After realizing that my new abilities with my fire element are going to cause me to spend even more money as these explosive arrows won't be able to be reusable, it really makes it difficult to use this tactic and be happy.
But my animation took another hit when I tried to use both the wind and fire element in the new forms at the same time, I almost lost my fingertips when the two elemental energies started fighting each other. It seems that it is very difficult to use both new forms of elemental energy at the same time, the result is quite explosive and this time I didn't like causing an explosion.
My lightning element also improved during this training, after my elemental seed resonated twice because of my fire and wind elements, it became much easier to manipulate the lightning element that came from their fusion. I can use it almost as well as the wind and fire element, because of that it can complete training with the elemental source of lightning.
Like the other elements the lightning element of the fountain was much stronger and wild which surprised me a lot, the lightning element was always violent, but after focusing my senses on the elemental energy of the fountain I realized that my energy was very stable.
The source lightning element was the personification of instability and randomness, the lightning element is shaped like a thread like the wind element is fire, but they looked more like a thin needle and deadly that travels in all directions hitting each other. other. I even thought about putting my hand on it to feel it with my skin, but I had the good sense to test it with my aura coated hand first and even with this extra layer of defense, my hand was injured by the lightning element.
It wasn't a big wound, but enough to tear my skin and bruise my flesh.
I was very excited to copy this new form, but it has only proven to be too painful and too wild. I managed to recreate this form but not manipulate it like the fire and wind element, I could use it to manipulate the elemental source to the point of completing the first three exercises, but I couldn't get past the cubic form.
I was barely able to hold the four-sided shape tight without getting deformed, that was the most I could accomplish right now and I don't have a lot of plans to focus too much on the lightning element in this shape. I want to focus my lightning element practice on applying it in combat, but I'm still wasting a lot of energy because of the savagery of this lightning element form when I try to use a lightning sword they just spread too much, it's very beautiful visually but it's still a waste of energy.
In my arrows the lightning element tends to make me miss my target because the lightning on the arrow made it tremble slightly and this caused my arrows to develop a small deflection that doesn't hurt much against a large target, but when you aim at a target's head is his arrow cuts his hair or rips out his dark circles instead of destroying a part of his skull when he tries to dodge it is a fatal flaw for an archer.
But the destructive effect of this way is really very useful in close combat now for my style, my lightning element usually has good penetration power, but its power is not that different from my blade enhanced with my fire or wind element I just he had to choose which element was most compatible to get through his defense.
Only when I overlaid my flames and wind to have a stronger blow made using a lightning blade less useful, but now it only made my strike stronger in close combat. But it's still a shame that the lightning element draws a lot of attention and consumes my energy at a very high speed, even with my improvement in the fusion of my elements that decreases the expense of creating the lightning element can't overcome the ferocious consumption of this new trump card.
Only with a short period of training I had a very good improvement in my combat capabilities, it makes me feel that I chose the right path is that I am on the right path in my training created by mistress and supervised by Balder, but nothing is perfect now I have again the problem of having a great expenditure of energy to fight with my power to the maximum with an insufficient amount of energy reserves in my body.
And unfortunately, there isn't even a solution to this other than increasing my core state or level like I did before when evolving my core to gray color. With the boredom accumulating I decided to do something different besides training, I thought what was my best option and they all had the real combat element.
As I pondered what to do to test my new skills and have fun in a real fight a solution popped up, to be precise it hit me in the ass when I was heading to Calen's workshop to order some new arrows and face the possibly embarrassing situation.
Before I realized it Captain Raven was giving me a headlock as we walked down the street, if it hadn't been for my lack of stamina or the beaming smile on her face, I think we would have gotten a lot of attention. I was even tempted to scream for help just to see how the captain would solve this problem, but when I thought I would be punished by the captain later I decided to keep quiet.
"I am really glad to reveal Captain Raven, I was very concerned about the night owls you seem to have been very actively involved in the disputes between the nobles."
"How cute, but you must remember that we are adventurers. Anyone who fears challenges should have this occupation, but it's also wise to know when to change their routine after a few months doing quests for the nobles I started turning down all jobs involving the nobles."
"So, you've been on vacation a long time? Entering dungeons sometimes to make a little money?"
"No and no, when we stopped doing quests for the nobles, we went to do some quests for the kingdom. This is confidential information so don't spread it, some groups of trusted adventurers with unique characteristics were employed by the royal family and temples to hunt, track and kill many bad elements that have been scattered throughout the kingdom, if you understand me, the guild served as an intermediary for these tasks."
"This is even more dangerous than killing warriors employed by nobles, I particularly avoided getting involved in this kind of work. A certain genius excelled in the bone-playing area, had a nice bounty placed on his head, but in the end, he ended up making it out alive and some unfortunate students ended up dead."
"I appreciate your concern, but we are not students who don't know their limits. It's not the first time I've hunted this kind of target, my family has a very close relationship with some temples so I've had good training in how to deal with this kind of target."
"I heard you've been closed in on training, I was really sad when you didn't even seem to say hi to us Vera was really upset with you, I'd bring you some sweets to calm her down or she can get physical with you."
"Thank you for the warning. I've really been focusing on my training since the mortal test was over."
"So, you're going to be enlisted in the kingdom in a few months, we're also in the same situation. After doing a few quests to eliminate some problems in the kingdom we have accumulated a good amount of wealth as nobles pay very well, now the whole group is focused on spending the savings we gathered in the last two years to increase our strength."
"So, are you going to participate in the war?"
"There is no way not to participate, we are adventurers, but I, Vera and Dumah are nobles and that makes our participation in the war mandatory. I even tried to talk the others out of the kingdom or hide in the city the war ends, but they have been resisting this idea a lot and they want to keep the group together and acting during the war."
"You don't look very excited about it."
"I'm not, I wanted them to avoid war. Many people will die and groups like ours will become disposable groups as the conflict reaches its peak, I hope you stay away from the big confrontations when that time comes, Ulric. Even if you have to blatantly flee combat you should not get into that kind of conflict, you are too weak to make a difference and too young to die for the realm."
"Thanks, I really want to avoid this worst-case scenario, but I believe it would be possible since the groups I will be assigned to were made to risk the students' lives during the beginning of the conflict and not at the end of it and the mistress said she will use a few favors to keep me from entering the 'real' battlefield."
"That's fine, but it looks like you're bored with my training. It's not easy to focus on training for such a long period at your age, how about a relatively safe and pretty violent distraction. It even has the bonus of earning some money."
"What kind of distraction? I thought the fight club slowed down a bit."
"It decreases, but it ended up inspiring some other similar sports, many nobles loved the fights and it seems that this type of club is getting popular. Interested?"
"Yes, but I would like to have more details."
"It's not a problem."
As I made my way to Calen's workshop the captain told me about a very interesting new club.