The temple floor was much colder in the night and Ash was not even wearing his shoes.
"I told you that you could take a dip in the sacred waters but only after training and if I'll allow it," she said.
"That's not why I was naked, you can't just bring me here whenever nobody's watching me, at least check what I am doing," he said.
"I have other important things to do, I don't sit around watching you all day, I have just put a spell on you which alerts me of when you are alone, now dress up quickly I can see that you have finally managed to use your powers, your mana retention has improved significantly since last time," said Sasha. She had brought his clothes over to right beside him and Ash dressed quickly.
"Yes, I have been wanting to talk to you about it since, it was pretty cool, you had to see it, everyone was amazed," he said.
"I can imagine, you have a pretty unique power, I have only ever seen spells dealing with lightning but I assume yours will be much different than that since it's elemental, let me see," she said.
Ash picked up his sword, repeated the same process, and pushed the mana inside him into the sword, the stone glowed blue and so did the sword, soon lightning was flowing around it.
"hmmm, the stone is helping turn your mana into electricity, and it's not harming you because you have an affinity towards it, that's the area you have improved in, you still need to be able to tap into the lightning on your own, I bet you won't be able to do that with a normal sword," she said.
"it is still pretty cool though right?" he said.
"Yeah, I do remember seeing something like this once," she said slowly remembering.
"Where? Maybe that's where I need to go and train," said Ash.
"You are too green and naive," she said shaking her head.
"I have no idea, how you have survived in that elf city till now, you are lucky you have some decent people around and a couple of friends looking after you," she said.
"Yeah, so what are we training today?" he asked.
"Nothing much, this will be a quick lesson, I have some things to do later so don't waste my time asking any more questions, I'll just teach you two more forms, you still need to practice the previous ones, they won't come to you so easily, and then for magic training, it's simple you will just be doing that what you just did, till you run out of mana," said Sasha.
So Ash got to it, he was looking forward to pouring all his mana into the sword and seeing what would happen. He trained the forms for about two hours, his stamina was getting better, and then he picked the sword finally and poured all the mana in it, not worried about what might happen later, because he will just take a dip in the sacred waters. The sword started vibrating difficult to hold in one hand, it was also starting to burn and feel hot on his hands and inside. The lightning grew brighter and bigger, the sparks started spreading outwards, in the air, and even going into the ground.
"You are reaching your limit, stop now, or I'll have to carry you which I don't have time for," she said. Ash stopped, panting hard, his throat was parched and his mind was swirling like he had just ridden a horse very fast.
"I need to be somewhere, can you go to the sacred waters alone, you remember the way right?" she asked and he nodded.
"Good, there shouldn't be anyone there, but if there is don't do anything stupid, if they ask just say you have permission from Yuri," said Sasha and left.
Ash made his way out of the temple and in the forest towards the waters. Under the moonlight they looked very appealing, he checked that there was nobody and jumped in. The water was colder almost like it knew exactly what temperature he needed to feel right now, before this time the water acted like a calming balm that calmed his mind and body which had been up and down since the morning first with the war then with Maya and then with the training. He was floating on his back in the water his eyes closed, the water floated him around and he heard some splashing sounds nearby.
He twisted his head to take a look and saw a women appear out of the water throwing back her long hairs and standing tall. The amazons were a thing of wonder, they had rippling muscles yet they hadn't lost the touch of femininity and the curves still looked as soft and perky as they possibly could.
This Amazon was none other than Yuri the leader of the amazons, he definitely couldn't say to her that he had got permission from Yuri.
She turned and looked at him, he smiled trying to look innocent and harmless.
"So you are the one who disturbed me, " she said with a cool deep voice like Sasha.
"Sorry, I looked but I didn't see anybody, " he said.
"I was underwater controlling my breathing, I need still water for that that's why I don't do it I'm the day, you are lucky I was done anyway, from next time stay on the edges you are too small to make any big disturbances from there, " she said.
"Ok, I'll keep that in mind, " he remembered how he had agreed to follow their rules before.
"How's your training going, Sasha said you have some rare affinity, " she asked.
"Yeah it's going fine, she is teaching me the forms, I have learned seven so far, and I have a lightning affinity, " he replied.
"Lightning, hmm, the valkyries have a goddess, Electra, they believe the ones with that power are blessed by her, " she said.
"Yeah, I heard, " he said.
"Do you have contact with them?" he asked. He had only ever seen a couple of photos in a book, well he had never seen an Amazon either, but he felt valkyries would be different, with golden holy armor and wings.
"Valkyries and amazons have a lot of common goddesses, we are pretty similar, we both honor warriors and have only women, we both have long lifespans and live nearby, " she said.
"The valkyries live around here?" he asked amazed.
"Yes, but there is one big difference between them and us, they are very powerful even a single one of them, I can take one Valkyrie but I am not sure if I'll survive two, and I am one of the strongest of the amazons, they are not violent but you can't understand them, if you find yourself across one you have no idea what might happen, it all depends upon her mood, if she decides you need to be killed no one can stop it, if she decides something worse then there's that Or she might not even look at you which is more likely, or they might like you and keep you as a pet, " she said.
Ash nodded still wanting to see one.
"Would you mind if I ask you to give me a massage, I strained my shoulder badly while training, it's still sore, others have tried helping and it does relieve some pain, but maybe your small hands might work the muscles better, " she said surprising him.
Ash didn't care about the small hands comment for now.