Az stood in front of Camillia, who was wearing a black cut out top and black pant, that made her look like a sexy modern day gym girl. Az himself was wearing a white buttoned full-sleeved tee-shirt and brown pants.
Camillia looked at him top to bottom and nodded. "Alright, first take off your shirt."
Az, being Az, "I'm down, but is the age of consent different in the capital city or are you trying to commit a crime in broad daylight?"
Camillia's face turned red. "Just do it, you bastard."
Az just complied with her order. Az's body was nothing crazy. It was pretty well-toned as far as a 10-year-old's body could be. A six-pack would be visible if he flexed a little, but it wasn't that visible.
Camillia sized him up and nodded in satisfaction. "Yeah, that's as good as you can get without having too much muscle and looking disgusting. Now, what about your inner energy."
Camillia crouched down and lightly touched his chest before closing her eyes. After a while, she opened her eyes and nodded. "It seems your dragon blood was more dominant and didn't let you be a hybrid. I guess they weren't exaggerating about your talent either."
Azrath nodded, but inwardly knew there was no chance for him to be a hybrid. A hybrid was normally only 1 in a million if 2 people of different species had a child, but that wasn't the reason, He wasn't Aliser's son in the first place, and it was stated in the book that his father was a dragon, even though it didn't state who it was. So, even that 1 in a million chance didn't exist.
Camillia grinned after a while. "Alright, brace yourself, brat. I'm gonna turn you into a bigger monster than Asura Bloodfallen."
Az nodded. Even though he was keeping a straight face, he was kind of excited for the kind of training he would go through.
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"What the fuck is the purpose of doing this again?" Az asked as he swung a wooden sword again.
"I already told you, it's to make you more used to wielding the sword." Camillia replied as she was still watching him as he was snacking on something.
"Yeah, but it's boring. I've been doing this for an hour already." Az complained. All he'd done since the 'training' started was 100 push-ups, 100 sit-ups, 100 squats and it seemed Camillia had replaced the 10km run with sword swings.
Respectfully, he could that much without her here.
"All right. Stop. Next part of your training is a spar against me. Try to copy what I do and improve yourself.
I won't use any aura and the training isn't over until you land a hit on me. It doesn't matter what you hit me with. Swords, stones, fists, kicks, hell, you can even hit me with a fruit if you want. Too make this easier for you, I'll only use one arm." Camillia said as she picked up a wooden sword.
Az, hearing this, felt she was just being too arrogant. "So. 'bout 10 seconds then."
Camillia just grinned. "You won't be having the same thought process after a minute."
Az, shrugging, just rushed and swung his sword, attempting to hit Camillia. However, she just blocked it with ease and threw Az off with a sudden burst of strength.
Before Az could do anything, Camillia seemingly disappeared from his view, and when she appeared again, she was already in his face and swung his sword, trying to hit his waist. Az tried to block it but was sent flying before he could even move.
Az had a strong feeling his bones in that area were broken. Nevertheless, he got up, but before he could do anything, he was sent flying with a kick from Camillia to his chin.
This time, Az tried to run away, as soon as he could, instead of trying to get a hit in. "Hey, hey, time out. You're supposed to train me, not kill me."
"I'm allowed to beat the shit out of you while training you. And I've got some heal potions I can use if you're about to die." As she said so, Az was sent flying with another sword strike at his waist.
Seeing that he was not getting up, Camillia went to where he was lying down to check on him. "Is he knocked out?"
Suddenly, Az threw some dirt on her face when she got close enough to him and attempted a kick.
Camillia, however, just blocked it, delivering a kick to his back. "Quite a cute trick."
Getting no response, Camillia realized that Az was really knocked out this time around.
"He's really knocked out this time, huh?" Camillia said as she poured a yellow potion on Az.
Az slowly opened his eyes, and as soon as he did, attempted to run away, but was grabbed by Camillia.
"Hey, it's not fun to beat you so one-sidedly. Alright then, I'll give you 5 minutes for which I won't hit you every time you get up from being knocked out."
Az nodded, not really having his choice. He vowed to not tease this dangerous woman too much in the future.
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2 hours later, Az was lying on his back on the training field once again. He groaned.
"Hey, didn't my father say that aura training was only for 5 hours?" Az said.
"Hmm…. He did say that. But don't worry, I already talked to your magic and theory teachers. They won't have their classes before I at least teach you the basics of swordsmanship and aura. Now, get up and attack me again." Camillia replied.
This time, Az didn't speak, but his stomach did. "I'm hungry. I haven't eaten anything since morning." Az said.
