No matter what they say, it's much better at home. No matter how good it is different countries, it can never compare to the atmosphere you have at home. Especially when people are waiting for you at home. Of course, there were a lot of things to do, but it didn't take long to solve them, and soon I could walk around the island with Azula. The island had changed a lot over the years.
And it couldn't help but change. Since the island's area was limited, it grew upward and had already caught up with the height of the wall. Except that here the walls do not press against you, because there is a lot of free space. And there's a lot of green. A lot of it. And it's all laid out in a kind of cosmic style. It's fabulous.
With the level of development, the inhabitants of the island developed. Every inhabitant goes through a chakra cleansing at the age of sixteen. This not only makes people calmer, but also gives them a longer life. And if in the rest of the world people live about a hundred years, on our island it's about a hundred and fifty years. That's not a small number. And three quarters of the inhabitants are magicians.
Yes, most of them are weak and almost useless, but I can see that the average level is slowly rising. Maybe in ten generations there will be monsters that can stand up to the Avatar, but I'll try to make my plan work.
Also, to have a place to train, I had to build squares outside the wall. Twenty-meter squares of steel that now hang all along the outside wall. As a result of the training, many people swim, but for me, it is an additional incentive to become stronger.
It was on one of these squares that Azula and I were now training. And I had to make a separate area for myself from all the others and extend it to fifty meters. Our training is very destructive. We don't spar anymore because we've learned enough about each other. All that's left is to hone our skills. That's what we did. That's how we learned to fly with fire magic. And that's without Sozin's comet. And learning lightning wasn't that hard. It's redirecting it that's harder. And that's just fire magic. The water magic school is progressing as well.
I've mastered plant magic. It requires some skill, but it's nothing special. I control blood magic freely and have taught it to some of my talented disciples. I chose them carefully and they did not fail. Two girls and a boy became first-class healers and then doctors.
Thanks to blood magic, they were able to perform extremely complicated surgeries. This example made me very happy, and now all healers study blood magic. To the point where they can control it during the day. Yes, it's much worse than at night or during a full moon, but it's more than enough to save the inhabitants.
Many fire mages also work for the greater good. Lightning has become available to many, and thanks to advances in technology, the battery has been invented. It seems like a small thing, but it is this small thing that provides most of the island's infrastructure.
It is the same with earth magic. Many people reached the level of metal magic, and after that, the city was rapidly transformed. We had plenty of money, so it was no problem to order a few hundred thousand tons of metal from the country. And the city shone with many small details made by the inhabitants for their convenience. The island was very comfortable to live on because everything was made by people for people.
Some land mages could control the crystals. It wasn't hard to learn, but it was usually only necessary for jewelers. With this skill, it was possible to create true masterpieces.
What pleased me was the almost complete absence of crime. The standard of living on the island is very high, and every inhabitant of the island can easily earn what he wants. The chakra cleansing also contributed to this. And the example of people in the rest of the world. There were no drugs at all, and those who tried to bring them to the island were put in jail for at least twenty years.
I didn't do much about the prison. A two-by-two-by-two cell. All made of the most refined metal, a meter thick. No light, total darkness. Meals once a day. And knowing these conditions, no one wanted to be a prisoner.
I was proud of the place I had built and could call home. Happy that my beloved could be here in comfort and safety.
Breathe in. The inner fire increases as does the outer fire. Shifting to another stance. Exhale. The fire decreases. Move to the next posture. Inhale. The fire rises again.
And so on, until I'd done every stance in the style. And there were a lot of them. A lot of them. My fire style is very voluminous, and just to study it takes several years, what to say about the title of master. For the record, I am not a master because I have not perfected it. It will take me a long time, but I'm in no hurry. I glanced at Azula, who followed my movements. And I'm not the only one, so I won't be bored. And there's someone to get stronger for.