When I left the building that the training room was in, I realized that I trained longer than I had realized, I think I focused too much on training and didn't even notice the time pass. By the position of the sun, the lunch hour should be over, I thought that there would still be an hour or an hour and a half to go before noon.
Where would teacher Balder be? He doesn't have lunch in the cafeteria so he must be in his office. I hope he's at the institute.
After running for a few minutes, I knock on the teacher's office door, but I get no response at all. I guess I'm just unlucky, since he's not here I'd better go get something to eat, but when I checked into the cafeteria the lunch period was over and I can't wait to eat here anymore.
Maybe going to the city for a bite to eat isn't bad and the other option would be to eat rations I still have in my room if Wulfgar hasn't eaten them already. Having a good lunch is very important to rest in order to get back to training in a good state.
I went into the first big restaurant that was close to the institute, the food here shouldn't be cheap at all, but there's nothing wrong with spending money on good quality food. After I placed my order, I focused on the ambiance of the restaurant and the view from the second floor while I waited for the food to arrive.
To my surprise I see the person I was looking for, what are the chances of that?
Teacher Balder is having lunch here with a company, from my table I can't see the face of the person who is with the teacher, she has her back to me, but by the pointy ears she has I know she's an elf.
I think that interrupting the teacher's meeting is not a good way to ask him a favor, after returning to the institute I look for him again. I know they are on a date because not only are they happy neither is one of them in armor or normal clothes, both are in plain clothes but it is easy to notice that they are made with expensive fabrics.
It's a shame you can't see the teacher's pair, it will be a great way to play with him. Yeah, he knows that because the moment he looked in my direction I waved at him and that surprised him.
Balder is a very discreet person if it weren't for my mistress, I would basically know nothing about him. My presence here obviously doesn't make him happy, but he barely reacted to having noticed me.
But while I was enjoying and finishing my meal the couple decided to leave the restaurant and I was shocked when the elf got up. Obviously, she's very pretty and her clothes just amplify her beauty especially her generous cleavage, but none of that is the reason I'm shocked, I know this elf very well I've spent a lot of time with her and I've learned a lot from her.
Calen stared at me with her stoic face, but that didn't stop him from sensing her discomfort and embarrassment. Calen is a very beautiful elf and popular and this made her have a very aggressive, violent, direct and proud attitude when she is in her workshop.
She is a very competent craftswoman who had to put up with a lot of hardships in her life for being a very beautiful woman, this made her wear an 'armor' while she created her workshop, taking her hands off her face is uncovered her body is always covered in baggy clothes or armor to always be seen as an artisan and not a pretty woman, at least that's what Lofar commented to me because I'm not crazy enough to ask her that directly.
It took a long time for her to let go of being hostile to myself at Lofar's recommendation that he's a friend of hers. On second thought, Balder and Calen should make a good pair and look happy, but when they're both looking at me, I feel like I'm in trouble. Why did I choose this restaurant today? I should have eaten leftover rations from the trip.
I went straight to teacher Balder's office to chat with him and upon entering the room I received an intense look from him.
"What do you want, Ulric?"
What a bad mood, didn't he just go on a date? Did Calen fight with him?
"Well, I don't know if you know but the director had a sudden urge to travel and that's why I was left without help for my training. I did not come here to ask you to supervise me during training, but I would like to ask for some tips and guidance on my training, would you have time to help me a little?"
"Did the director travel? I thought it was strange not seeing her today, but I thought she had gone to solve some problem in the city, did she say where she traveled or how long it would take to get back?"
"No and no, she just said that she had already left and left some training prepared for me to do, do you have time to give me some advice? I think my training is something you know well."
He's a lot more normal now, I think the news that the director disappeared without warning distracted him from his bad mood.
"I wouldn't be so sure about that, Ulric, the director can be very creative and untraditional in her tortures, I mean training. What is the problem you are facing?"
