield of the same stage, the hole in the matrix before this one was caused by Amael's strongest blow, the hole was created by the packaging of the Amael's coup.
Obviously a big hole like that should only be the result of an attack by a green core fighter in the final stage or a yellow core fighter, but the main reason the earth is pierced that way is because of the earth element manipulated by Amael, he used his move to destroy that matrix test, it was a test that required the student to break a trigger to open the portal, but the trigger is being protected by a defensive barrier and the student would be attacked by a magical beast during the challenge.
It's a challenge with simple mechanics, but several students would have difficulties to pass it, it's not easy to defend against a magical beast when your target is a strong barrier, Amael buried both the beast and the barrier that held the trigger with his attack. At the bottom of the hole there should have been the remains of the magical beast as well as the trigger that was destroyed, but the earth must have pushed them all the way to the bottom, so I couldn't see those remains before.
But after getting to know more about Amael, I really feel like a lucky person, now I have a close combat offensive mage, but who is also capable of covering both in the form of attacks and in defense at medium distance. Amael is a great wizard for the attack leader position, he as the heart of my team's offensive formation, will allow us to have a very good advantage in the next part of the test.
It's not surprising that he was extremely happy when I told him his position, but he got a little nervous when I told him that I probably wouldn't recruit many people into the group, it confused him, but in explaining that quality is better. of what amount he ended up agreeing with me.
But after he was happy and ready to continue looking for more members, I told him about the elves that are likely to target us I did this to make it clear our situation there is no point keeping this kind of secret from him, he was not very happy but it wasn't because he had one more challenge, but because he seems to have a friend who is an elf. He wasn't too happy about the fact that he would have to fight his friend's compatriots in a violent manner, but the current reality is that we're going to spill elf blood during the test.
I took the opportunity to ask if he knew Mars and Richard, he looked at me like an idiot. But that didn't stop me from asking which of the two people who will enter the array without equipment was Mars.
And so, I finally found out that Mars was the lesser warrior, the one who had the element of wind and shadow. As far as Amael knew, Mars was a warrior who was an expert in the arts of murder, before the dispute of the nobles, he killed several thieves with varying levels of power alone.
He must have done several dozen assassination missions, it looks like his family is quite small but she's not weak at all, it looks like the death rate from his training is pretty high and that's why his family doesn't believe much, but she has very strong allies like the Eliure family and a few other families.
It seems his family's services are well sought after by other noble families, but that's irrelevant to me now. But it was good to find out why Mars would help the elves and anyone else allied with the Eliure family, he seems to be in love with one of the Eliure family elves.
So now I have a trained assassin behind me, because he wants to use my sufferings and blood to gain the goodwill of some members of the Eliure family, don't know if I should respect Mars or if I should call him a lovesick idiot.
I think I'll wait to see if he's a love-struck idiot or not after I meet him, I just hope his love doesn't make him suicidal.
"Well, Amael are you ready for us to move on?"
"Yes, we better get going, we've already wasted a lot of time here. The faster we are at finding other people the less chance of losing places because we found the elves, the matrices will become more difficult because we are in a group now?"
"I hope not, but considering that this maze was probably designed by the director, I'd say we're screwed. The larger the group, the more difficult the matrices will be."
"I don't know why, but I feel pretty excited right now."
"Serious? Are you one of those adrenaline junkies, Amael?"
"I've never heard that term before."
"We better go our way."
So, I lead the way through the portal that has been opened at the edge of this rune matrix.