The fire on Chris' hand then turned into an arrow. Since Zane was focused on Chris he could easily see the evil smile on Chris' face, added with the fire arrow currently pointed at his head.
"Chris what are you thinking?" Zane asked carefully, meanwhile he slowly put his right leg slightly behind him, preparing to sidestep the arrow and counterattack.
"Ohhh nothing" Surprisingly, Chris closed his hand and the fire arrow disappeared. Zane sighed in relief, he really didn't want to fight Chris. Even though he liked fighting Bella at training, a fight against Chris would be one to the death.
"Why don't you go train, I wanna meet some people at the tavern" Chris said with an innocent smile.
"Okay, well i will see you in the evening" Zane said as he left the house, of course he didn't turn his back to Chris not even for a second.
"That was a close one" Zane mumbled as he got a hundred meters from their house, only then did he let down his guard.
"Do you think we would have won?" he asked Alex.
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"Yeah i saw that. Do you think that's what makes Mages physically stronger even without Body Cultivation?"
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Zane couldn't help but nod, that was also what he thought. What greatly surprised him though was that Chris was already pretty decent in using his fire.
If someone one had entered the room during his little presentation, they wouldn't be able to tell that he had broken through less that five minutes ago.
Zane and Alex talked more about the fight which didn't happen as they walked to Old man's place. Since Zane's training days were irregular, Bella was told to always be at the house just in case.
It didn't take long for Zane to arrive, this time he didn't even go to Old man, instead he directly went to the underground basement.
Zane slightly smiled as he opened the door. That was because for the second time, he could hear the sounds of the other students training.
'Finally, I can see her again' he thought in glee. Zane had pretty much already forgotten that Kieth had warned him about Charlotte.
As he opened the door, everyone stopped and glanced in his direction. This happened because it was rare for someone to enter their training hall, and Old man was already in the hall so they wondered who it was.
When they saw Zane, they remembered the stupid blind man from about three weeks ago. They wanted to interact with him but the tournament was in a week's time and they couldn't waste time, every second counted.
Everyone continued their training, ignoring Zane. Except for two people, Kieth and Charlotte started walking towards Zane before Kieth slapped the back of Charlotte's head.
Charlotte immediately stopped and waved to Zane with a smile as she turned around and went back to her instructor Mage. Bella also walked over to her student with a smile.
"We finally meet again" Kieth motioned for a handshake, which Zane reciprocated.
"Yeah, for a second there i thought you all had given up and let me win" Zane joked.
"Keep dreaming" Kieth laughed.
"Kieth, can I please have my student?, you guys can talk later" Bella interjected. She was quite worried as time was running out for Zane so she needed all the time she could get.
"Sure, We'll talk later Zane" Kieth walked back to his Mage, who was looking at Bella with a smirk. Bella also looked at the man the same way. It seemed the two instructors were rivals.
"No time to waste Zane let's go to the room" Bella led Zane to the initiation room.
"Again?, I thought I was over this" Xane said. Even though he didn't care about pain anymore, it was still annoying.
"No i asked teacher to extend the room, I don't want to teach you in front of others" Bella explained.
"Ohh ok" Zane replied, not seeing anything wrong with that.
Bella quickly opened the door and Zane could see that the room really had become bigger, he was sure of this because it took longer to fill it with his mana dust. Zane also noticed a pillar in the middle of the room.
"Welcome to attack power training. As you can already guess this training focuses on raising your attack power, by that i mean your punches and kicks will be stronger" Bella explained.
"I'm sure you noticed when you fought Kieth back then that he could match your attacks even though you were obviously physically stronger"
"That was because of this training, it makes you stronger without making you physically stronger" she said. Zane didn't say anything and just listened.
"The problem with how you attack so far is that you only use the power of the limb you are using to attack. Instead you must use your whole body."
"This training is also different from the last ones because this time i will actually be teaching you techniques"
"Okay enough talk, go punch that pillar, full power don't hold back" Bella instructed.
Zane didn't ask ask anything and went to punch the pillar.
He quickly took on his stance and with his right hand he punched the pillar.
BOOM!
Zane noticed a part of the pillar lighting up with mana. The mana rose from the bottom until it stopped at a height of half a meter.
"The pillar has a formation matrix, it measures the attack power of anything that attacks it. The higher that light, the higher the attack power." Bella explained.
'Those formation matrix again' Zane thought, he still wanted to learn about those but he didn't have the time. Bella suddenly went to the door.
"Ken!" she called out. A few seconds later Zane saw a man coming in.
"Zane this is Ken, he has been training for four months and I assure you that you are physically stronger than him" Bella introduced.
Zane nodded at Ken as a sign of greeting and Ken did the same.
"Ken, please punch the pillar" Bella said. Ken nodded and walked to the pillar before taking his stance and delivering a full power punch at the pillar.
The mana in the pillar rose to one and a half meters. "Thank you Ken" Bella said and Ken nodded before he left.
"I'm sure you know why i did that Zane, you have to do better than that to have a chance" Bella said.
"How high did Kieth get to?" Zane asked of the person who he thought was his only competition.
"Two meters" Bella said.
"Then i have to go higher than two meters" Zane shrugged.
"I like your confidence. Now the trick of this is to rotate your body when...."