Jasmine took a few seconds before nodding slightly at his question.
"Knowing the things your enemies might have is important. Still, I should tell you that you're dead if you encounter a Cursed Class Sorcerer among the opponents in your first bath. The two classes can't be compared if they're on the same level, but you shouldn't worry; the choice of opponents is, to some extent, fair."
She raised her hand and gathered cursed energy there, allowing the energy to form a ring similar to Klaus' but black.
"Those of the Soft Class are characterized by a golden-colored ring similar to this one. Cursed Class doesn't have something like that. We have a Cursed Core."
She destroyed the black ring there and suddenly showed her Cursed Core.
"I am a Sorceress of the Cursed Class. But that's not the only thing that characterizes us. That doesn't do us much good, although in this world, we could rule, and it is one of the reasons why the Soft Class has a great disadvantage here. But there is another reason, and that is the main reason."
"Skills. Only a Cursed Class Sorcerer can awaken abilities external to the Ring, and these abilities usually give us a lot of advantage over the Soft Class; these abilities are not like the Rings."
"The Rings are an external source of power and abilities. Our abilities are an internal source. That makes us innately more powerful. But naturally, not just anyone can be a Cursed Class Sorcerer." She smiled a little.
"For starters, to be a Cursed Class Sorcerer, you need to have the blood of one of the '3 Commandments' in your veins or be extremely lucky to inherit an ability directly from Cursed Energy. We are so scarce that, in a pitched battle against the Soft Class, we would possibly lose by numbers alone. We are outnumbered by more than 500 to 1." She finished.
After hearing all this, Klaus was pensive, but Jasmine told him to go to training, and he did.
Soon after, Jasmine mentioned a topic about Ring Specialization to him, but she didn't go into it in depth. She simply told him that when the time came to use his Ring skills, he had to specialize it.
What was that? She didn't tell him, so Klaus had to turn his attention away from that and continue his training.
During that time, his thoughts wandered back and forth.
He had skills. But he also had a Ring.
If the Ring was what allowed him to be a Soft Class Sorcerer, then he was also a Cursed Class Sorcerer, right?
That would be the normal thing to think. But there was something else that made him think otherwise.
His ability doesn't seem to use energy to function. It works directly like that for no apparent reason.
'...There is a secret behind my ability.' Although he knew it before, he could now confirm it with this new knowledge. But it was a secret he could not discover at this moment, or so he thought.
Soon, his mind began to work quickly, and he tried to do what Jasmine told him.
As he looked ahead and thought, a thought crossed his mind.
'The Great Attractor is based on a gravitational anomaly. That being the case, my Great Attractor, use gravity?'
His curiosity was piqued. Suddenly, he might have the theory of the secret of his ability.
The theory of gravity says that the greater the mass, the greater the gravity. But, simultaneously, the closer it is to 'something,' the more gravitational force it will exert. That means that the farther away it is, the less force it will exert, obviously.
'Each body has mass...' He soon stopped moving. He dropped the sword he was training with and looked straight ahead.
Jasmine looked at him in confusion. "What's wrong?"
But she received no answers.
Klaus was thinking of a theory.
What if his body, which now has the Great Attractor, has become a major gravitational center for all the mass in the surrounding area?
The Great Attractor in his body has one condition to activate: Hit.
If that is the condition, then it is normal that when he is still, the energy, which is also mass, does not approach him. The gravitational force is not activated, and the gravity produced by his own body is not enough.
But hitting activates his ability, and if his theory is true, then that should activate the gravitational force.
His eyes sparkled a little at that moment, realizing something.
'When I hit, the Great Attractor increases the mass of my body... No, no. It is possible that the blow or the force itself is what increases the mass around my body, and perhaps the Great Attractor is just expanding the gravitational force produced into the surroundings.'
'But there is a limit to how much force I have, so if the force or the hit is what produces gravity and if my theory is correct, there must be a more or less exact limit to how far this gravitational field can expand. Bearing in mind that what gravity does is to bend space, naturally that will bring the energy closer to me, as it will orbit around me.'
