"There's a reason why I want you to learn this."
"Reason?"
"Yes."
Erina began to explain her reasons in a serious voice.
"Maybe for most mages, between magic research and self-training, most people would think it's more important to do magic research than self-training, and for some minority of mages it's more important to self-train, some train their bodies or some hone themselves from fighting. So who is right?"
After Akasha thought deeply, she finally found the answer.
"Both?"
"Half right."
"Then what's the right answer?"
"It all depends on what you want to aim for, advancing the magical world with your research then you should prioritize magical research but if you want to help someone then choose the path of training yourself.
But for a true mage, both answers are also wrong because for a mage there are times when one should be a researcher but there are also times when a mage should fight.
Unfortunately it's not something that everyone can do. Being the strongest Mage or the Mage Of Justice in a fairy tale book. They are ultimately people who tread both paths at the same time."
'Martial Arts were originally used for self-protection, so this is a good lesson for Akasha. It should give Akasha some good experience on how important his own life is.
While Erina thought of making Akasha realize how important it was to take care of herself by getting to know martial arts, Akasha thought the opposite.
'That means to be a mage of justice, I can't avoid fighting someone, fighting bad people is the job of a mage of justice. I understand now.
To fight the bad guys, I need strength, not only magic, and intelligence but also physical strength.
That's right, the power to defeat the enemy. That is the power I must acquire to become a mage of justice.'
Master and Discipline, the master expects his martial art to be used to protect the discipline's safety while the discipline thinks martial art is used to defeat the enemy.
The difference in the mindset of these two people in the future will lead them down a path that is far from what they want but we'll save that for now...right?
"...I see. Then I will study martial arts."
Erina nodded happily at Akasha's answer, Erina spoke in a relaxed tone this time.
"Before learning martial arts, you have to strengthen your body first. Your current body condition is not strong enough to receive martial arts training. I want you to do some exercises. Do push ups for 1000 times, pull ups on that tree for 500 times followed... "
Erina then began to explain the contents of the training Akasha had to do. Hearing that, Akasha could only say...
"...??? Is Master kidding?"
What Erina was saying at the moment felt like foreign vocabulary and was indigestible to Akasha brain.
"No, I'm serious. This is the training you have to endure, considering your weak body, unlike knights who have cores, you don't have a core. So the only way for you to match a knight is pure physical ability."
'Well, it's still impossible for a pure physique to fight a knight with a core. Just like it's impossible for a witch who doesn't have a core to win a pure physical battle with a knight who has a core.'
The Core was a kind of second heart and auxiliary tool of the people called Knights and some Warriors in the south. Like Ether, the Core is what makes a Knight have a strong body.
Unlike wizards who get their strength from Ether in nature, Knights use the Core inside them to increase their physical strength.
A person who perfectly masters their Core will be able to create an 'Aura' and the greater the mastery of the Aura, the more one becomes far superior to any living creature such as an Archmage who is able to master the laws of nature at will.
Just as a Mage who reached the peak of magic would be called an Archmage or a Wizard who reached the peak of their magic would be called an Archwizard, a Knight who reached the highest peak would be called a Grandmaster.
Compared to them, Akasha situation was too worrying because even an apprentice Mage or apprentice Knight could easily kill Akasha.
Erina felt sure that one day Akasha would face a strong enemy who was eyeing Akasha abnormal power plus the current state of the world was not okay. That is the reason why Erina teaches martial arts to Akasha, after all she will not always be able to be by Akasha side in dangerous situations.
Erina plans to make Akasha have enough fighting skills to face the top ranked Knights even if in physical strength.
The martial art style that Erina would teach was a martial art to fight a knight.
Initially Erina learned the fighting style for fighting Knights only from Master Erina but over time Erina also combined her martial art fighting style with the martial art fighting style for fighting Magician and wild animals.
This was a martial art fighting style that was very versatile and suited Akasha who lacked in all areas against Warriors and Magicians.
"Don't just stand there, aren't you going to start?"
"Ah, alright master."
'If it's for the sake of becoming a justice mage, I'll do whatever it takes.'
Akasha obsession with the desire to become a Mage Of Justice began to have more weight than her own life and even had the weight of a fanatic accepting a mission from her lord.
So began Akasha harsh training that would change many things...
...
Somewhere in the capital of the Magisia Kingdom in a clinic.
From inside the clinic came the voice of a woman talking to someone using a device that Erina had used when talking to her friend.
"What?"
"Even you were surprised too."
"A-ahem...So?"
"Eh?"
"You couldn't have called me just for telling Erina's hallucination story, right?"
"Ahaha...You're still as stiff as ever, Helena. I know you're worried about Erina too."
"I'll close."
"W-wait a minute... Alright alright, I want you to come to Vladimir's immediate area to check Erina's mental state."
"Why do I have to do that?"
"Well, I'm currently busy with my family affairs. You know that our family and the current Emperor have a bad relationship. So I can't go out of the Empire like before."
"...Are you okay?"
"Pfftt..."
"Wh-what! Why are you laughing!"
"Well, it's fine. I'm glad you're still the same as always. Well, the point is that I'm leaving Erina to you. I'll close then."
"Eh? W-wait-"
Instantly the connection was cut off.
"Haah..."
The woman sighed and stood up and walked out of the room. She walked over to a blonde woman who was arranging medicine bottles on a shelf.
"Beatrice, prepare the goods for the move immediately."
"Master Helena? Why all of a sudden."
"I'm going to see an old friend."