Chapter 50 - A Week

A week soon had come and gone. As planned, Cecil and Lucia suspended all their adventurer activities.

Cecil was either training with Lucia or was studying the magic research materials he had copied from Mrs. Anna's research.

Of course he had Mrs. Anna's permission to copy those research materials. In fact, Mrs. Anna wanted to just give all her books to him, but Cecil wasn't so shameless to take them.

Although Mrs. Anna and Mr. Zaki thought of him as their son, Cecil knew how important those materials were to Mrs. Anna. So he settled with copying them instead.

Of course, this came at the cost of physically carrying all those books with him, but he had Silver for that.

Silver of course didn't mind, since they weren't heavy to him at all.

So other than the training with Lucia and Silver, along with the occasional quests Cecil did during his journey to Angla City, the rest of his free time was spent on cultivating his mana and comprehending the knowledge from the research materials.

During the week, Cecil checked in from time to time with Radon and observed the progress of the equipment that he wanted Radon to craft.

Cecil had handed Radon rough sketches and blueprints of a long sword, halberd, and gauntlets for himself.

They were all forged using 100% adamantium since Cecil wanted a weapon that could handle his mana. Radon suggested using only adamantium as the ore with no other ores being used as supplementary.

As for the blueprint of the weapon that would act as a wand for Lucia, Cecil made it in the shape of a kodachi with the runes and magic crests of a wand engraved in it.

The runes and crests that he wanted to engrave on the knife was one of his originals. The crests and runes were optimized to help Lucia use mana more efficiently and effectively during battle.

This way Lucia would be able to fight using her swordsmanship taught by Cecil as well as use magic spells without the need to concentrate so much on manipulating the mana used in a spell.

It would have been impossible for him to optimize and of the crests or runes, but with Cecil's mana eyes, he was able to pick up the flaws of mana circulation when the mana flowed through the magic conduit of a wand or enchantment.

Although the flaws were small, they still had an impact on a spell caster's concentration and ability to fluidly channel their mana.

With the magic research knowledge he learned from Mrs. Anna's research materials, Cecil was able to make simple adjustments and fix these minor flaws.

Of course, most of these flaws were caused by the sub-par materials used to create the wands or enchantments, but the adjustments made would be groundbreaking if he was to ever publish a book about them.

Cecil was able to directly tamper and change some runes, strengthening their output or making them more efficient. Basically, Cecil had developed new runes from those old ones.

If he was to delve deeper into the research, he could single-handedly push the magical knowledge of Alterna by a decade or two with the help of his mana eyes, but with him being 14 year old, all Cecil thought of was to help his best friend, Lucia.

Sadly, for Lucia, everything that Cecil voluntarily did for her was always combat-related. With Cecil's muscle of a brain, all he ever thought of was how to help Lucia fight more effectively.

When Cecil told this to Lucia with a smile on his face, she wanted to slug him in the face. This wasn't the first time Lucia had this impulse.

There were plenty of times when Lucia would think of pummeling Cecil's face in, but she endured and instead started slugging trees while imagining Cecil's face.

Even after all her 'signs' and advances, all the muscle headed idiot ever thought of was how to help her better her combat prowess.

Anyway, back to Lucia's main weapon. Cecil wanted Radon to create a Japanese Katana for her.

He had roughly explained the method of forging a katana to Radon. Although it was only a rough explanation of the 'folding' and 'tempering' method, but with Radon being a master forger he quickly got the gist of it.

Not all the equipment would be finished by the time the two had moved into the academy, but Cecil at least wanted Lucia's kodachi and katana as well as his sword and gauntlets ready before then.

Radon didn't fail to deliver, so it was all ready for them by the end of the week, all he had to do was put in some finishing touches.

As for Lucia, during the whole week she had her full attention on solidifying and strengthening her mana stage.

She gave up her endeavor of mastering a new element other than water and fire, and instead focused her attention on creating original spells from these two elements that she was more proficient with.

Original spells were spells created by a Spell caster that by passed any sort of chanting, so no chant spells were mostly termed as original spells created by a spell caster for their personal use, but generally they were weaker than normal spells.

