"It's no use asking me more questions about gods that I don't even know the name of, I'm like you a mortal, we shouldn't try to rationalize the gods' actions because that's too risky. Every time you say the name of a god or something that is associated with a god you contact your domain and if the domain thinks you are a threat or that you are simply irritating and can disrupt the god's fun you going to die."
"Okay, I won't ask any more about them, but before we finish whatever conversation you want about the ancient ruin, I want to ask what kind of problem would there be in the ancient ruin if it kept going down?"
"How will I know? I can only say that your stealth trick would lead you into a death trap and your entire group will be bombarded by spells or by real strong golems not the simple golems you were up against, a golem made by a god is basically a creature alive when compared to golems made by mortals, they fight more skillfully than most fighters and mages. Don't even think about going back there, Ulric. I forbid you to go there again."
"Okay, I'm not going there again, but was the class just that or is there anything else to teach me?"
Suddenly I'm hit by a slap.
"Hey! Why did you hit me?"
"Have more respect for your master or I'll get you right again."
"But you told me to be direct and informal."
"It's supposed to be direct and informal and not an idiot. Of course, I will teach you some useful things during this class, I was just saving your life now if I didn't hammer it in your head, you would die if you went back to that old ruin, you would be entering it by now. You should thank me for saving your life."
"It was bad and thanks for saving my life, mistress."
"Well now let's get to the real class, obviously I can't teach you much about your fire and wind element. I was born with the natural lightning element so I can't use those two elements, I've heard a legend say that a warrior with the element ice compost has been able to use the elements of wind and water normally, but it's hard to believe that and I find it rather useless to waste my time trying something like that."
"What I'm going to teach you today is about your lightning element, you said you're able to create it but you're not even able to use it in combat, but I'd like to see how much progress you've made in this aria. So, start by invoking the ray element outside of your body."
"OK."
I adjusted my posture and concentrated on my core, it didn't take more than a few seconds to merge my elements correctly and create a lightning element chain. The hard part was moving it out of my core and up my arm to my hand, when I opened my eyes, I had a little purple sphere a little shaky on the surface of my hand.
Under my master's critical eye, I felt pretty uncomfortable.
"It's still a little shaky, but considering you're still in the early gray core stage, you're not shit. Your control is being impaired because your elemental energy is not strong enough to keep your ray element stable. Once you advance to the intermediate stage you will find it easier to create the ray element."
"More like you still can't use it right and we'd better get to the theoretical part. Do you know the correct way to use your ray element, Ulric?"
"No, but I know he is famous for his offensive power, so I must sweat him in a similar way to my fire element. It should be more effective to penetrate a strong defense."
"Wrong! Very wrong, you already have the wind element for a slashing attack to destroy a solid defense, your lightning element must be used the same way I use mine. When I was young, I used my lightning element in this straightforward way and even today I still use it to cover my body and my weapons, but it's not meant to be explosive lightning and burn my enemies."
Around the master's arm a dark purple lightning appeared and circled around it, it wasn't formed by a great amount of elemental energy, but it caused a sense of danger. As if I were hit by this lightning, I wouldn't be able to stand it.
"The most efficient way for you to sweat your ray element is to follow the same path as mine and as your ray element is a fusion of fire and wind, you can strengthen and shape the nature of your ray element. I was born with a characteristic that strengthens the ability of my lightning element to penetrate my target's body and damage my target from the inside, an idiot hit by my lightning and doesn't prevent it from entering his body will have his bones broken and organs injured by mine. attack."
"For people who don't understand the ray element they are only able to see that my ray makes a hole against my enemies, but this is just the entry point for my ray, my target has always been the internal parts of my target's body. I'll teach you how to do this with your ray element, your ray element was meant to affect both your and your enemies' insides, do you understand Ulric?"
"I think so, I really do agree that this seems like a smarter way to sweat out my lightning element than simply using it as a replacement for my fire element when facing an enemy that is more affected by lightning than fire."
"It's easy for you to get the idea."
Suddenly the lightning that is circling the master's arm shot at me, I barely managed to summon my aura before the lightning hit my body. It pierced my aura and started dancing around my body hurting my body, the mistress may have used little energy in this attack, but I can still feel my bones cracking slightly.
It really fucking hurt, I've been hurt before by knives, axes, swords, clubs and rocks, but not one of them has caused me so much pain. I think this is another characteristic of the lightning element, it hurts like hell and I feel like that pain will stay with me for a long time.
It took me a few minutes to resist the lightning element that entered my body, but as its strength diminished, I managed to expel it with my aura at the end. I got up still shaking after being tortured for a few minutes only to see the annoying smile on his face.
"Understand how my lightning element works now? Fun isn't it, although it's more useful against organic targets a golem can still have its runes or cores hit by its ray element, but the more complicated the interior and further away its ray element has to travel through its target's body, but difficult and to control and keep the lightning element working properly."
"The ray I used on your body lasted so long because of the difference in the quality of my elemental energy against your aura, but when you face an enemy with a level closer than yours, there are two ways to keep the elemental ray from damaging the chorus from him for a long period of time, the main one is simply putting even more ray element into your target, the second is even more difficult and using his elemental energy or the environment."
"This second is very difficult to do, even I have great difficulty doing it. The lightning element has a characteristic that makes it more violent when hit by a different energy, if you can control your lightning element to lightly hit your enemy's element or aura, it can be thrashing around inside your target's body. the same way I did to you just now."
"More like I said before this is very difficult to do, after all warriors are warriors and mages are mages. Controlling energy so far from our body is not a warrior's forte."
"Reach out your hand and summon your lightning element again. Just relax, I won't hit you again."
I do as she asked me only to see her do the same, I almost jumped back. I'd rather not try to get hit again and the smile on her face isn't reassuring.
"Relax and focus on the ray's elements, feel the difference between them and the interaction between them. Try to analyze them with your senses and not with your eyes first, it will help you better understand my ray element and replicate its shape in the future."
With my arm close to hers, my lightning element started to interact with the master's lightning element, even with the big difference in quality I could feel that my lightning was trying to imitate the headmistress's lightning bolt of its own free will. This surprised me, but considering that this is my goal, I feel that it might not be that difficult to imitate the master's lightning element.
For almost three hours I could not only feel and study the principal's ray element with my senses without trusting my eyes, but of course after doing this I analyzed the principal's elemental energy with my eyes, both external and internal energy. It would be silly to miss this opportunity.
All in all, it was a fun and useful class, apart from the part where I was electrocuted, I prefer not to repeat this experience again.