'Also, depending on the force I exert on the hit, the range should be greater or less.' He concluded.
He didn't want to waste any more time. He had to try it.
He bent his body slightly and retracted his hand slightly, with his elbow sticking out behind his body, the same position as always.
Then, he put as much force as possible into his hand, moving the positive energy dramatically.
Meanwhile, he focused his gaze straight ahead.
He needed to increase his concentration to the limit, so he didn't care what Jasmine was talking about. He needed to check this.
His eyes seemed to glow in such a way that anyone would think an ability had been activated.
After 30 seconds of preparation, he released his punch to the front without taking his eyes off the place he was hitting.
Soon, the blow reached the limit of what his body could hit, and a small explosion of energy occurred. Then strange vibrations that only he could see expanded at a 20-degree angle to a distance of a few meters in front of him. Klaus could see the cursed energy in that place being pulled towards him.
Perhaps it was more as if something invisible had affected the energy. By a force it could not resist and was forced to hit his body.
'Good...' That was the first step.
Striking as hard as he could, made the energy to a distance of about 3 to 5 meters, shudder towards him.
Now, he retracted his hand again. He kept the same position, but he spent two minutes preparing this time.
He lowered his strength to an acceptable limit until he had 25% of all the force used before. That should reduce the distance quite a bit.
'Maybe I can't control my strength well, so I'll leave a margin of error. Maybe this supposed 25% is 50% in reality. Still, if the distance decreases by half, that's enough proof of the theory. If it decreases by 25%, I must test it further.' He smiled.
Curiosity was eating him up inside. He hadn't felt like this in a long time.
A scientific theory in a fantasy world. It was basic, perhaps. But it was one of the first he could think of.
By God, he would naturally be nervous.
So he closed his eyes for a moment to calm himself.
He opened them a few seconds later and focused his gaze.
Once again, he let out a thump to the front.
This time, the strange vibrations that perhaps only he can see reached a boundary between 1.5 and 1.8 meters, shortening considerably.
'It shortened!' Happiness radiated on his face when he noticed that the cursed energy in that whole radius started to approach his body, and although it didn't enter him, it affirmed his theory.
Jasmine, standing to the side of him, frowned. This was the first time Klaus had displayed this so directly in front of her. And her eyes could see it all too well.
'There is no question. A Ring can't do that. But I've seen it before; how could he also have an ability when he unlocked a Ring?'
It was this that made her feel so interested in him, but she couldn't go straight to asking him about his hidden abilities either. 'I could threaten him, but that doesn't go with me. Sigh, forget it. It's not my problem either.'
Jasmine reached over and pulled a small stick to tap Klaus on the shoulder. Her blow made it hard, causing Klaus to grimace in pain.
"I didn't tell you to stop. Be quick and concise if you want to achieve good results in your training. Remember that, to us, Sorcerers, what we lack the most is always time."
After her reprimand, Klaus returned to his training and apologized, but he was extremely happy this time.
Thus, hours of pure training passed. Although they were solo training, thanks to the drastic movements Jasmine taught him, Klaus could push his current body to the limit.
That also showed that he was weak, as small movements like that could already make him reach his limit, but with every step he took, the harder it was to push his body to the limit and the more he could understand the right way to get stronger.
His training ended when he needed to replenish the necessary nutrients, and he did this by eating good-quality meat that this beautiful lady who was teaching him bestowed upon him. After eating, he would sleep, and after a few hours, he would return to training.
That training process did not last long; less than 48 hours later, Jasmine had to leave.
They both walked out of the basement and into the mansion's courtyard.
Jasmine looked as nonchalant as ever. Although Klaus had asked her many questions these past few hours, she had barely answered 3 or 4, so he had given up on trying to get more information. What he had was enough.
She turned to look at him. "I'll give you one last reminder so you can survive."