3 years later .....
Walking out the hut, the morning sun rays bounced over the tree tops and drying up the dew off their leaves .
At this point my body could never truly appreciate the mornings warmth as my body had developed a self temperature regulator unless it was like the midday sun i wouldn't feel much difference with always practicing the breathing technique, not originally mine but at this point I have claims to its originality
You ask why
Over the past 3 years I'd come to learn there were no kingdoms and it was mainly settlements, villages and few self governing small regions .
Being born before the Griffon kingdom meant quite a lot but gave me a peace of mind
I had to try get as strong as possible before the kingdoms sprung up , and how did I come to know, lately the been an uneasy feel around the Garlen continent and minor wars are popping up everywhere , a change coming soon could be felt , well from what I heard from some of the elders in my settlement
I lived in what I'd describe as a semi nomadic lifestyle, we seemed ready to make a move at anytime and I learnt a few months before my birth , a human settlement had attacked to raid of any supplies out settlement had and that's were my father perished .
Animosity with humans and some magical beasts was high in our settlement , thus our settlement was made up of mostly werefolk.
I had displayed a bit of magical talent hoping to begin training in fighting, I realized I knew Jackshit , Hence why I'm up early to begin training held by some of the settlements fighters
Magic wise , they knew little . Only a few inheritance techniques , chore magic and some mastery to natural affinities, as an fylgja we had affinity to air and earth ,
All I could learn from them really were fighting techniques, brawling and experience which I truly needed , I never claimed to be a fighter and neither am I for now at-least.
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" we all have an affinity given to us by Mogar , from which we are attuned and can display magic with ease "
Talion, one of the settlements upper middle fighters despite looking at a young age of 23 as most of the settlements top fighter were around 35 to 60 years old was considered a prodigy .
"I'll have you all display an attack and after succeeding i'll teach you how to use the same attack for improving your bodies instead of releasing it " Talion said
'Makes sense as they aren't aware of it as body fusion ' at this point I'd concluded there is not a single awakened in the whole settlement or they'd hid themselves , we were about 200 in the settlement so not a lot
I still had to attend and demonstrate to not be asked questions or thrown any suspicion and I ensured I matched those 2 or 3 years above me still wanting to keep that promising genius title in the settlement.
The day went by and finally in the afternoon , basic fighting lesson began
"I'll introduce myself , my name is Crook and I'm a were-croxy, so I'm apart of the reptilian family , who knows I might have dragon blood "
"Sigh!!!" , the rest of the monitoring adults lowered their heads in surrender , clearly Crook the crocodile like humanoid had thought himself to come from a prestigious heritage and believed it ,
"Continuing I'll teach you how to fight , unlike humans we have natural weapons like teeth , claws , venom , fire , and many more , but don't think we're invincible, they can easily kill us as we them so I'll teach you basic fighting principles, how to position and express the most out of strength also speed , agility , countering and make a stronger version of yourselves ."
"LETS BEGIN !!"
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'It's been a week since lessons and I'm getting the hang of it , unlike the others I had invigoration so I could go over it as much as I wanted but something else drew my attention'
'As a werefolk , I have 2 life forces and 2 mana cores '
I studied myself with accumulation and there in my solar plexus lay 2 mana cores both dark orange in color with shades of light orange, I was making good steady progress not rushing anything.
It was now safe to begin I decided , first on the list was gaining affinities to all elements, as this was not terribly difficult .
Next was life force , I had to find a way to keep both as a were-folk without losing one at some stage as my future plans heavily depended on succeeding in this field as well as domination.
These would do for now , baby steps I'm sure by the time I'm 10 I'd be stronger than anyone in the settlement.
I ensured to practice body fusion on a daily to ensure my body keeps up with my core preparing for the next breakthroughs as well as strengthening it effects , the more you used body fusion the stronger it's effects .
The strongest core I had seen on the settlement so far was cyan , I was certain we wouldn't make it if any proper awakened passed by .
I infused mana to my eyes to study the surroundings as today began my solo escapades to practice magic on a larger scale .
My mother was having her normal chats with our neighbor , at this age werefolk were less concerned about their young perhaps not thinking too much as younglings never left their homesteads as these were dangerous times .
With air fusion I headed deeper into the wood quick and silent .
It was time to grind , this month's goal was to be able to interchange the opposite elements as taught by our future mages , they are sides of the same coin and I understood it's intricacies ; it was only a matter of time
With that light magic shone in a small radius in a forest east at the east of the Garlen continent .
Skirmishes were beginning at the center of the Garlen Continent .