I really have a problem now what do I choose? I have to choose something to be my main 'weapon', from the master's tone obviously this 'weapon' is not necessarily a weapon like my bow and sword. This choice should encompass the fighting styles I've experimented with over the past few years, but how to choose one.
"Too many doubts?"
The master's smile of superiority and amusement is a nuisance.
"A little bit."
"Relax, I will help you as I am the best master in the entire world, you are very lucky to have me. When I was in your situation my mother basically told me to take care of this problem on my own, it was not her job to help me, and she was not only my mother but my teacher as well. See how lucky you are to have me?"
"Yes, I am the luckiest person in the world, please help me master."
"Your sarcasm has been repaired and noted and is going to turn into a lot of suffering later on during your training."
I should have kept my good closed.
"I know a lot about your life, but from what you believe I know so I have a good sense of the potential paths you have to choose from. Obviously, I'm not going to say it's a good idea to follow my options completely, but I believe they can help you make your choice. Ulric."
"You learned various fighting styles with various types of physical weapons, but that doesn't mean that choosing a mace, axe, spear, shield or even your fists and legs are valid options, especially the last option if you chose this option, I would break your members because you are not a monk."
This makes a lot of sense, but it basically doesn't help me at all because I've never considered either of these options as viable.
"The 'weapons' I believe you can choose are your bow if you want to be a ranged warrior, your blades if you want to be a duelist, if you choose to be a hunter is to improve your ambush and hunting skills, you can focus on your elemental energy which is a bit unusual among fighters even those who have great elemental skills tend to focus on aura and not elemental energy and as a last option is to focus on your aura."
"You might find some of them strange, but they're not what would be strange if you decided to focus on runes as your main path. You are talented at them, but you are not a researcher but a warrior you study runes to be useful in a practical way for you, otherwise you would not have concentrated on creating runic arrangements to blow up your problems."
This is a little different from what I expected.
"You seem to have made the point, but I think a few examples might help you?"
"I don't think they could get in my way."
"I wouldn't be sure about that, Ulric."
"Most warriors focus on their aura and not their main weapon, many warriors are called swordsmen or spearmen but their focus is not on the weapon but on their aura. This is a very common mistake, the most common case and misses the focus of a defensive warrior, his focus is not on using a shield but on defending, a shield can be a very useful equipment as a defensive weapon, but to several warriors who don't use shields but are defensive warriors."
"What is similar to this among the options that I believe are good for you is the path of being a hunter or of aura, being a hunter is not linked to the bow or a blade but the way you hunt your prey, that is the way you are closer now, Ulric."
"During the last few years, you have faced many enemies that were mostly magical beasts that in direct combat you would have great difficulty killing them or would be impulsive to kill them. Your last target was the little dragon, you must not have thought of facing him directly for a single moment, your first and only thought was how to ambush him, was it?"
She's right, I never considered facing an enemy like the little dragon head on or directly and I don't think that's wrong, I think the path of a duelist that should be a direct combat path is not compatible with me. One less option.
"Intended that tip, I ruled out focusing on close combat."
"Well, the aura path and the elemental energy path are very similar because they both focus on using your energy in a better way. A warrior who focuses on his aura aims to dominate it to the point that he can do anything with it, it's not just using it as you may have seen by now, intermediate warrior uses his aura not only to strengthen his glass but create your weapons, armor, wings and attacks out of pure aura that are not an extension of your weapon."
"Warriors can solidify their aura in any way they want and this can have unique effects, in my family records there are mentions of a warrior who used their aura to fight without materializing it into a more common form consistent with armor or a representation of your weapon on a larger scale. He focused his aura in such a way that his solid aura that flowed like water, he mastered a river of aura that covered him was used for both defense and offense and served as the basis for his elemental attacks."
"The aura and something limited only by your creativity is the lack of control over your aura to realize your vision, Ulric, this is also the important point of elemental energy, but the main focus is not on controlling the element but knowing it the more characteristics you discover about your element, the greater the power of a warrior who decided to focus on his element, this is the path I chose by the way."
"Surprised by that?"
"Honestly no, I've never seen the master fight before and I've never tried to guess how you fight by the equipment you wear. I thought I was probably going to get it wrong, so I didn't even try."
