"Now you said you wanted to make a weapon for yourself too? Unfortunately we will have to wait until we get good materials for blacksmithing, since I do intent to see you make garbage." Gareth said then he commanded Greg to go out and train with the "dog".
Greg did as he said.
With his new weapons in tow, he meet up with Morgania in the forest.
Gareth decided to sleep in the cave a while longer, not caring to see a dog run around with it's master.
When Greg got outside he saw a large area of tress were already cleared out and in the center of that area was Morgania with two daggers next to her.
"Hello young lord, are you ready to begin training?" She said with a sweet smile on her face, then she quickly jumped up.
"Yes, I am!" Greg said with a curious and excited expression on his face wondering what kind of training this would be, however he didn't care as long as it wasn't as brutal as what his previous teacher put him through.
"We the people from my tribe have be taught since we were very young how to fight by fighting daily starting at the rip age of 2. Now your gonna learn the same way don't worry I'll go easy on you. Prepare yourself!" Morgania said and then threw off her cloak.
Under the cloak she wore light demon-leather armor and had scars all over her body. She had black silver bracers and no shoes.
Greg prepared himself by readying his dagger and activating his gauntlet's armament.
As soon as the cloak touched the ground she picked up her daggers and dashed toward Greg. In a second she reached him thrust her dagger at his arm. His enhanced speed and great reaction time only allowed him to narrowly block her attack.
However just blocking sent him flying backwards, he quickly orientated himself to prepare for the next attack which was a downward slash aimed to severe his arm. He created a mana shield and blocked her hand instead of the dagger. He knew the the dagger would shred through his shield.
The force behind the attack still sent him to his knee but he used the chance to slash at her leg, but he was stopped by a heavy kick to the stomach. Greg got thrown away again.
"C'mon, young lord show me the full extent of your abilities!" Morgania said with a growing smile on her face.
Greg stood back up and rushed at her again. This time he started to draw dark energy into his body and circulated it through his body. An almost transparent layer of dark thin hue began to cover his entire body. It was spikey and ever changing as it spiked up in some areas and decrease in others.
This increased his strength and speed greatly and, again they clashed and her power and speed still overwhelmed him.
their left blades collided and the force behind her blade sent his arm flying back leaving his left side open and Morgania didn't hesitate to go for it. Greg swung his right blade upwards knocking her blade away while jumping back.
She sent another lightning fast and heavy boot kick to his chest.
"Young lord, your energy circulation is good, however your not focusing it into your movements. Your flow should change with each minute movement. Focus on the subtle changes in your body and channel energy into each muscle like this." She said as she started to release her own energy.
A clear layer of transparent thin dark red hue appeared on her. It was smooth and unchanging unlike Greg's and slightly thicker. This time when she moved the energy shifted to her legs and feet. She launched forward and before Greg could even process her movement she was right in front of him with her dagger touching his throat.
"Let's stop here for today, young lord. You should practice aura control until we spar again."
Finally the training session was over.
They talk about the demon realm says as they walk him back inside and he sits down to heal his wounds as he was drawing in energy, he finally felt the break through into the next rank. He was surprised that it took so long but grateful none of the less.
He continued to absorb the dark energy to the point the light at the entrance of the cave came closer in as the darkness was pulled closer to Greg. Soon enough he broke through to Rank-C master stage. Gareth immediately felt his stage boost which helped him finally breakthrough to the next rank.
Greg decided to check his stats to see his improvement.
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Greg Gareth {Rank-C, master stage}
Element: Darkness, Demon earth
Class: Shadow Summoner- 3/4 summon links left
Skills: [ Summon fusion ]{level 7} [ Dark-world travel ]{level 10} [ Darkness control ]{level 12} [ Dark absorption ]{level 17} [Hunger]{level 2} [Blackstone]{level 3} [ Dark soldier summon ]{level 2} [ Aura control ]{level 1}
Summons: Abyssal Dragon {Rank-C, basic stage}
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Gareth went from a low dragon to a dragon and got two new skills:
[ Draconic rage ]{level 1}(For 30 seconds user doubled their strength, speed, and elemental power. Time increases with level)
[ Dragon's affinity ]{passive} (increases speed of leveling up dragon related skills.)
Greg wanted to see the difference to is appearance, so he opened his eyes and looked over to Gareth.
His body grew bigger along his all his other features. His height is now 23ft with a 14ft wing span. This left him only a few feet of head room inside the cave.
Seeing Greg open his eyes Morgania walked over to him. "Young lord, I'm going to go hunting so we have food to eat and liquid to drink. We'll spar again after I return."
"Okay, how about I go with you, It would be good experience and it would speed up the hunting process." Greg suggested with a smile, however he also wanted to hunt for good materials to start practicing blacksmithing.
Morgania's eyes lit up as her smile brightened. "YES, OF COURSE I WOULD LOVE TO GO HUNTING WITH YOU, YOUNG LORD!!" She said as she rushed to hug Greg. It was a dream of hers and many of her tribesmen to be able to hunt with the great lord and this was pretty close to it.
"Since your going then I'll go too." Gareth said with an annoyed tone. However Morgania's eyes lit up even more, Not only would she get to hunt with the young lord but the great lord as well. This hunting trip will be forever burned into her memories as she would brag about it to her fellow tribe members.
After a little while of energy replenishment they headed out.
Gareth flew high in the sky with Greg mounted on his back. Morgania rushed along the ground following his shadow as if it was Gareth himself.
when they left Greg asked why he didn't let ride as well, but the only answer was another question. "Why would I want a dog to ride a top me when it has perfect healthy legs." Greg had no response sensing his arrogant and cold feelings towards the girl.
after some time they were much deeper in the forest where Greg and Gareth first appeared.
soon the trio encountered their first prey it was a cave turned into a nest of [lesser demon- imp]'s. (They are short creatures with long faces and sharp mini horns protruding from their foreheads. They have long pointy ears and serrated teeth. They used basic wooden and bone weapons with the occasionally black-stone weapon they stole from other creatures. Their ranks ranged from [rank-E] to [rank-C] with a few [rank-B] imps among them)
While Morgania was able to remain hidden as she drew closer to the nest, however it is hard to hide a large black dragon among a cloudless red sky. Quickly a few imps saw Gareth heading towards their base and screeched as an alarm for the other imps.
An imp started screeching at another imp while pointing at the dragon heading towards them.
Gareth opened his mouth and shot out a large ball of dark corrosive breath.
Boom*
As the attack made impact it killed 30 imps, Then the resulting corrosive breath stretched out causing further damage to weapons and imps.
this threw the imps into panic as they struggled to prepare defenses.
Through the shadows of the breath an imp walked through without damage. It held a spear in its hand as it glared at the approaching dragon with hate burning in its eyes. It's skin caught ablaze with blue flames as it leaped into the air.