After Loki left the Adventurer's Guild, he went off towards Distinctly Lavish and went to grab some nice food. Afterwards Loki went to rest in bed, not even bothering to talk to anyone, and think about the spell he shot and how it felt and slowly dozed off to the feeling of Nature.
Once again, a new day begins with Loki and the Guild Master in the clearing training on spells, with Loki working on the Stone Shield this time.
Chris starts his lesson for the day "Now you will be using your Stone shield spell as much as possible today, as it uses more Mana, we'll go for the same length as yesterday, no specific amount of casts required."
"Understood, I'll start right away!" Responded Loki as he begins casting shield wall. 20 more bottles of mana potions were placed on the ground for Loki to use.
This time, however, Chris didn't go relax under the shade, but instead, he watched intently as every 20 casts he would give a suggestion based on how Loki is casting, whether it's posture, how he feels or accept more of his Nature affinity.
After about 4 hours and 100 casts of {Stone Shield} Chris began to talk again, however, with a change to their training. "Erect a shield Loki, we are going to do strength and reaction test, and once you have blocked 5 spells successfully, I will teach you 3 new Nature spells."
Loki heard new spells and immediate felt a renewed determination to complete this task set for him and responded, "Let's do it! I'll block your spells."
"Good, now get your shield up, I'll start off at 50% power and go up and down from there." Instructed Chris.
Loki puts up his shield, which is now stronger than Iron and can handle most attacks from attacks from 5 levels or lower. The shield itself has 270 total HP and as the Guild Master attacks with stone bullet, the stone wall gets obliterated.
"Hmm, 50% is still too much huh? No matter, we'll go until it's just breaking." Analyzed Chris before continuing on with stone bullets at Loki.
After about 30 minutes of putting shields back up, Chris found that 12% was enough which makes sense due to the difference in not only strength but also understanding. However, it was strong enough to push Loki to keep trying to understand the essence of Nature's entirety.
An hour later with only 30 minutes left in their day, Loki manages to block 5 WHOLE attacks from the Guild Master. With a triumphant expression, Loki crashes on the floor and said, "wooo... I did it, god damn that was hard."
Chris nods his head in appreciated of Loki's ability to persevere through all of the stone bullets flying by and all of the stone shields being put up constantly without breaks. The Guild Master finally says, "Alright kid, it's fine to learn 3 new Nature Spells. I will have you learn two Tier 0 spells and one Tier 1 spell that will make your battles ten times easier; Recovery, Vine Grip and Leaf Shot."
Tier 1 - {Recovery} - Heal 10% HP instantly
Cost: 300 Mana
Cooldown: 10 Minutes
Tier 0 - {Vine Grip} - Grab a single enemy with 4 vines to immobilize the enemy for 5 seconds (more or less effective depending on strength of the enemy)
Cost 200 Mana
Cooldown: 5 Minutes
Tier 0 - {Leaf shot} - Conjure 7 razor sharp leaves to slice your enemies to pieces;
Dealing 30% PHY + 30% MGI damage per leaf that hits
Cost: 150 Mana
Cooldown: 1 Minute
Loki feeling slightly confused by the new knowledge of tiered spells and decided to ask "What are tiered spells? What is the difference?"
Chris feeling a little shock at the lack of knowledge Loki has, recovered and responded, "I think we really need to work on your knowledge... Anyways, Tiered spells have 2 key differences. The first, restrictions, only someone of the same tier or higher can learn them. Second, Attack spells against a different tiered enemy will do more or less damage."
(A/N We are going to say 50% more or less with one tier difference +/- 25% for every additional tier)
The Guild Master hands Loki 3 scrolls and told him to learn them right here and told Loki to try using them, "Use the new spells at least once and then we can continue tomorrow until you reach 10% understanding of the Nature affinity."
Loki nods and begins to test out {Vine Grip} while standing in the center of what looks like a battlefield from all of the training. A cracking sound can be heard from 4 areas of the ground and vines come reaching through the ground, they are just flailing there waiting for an order from the caster being Loki.
Feeling satisfied with how it feels to cast that spell, moves onto {Leaf Shot} as Loki gets back into position and closes his eyes really trying to feel the earth under his feet and hearing the leaves rustling from the wind. Motioning to cast the spell, a short hum is heard only by Loki in his ear and Loki starts to feel the spell materialize in front of him and decides to shoot it towards the trees.
*WHOOSH*
With supersonic speeds, the leaves fly across the clearing and end up perfectly slicing the tree off of it's trunk. Loki held a shocked look on his face as he saw what he could do and looked over at Chris and saw a similar shocked expression. Chris noticed Loki looking at him and quickly recovered and acted as if nothing happened.
"Ahem, good job kid, those 2 spells will help you become even stronger until you learn more spells. You don't need to use recovery today since you didn't take any damage. We will meet here tomorrow at the same time and get you to 10% understanding, I imagine you're near 5% at the moment." Said Chris after turning around getting ready to walk away.
Loki feeling good right now as if there is something pushing him to try one more spell, suddenly said, "Wait, I want to try Leaf Shot one more time, I felt something weird."
Chris stops and turns around curious at what Loki said, "Something weird? What do you mean, Kid?"
Loki getting into position quickly scared the feeling is going to fade, lifts his hand while saying, "I don't know, it's hard to explain, I just feel it."
As Loki shot his next spell into the distance, not even worried about how it went. Immediately after sat down cross legged and the humming in his ear started, no words were heard, however, he could feel a calming feeling wash over him. Loki sat like this for another 10 minutes with the Guild Master standing there watching curious to see what will be the product of such an event.
Then all of a sudden the grass started moving erratically as if there was high winds and then a notification appeared in front of Loki..
{New Understanding Achieved!!}
- Reached 10% understanding in Nature affinity
"I did it..." Loki said taking a deep breath before standing up feeling a new connection to the ground.
"What? Did what?" Asked Chris is anticipation and extreme curiosity.
"I have 10% understanding in my Nature affinity now! Does this mean training is completed?" Answered Loki.