"What do you mean he wouldn't have done that." The young girl denied it with a whisper
"You don't have to believe it" was John calm reply "but it happened"
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The girl was assigned to Max's team afterwards
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The duel
Max and Alex were standing in a dry flat area of dirt roughly 30 feet away facing each other with both of their mentors and some random people watching
"And go!" a man shouted
This was a test and a type of encouragement for the otherworlders it checked their strength and made them competitive.
Nick and the dog teacher looked at their students dashing
Alex had his great sword summoned and ran first
Max smiled
Max had a plan… a nefarious absolutely despicable, monstrous, diabolical scheme by that I mean he was just thinking about random shit and came up with ideas on the spot
Alex got a few feet closer and Max smiled and decided magic was the best plan
Nick watched confused as the events proceeded
Max used water Manipulation to pull liquid from Alex's eyes, blinding him, and then commenced step two.
He yanked up a piece of dirt with Earth magic to trip him causing him to tumble down. Alex reflexively deactivated his blade, making it disappear, before he hit the ground made the air cushion his fall decelerating him, and lightly puffed up the dirt to not hurt him.
The mentors looked at each other, one staring daggers. "I didn't teach him that." Nick raised his hands defensively "That's dirty even for me. " He commented on the style. The sword guide looked away and Nick looked at Max expecting an answer.
"Hey, I could've frozen the water and blinded him further or turned them into needles," Max explained, defending himself and walking back
Later on, there was another duel between the two fighters
This time Alex had also decided to use the magic he was mastering
They once again stood across from each other remembering a few days prior how they did this but now they were in a slightly different location…. A few dozen feet further to the side, near a tree, they started again
"Go!"
Alex whipped out a string of light and directed it towards Max.
Who created a shield of darkness which to everyone's amazement absorbed the intense light and energy. Max's defense shot out tendrils of the magic and wrapped around Alex's wrist
"Auggh" He stopped his light attack and slightly kneeled over " What the hell?" He muttered confused about how darkness burned him, and Max's crazy ass smiled
"You see darkness doesn't make sense. How does the opposite of energy exist no how does the lack of light count as energy and why does it only have physical form most of the time" he stretched out his hands
"When it is nothing? So this is my theory my magic theory it is the absorption of energy so instead I just redirected and added my own fire to make it even hotter and since it was black it hid the energy it nearly completely concealed it unless.. " he stopped realizing his rambling and didn't finish by talking about magic sensory
He smiled and kept a bit to himself 'Here's an idea, what is physical stuff and kinetic energy? What makes stuff move is it just the pressure between electrons that darkness affects and maybe alters so it seems like it has physical form or is it nothing, pushing air to the side and somehow creating pressure or solidifying the air…. I don't know. I should have paid more attention in science class.' Max grabbed his head and started panting heavily creating hundreds of new theories in his head as he demonstrated
While he was seemingly losing his mind a maiden went over and healed Alex's hand, disturbed at the sight of Max chuckling as His eyes unfocused planning hundreds of things and wondering over and over again.
Lessons
The students were listening to Nick
"Today we will be discussing aura. " Nicm gave a second fid the students to focus
"There are roughly two types of aura magic aura which is like runoff or… think of a wire with electricity the more energy in it the more heat it produces aura is like magic heat the more magic you have the more aura you can expel the other type is emotional aura this is basically just magic aura but what makes it different is your emotions affect it, changing its 'color' and density."
Nick started to barely shoot out a thin layer of purple-blue gas which started falling to the ground
"Aura can change depending on the person and be manipulated it's like a thin gas but can be concentrated into a thick fog sometimes even into a solid material if you have enough Control." Some of the gas started to float up and curl around Nicks's fingers changing in state of matter
"That is called aura manipulation. It can't be seen easily you have to focus, and it can be hidden by the user and with certain objects."
Lesson Two Energy manipulation
Nick Thursday was teaching them about something different after explaining the basics of it he had the students stand and line up facing him
"Energy manipulation is just using a type of magic blah blah I already told you." He swatted his hand
"Today we are going to use light or fire energy to create a hand sword which is making a veil of energy around your wrist or forearm and making it cover your hand and then sharply up your hand to create a 'blade,'"
He raised his hand "like this." His hand was covered in an orange glow and when it went to his digits extended into a long line "You can use your hole had but if you're strong enough you can use to fingers which helps control the blade and makes it sharper than usual but if you can control magic you can sharpen it."
The routine
Every day Max would wake up and the woman that usually had done it had gone on a quest, her being a c ranked hunter.
Then he's to a bit of personal care
He'd them go to his lessons that day Nick was teaching about the coins from below
"There are a few different currencies but the main ones are just good or silver they have three different types for prices, fulls which are coins with a very small hole in them, halves which have a slightly bigger hole, and rims or rings which are the ones with the bigger holes. The bigger the hole the less it works. But from where I'm from we just use regular coins which are fine pieces of metal, but the highest one is called a holy coin their price fluctuates but are incredibly valuable."
This day after class he saw Nick tinkering with something and asked what or was
And Nick was happy to inform him
"This is my attempt at making a ' light sword'."
Max focused "Do you mean from 'sun battles'?" he asked early
"Yes. Yes, it is, but I'm trying to work on balancing the field around it."
Max thought "Have you tried alternating magnets or copper bars and maybe silver dust?"
Nick wondered and then spoke, "That might work."
He did try it and the next day showed Max his improved model.
afterward, he'd train his martial arts sometimes with Nick to get better, next, he'd either go on a mission to get cash or train
He'd then go and pray to his goddess every day at her altar until something happened
Maybe on the second or third week, he'd made an offering of an apple with words carved into it
He prayed for thirty seconds then started to back away until a small flash appeared and a piece of bread lay there
To any person, this would seem strange but to Max who'd researched a small bit on this goddess knew he'd been accepted and blessed by her and also had to follow some rules to maintain this.
For one he'd have to stop masturbating, something he personally avoided
That was roughly it just that
And so he knew he could stop relentlessly praying to her and just occasionally do it, now that he had earned her blessing
Then he'd study and train for hours or read
Then shower and sleep for a few minutes before waking up, working out, and then train more until his final nap to start a new day
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Authors note
Since this is more like a frame for an actual story and at one point I'm going to organize it (procrastination)
I'm going to adjust the timeline so it doesn't randomly appear and make the story make more sense
And Merry Christmas