It's been a few hours since Gondola and Arvex left towards the outskirts of the kingdom. Gondola had explained that his hometown was a safe place to train consistently. However, that wouldn't stop the training done along the way.
"Alright. It's time for our first break of many, son." Gondola set down a heavy bag he had on his shoulders down beside a tree, exhaling a sigh of relief as he sniffed the air.
Arvex set a smaller bag down as well and knocked on a nearby tree.
'It's been too long since I've been able to be this close to a forest.' Arvex thought with a smile, inspecting the nearby area.
The young Tilian explored with his tail swaying slowly. Anything interesting was picked up, but these objects were mostly rocks and such that held nice colors.
'These are all nice looking. Maybe this old habit of mine will be useful one day?' Arvex thought to himself and instantly shook off the childish idea.
"Arvex, get over here. We're gonna get you started on some training." Gondola was waving Arvex over with his tail, while his hands were reaching into one of the many pouches within his bag.
Naturally, Arvex went over and set down his mini collection of stones and watched Gondola curiously.
"What exactly am I training first?" Arvex asked curiously. His thoughts were racing about the possible options and the many ways he may fail.
"Your tail." Gondola looked at Arvex with a smirk, smacking his own brown scaled tail into the ground, leaving a small crater.
"Your tail can be used as a weapon and a way to secretly release spells when you learn them." He spoke with a grin, a green glow slowly building up at the tip of his tail, which shot into the ground soon after, causing grass and flowers to grow there.
'Woah..' The young Tilian looked in amazement for a few seconds and then snapped out of it, looking at his own tail.
"How exactly do I strengthen my tail? I've not used it for anything, really." Arvex asked with a tone of curiosity, moving his tail slowly in erratic ways to try and learn on his own.
"Ever done curl ups?" Gondola said and jumped up to a tree, wrapping his tail around a sturdy branch and hanging off with only the tail.
"Do this, but you can ONLY move by using your tail. This will start to build up the muscle in it, then you'll learn how to control it as if it were a weapon." Gondola squeezed his tail, snapping the branch and spun rapidly, ending with a slam to the ground that shook the Earth for a few moments, leaving Arvex in another surprised state.
"Balancing physical and magical power..I see." Arvex muttered to himself and gulped down his saliva, rather nervous already.
"Well? Get to it, Arvex." Gondola spoke with a grin.
Arvex climbed up onto a tree and held onto a branch. Carefully, he wrapped his tail around it as tight as he could and slowly let go.
"Ow.." He grunted in pain. "My tail doesn't like this already, heh.." Arvex hung upside down, enduring the pain that felt like someone was pulling his tail off.
'You got this..' He thought, hyping himself up slowly.
His tail tensed slowly, and he started to move his body up in a curl using only his tail.
'One!' He smiled a bit and continued through the whole day, while Gondola took out a crude looking notebook and began to write things down, occasionally looking at Arvex to check on him.
'This will be a lot for ya, kid.' Gondola thought to himself, smiling softly.