108 Ch. 108 'First Stage, Passed!'

The next morning, Niken woke up with a better mood. Her body felt fresher, and she felt her energy had been replenished. She was ready to undergo another strenuous training from her mentor.

"Good morning, how are you feeling now?"

"Much better." cheered Niken while smiling to her beloved man.

As usual, they had breakfast together then Niken continued her training like yesterday.

This time Niken could withstand the pressure of Lionel's gravity at ease. Lionel increased the force of his pressure little by little, and Niken managed to hold it straight in her place.

In fact, it seemed Niken had merged with gravity itself so that she could walk with leisure heart as if the gravity around her was normal.

Lionel looked at Niken with an admiration look never expect at how quickly his students had merged with the nature. While Niken still didn't know that she had successfully completed the first stage of training, she thought Lionel had stopped the force of gravitational pressure around her.

"Sir Lionel, why don't I feel anything?"

Lionel grinned from ear to ear when answering her question, "That's because you have merged with nature. Automatically the gravity and the element around you will bow down before you. No matter how much I increase the gravitational pressure, you will not be affected as the gravity wouldn't make a move on you."

"What? Really?"

"If you don't believe it," Lionel glanced at Kazuto with a cunning look, "Do you want to approach her?"

Kazuto's eyebrows twitched, hearing that. Why did it feet Lionel wanted to bully him? "No, thank you."

"Are you sure? She needs an answer to her curiosity."

"..."

"What will happen if Kazuto approaches me?" Niken asked innocently.

"Of course, he will get closer to you."

"Then come here, Kazu," Niken said with a sweet smile that made Kazuto unable to refuse.

Without hesitation, Kazuto walked towards her. Right when his foot entered the artificial gravity area of ​​Lionel, Kazuto's body immediately pulled down as if there was a chain that bound him from below.

Kazuto clenched one hand to the ground while he held it so that his body didn't really droop.

Niken was shocked and approached Kazuto in a panic, not expecting to see such an effect if Kazuto approached her.

"Sir Lionel, stop this."

Lionel chuckled in amusement then returned the earth's gravity to normal. Only then did Kazuto relax his muscles and breathe freely. Then he looked at Niken in admiration.

For these two days, he had no idea what it was like to be pulled by earth's gravity, and Lionel gave him the chance to feel it. It felt so overwhelming that he almost gave up to let the ground swallow him with no trace. But Niken had felt nothing and was calm in the face of this intense gravitational pressure!

Noticing the intense gaze of the man she loved made Niken's face red as a boiled crab. Embarrassed, Niken raised a hand and blocked his view by opening her palm directly in front of his eyes.

"Niken? What are you doing?"

"Don't look at me like that."

Kazuto smiled crookedly at the sound that almost whispered from his inamorata.

"Why?"

"I ... I feel so embarrassed ..."

Lionel immediately cleared his throat loudly to their attention before their romance continued to torment him, who was alone here.

What an annoying old man! Kazuto rumbled in his heart.

"Old man? Why did you call Sir Lionel, an old man?"

Kazuto realized that he was still mind-linking his thoughts with Niken so that she could hear whatever he thought.

"Old man? Did he call me an old man?"

"I'm not wrong anyway. Aren't you already a century old?"

"I haven't reached a century, and my face is still as young as you people."

"You're still more suitable to be called an old man." insisted Kazuto making Lionel regret his decision. He should have separated this young man from Niken!!

He already felt sorry for the young man because he had to separate from his inamorata, thus allowed him to join the journey. But now, he really hoped that Kazuto had never tagged along in Niken's training!

"Sir Lionel, how about we continue my training? What should I do after this?" Niken deliberately reminded her mentor of her emergency training to prevent any debate that would occur between the two knights.

"Ah, the next training is to build a defense aura against attacks by other elements."

"Building defenses aura?"

"Do you remember when Muyun attacked you in your time zone? Aren't you unable to resist the attack?"

"Right, isn't it because I lack experience in fighting?"

"That is just one of the reasons. The real reason is that you had zero defense aura. In this world, aside from Mo Spirit and Time Master, you can't stop a wizard from moving. The wizards could still move freely in your time zone."

"Wizards are no longer in this world," argued Kazuto.

"You are wrong. Indeed, the number could be counted by fingers, but pureblood wizard still exists in this world. Coupled with cross-marriages, a mix-blood was born, which had a combination of power between magic and elemental energy. Currently, there were not a few people who have the status of mix-blood. One of your friends was also a mix-blood wizard."

Kazuto and Niken looked at each other while wondering which friend Lionel meant.

***

Meanwhile, at the Bieger academy, Danzel was dealing with Yuki in the training stadium field.

Because Yuki's ability was extraordinary, Danzel must use another training method than other knights. Plus, Yuki still didn't want others to find out about her actual mastery. As much as possible, she wished to keep her main energy foundation from her friends.

Danzel respected Yuki's decision, so they decided to have their own training hours separate from their friends.

"Is someone sealing your magic?" Danzel asked, bluntly making Yuki somewhat surprised.

How did sir Danzel know she had magic, not to mention, the man also knew someone sealed her magic source?