After finishing my theory class with my master, she only gave me one objective for me to fulfill, interpreting her words I have been training in many arias, but now it is becoming less effective. It seems I have to focus on a single aria and while I still need to strengthen my body and core, she ordered me to train my lightning element and even forbade me to enter the dungeons or even visit the city.
But this last part of her orders has a different motive than helping me focus on training, when I questioned her about it, she told me that during this week and the next the city won't be as safe as it currently is. Although she only briefly explained the matter, it seems that several strong groups are coming to town because of the rumor of the ancient ruin and this will diminish the safety of the town and I'm kind of a target.
When she said that I even wanted to deny it, but unfortunately, she's right, after all I've been targeted by some enemies more than once and with a city in a chaotic state, I'm an easy target, I texted Captain Raven since I couldn't go to the dungeons or fight at the club.
That's how I focused my free time on strengthening my control of the lightning element, even though it's impossible for me to be able to use it outside my body in the same way as my fire and wind element, before reaching the intermediate stage I can still master its use close to my body. And this is the first step for me to increase my combat power according to the master, with a new element focused on attacking the entire body of my enemies my survivability will increase a lot, reflecting on my past fights I realized that avia several fights I could have won more easily if I had the lightning element in my attacks, with when I fought the black knight golem, the lightning element would have been able to get through his strong defense and only accumulate in his body and attack his core, the uta would have been much easier that way.
During this week I wasn't the only one busy, several of my friends have focused on their own training and some of them are focused on mastering new skills, it seems they are very motivated to prepare for the training camp which won't be easy. Even my friends who didn't pass the test are focusing on training to try to strengthen themselves, the Holt brothers are in a situation similar to mine, they'll both have a big boost in power when their stage core goes up, in their case the aura of them will be able to manifest out of their body more easily allowing them to fight more equally against elemental seed warriors, it seems that both are already able to manifest their aura out of body but still can't fire as an effective strike , this is pretty impressive for early stage fighters.
It seems that falling behind has really inflamed their competitive spirit, although for Sten I believe his motivation is more focused on Ingredi than simply falling behind. The mentality of a warrior and really able to strengthen your will power that controls their aura, I had already heard of this phenomenon and unfortunately, I was not able to experience it, in reality I prefer not to experience it because the most common way it appears is when the warrior faces a very life-threatening situation, when he is already facing his physical and mental limits, and rarely does he appear in a passive manner as he did with the Holt brothers.
Before my surprise practice class happened, I got a bigger mastery over my lightning element, but my mastery is still rough but now I'm able to use it in combat and am able to mimic the master's lightning bolt in a good grail of success, but there's still a big difference between my radius and hers. I've only managed to replicate the properties of his thunder at a more basic level, I don't even know how effective it is the only reference I have and when I accidentally hit Wulfgar as he tried to shoot my lightning element away from my body.
He got really angry and sank his teeth deep into my arm, I was suppressed by the force of his jaw, the bite tore my skin and flesh deep, but it didn't reach the bone so much because of my aura and the fact that Wulfgar wasn't there. really trying to seriously injure my arm and rather repay the pain it suffered. But it still amazes you Wulfgar's strength for a tier one magical beast who is still maturing his physique, he should already be able to kill tier two magical animals while still far from reaching his level one limit.
After this incident he stayed away from me when he realized I was training my lightning element, but towards the end of the week I received another letter from the teacher informing me that I should go to a room that is off the students' aria. Even after I complained to her letter keeps showing up a death threat than a communiqué normally, she really likes writing on black paper with red ink.
When I arrived in the room, I realized what kind of class it would be, in front of me a large illusory rune matrix the colored mist is covering a good part of the room, it is extremely similar to the matrix I used during the test at the institute before, the only one difference and its scale. This matrix must have been made for the use of a few people, not a dozen.
"I hope you trained well during this week, because your test today will be focused on using the lightning element in real combat, don't think that this rune matrix is as simple as what you were before. This matrix is for use by teachers and a few students who are considered worthy, the monsters you will face here are no different from the monsters you find in the middle floors of a high-level dungeon, these monsters are much more skillful and intelligent than the monsters you are used to, Ulric."
I feel that this matrix will have the same problem as the last one, it will make me fight unarmed. I'm absolutely sure.
"What do you mean by mid-story monsters? And high-level dungeons?"
"Like this? Haven't you researched dungeons before, Ulric?"
"I researched about the dungeons in the city and only a few famous dungeons in other arias in the kingdom. I didn't have to spend a lot of my time researching all the books on dungeons in the library, if I did that, I wouldn't have time to train."
"Idiot, even if you don't have time you have to read the books with the fucking introductory title, in the case of the dungeons to three introductory books that go from beginner to advanced. If you had read them, you would understand that the different classifications for the dungeon and for the division of floors."
"The city dungeons are all high level, even the burrow that is considered the easiest of the dungeons is a high level dungeon, this level is calculated through the energy in the dungeon door, the bigger it is, the stronger the monsters inside the dungeon and better will be the materials and items you can take from it, if you were to compare the basic dungeon to a high level with the same amount of floor, the monsters from the final floors of the basic dungeon would have the same strength as the monsters starts from the middle floors of the high-level dungeon."
"You must have been able to see the strength of the monsters from the intermediate floors already, with the group of night owls you faced them in the dungeons and left them, you only went to the beginning levels of the intermediate floors, to be able to cross to the end of these floors you would have to have a group made up of red and orange core people who are competent. The monsters on the upper floors are something only the elites of the realm should face."
"Do you understand now what kind of enemy you will face in the matrix?"
"Yes, but will I face one enemy or several?"
"Obviously it's going to be one, I want you to be able to fight the monster in a duel. If I wanted to see you being devoured by monsters I would throw you into a dungeon alone, I wouldn't waste my time and money using a rune matrix, now into it."
"We've wasted too much time already, and leave your weapons out here. During training you can only use your fists to fight, and the only way you can defeat the monsters is to use your lightning element to damage the inside of their bodies, and no more suffocating them."
So, I entered the center of the matrix and it didn't take me a moment to be engulfed by the fog.