22 1.21 Defense training

"First, tell me the elements that you have the aptitude for, though this is irrelevant for today's training," said miss Lilith.

We were starting our training with Miss Lilith today. Miss Lilith was wearing a black leather dress while we are wearing our Academy uniform. We had our breakfast early after which we came to the open training ground behind the academy. The sun wasn't very hot and it was perfect weather to train outside.

"Oh, I can use Fire, Earth, Wind, and Dark magic," Princess Anna replied while stretching her shoulders.

"And I can use, Fire, Wind, Earth, Water, and Holy magic," Princess Eliane followed.

"Oh wow, someone with 5 aptitudes is only seen once in several hundred years. I only have 2 aptitudes, Earth and water," said Nina.

"Well, I expected nothing less from someone from elven royalty and Fiore's princess. I have the aptitude for wind and holy magic," said Ronald.

"I can use Fire and Dark magic," Arica followed.

"Umm... I-I can use Fire, Water, and Holy magic." Marina said her aptitudes following Arica.

"I can use Water, Fire, and dark magic, I am still learning about them though," Sistina followed.

It was my turn so I said, "I can use all elements except special, I don't know if I can use that one."

"Wow, you may be the first in this country to have all of them," said Princess Anna in surprise.

"Ugh, it looks like you guys don't know the origin and history of magic. Well, it's humans we are talking about, they don't even live for 100 years so how would they remember the history that happened thousands of years ago. Do you know about it, princess?" Miss Lilith turned towards Eliane and asked.

"Yes, father told me about it a little bit," Eliane replied.

"Okay, let's not ruin our first day with lectures. I will tell you more about it after we finish today's training. For now, everyone, activate your cloak at full power," said Miss Lilith.

Everyone activated their cloak but since mine was always active I just passed more mana into it to make it dense. I tried making it densest I can since she told me to activate it in full power.

Miss Lilith came closer to me and turned around. I was curious about what she was going to do when I suddenly saw a flying kick coming towards me. There was no way to dodge a sudden attack like that so I concentrated all the mana in my mana cloak towards my hand and tried to block it. I barely managed to block but the ground around my leg cracked showing how much power there was behind that attack.

She backed down after that and said, "That was good kid, you were able to hold off an attack with 5% of my mana."

'What was that! you should have at least warned me before pulling a stunt like that. I would have been a dead man if I was even a second late.' I thought but I was so shaken inside that I was hardly able to maintain my composure so I stayed quiet.

She then turned towards others who were looking at us with surprise and said, "Everyone else also needs to be able to defend against least that much by the end of this training. You should be able to concentrate your mana at any part of your body at any time and you need to be able to maintain it at all times. From this moment on you are going keep your mana cloak on until I say you to stop. Understood?"

"""UNDERSTOOD""", Everyone replied in a loud voice.

'Did she make me a demonstration dummy just now to encourage others? THAT'S NOT FUNNY'

"You all start practicing the use of mana cloak for physical enhancement and defense. And you, come with me," she said pointing towards me.

After she assigned work to everyone and told me to follow her. I followed her to the small woods behind the open area. It was also a part of the Academy but mostly unused since people usually trained in the open area.

"Here will be fine," she said after we reached the middle part of the woods. She then turned towards me and said, "Now, since you have the aptitude for all the elements, have you ever tried combining them with one another? Only 1% of the people with multiple elements are able to combine 2 elements but I think you should be able to do it with proper training."

"No I haven't, but I could give it a try if I see someone do it by visualizing how they did it. But without that, I am not sure if I will be able to do it," I replied since all the magics that I learned were copied from others. I made some modifications to them later, but that was after I was able to visualize it properly though.

After I said that she created a 'water bomb' and fused it wind magic which made a ring like the ones we saw on the picture of the planet Saturn in my previous world. It was even smaller than a cricket ball but when she shot it, it easily chopped down a tree before blasting. And the blast destroyed the trees in a 5-meter radius.

"It's called a wind-water bomb. Try doing it," she said after the demonstration.

I tried doing it but it was hard to control and I knew that an accident caused by such magic could be major so I had to be careful while practicing it. Miss Lilith left me there and went back to others after telling me to "keep on practicing".

I practiced till the evening and I finally managed to control both the magic at right amount to make a 'wind-water bomb' of a small size. I wanted to test it but we had destroyed enough forest for one day so I went back to others.

When I reached back to others, they were sitting at the ground as if someone has sucked all the energy out of them, only Ronald and Princess Eliane were barely managing to stand.

'Looks like everyone worked hard today.'

"Okay, that's it for today. You will continue with other training while keeping your mana cloak on from tomorrow," Miss Lilith said when she saw me coming. Everyone turned their mana cloak off and took a short break after hearing her.

"Who would have thought maintaining mana cloak would be this hard," said Arica while getting up.

"Yeah, I don't even have energy to walk right now," said Nina.

I helped Marina get up and she replied with "thank you." After everyone got up, we returned to the dorm. Since the open training area was just behind the dorm it was a short walk. As soon as we got back the girls went towards the pool to clean up while Ronald and I took a shower in the bathroom.

After about an hour we all got changed to another pair of clothes and gathered in the sitting room. Everyone was looking active than how they were about some time ago.

"Okay, since everyone is here, Eliane will tell you about the elemental magic," said Miss Lilith after we all sat on the sofa. She was probably bored after teaching us all day.

We all concentrated towards Princes Eliane as she started speaking,

"Before the humans learned magic, there were few other races who could already use their own kind of magic. Some of the powerful races were Fairies, Elves, Vampires, Demons, werewolf, and Dwarves while there were other monster races like lizardmen, Ogres, and goblins that lived in their own territories. Humans were no more than insects in the war between them since they were physically weak and lacked magical power.

Some of the humans asked dwarves for help by offering them years of supply of wine so the dwarves made magical weapons for them. Using those magical weapons the human reached the dragon valley where they met six of the seven great dragon kings who ruled over the elements of this world, only six of the hundred and eight warriors managed to survive the journey to the dragon valley though. The great dragon kings admired their courage and sacrifices so they blessed them with their elemental magic and taught each of them how to use it. The elemental were: fire, water, earth, wind, darkness, and light, which was later called the holy element.

After hundreds of years, humans managed to stand among all other races and rapidly increased their population. They established their territories and countries and the elemental magic was passed on to their children. Though it has gotten weaker after so many generations they were the gift given to humans by the true dragon kings. Since the seventh dragon who rules over Lightning wasn't there, there are only six elemental magics passed down to humans."

After Princess Eliane explained that part of the history Sistina raised her hand to ask a question. When Princess Eliane looked towards her she asked her question: "We had read that elves can also use a special element so is it different kind of magic?"

"It's not a different type of magic, Elves make contact with spirits. I haven't made a contract yet since the summoning ceremony is only performed once in 100 years," She replied.

As we were talking, Sam came in and signaled that the dinner is ready so we all went to the dining room and had our dinner.

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