"Amazing, I still had some doubts but your progress in controlling your elements is really big and impressive. I have to admit I feel a little jealous."
As I came down from the arena I received a compliment from Captain Raven, he's not a woman who does that often, but he also never shies away from praising a member of his team when they deserve it, she's a good leader. Even when she says she's a little envious I feel in her smile more pride in her having a member of her team be competent than destructive envy.
"Thanks, but I had a lot of help with my training."
"I had it too when I was your age and I haven't progressed that fast, and it's really hard to achieve the full form of your elemental energy in such a short amount of time Ulric. And it took me almost a whole year to have a level of achievement like his, I particularly found his defensive element art of the wind element to be quite peculiar."
"Full form?"
"Do you even know what you are training to achieve?"
Captain Raven gave a surprised and slightly inquisitive look at Balder who was standing next to her, but she only received a curt and somewhat indifferent response.
"I'm not his master, I just helped him a little because it's my job it's up to his mistress to decide when and how these kinds of things are explained, trained and studied. I try to avoid meddling in this way in my students' training to avoid getting in the way of their masters or mistress' plans."
I can't find a mistake in teacher Balder's attitude, he really has a very strict protocol to avoid problems for him. Being a teacher is very difficult.
"Well, I don't have that many responsibilities and I doubt Grimalkin will be annoyed with me for explaining what the full form of elemental energy is. Obviously, his progress is at a speed she didn't anticipate before traveling, if he doesn't know this, he might confuse something and screw up."
"The funeral will be his."
Very dramatic. The mistress wouldn't hurt Captain Raven for her helping me out a little, at most she would use it to take advantage of her to get Captain Raven to do some errand for her without having to pay too much.
"So, what exactly is this complete form."
"Let's get away from the arena a little and I explained to you, there are some rooms for the fighters to stay before the fights, always some empty."
Following Captain Raven, we walked away from the sound of the arena and found an excused room after passing a few guards. The room isn't very big but it's enough for a few people to get together and warm up or discuss something.
"These rooms are usually used for athletes to talk to the arena management, it's never very smart to have that kind of conversation in a public place. These walls are soundproof and sealed with mana so no one can enter the room other than through the door which is guarded by guards, any attempt to enter the room when the lock is on or go through one of the walls will set off alarms."
"A very useful room."
"Yes, but let's get to the reason we're here. You may have noticed that your elemental seed must be changing, a part must be changing to what we call the element's complete form. This complete form is basically a form of superior quality and concentration to the form your element has when you awakened it, the elemental source you use to train is a good example of an elemental energy in its complete form."
This makes sense, but my core is still normal. The only change precipitated in him is that he seems to contain more elemental energy and is easier to control her, but she continues in the same form the training has not changed her form.
"This evolution of your elemental energy is called full form, but it is obviously not the final form that it can achieve. I always found it more accurate to call this form a mature form than a complete form, this form is basically linear so that the elemental energy becomes an energy with defined or unique characteristics."
"You should know that an element can be found in many different forms in nature, even its elemental energy must have unique characteristics when you awaken it these properties are not the focal point of your elemental energy at that time, but may be in the future."
"The initial energy of an elemental seed is quite malleable, but it is not strong enough to develop a non-high-level property, my elemental energy had some characteristics when I awakened it, but they only really became strong enough to cause a real change in my elemental seed after I was able to start evolving my elemental energy to the stage that comes after the full form you are reaching now."
"Complete form is nothing but a stage that the elemental energy of every warrior with an elemental seed must reach after awakening, this stage consists of elemental energy in a more concentrated, stronger state and with a more stable shape. Before this stage your elemental energy does not have such a stable form when you concentrate it, you must have already realized this or you would not have started the evolution of your elemental seed."
This is quite different from what I expected and makes me even more confused with my situation, I don't think my elemental seed within my core has yet started to evolve, but even without having achieved this evolution I seem able to use this complete form of my elemental energy.
Maybe that's why my elemental energy can hurt my body, I haven't really started the evolution process yet, if I keep training this process will start naturally?
