Chapter 146: Borris

When the fire engulfed the boar, he noticed that it didn't die directly, though the health points on its green bar were left at 35 percent and it was gradually decreasing. That attack just now was probably not meant to kill it, though it was on the verge of dying.

Nevertheless, he noticed the hatred it felt towards humans had reached the threshold. Its once green bar had turned red in an instant. Because of the pain it felt, it was now seeing all the humans as enemies. Of course, he's one of the targets of its hatred as he was human too.

While he was mulling over, the instructor continued his lecture.

"As you have seen just now, I made a ball of fire on my finger and fired it towards the target. What I did just now is called… Short-Range Invocation!"

"S-short-range invocation?" Someone among the students repeated the Instructor's words.

"Yes, yes…" Instructor Stuwart nodded.

The students whispered to each other. They were talking about if either of them knew how to do it.

Most of the students in this section could only materialize magical elements out of magical energy but didn't know how to fire them. Looks like it wasn't easy to learn how to throw it.

He remembered that time when the subjugators fought with the ratmen beasts. Different kinds of magical elements were thrown everywhere. At first, he thought he could learn it someday if he survived that battle. Yet, up until now, he learned nothing. He tried to check it in the market, but there was no magical element skill scroll on sale in the market at that time.

The last time he checked the market, they only sold the beginner-tier mastery skill for each profession.

"Next, let's use a water element for the next lesson..." the Instructor continued.

After saying it, Instructor Stuwart lifted his right hand open towards the target. Uhm, wait. Something was off. He was aiming overhead at the burning boar. Then he summoned bluish magical energy on his hand. The next second, a water ball formed on top of the burning boar.

No. Actually, it was more like a big bubble was forming, and inside it was filled with water.

Aside from that, Eman noted that even if one had blue, green, or whatever kind of magical energy he had, he could transpire it into different kinds of magical elements. 

"Okay, watch it closely…" Instructor Stuwart said, then he clenched his hand like he was crushing something within. At the same time that he did it, the bubble of water on top of the burning boar had exploded. The water inside it splashed around, then to the burning boar. After the contact of water onto it, the fire was extinguished in an instant together with a flashing noise, then steam of smoke erupted and carried a burnt smell in the air. 

The students exclaimed in admiration once again then another clapped resounded in the clearing.

Eman noticed that the boar was left with 2% health points. Looks like the fire failed to kill it and the water bubble didn't mean to kill it but only to extinguish the fire.

Unfortunately to the boar, the wire that they used to tie it did not break or melt by fire. So its suffering would continue longer.

He laughed dryly at the bitterness of life towards the pitiful boar. 

The instructor then clapped his hand to get everyone's attention. "Okay, everyone, did you notice the difference between the first invocation and the second?" He faced the students and asked.

"Yes, teacher!"

Many students raised their hands. They gave their answers one by one until they only repeated the previous student's answers and just altered it a little but the point was still the same as the others.

When the students had calmed down finally, the instructor nodded his head upon understanding that it was his time again to talk.

He clapped his hand once more and said, "Right, some of you were right. The second spell was done in a long-range invocation. However, you lots are wrong about its name. Not because the first one was called Short-Range Invocation, then the second will be named as Long-Range Invocation. Kuku…" he chuckled and paused for a moment.

"The second spell was known as Full-Scale Invocation!"

"Oh, I see…" Fayazu said with great interest. Then another whispering was happening around them.

The instructor then explained the difference between these two types of invocation. Well, it was easy to guess at this point.

The lesson continued and asked the trainees to master the first invocation first, the Short-range Invocation. Everyone tried their best to copy what the instructor did a while ago.

They summoned their magical energies and transpired them into any magical elements they wanted. They were free to choose which of the magical elements they wished to manipulate. Then fired them to the still tied boar.

The students did not last longer. The instructor chuckled at them. "Kuku, okay, let's stop for now as most of you have exhausted your magical energy. Rest well everyone, tomorrow will continue your training."

"Yes, sir…" they responded weakly.

After a couple of minutes, the lesson ended with none of the students being able to hit the target.

Eman was looking at Fayazu who was walking beside him like a staggering zombie. They were all heading towards the school building. Aside from him, everyone else was exhausted.

Honestly, he also tried to manipulate his soul energy and transpired it to magical elements. But to his dismay, just like what the information said in his mind, it was useless for him. He could not learn any magic through training. 

In fact, based on his knowledge, he could only learn magical elements when he learned the beginner-tier mastery skill.

Well, he was just curious. Also, he needed skill slots to learn new skills.

Speaking of skills, after achieving the big spender achievement, lately, there were more and more skill scrolls available in the market. Since he was busy these past days, he had no time to check each of them and only had a glimpse.

Looks like, the more he bought, the more items would be available in his market.

While they were heading back, he decided to leave the group. As they are now free to go home, there was no need for him to remain with them. He went directly to the woods. 

He closed his eyes to perceive if there was another presence nearby, after confirming that no one. He opened his eyes once again.

With a grin on his face, he was standing in front of the gasping boar.

It was a perfect situation for him. He didn't need to go to such trouble of catching some beast to tame. In front of him was a barely moving boar. Who would not take advantage when all the conditions were met?

He lifted his hand. Then a thread came out of his finger. It was his taming skill, the Artifice Thread. He also noticed something after standing in front of it. It was 5 times bigger than him!

A minute later, the red bar finally turned to green. After sensing that the hatred it felt towards him abated, he sighed in satisfaction. "Do you know me?" He asked through telepathy.

"Y-yeesss, my lord…" although weak, the boar replied to him.

He nodded his head. "Good."

Then summon the Dark Priest.

"Oh, my lord….." the dark stated his usual bootlicking greetings.

"....."

But he decided to ignore it and asked him directly to heal the tied boar. The Elder was surprised to see the gigantic figure in front of them. However, the surprise was only for a brief moment. "As you wish, my lord!" Then a moment later, the boar's body glowed and all the wounds were healed in an instant. 

Although Eman had some regeneration potion with him, it wasn't as good as Elder Dark Priest's healing ability. His healing ability already reached the middle-tier. So it was more efficient and effective in healing serious injuries.

The green color immediately filled his bar. It let out a roar then forcibly freed himself. It was still in the form of boar. But he knew that later it would turn to humans like the others.

The two pillars shattered by their strength and broke the wires at the same time. 

Eman was surprised by its strength and thought that to capture such a creature they probably weakened it first.

He then registered its temporary name. He said temporary as most of his pets after getting some knowledge would then ask him for a name change. 

"Okay, let's call it Borris from now on." 

"T-Thank you, m-my lord!" It had a loud stuttering voice. Well, it was the common effect after turning into his pet.

"..."

As he could not linger any longer, he decided to leave and left Borris with the Dark Priest. The two went back to his domain, and then, he headed back to the academy.

He wondered about his reward. Maybe the emperor was still looking for suitable land for him. Right, it was tonight that the expected report would arrive. He was hoping that the thief, Reppo Callidu, was able to learn something in the Goldenlotus family.