"Alright come at me!"
It was morning, we had all woken up and had a big breakfast. All of our appetite had become unreal. Since we trained all day, We had to get our energy. Today we were all having a 2 on 1 spar session. We sparred everyday now since all of us were here to build up strength, stamina and polish our techniques. and at some point, single training didn't help that much.
This was the best way to really see how exhausted we can get while fighting. now Systy could also keep up with us, she had developed a really powerful way to use mana. it was just like how I use magic without any incantation or anything. but in her case, she manipulates mana just like her hand and feet, I thought she was capable of doing something like this but seeing her result was just something else.
Alice too of course didn't need to enchant any spells or anything, she also manipulated mana like that but I heard her say that she was able to do that from her birth.
Very few people were able to use magic in this way, they could even be counted by hand so Systy also being able to do this is very lucky on our part. Anyway back to Systy, in these 2 years her growth had been steady, her basic abilities grew to the point where she could even defeat my former self with power to spare. First she became physically stronger. Since she was a swordsman, it was mandatory for her, then she increased her mana pool and followed with overall stamina. me learing about impurities in ones body helped both of them using my Miasma to cleans as much as I can, which increased their mana pool drastically.
Although Systy still didn't have strength like me and Alice, where we can blow anything away with sheer wind force of our punch, she could easily knock us out by hitting any critical area with near superhuman strength on our body. so it could be said that she was strong and a technique based fighter mage.
"Haah!!" both of them came at me with blinding speed. Any mage who looks at this spar would surely be flabbergasted since close quarter combat and mage doesn't add up but.
Shrrhrhshsshshrhsrh!
Booooooom!!!
Two different sounding attacks hit me from point blank range; both of them were at least 5 meters away from me but they had used flash steps to get near me in the blink of an eye or maybe even faster.
And when they were near me, Systy extended her left hand toward me, with a shrill sound. Huge shards of ice lances hit me from her hand. it was unlike an ice arrow or anything else, she was nuking me with ice bombs. every one of the ice shards that hit me was so sharp that it could pierce through any normal fighter like a paper. And of course it was cold! and finally with every impact the lances broke apart like glass and affected my skin with tiny particles.
On the opposite, Alice also extended her arm towards me the same way and used a concentrated explosion that looked small but it hit so heavy that If I were not holding the ground using a flash step stance, I would have easily flung out of the field. her explosion's held so much concentrated force now that Alice was a walking nuke in my book.
She had learned how to use explosions effectively. I had taught her the science behind explosions as well, not like a professor. I was not a genius in science class but I knew the basic principle behind explosions, so I tried to explain to her. In the end, Alice's explosions became completely different from before.
Now it was like she was shooting bullets of explosions from her hand and on impact it would double the force and destruction it should have done! It not only saved her body from enduring the shocks, she even was able to use less mana. Both contributed to her stamina and now she could fight longer and harder.
So as these two mercilessly showered me with these killer normal moves, I held my ground and punched each of them, super speed punches that made impact at point blank range, Alice gets flung over a long distance but I saw her guard against the punch. The smoke of the explosions should have stopped her from seeing the punch, even though she couldn't see, her instincts made her guard as she got flung to the distance from the punch.
Systy had already made a Ice shield from thin air and Although my punches could easily break earth and even decimate small mountains if I put my back to it, her shield still held and blocked my punch like a mountain.
After a successful block, Systy was still there, she punched straight at my face.
As I tried to get my hand to block her punch though, I saw Systy's fist, which was now encased in a ice gauntlet to make further damage, I couldn't move my hand, the shield that I punched had caught my hand and already binded it with strong Ice, since the shield was firmly pushed in the ground, I had to struggle to move my hand
But in the meantime, Systy's gauntlet had already arrived on my face. I moved my head and used my left hand to block the punch. Although I had blocked it, Systy gave a daring smile and before I knew it, a strong concentrated explosion happened where I was standing. Systy had already deployed Ice shields to block it, as I realized that it was a trap, Alice had deployed an explosion mine under me.
BOOOOOOOOOOOOM MMMMM!!!!!
An earth Shattering sound followed by a huge gust of heated wind assaulted the near vicinity. I was blasted from where I had been standing. if not for Miasma covering me, I would have looked like a charred mess.
"Haaaah! Khu! You guys are ruthless!" As I said from getting up from under the Wreckage, I saw Alice and Systy grinning at me.
