The winter snow has once again started to fall, lightly blanketing the whole area. The cold wind started to permeate as well. Most people would have slept throughout but a certain person woke up and immediate dressed for training.
Yuria woke early in the morning and immediately went to Tezariah's room. The first thing she saw was a slumped down Tezariah at the floor, snoring without care of the world. This was the first time she ever saw a Tezariah that was sleeping without caution. Everytime she saw Tezariah slept, it was like a sleeping wolf cautiously watching and listening for anything.
She kicked the sleeping Tezariah awake. He woke with a heavy headache. Tezariah looked around to see a Yuria in sportswear staring at him. For a moment, he blankly stared back and stood up. Tezariah slowly removed his top clothing to which Yuria watched with embarrassment. She once again kicked Tezariah, jolting the still sleepy Tezariah awake.
"Ack. Why did you kick me!?" Tezariah exclaimed. Yuria looked at her with menacing eyes and pointed at the clothes he just threw at the ground. Tezariah understood what she meant and gave a smirk.
"What is this the first time you saw my body?" he said teasingly.
"Ugh. You... I thought we were going to start training today." Yuria tried to change the topic to avoid anymore further embarrassment. The now half-naked Tezariah nodded and walked back into his room and closed the door.
"Allow me to take a quick bath." Tezariah shouted from the room. After a few seconds he came out naked with only a towel covering his bottom. Yuria, who was still outside Tezariah's room stared at Tezariah and suddenly felt more embarrassed. She sent a punch toward Tezariah. Tezariah immediately caught the punch and moved his legs. The towel he was wearing loosened and fell immediately showing Yuria the full glory of Tezariah's body. A large sleeping dragon was dangling with all its beauty.
The next few seconds were awkward stares between them. Yuria turned red. She immediately ran away like a frightened kitten. On the other hand, Tezariah was only slightly embarrassed. He looked at the running Yuria amusingly.
In his world, whenever one needed a blessing of a god, they would enter a temple and dive into a pool made of blessed water. This was done usually naked. Dozens of temple priestesses has seen his naked body and thus was numbed from embarrassment of being seen naked. In fact it was not uncommon to see naked kids playing together at rivers until they were 12 in his world.
Tezariah took the towel and covered his lower body again. He went down to see a beet-red Yuria looking at him angrily. He put his to hands together and rubbed them asking for Yuria's forgiveness. He decided not to speak as there were kids around. Old man Tenzo was also at the side watering the bonsai plants. Thus, if suddenly spoke out, it might alert everyone and turn this event into an even more awkward one.
Tezariah immediately left afterwards and entered the bathroom and took a short bath. While in the bathtub he also started absorbing and refining more mana. Probably due to the contract with both a high ranked angel and demon, he was now a 5-Star Great Wizard. Although he also noticed the instability of the sudden growth. He decided to spend time to accustom himself with his new power and stabilize his aura.
///30 minutes later///
Tezariah and Yuria left the house. They started the training by running around the neighborhood. Although they left a little bit later than expected, it was still early in the morning. Furthermore it was winter vacation time for students and thus the streets were mostly empty aside from the white snow.
After an hour they arrived at a park. They decided to rest here before running back home. While resting, Tezariah taught Yuria how to absorb and refine the mana. He also taught him the method that was widely used among Warriors. They would use the mana to refine their bodies. This allowed them to have enormous strength as well as tough bodies. Furthermore, due to the nature of their training, their bodies are more resistant to disease and poisons as well as live slightly longer than Wizards.
As Yuria began to do as Tezariah instructed, she immediately felt the ember inside of her awaken. The ember was like a fish in the water following the flow the mana. Meanwhile, Tezariah also noticed the changes in Yuria. The most obvious is the increasing heat that she was emitting. The snow started to melt and even the plants beneath it has started to turn brown.
Tezariah decided to wake Yuria from her meditation. He also noted Yuria of what was happening around her and asked her to control her aura. She weakly nodded. The act of refining actually drained her energy. The ember also disappeared and she couldn't feel it any more.
They rested for a few minutes until Yuria recovered her energy and ran back home. After arriving home, they decided to continue the training at evening as Yuria had work today.
Contrary to the slight weakness she felt earlier, Yuria now felt invigorated. Her body suddenly felt like it was on a huge dose of steroids and epinephrine as energy levels reached beyond the roof. She also felt the sudden obvious changes in her perception and senses. According to Tezariah, this is a manifestation of those who's reached a rank known as Elite Warriors.
This development slightly surprised Tezariah. Although he expected her to grow stronger really fast due to being a demigod, he didn't expect her to become an Elite Warrior within one mediation session. One has to note that it takes generally a year or so, even among talented warriors to reach such a rank. He immediately felt pressured that he was teaching such a talent.
Yuria left home after eating and changing clothes. Now Tezariah was left home, this time to teach Mikasa. For the past few weeks, Mikasa has shown her talent too. In fact unlike the normal Wood Elves who focused more in Life and Nature magic, Mikasa showed talent in a particular type of magic, Summoning and Space Magic. Her ideas were also innovative that it gave Tezariah an idea of another spell to make.
But unlike Yuria who suddenly had a burst of aura upgrades, Mikasa's aura slowed down become purer everyday. It was close to the purity that Tezariah had. Tezariah knew that after she has reached her maximal purity, she would definitely breakthrough.
As such, Tezariah felt a great pressure. Another saying resounded in his head as he pondered at his scenario... "The pressure brought by a genius to another genius is the strongest." He truly felt such pressure from these two woman that who knows how long will take to become paragons and overlords themselves.