"The evolution process or as I prefer maturation of your elemental seed is quite long, the faster your understanding, control and use of your element the faster your elemental seed transformation will be, Ulric. But I have good news for you, right now you are in the longest stage, the bigger your seed transformation the faster the process will be."
"Which is the opposite of the normal process that your core has, to many theories about it, but I particularly like the most straightforward and straightforward I've ever heard. It is a gradual transformation, starting it is difficult because you are changing the nature of your elemental energy which takes a lot of energy, but after half your elemental seed has changed it is able to absorb and process much more elemental energy and that is the explanation of why the speed of this transformation increases with the passage of time."
"Any questions, Ulric?"
"I particularly liked this latest news a lot, now I have faith that I could make good progress before having to go serve the realm and finish this maturing of my elemental seed before the war really starts. About the other information I understood, but I still found some points strange but I believe I know what I have to do now, if I have any questions I will ask for help."
"Well, you've already passed the hardest part which is starting the transformation, now just focus on continuing your training so that your transformation continues to progress, with your speed you should have no problem evolving your elemental seed completely, but after that I advise you to be very careful what you do involving elemental energy."
"Why?"
"As I said before after your seed matures your elemental energy will be ready to start developing its characteristics or properties. This is something very important and usually before the seed fully evolves it's good that you already have a plan ready, because if you don't have your elemental energy you can start to develop it to have some property not so compatible with you. This happens more often than it should."
"Many warriors have the misfortune that their seeds end up developing into a common property, which is not always a bad thing because it has its advantages. A common property of the shadow element is corrosion and resistance, but I preferred to try to develop the suppression property which is a difficult property to improve and takes time to have a big effect on my shadow element."
"The more common the trait, the easier it is to exploit and strengthen it. For you it would be the heat characteristic for your fire element and sharp for your wind element, they are easy to understand characteristics mainly because you can find manuals and heirlooms that have information about these characteristics, but in case you regret the characteristic you started to develop in its elementary seed how to change it is expensive and somewhat difficult."
"Let me try to guess. It is absorbing an elemental source that has developed a property."
"Okay, it's not a mystery after all. But here comes an interesting point that you may not know, changing the properties of your elemental energy doesn't make the property that was replaced disappear completely. I have heard a number of fighters in the past who felt that this was a way of learning and mastering more properties of their element in an easy way by absorbing various sources of different properties of the same or different levels."
"That must have gone terribly wrong."
"Actually, they managed to succeed in having an elemental seed with various properties, and as a bonus they gained much stronger control over their elemental energy and their bodies became more compatible with the fire element. The negative side is that it is impossible to absorb so many properties without incompatibility between some of them, this hurts the elemental seed and the warrior's core and the more properties he will have because of incompatibility and he ends up dying."
"So, I was right about this being a really bad idea."
"Yes, but you missed an interesting point that the monks didn't. They have realized that they can use different elemental sources to temper their body to increase their affinity, but unfortunately no one has achieved this to this day or someone is keeping a very valuable secret on how to develop elemental control of a warrior by contacting various elemental sources."
"This seems like a very interesting way of tempering the body to increase affinity, but there must be a problem with it. Which is?"
"Pain, with each different source you use the greater the pain of the process and the longer it will take for your body to be completely tempered by the elemental source. That's why this kind of madness is only popular with monks, and when I say popular, I mean that only a small amount of crazy monks train like this without freaking out or dying from the pain."
"So, the lesson here is basically finding an elemental source that you like to absorb, preferably one that has the same trait as your elemental energy and after that you'll have to find an elemental source with the same trait but with a higher level to keep improving your elemental energy?"
"If you want a fast advance on the elemental path, yes, but it has to be done correctly and patiently or you will be very screwed, but also remember that training to improve your control of your elemental energy and increase your understanding of your elemental energy and the element itself as a whole, are also ways to progress on this path."
"Thank you for telling me about all this, Captain Raven. I thought a certain someone would have told me everything beforehand, but apparently he left a lot out."
My hint was ignored by my target.