"Say's the one who punched a girl with enough force to break a mountain!" Alice replied while launching forward again. This time she used an explosion like a booster of a rocket leaving clouds of dust behind to propel herself towards me. It clearly showed that she had improved on her use of fire magic to increase her mobility.
if it wasn't for my extreme perceptiveness, I never would have seen her coming. But as I was starting to dodge the attack since blocking it would practically repeat what just happened. I saw that Systy had already binded my legs with Ice, I never even saw when she did it. There wasn't even a sound; it was attacked at light speed. these two really overwhelmed me, if didn't have the upper hand in strength and defense, I would have been long wiped out.
Since there was no other way to go, I blocked Alice's incoming punch but she didn't stop. She started to make random punches at all my critical areas. kidney punches, nose punches, uppercut to the chin and stomach punches. It was a barrage. the speed increased and before long it only looked like a blur, her hands moved with fire infused in them, the heat pierced my Miasma skin and lowered my tolerance my heating my body from the inside.
"Hehe, there's more where that came from!" Alice started to punch me even more but this time every punch came at me even faster and at the end of it rather than simple heat. explosions went off making even more destruction. I was blocking all of Alice's punches with great success until she started throwing in small explosions. it didn't damage me but it made me lose my eyesight, the flashes were troublesome! and since it was becoming quite a hassle, I forgot that Systy was still behind me.
"Shees!'' Before I could do any attack, I felt Systy behind me but it was too late!
"You forgot me Master!" she said as her hand grasped behind my head and without delay I was blinded and I couldn't even move my body, not even a hair could move.
It was because I was inside a huge block of Ice… Yes that was right, Systy had frozen me Alive. It may sound cold but I can tell you it was a lot colder then you might think. Now I see why Alice refrained from using fire this time and the reason why my surroundings were getting colder even while Alice was masking it by increasing my innate heat with her explosions.
"These girls are really getting out of hand!!" I said from inside the Ice. I knew they were grinning ear to ear looking at my current state.
The 1st attack was used to blow the opponent away or decimate the living hell out of your opponent, where Alice was the attacker and Systy was the distraction but in the 2nd attack, it was Alice who was doing the distracting while Systy concentrated on gathering mana for such a huge binding attack.
This Ice was hard too. Unlike normal Ice, it was solid water with no air holding up the ice. it was a concentrated more hardy form of Ice. I could feel that I was losing my feelings around my body. It was cold as hell.
But as I released an aura. The force burst out from all sides and I broke through the Ice which was as hard as a rock. I was using sheer energy. It was practically my own spirit energy and the active increase in strength that sucked my spirit energy faster the more I increased my strength.
After Cell to Cell remodeling had been completed, my spirit enhancement brought out not only the upper limits of my body but it clearly hardened the body to a new level of its own, as a result not only enhancement in physical abilities I also got to enhance my defenses.
As I broke out of the Ice block, I didn't see anyone around me but in the next second at least 50 huge Ice spears were heading my way, Systy had mastered Ice magic to a point where she didn't even have to think to make this kind of attack. At last I picked my sword from behind my back, as I gripped it…..
Slash! Sheen!...shhhhgggg..!
I slashed all the incoming spears. At my overwhelming slashes, the spears that were coming in a trail all shattered. At that time, I saw something falling from the sky, just as I looked up.
"Hell no! You guys are dropping Ice meteors on me now!`` That was right. a huge meteor of ice was falling from the sky, as if it was not falling fast enough, behind it an explosion went off which made it fall with even more speed.
I took a hold of Amanori with both my hands.
"You ready?"
[Yeah!]
I jumped straight for the meteor and as it passed me… I slashed at it numerous times. Amanori was a great sword so my high speed slashes produced extreme force and easily cut through the meteor.
As the meteor destroyed, the heat that was encased in Ice that hardened to the utmost limit leaked out and made an unbelievable explosion behind my back, the heat and cold… mixing into an explosion turning two opposite powers into a strong attack was unheard of….
As I recoiled from the explosion. I still couldn't see anyone near me. just where had they gone? If I didn't have the Miasma protection on me that stopped normal magic from damaging me… I probably would look half dead by the compressed explosion. Still, the sheer impact was nothing to scoff at. my insides felt as if they were ruptured, internal wounds and bleeding lowered my strength.
So even if someone blocks the direct hit from this attack… I think the force of the explosion would do a lot of damage too.
As I was still in mid air and quite far from the ground, I tried to survey the ground but the next thing I thought.
"They are still up!" I looked up at the sky again. That explosion that was set to blow the meteor faster to the ground was actually to propel those 2 into the sky.
And right on cue they were falling like rocks.
"Ah ha ha! You are now done for!" As Alice shouted that, I could see Systy was hanging on her back. and Alice's legs which were pointed at me were encased in armor like heels which extended to her knees. It was made of Ice. and I had a feeling that those were as hard as diamonds.
