"Axel was mesmerized by Anya's words. No one had ever cared for him to this extent. From Axel's perspective, the world had turned him into a cynic and a calculating bastard but hearing those words, jolted something inside of him.
A tear trickled down from Axel's left eye, Anya seeing that, took it as a sign that his brother can understand her. She had repeatedly been told about the defects in her brother, as to how Axel was mentally and physically worse than an average kid and how she should avoid him, the cripple of the family.But seeing that single tear drop reconfirmed Anya's belief that her brother understands her and that he needs protecting. This small exchange of heart among siblings had laid a strong foundation of trust and care between the duo, which would soon be known throughout the world.Anya showered kisses on her little brother and then left after promising to come back soon. This encounter with Anya had strengthened Axel's pledge to grow stronger.'Gizmo, before we begin with my training, you need to tell me about those skills, that you were talking about earlier,' Axel inquired with determination in his heart.[Skills to you might seem simple, but they are not. Now as you know, for you to be able to harness the power of the elements, you need to be able to manipulate elemental energy of that element. Now some of them are easy, for example, collecting a lot of fire elemental energy at one point, giving it a shape, not allowing it to disperse and then throwing it in a trajectory. Now this might seem simple but even then it is evident that the number of steps to follow are still there][By the way, what I described was a simple fireball, bread and butter for a fire Elementalist. Now imagine how hard the other spells are going to be. But what if you don't have to repeat this tedious order again and again, that's where the skills come in. Skills are nothing but a shortcut, you simply activate it and viola the whole sequence gets activated automatically and the spell gets executed][Skills are extremely useful but very difficult to come by. It has something to do with your soul, and thus it is a popular theory that during accession or levelling up of an Elementalist, there is a maximum chance of someone obtaining a skill due to a phenomenon known as Soul resonance. If you want, you can further read into it as I have the records. But as of now, you should know that I did say that you should at least try and obtain a skill in the next 5 years of your life, keep in mind it is going to be extremely difficult][But don't lose hope even if you are not able to acquire a skill, the efforts that you will put here will help you in acquiring a skill in the future. So right now your goal should be focusing on studying the elements and focusing on the skill you want to acquire. Like knowing what it would specifically do and how and what its structure is going to be]'Looks like the next 5 years are going to be a pain,' Axel exclaimed. 'Gizmo, all this talk about elements but you are yet to tell me about my affinity? Which are the elements for me?'"