"She gave me an exercise to manipulate elemental energy from tier one sources, I started with the wind element source and obviously had a hard time doing the training. My first attempts my energy was absorbed by the elemental source, but after many hours I managed to focus my energy in a more resistant way of a small wind plate is to shape the wind vortex."
"The problem is that my method seems a little wrong or too crude. I don't think he is quite right and with him it would be difficult to do the later levels of training, I wanted to know how should I do this training? Do you have any tips to make my life easier?"
A smile formed on the teacher's face.
"So, you decided to focus on your elemental energy, I thought you would focus more on your aura you have quite advanced control over it. But I didn't expect your first training to be this, your mistress is really cruel sometimes."
"Isn't this basic training to improve in the way of an elemental warrior?"
"No, this is not initial training, to be exact it is already a little advanced. The headmistress must have great confidence in her fundamentals to skip the introductory training and go straight to using elemental sources. The method you are using is not wrong, but it is far from good."
That's good, I'm not doing the training completely wrong.
"The two most practical ways to manipulate external elemental energy for a warrior, for obvious reasons neither of them is easy since this is the mages' territory and not ours. I will start by explaining what you will gain from this training, without understanding this part it will be more difficult for you to do the training correctly."
"Warrior's fight using their elemental energy because it is difficult to use the natural or wild elemental energy that is in the environment without the help of the mana that is along with the elemental energy, I believe you must have fought in an environment rich in your elemental energy. "
"You must have used the elemental energy of the environment to feed your elemental energy so that your movements would become stronger is not to have used the elemental energy of nature along with your own. These two methods may look similar, but they are completely different."
"By using your elemental energy together with that of nature your attack will be much more violent, unstable and strong, but to be able to do that you would have to have a control of the elemental energy of the environment almost as great as yours which is only possible when a warrior has a silver core or in very unique and extremely rare situations where ambient energy is abnormally easy to use, but even then, it is very difficult to do so. It is even though the amount of energy he can manipulate from the environment is very small compared to a mage, his training is not intended to make you use elemental energy that is not yours."
"Your training is for you to better understand your elements, which is why a level one elemental source is used and not the elemental energy that is around you or in some elemental material. The energy of the elemental source of level one tends to be very heterogeneous and that makes it not even have a very strong property as the elemental sources of higher levels have, it is basically elemental energy of nature more concentrated that formed a more fixed form, but hasn't developed a strong identity yet."
"Your method is not wrong, but you are using your control over your energy to move source energy, you have to use your energy to communicate by resonating with source energy to shape it. There are two ways to do this for you now."
"First and merging some of your aura into your elemental energy is so it will be easier for you to transmit your will to the elemental source energy, but this is kind of stealing in training. The second most difficult way is to just use your elemental energy to shape the energy of the source."
"The tip I'm going to give you is quite simple, you're right in focusing your elemental energy, but you were wrong in form. A hard rectangle is not a normal shape for the wind element energy of the elemental source, so you can push it and not make it obey your will."
"You must make your elemental energy in the form identical to that of the elemental source and make them resonate, this can only be achieved when you understand the wind element of the elemental source."
"You should start by studying the elemental source with your senses and try to imitate it which is a good exercise to feel the properties of the wind, after that is to use your concentrated elemental energy so that it resonates with the source energy, the more energy you concentrate the easier it will be unless you use a lot of energy because in doing that your energy was to absorb elemental energy from the source."
"Shouldn't I use little elemental energy to shape the elemental energy of the source?"
"You have to learn to crawl before you run, Ulric, first the basics then the advanced. If you master the fundamentals of each stage of training the next stage will be easier, knowing your elements is not something that can be done in a day or even a year, the elements are very complex and you will have to study them during your lifetime whole and will still be able to discover new things about them."
"I think I understand how this training works now; I'm going to go back to training to see if I can resonate with the wind element. If I have any more questions, I'll come back, professor."
"Good luck, you're going to need it to reach the goals the headmistress should be expecting you to achieve."
Now I'm feeling down, why did he have to remind me of that?