"Don't think you've already won!" As I said, I used Flash step on Air, this was the advanced form of flash step where you could use air as footing. It took overwhelming training to master it.
In my 2nd life this was the only technique which was so hard that I still remember how I had learnt it… as I disappeared from Alice and Systy's view since the Flash step had made me extremely fast, I slid past them and went behind their back, I punched them on their back. they could hardly follow my steps, flash steps air version was faster than normal flash steps by at least 4 folds.
They didn't even have time to think about what had happened. This was just how fast the mastered flash step could make you. Sadly Alice and Systy was far behind on this air flash step, so they had no way to maneuver like me on thin air.
Bang!.....
"Sorry guys It was hard. Both of you pushed me really far! But it's my Win!" as I declared to the both who were still lying on the earth after falling from the sky.
"Damn!"
"Huuuuuuuh!" Alice and Systy both showed Irritation while they punched the ground with over whelming strength, they were frustrated a lot.. I think that this is more like a serious fight.
If anyone normally would have fought like this, then they would have already died 3 times but what can I say, I even made 2 of my companions Irregular. I mean they Literally fell 100 feet from the sky and were just grumbling. The only damage that they had taken was from the punch I had thrown. falling from the sky only made their head shake a little.
I think they are surpassing human common sense…..
[You think? There is nothing human about them anymore. at least apart from their appearance. Both of them may have already surpassed your grandparents!]
Amanori was having fun in this situation. As she very excitedly described how my 2 companions had become, she made her signature creepy laugh [ku ku ku ku ku!] of course with her cute voice the laugh seemed as if a kid demon lord was cackling.
"Next time we will surely win!" both Alice and Systy said with perfect sync. They had already got up from the craters and dusting off themselves as if they had just been slammed in the dirt…..
"Yeah, do your best!" I encouraged both of them with a thumbs up.
At this point, I had Strength and speed surpassing both of them. Apart from that, Alice and Systy had more diverse moves and attacks. So I could say they had more flexibility. I wish I could use fire or water magic too…. But I wanted to get myself a wind spirit first when I got out of here.
Earth magic was good too but I wasn't much accustomed to that attribute. I may need to get a dedicated teacher to learn more about that.
Apart from that, the main thing we were focusing on right now was.
"Sorry Master but no matter how hard I try, I can't use magic from all over my body.." Systy said in a dejected voice. with the new technique that utilized our hearts to channel mana all over our bodies successful, it was possible to gather mana at any point on our body, but even though I did that easily, it was difficult for them.
"Me too… I was successful using magic from anywhere on my upper body but I can't use magic from my lower half… if I can used explosion's of my feet too, my speed could increase so much!"
"Well… it can't be helped… I asked something that is really impossible… but I just know it.. If we can use magic from any part of our body, we might be able to reach the next level… sadly I can't teach you any more easier way to obtain the technique" I said as I slumped my body on the grass. ah my insides are wreathing in pain, the mixed frost and fire attacks were heavy on the body it seems, some parts of me felt frozen and others felt as if burning.
"Alice, don't you remember how you did it? Even a bit?" Systy asked Alice.
"It is frustrating to say but I don't have any clue… the first fight with Rekka, I didn't even realize I was using magic from all over my body…" that was right. Alice, who had fought me at our first meeting, had used a different energy than we knew of. The only thing I know is that it was some kind of energy. The only energy that I could think of similar to it was spirit energy and mana. Since Alice had exuded that wonder energy from all over her body and it had been visible to the eye unlike mana and spirit energy, I am sure that it was the next step towards leveling up.
"Don't beat yourself up Alice, the biggest achievement humans make tends to be the ones that they get by accidents. But it doesn't mean they can't repeat it. That is why we train. Now let's train so we can use mana from anywhere in our body… I just know we could go to the next level if we achieved this feat." of course even after I mastered the technique I was still stuck there, I don't know where to go after I mastered this, so for the time being I am only focusing on increasing my mana pool.
As I encouraged both of them we got to training again.
......….
That was how 3 humans were training in their own world. disregarding reality, they had all the time they would have wanted. Nobody could disturb them, as they trained, got stronger and competed with each other, they had completely disregarded what their level of power and what the other beings in the world's level of power were in comparison to them.
All 3 of them had only a pair of Idols in their minds and they were the most powerful beings in their eyes. Those 2 idols had told them that there was a power and strength that they were unable to harness…...
This statement was the driving force to become stronger. So they trained and trained nonstop, breaking walls after walls until their limits reached new heights and then it would be broken again to reach further. In time it was like an endless cycle and it was all happening in the span of only 3 years…. In time only these 3 would know just what kind of unimaginable training they had done… surpassing any human capabilities, they would be the first to reach the next level of humanity….