This comment was a huge blow to the master's happiness, it seems that she actually thought I was very curious to know what kind of warrior she is. I'd even admit that I'm very curious mainly because she's the only warrior with the element of death I've ever seen, but I won't admit it to her. When you find happiness in those little ephemeral moments in life, you have to enjoy it.
"Do you want me to explain more about a fighter who focuses more on elemental energy or do you already think you have enough information to choose which 'weapon' you will dedicate your focus to? As I'm an elemental warrior I can tell you a few things about this path if you're interested, and I skipped the bow path because it's pretty simple to understand because its name is pretty straightforward, a path focused on using a bow. "
The master is right about the meaning of choosing a bow as my main weapon, I've never had any doubts about that, but it would be interesting to know more about the elemental path more information shouldn't hurt.
"I think it would help a lot to know more about a warrior focused on elemental energy."
"Don't worry, I'll try to influence you to choose this path because it's the path I chose. So, I will tell you one good thing and one bad thing about this path."
"The good thing is that focusing on elemental control and that as aura the elemental energy and capable of supporting various tactics like the ones you are used to, you don't know this but it is difficult to ambush a warrior, mage and magical beast. The reason for this involves both the target of the ambush and the person trying to ambush it."
"Is that your way of saying that choosing the hunter option is wrong?"
A crooked smile appeared on the director's face who was very excited, I don't think she realized that she had just pointed out a weakness in another way by accident.
"Not exactly, I'll be honest I've never fought or befriended anyone who went down that path, he's not very popular, but he must have some way around this problem. Let's focus on the problem that the ambush tactic has when it involves high-level people and beasts."
"When a high-level fighter, mage, or beast that has elemental energy in its body becomes stronger, the elemental energy affects its user's surroundings. When a magical beast reaches level five and its body affects the environment around it, the longer it stays in one place the greater the changes in the environment. Historical accounts tell us that level eight beasts that fail to advance to level nine can fall into hibernation for long periods of time and have a chance of not even waking up because of the injuries he sustained from failing to advance, in these places the environment is completely altered by the element of the magical beast."
"Deserts, areas full of volcanoes and huge areas of continent were submerged in water because of magical beasts that went into hibernation. Obviously, this is a completely different scale than what a fighter or mage is capable of, but on a much smaller scale fighters and mages emit elemental energy from their cup and that makes them stand out in their environment."
"Because of that, it's hard to ambush, as it's hard to stay hidden in the environment without interfering with it when you have a red core or higher. Taking suppression arts and magic tools to suppress the energy that oozes from a warrior or mage who has negative effects, is to focus on mastery of elemental energy, i am in front of you right next to you and without using your eyes you should not feel my elemental energy."
This is true, I don't feel the director's elemental energy, she and her aura are completely contained in her body.
"You may have known more people who have a red core or higher and not feel even an aura pressing down on their body, this is because those who don't focus on mastering elemental energy are using a very popular magical tool to suppress it. This has become a rule because the energy emitted by a red core warrior can annoy those with a gray or green core, but for a black core or no core it can be injured by that energy."
"I guess it goes without saying that a silver core warrior might have a passive aura that could kill you just from being in the same neighborhood as him, Ulric. That's one of the reasons these powerful figures don't live in the same places as us or in places that have formations to suppress the elemental energy emitted by them."
"This is scary, I knew that the more powerful a warrior is, the further away he is from a 'normal' human, but I didn't think their presence alone could be deadly."
"Well, that's the truth. Now the bad information, to advance your understanding of your element you have to find opportunities in nature which is not at all easy, a warrior who focuses his aura only has to focus on knowing and developing his aura which is much easier."
"Before I became the director a few years ago I spent a whole year in seclusion to sweat a high-level ray source, compatible with me and which I was very lucky to get I spent so much time and it was a huge torture that had a great chance from killing myself to tempering my body and core with the source of lightning. It took me all this time because I used rune matrices and took it easy, and thanks to that my understanding and potency of the lightning element is much higher than what would be normal for someone who has the same type of core."
"This is amazing and pretty scary."
"I know, so what's your choice or do you need a few minutes to decide?"