"Come on little runt! Your nails are sharp and your bones are strong! You rocks shouldn't even be resisting you! The rock should move from your nails, like you are gliding them through water!" "AAAAARRRGH!" I scream out, before striking the 50ft bolder in front of me, managing to cut the bolder 15ft deep. "Fuck Yeah!!" "Good job little runt! It's been only 5 hours yet you have made stellar progress. Now, you need to take a rest, then you will have your training with Ophis, at a minimum 1 hour. Now go rest, you deserve it."
"Thank you Ddraig." I say, before going into the house and sitting down on one of the couches. Laying my head back and taking deep breaths. "Sup sweaty boy. How was the training with Ddraig." Ophis says, sitting down next to me and handing me a bottle of water.
"It was good, I managed to cut a rock 15 ft deep in one stroke. Also how did you get a bottle? This is 518 AD." "Because I am literally a god. I can make and do whatever I want, nothing in existence can be stronger than me so I can do whatever I want. Anyways, give yourself at least an hour, then we will go over the ancient runes and try to activate them. We will also go over weapons, and which weapon you want to wield. After all, the strongest people always have more than 1 mastery." Ophis says before walking up the stairs, only to turn around "Oh yeah, I'm going to be making some workout clothes for me and you, I'm sick of having to do laundry, so I'm going to just make 100 pairs of tracksuits or something."
"Does Arthur already know you're a god?" "No, he thinks I'm just a really cool wizard. I love the kid but he is really stupid. Anyways, take a good rest, diddle your fiddle or something to entertain yourself."
'What a fucking weirdo. Sigh… What should I pick as a weapon? Swords are stupid and at most times are at a disadvantage. Swords are bad against spears, bows, and shields; Daggers lose to all 4 of those. Bows are good but that means I will have 2 long ranged forms of attack. Spears it is then, they beat swords, they beat daggers, it is hard to fight against shields but I can find a way around that. Though, chains might be hard to fight against since spears are very long… Goddamit, why did I have to agree to come into this world to fight gods and heroes… Doesn't help that I was threatened by a god. Also, what is an ástir? I keep having dreams about that word. What is that? Is it Norse? I'll have to ask Merlin about that since he should know Norse, since he already knows the runes… I should meditate.'
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"Oi dumbass, stop meditating." I open my eyes to see Ophis in a black tracksuit with purple highlights, honestly, pretty fucking hot. "Okay I know I'm hot but stop ogling me and put this on. After that come outside North East of the town gate." She says throwing me a black tracksuit with bright red highlights, then she teleports away.
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"Okay. First of all, as you know Nordic runes are Ansuz – Fire, Thur – lightning, Dagaz – Light, Isaz – Ice, Oruz – Strength, Haga – Air, Laguz – Water, Gebö – Gift, Berka – Life, Othil – Property. Now, ancient runes are many times more vague and powerful than Nordic runes. But the bad part about them, is the fact that they have to be passed down, and taught by the master of the person getting the new runes. Now, sadly you don't know them since I just gave them to you, and didn't give you any knowledge. But luckily, I have a way to know them. Test and hypothesis. The good ol' scientific method. I will invigorate and stimulate the runes, then you will release them, then we will study the rune and I will write down the symbol of it. We will do that for every rune, after that, we will choose a weapon for you, though, I will have a surprise for you when it comes to the weapon part."
"Now, if you will, get into the most comfortable position while sitting down, and then I will stimulate it. When you feel a sudden pulling sensation, reach out your hands and try to force it out of your hands. Make sure to force it out, don't let it brew, if you do you will strain your mana capacity. Now breathe in… breath out… repeat until you feel it." I then close my eyes and focus on my soul, especially on the section of my soul I cannot see, the part I know holds the ancient Norse runes. I feel Ophis put her hands on my neck and I feel a slight pull… Then it grows exponentially, I reach out my hands and try to force it out, like I am using a spell. Then it comes to me, the name of the rune.
"ISIZATHUR!"
*BOOOOM!* The air around us cools. Then a gigantic ice spike spurts out of the ground, and then a lightning bolt strikes it.
"Holy shit! Kazu, how in the hell did you know the name of the rune?!"
"Haaa. Haaa. Argh… Ophis.. Can you shut up for 5 minutes… I am literally dying right now. I… Haaa. Am having a lot of trouble breathing." I say, trying to stand up while clutching my chest, my breathing hiking and falling dramatically. My diaphragm pressing against my lungs as they try to separate and breathe. "Oi! Oi!! Kazu drink this water!" Ophis says, putting my arm onto her shoulder and putting the bottle on my lips. After drinking the water I regain my composure and try to breathe calmly. In through the nose, out through the mouth.
"Thank you… Ophis… I think the Ancient runes are a bit too energy consuming for me to do… can you bring me over to that log and let me sit down." Ophis then hobbles me over to the log I pointed at and sets me down gently, and goes behind me to make sure I don't lean back and fall over.
"Hey! You guys okay!? I felt a spike of magic over here and then heard that loud boom!" Merlin said, running over, with Ddraig gliding in with him. "Yeah we're good Merlin, we were trying to release the ancient runes from his soul and as you can see. The aftermath created that." Ophis says, pointing to the 10ft x 10ft hole in the ground where I cast the rune
"Good lord, no wonder it was so loud. That must've been one hell of a rune. A beginner shouldn't be able to make a hole this size with one spell." Merlin says going over to examine the hole. "This is starting to get annoying. You need to stop getting tired out so easily, it seems we need to increase your stamina and magic capacity. But, now that we have figured out that the ancient runes are draining and you now know one of them, we can take advantage of that."
"No… They are very tiring but that one was many times more tiring was because of the fact that I was releasing it for the first time. I'm fine, I just wasn't prepared for the amount of stamina it would take… Whew. Okay, I don't think I can do another one, but I am good for weapon talk." I say sitting up straight and staring at Ophis. She sighed and pulled out a piece of paper and a clipboard from… somewhere. "Okay Mr, I will spawn weapons In Front of you, you will then try to attack me with each weapon for 1 minute, whichever weapon you like the most you can use. You shall also try to combine the weapon with you magic, meaning you will try to attack me with magic, you dragon traits, and the weapon itself, because in combat you always need more than 1 source of attack." Ophis then creates a long table, then she reaches out her hand and creates multiple different types of weapons. Ranging from Greatswords to Chinese rope darts, too double headed glaives, too Katas.
"Start with whichever you want. I will simply use a reinforced stick to defend myself." Ophis says pulling a stick towards her with telekinesis, 'Damn I really need to learn how to use telekinesis'
I start by grabbing the good ol' reliable, the bare bitch one handed sword.
"Now my pet, En Garde!" Ophis says running at me.. I'm fucked