In a quiet and dimmed camp, a figure could be seen sleeping soundly on a bed, devoid of any distractions from the surrounding, as times passes that same young man with a blue hair just wake up from his sleep, as he moves his body he flinched and grimaced in a pain, as his body seems injured from the battle yesterday,
He touched his ribs with his left hands as his right hands are now numbs and seems broken, As he was lost in thoughts someone just came inside the camp and start staring at him,
"Emil..."
"Ah young lord, you shouldn't move that much, you are still injured"
As he say this, Rein just shrugged his heads while asking the most important things to him,
"How long I have been unconscious?"
"Hmmm, just two days my lord, no need to worry, you just need to focus on recuperating "
As Emil reprimand him in concern, he asked another question,
"How many soldiers did we lost this time?"
But Emil just stay silent for a while before answering with a sigh,
"108 soldiers have fallen"
"I see, have them a proper burial"
"Yes, my lord I have already make the orders"
"That's assuring, then Ill rest for a while"
As Emil agree, he just nodded in agreements and walk out from the camp room once again, while Rein laying on his bed, just grasp his hands tightly as he is frustrated and feels responsible for their death,
Just 3 day after that, proper burial and funeral have already concluded for the fallen soldiers, some lost their companion, some lost their brother in arm, but this is war and they cannot agonize for too long, because their mission is their conviction towards their comrades sacrifices. While in just 3 days, Rein have already recovered and this baffled the soldiers and even Rein himself, but he just attribute it to his awakening power,
As he walks through the camp, some soldiers salute him, while others praise him, even the mages that sent by Grace seems revered him, as he have been one of their beacon of hope during the gruesome battle yesterday. But Rein just accept it is as normal things for him to do, slowly he throded to the area which he will have to meet Emil. In a minutes he finally arrived and met the figure that have assorted such meetings, while his gaze was upon him, the man just ask the obvious,
"Are you okay now young lord?"
While Rein just make a hand gesture ensuring that he is okay, with this Emil just breath a sigh of relief. Then he continue,
"This time do you know why did I invited you, young lord?"
"Not really, but I assume it's regarding my new found power?"
Nodded in agreements, Emil just asked him to sit in front of him, while he just comply and obliged while sitting slowly,
"Starting off my lord, do you know what kind of power you just releases yesterday?"
"No..."
Hearing those responds, Emil starts touching his chin while lost in thoughts for a bit before he continue,
"I think I knew a little bit of that power of yours"
"You know?, do you have it too"
When Rein asked him enthusiastically, he just shrugged it off,
"Not really, but I have something similar or the same origin at it" then he began to explain,
"You see young lord, magic in this world are of the same origin but at the same times it's like a root of a tree, it split it's course once it gets bigger just like our power"
"Tell me two types of magic,"
With this question Rein Just immediately responds,
" They are two main types of magic for a person, Innate magic and External magic"
"One that we usely used which is comes from the mana core insides our body, while the other one is the came from external sources such as mana stones, it always imbued within things which is the artifact"
Nodded in agreements, Emil just gave him an approval while gesturing him to continue,
"Innate magic are limited by the talents of its user, while the external magic are limited by the quality of resources "
"So it is some kind of innate magic, but how come I've never feel it awaken before"
But Emil just shrugged it off, denying his claims,
"It's not an innate magic my lord, if it's an innate it could be impossible to initiate that magic in the first place, as you have a geass magic placed upon you,
Hearing this made Rein realised the truth but also seems confused and shrouded himself in question and mystery, but Emil just helped him to figure it out,
"It's actually the third types, "
"You mean that rare specialized magic?"
"That's correct, the third type are rare because only a certain talented individual can awaken it, you should be proud my lord"
"I've also awaken mine years ago, I am quite familiar with it now which makes me jump from a apprentice knight to a master knight in one go"
Hearing such information, Rein feels excited but he still have a lot of things to explore for he is clueless, just as he is lost in thoughts, Emil asked him to get up,
"My lord, please stand up as it's time for the second phase of our training" he grinned
While Rein just smiled as he knows this is important to their mission and survivality, so he just accept it even though he still recovering,
"So you are going to guide me on how to use that magic more efficiently?"
"Yes, but before that, we need to advance your skill and swordsmanship to another tier, as having a specialized magic needs more advanced level of skills and swordsmanship"
Hearing that, Rein became excited and asked,
"Is it going to be the royalist swordsmanship, or knight mastery swordsmanship?"
While Emil just stared at her directly with his answer,
"Neither, what I am going to teach you is my personal favourite as it is my family swordsmanship the nothernblade swordsmanship"
Seeing no reaction from Rein, he feels like maybe he is dissapointed as he asked,
"Are you dissapointed?"
While Rein just shrugged his heads while voicing his honest opinion,
"Not at all, because I know you know the best styles to teach me as per my performance that day is a good result for me"
With that, Emil just nodded while patting his back,
"I am glad, now let's not waste our time"
As he said this both have a mutual understanding and start to take out their own swords while facing each other,
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Rein was gasping for an air while standing in a unique stance or what Emil called the northern blade stance, his figure are now imbued with blue aura, he have managed to manifest the power within 8 times he spar with Emil, as he looks in front to him, Emil just crossed his arm while waiting for him,
"Just another 5 minutes my lord, try to grasp the feeling of that power and maintain it"
While Rein nodded and say,
"I'll try"
Then they continue to practice more and more, Emil have to forced Rein to learned everything within two days, as he seems to notice a bad premonition or rather bad feelings that comes from the deep forest,Seeing that hardworking figure in front of him he just asked him,
"How many stance have you learnt so far and managed to execute"
"Hmmm, about 12 out of 18 stance"
With that responds from Emil he just asked him to start again while giving him a thumbs up,
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2 days after that, a group of people are gatherings again at the Main Camp which is the same people as the first meetings before the battle with the goblin horde,
But this time, they are in a much tense situations and bad predicament seems to overtake them, they are now observing the items or rather mana stones lying on the desk,
The mana stones are dark grim with purple tinge, it's the abyss star that have been extracted from the corrupted hobgoblin yesterday, they became aware of this bad situation a they don't expect to meet with Their enemy lackey especially even before commencing the main war,
Then the Mage leader, Jello just speak out,
"It seems our situation are much grimer than I thought"
While Emil just added,
"Never thought that they have reach this earlier in our base area, it just a hobgoblin and it have already put pressure on us, I can't imagine if a powerful monster get this kind of enhancement"
As they contemplated their thoughts on the abyss star, Rein just interjected while asking the most important sources of information right now, the scouts,
"Scouts what have you found?"
This time he was hesitated which made the others more concerned, as being stare by the other seriously, the Scout just blurt the bad news to them,
"I have scouted the forest a head and within 3km of radius, the forest and the monster inside it, are all have been corrupted, "
While he extends his hands with a plants a size of a palm, but this one seems to have purplish hue to it.
When, all of the people see this they grimaced and shocked beyond reasons, because this only meant one things, much more dreaded forces of corrupted are lurking in the forest
ahead, with this in minds, they direct they gaze towards the captain, Indicating for him to make decisions for the camp,
With that attention, he just close his eyes and started to thinks the most preferable answer and action, within seconds he have come to conclusion, As he open his eyes he just say in confidence,
"We will proceed, this threat should be rooted as soon as possible before it's expand to other area and makes our actions in the great war give us a bad starting"
With this, everyone just nodded in agreements, but one seems to be just facading his decision,