Camillia shrugged. "You can eat once training is over. Otherwise, you'll end up throwing up."
Az heard that and groaned, before getting up and picking up his sword. Camillia saw this and a beautiful smile graced her beautiful lips. Az had complained several times throughout the training, but he had gotten up and picked up his sword right after. He was a genuine hard worker.
Az rushed towards her once again, attempting to hit her. Camillia, once again, blocked it with ease. Then, suddenly, Az let go of his sword to catch Camillia off guard and threw a kick to her other side. However, although she didn't expect him to do something like that, she blocked it quite easily by raising her leg, still not using her dominant arm.
As soon as she blocked it, Az swiftly backed off, picking up his sword that was in the ground in the process. As he did so, it was clear that although not by much, Az's movements were slightly less sluggish than a while ago.
Az threw a stone he had picked up earlier towards Camillia in an attempt to distract her. Camillia moved her head to the left to dodge the stone, but soon noticed her range of vision limited by a wooden sword. She immediately smacked it away with her own wooden sword, but as she did so, Az was already in the air, throwing a kick at her face.
Camillia swiftly ducked her head to avoid his kick resulting in Az trying to keep his balance and landing behind her. Honestly, Camillia was quite impressed with Az's ability to come up with a new strategy within milliseconds, and his control over his body was honestly quite impressive, even though he had pretty trash sword skills.
Even though all his strategies had failed so far, they were quite good and hadn't worked only because of Camillia's extremely impressive reflexes.
Az ran towards Camillia once again, she prepared for whatever Az came up with. However, this time he simply jumped up and threw a kick at her, which she simply dodged. But Az simply grabbed his sword that was on the ground, which seemed to be his main objective this time around, until he turned around to swing at Camillia again, which she blocked effortlessly.
"5 minutes over, brat." She said as Az groaned and backed up.
Camillia disappeared and appeared in front of him once again as she swung her wooden sword diagonally downward, which Az managed to somehow dodge this time around and create some space between them.
He didn't have any time to celebrate though as Camillia's sword that came horizontally swinging at him. He attempted to block it, and he would've succeeded if his sword didn't break from the force of Carmilla's swing, which hit him straight in the chest and sent him flying, ultimately knocking him out.
"Still weak." Camillia said, but she was quite impressed with his improvement. She had trained other students too, but even those who started from a level higher than Az took at least a week, before they could dodge one of her swings, even though she was holding back most of strength, for the first time.
But Az didn't just dodge one, he would've blocked the other if it wasn't for his limited strength as a 10-year-old.
She just poured another healing potion on him and said just one word as Az opened his eyes once again, "Again." Earning a groan from Az.
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9 hours later, Az lay on his back once again. Soon, he got up and picked up his sword once again ready to attack Camillia.
"All right, that's enough for today. Be here again at 7 in the morning tomorrow." Camillia said.
"I haven't landed a hit on you though." Az replied, confused.
Camillia snorted. "We will be here for quite a while if we wait for that, won't we?' She said as she disappeared before Az could say anything.
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When Az entered the Golden crown palace, he was greeted with:
"We greet his highness." About 20 women in maid uniform said in unison while bowing as Az entered the palace.
A woman who looked to be in her early twenties stepped forward with a young girl who looked to be in her mid-teens and bowed down as she said, "Your highness, we're the maids that have been assigned to the Golden crown palace. I'm the head maid, Shiina and this is Emily, who will be your personal maid."
Az nodded. "That's good and all. But I'm starving, right now, have you prepared dinner?"
Shiina smiled as she nodded. "This way, your highness."
Az looked at the dinner table, trying his best to stop drool from coming out of his mouth. There were all kinds of fancy food products on the table. He turned to Shiina and asked, "Have you guys eaten?"
Shiina was surprised with his question, but smiled and nodded. "Yes, your highness."
Az nodded. "Then, you may excuse yourself. I'll call you if I need something."
Shiina nodded and saw herself out.
The reason Az ordered her to see herself out was because there would not be any princely characteristics in him while eating.
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"Ah, I'm so full." Az said as he entered his room.
"Ah, is that so?" A beautiful voice rang out. Az turned to the direction where the voice came from and was greeted by the smiling face of his mother.
"So, how was your training session with Lia, my son?" Diana said, the smile not leaving her face.
...To be continued
A/N: Another chapter done, boys. Make sure you complete your daily missions by giving me your power stones. Remember, you don't take anything with you in death. So, don't be greedy.
Anyway, peace out.