After reaching second order of mysticism his view of the world changed now, he could see some little balls floating around in the air if he looked with much focus.
"These spheres must be elements that I had read about" Robert thought.
Elements were the source of all mystic arts. A capable mystic can even control them fully and stop his opponent from using any spell of that particular element. He had heard that truly powerful mystic can isolate all the elements from an area so that no spell could be used in that area irrespective of the element.
But there were some exceptions like the soul element it was one of the most mysterious element and nobody knew if it could be blocked.
After some deliberation he thought not to tell his parents about his breakthrough as it was too suspicious.
"Now that I have reached 2nd order mysticism lets practise to reach 3rd order refiner" Robert thought.
He gathered Mana in the form of a stable ball, but it was harder than he expected it to be but after numerous tries he was able to make a ball of mana in his hand.
"That was easier than expected, I thought it would take weeks to make the ball but looks like I was wrong" Robert thought.
He then tried putting it near his heart 'Now comes the difficult part' he tried connecting the mana flow line near his hart to the ball of mana but as soon as the two connected he felt an immense stress on his body and the ball dissipated.
"What was that?" Robert thought." I will ask father tomorrow ".
Due to all that stress he experienced even for a brief time he was exhausted and fell asleep as soon as his head touched the bed.
The next morning, he woke up and got ready to meet his parents and decided not to tell them about his mystic breakthrough.
At breakfast he met his parents and told them about the strange stressful feeling when he tried connecting the ball to his heart.
His mother sternly looked at his father and said, "You didn't tell him"." I wanted him to experience some things on his own" his father said.
His mother sighed and said" To breakthrough to next order you must first push it to it very limit increase all aspect of your body to the limit only then can your breakthrough. It is the same for both mystic art and refining the only difference is in mysticism you have to gather a lot of information whereas in refining you have to train your body".
Now he understood what the problem was, so he decided to go to the training ground after breakfast.
When he arrived at the training ground all the soldiers were training some were lifting weight, some running, some practising sword, and some were target practising.
Robert was impressed seeing such dedication even in another world. When the soldiers saw that it was Robert, they stopped training and saluted him.
Robert nodded and continued walking around to see all the different kind of training exercise method and finally stopped in front of a weightlifting machine he set the weight to the lowest and lifted it.
It was heavy and put a strain on him, but it was not enough to push his limit, so he increased it to the next level and lifted it was quite heavy but then he heard a sound that he was waiting for.
"Strength increased by 0.05".
Robert was quite happy as his hypothesis was right. After that he tried running which unlike his expectation did not increase his dexterity but his strength.
After that he spent the whole day lifting weight and running around the field even the soldiers were impressed by the dedication of their young master.
After he returned home that night exhausted, he wanted to sleep immediately but he first called out his stats.
Strength 19(100)
Endurance 22(100)
Dexterity 11(100)
Intelligence 11(100)
Wisdom 9(100)
He was impressed by his increase in power, but he still could not increase his dexterity, but he thought he would increase it in a latter date right now he would increase his other stats.
He had some idea how to increase his intelligence but wisdom he did not.
He wanted to ask his father about swordsmanship, but he was too tired to do so he thought he would do so the next day and fell asleep thinking this.