Two days went by
and Max learned nothing just watching the time tick by and he got slightly stronger losing some extra weight and gaining muscle
When Max was sparring with Nick he was told that he had a potential sparring partner named Rais (ree-az), a young man.
As they continued Nick said something "You know you've gotten stronger? You're considerably stronger than your classmates so if you do need to do something try to make it look harder and if you fight pretend to struggle"
Though Max was slightly touched by that at the same time, a part of him thought that Nick was just being nice and he was probably falling behind so he trained even harder and decided to study harder.
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2 more days went by
Max went on with his studies and learned a bit more about Nick apparently he was super strong to the point where even Max doubted the reports.
A while later Max finally got to meet Rais he was a bit short at 5 foot 8 but very majestic, blonde, with blue eyes, and ecstatic. Max noted how determined and hopeful Max even jokingly thought that Rais was the main character in life.
Nick introduced them to each other informing Rias that "Max is an otherworlder so even though he has trained less he is ridiculously strong"
Max also got Rais's backstory how he was a newer disciple and may become a guard in the future, how he had good potential, and how he was a strong and good person.
Though Max wasn't paying attention to it
And was more interested in his strength to see how he compared against someone else in a fight.
To spar Nick made them stand across from each other and he walked around and started it by saying" Fight"
Rais first punched with a wide right hook and Max leaned back to avoid it and shifted balance then Rais dashed in and grabbed Max's leg to tackle him and bring him to the ground.
Max evaluated him during the groundwork and then flipped him over and pushed him away. Max got up swiftly played defensively for a bit and waited for Rais's next tackle. As he ran in Max lowered himself and punched Rais lightly it went on for a bit before Max decided to try after seeing the amount of effort Rais put in and tripped him to get off-balanced side stepped and then kicked him slightly about the liver and backed up to watch him fall
Nick accepted Rais's loss and ended the fight shortly after. He talked to Rais complimenting him and out of Max's hearing range and informed him that Max was just different. Rais already knew that he was better than most people that he had trained with so he was impressed.
After that "incident," Nick modified Max's training schedule
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Nick watched Max as he dodged and blocked objects flying at him from small cannons and Nick's magic with his agility and magic watching how he implemented a small amount of wind magic to push himself forward and back, how he moved and dodged objects from behind him. Nick experimented, shooting objects at various speeds and he noticed something "It seems that if I increase the speed of an object past roughly 36-39 miles per hour the chances of you dodging or seeing" Nick corrected himself "Sensing it decreases drastically."
Nick demonstrated it by launching things at him and roughly measuring the speed. Max of course noticed this too and he just assumed it was the sixth sense that people talked about but he was unaware before how the speed affects it that much.
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A while later Max learned some incredibly important things about how magic circles and runes are related to magic circuitry and how to use magic circles to improve the concentration of magic and speed of activation, he also learned most people had to take time to activate magic. He assumed he was lucky and it wouldn't affect him that much.
He learned how incanting affects the potency of magic as well as its activation speed and precision, later with his magic teacher he found out one of the reasons for his incredible magic talent was because he had fantastic control, power, conversion, and precision with his free magic which also transferred over to his spells.
Later on with training Max found out the reason it was important to have the electric attribute
Max walks into the training room exhausted he first sees Nick smiling, holding something behind his back. Max looks at it, Nick notices his gaze and talks "Today we are going to train an important ability in fighting combat and overall life one of the reasons the electric attribute is desired at least for me as you know the brain has electricity in it messing with that can cause a person to die or get knocked out. Of course, if you get knocked out and somehow get that electricity back in without a problem it will wake you up faster. "So"
He revealed what was in his hands a frying pan and Max realized what he meant 'He's going to knock me out isn't he?'
Nick smiled "I'm going to knock you out then wait to see if that electricity goes on in your brain. If it doesn't then it'll send a tiny shock hopefully eventually you will be able to be unconscious less"
"Won't that give me brain damage?" Max asked
"No, that's. The cool thing I checked and you the of otherworldly can't regenerate anything from fingers to limbs even eyes and smaller organs so no brain damage isn't going to be a problem and before you say that if I'm different because I'm not one of the seven and I don't have a weapon." Nick mimicked Max in a mocking tone "Judging by your XP growth and the fact that you are not ill, you have similar behaviors, your arrival, and a ton of other things I assume that you're fine."
He was of course, but that would have been a bit irresponsible anyway.
And so the training began. He thwacked Max lightly and used a tiny bit of healing magic on him to make it less painful. Max's sleeping wish also seems to have made it so he was unconscious less instead of spending 3 hours unconscious he only spent 15 minutes with the healing magic.
The wacking went on for quite a long time
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After a while, it started to work, and to make sure it would stay, they went a bit harder. On the third successful try, Rais walked in quietly and greeted Nick "Hey, Nick what's up!" Nick being focused on wacking was surprised, and when turning around to greet him accidentally used a bit too much force.
A loud thud was heard as Nick turned around to Rais. Rais knew some of the extent of Nick's power and saw how he relaxed during that swing and froze, Nick also realized what happened and froze making eye contact with Rais they both suddenly turned to Max and assumed he was dead.
Nick quickly crouched and felt for Max's pulse "He's dead there is no heartbeat." Nick announced as he turned to Rais.