Cecil was the one who suggested for Lucia to abandon her endeavor a month prior when he saw her struggle using earth and wind element spells.

It was better for her to further perfect her mastery in water and fire than to be a jack of all trades and master of none.

Lucia protested at first, but then heard how Cecil once tried to train like that and was reprimanded harshly by his father.

Back on Earth Cecil wanted to master his use on every single weapon, but his father decided against it.

"Listen son, focus on the weapons you're more comfortable with! Don't dabble in every single one and have a superficial comprehension of their uses! That's not how we Silvarias train! We're martial arts masters! Not performers! Remember that, son!"

From then, Cecil only focused his attention on using all types of swords and spears.

With the wise words from his father, Cecil was able to persuade Lucia into giving up on the other two elements.

Since then, Lucia was able to create many spells that were tailored to her preferences and battle style. Lucia's double layered Aquaflame Shield, Steam Pillar, Lava Bullet, and Geyser.

Many of Lucia's spells were inspired by the knowledge she learned from Cecil about Earth. Her Steam Pillar, Lava Bullet as well as Geyser spells were inspired from this knowledge.

And right now, Cecil and Lucia were having a mock battle in a forest 2 kilometers away from Angla City.

"GEYSER!"

At Lucia's shout, super-heated water erupted from the earth under Cecil's feet.

"YOU SHOULDN'T SHOUT LULU! You're only giving yourself awa– "

Cecil hurriedly dodged, but then felt that the area in front of him was also abnormally hot, Cecil kicked at the air and moved his body far to the side.

While Cecil was able to dodge out of the area, multiple geysers erupted from the ground from where he was just standing at.

Just as he was about to heave a sigh of relief and complain, the ground from under his feet started to heat up.

"Are you serious!!!"

Cecil darted forward, but the ground all around him started to steam. Cecil spent the next couple of seconds dodging the multiple geysers that erupted from the ground.

"RUN! RUN CECIL RUN NAHAHAHAHA!!!"

Lucia was laughing hysterically at Cecil's plight.

'Hahaha, finally. I'm going to punch your face in!'

Lucia was only supposed to be sparring with Cecil, but her frustration due to him from their long journey had finally peaked. Lucia wanted to punch Cecil's face in, but it wasn't with her fist.

"Dance for me CEL!!!"

"W-wait! Lulu!!!"

The geysers had just stopped erupting from the ground, but then multiple spell formations formed behind Lucia. Since it was her original spells, she didn't have to chant anything. All she needed was to focus and gather mana to create the spells.

Original spells were normally an advanced technique used by veteran spell casters to give them time to chant more powerful spells.

This was because most original spells were only sub-par copies from the systematized elemental spells.

This was not the case with Lucia's original spells. Every spell was backed with the knowledge and scientific principles from Earth thus making her spells powerful enough to rival or even surpass systematized elemental spells.

"LAVA RAIN!"

After Lucia shouted, multiple lava bullets shot out from the spell formations floating in the air behind her.

"L-LULU!!!"

As Lucia wanted, Cecil danced and avoided the lava bullets that were fired at him. He danced and danced to Lucia's tune.

Cecil was incensed at the one-sided battle, so he activated Mana Burst and rushed straight at Lucia.

To his dismay however, the spell formations behind Lucia didn't disappear after the first volley.

"hehehe... I was waiting for that Cel~" Lucia said with a sadistic smile.

"Dance for me Cel~ Lava Storm!"

More spell formations quickly formed in the air all around Cecil. He took a quick glance around and found that there were more than 50 all around him.

He groaned inwardly, 'Lulu, are you trying to kill me!?'

Cecil heightened his senses and tightened his muscles. He prepared himself to dodge all the lava bullets with his Mana Burst.

In the next instant, lava bullets poured out from all the magic formations in the air. They rained down on him and the worst part for Cecil, Lucia had somehow managed to add a homing and explosive attribute to all the lava bullets.

'DAMNIT! All the knowledge I taught to her is coming back to bite me in the ass!'

As he thought this, Cecil kept on dodging all the lava bullets with a smile on his face.

Lucia on the other hand had a dark face seeing him smile.

"hehe... so it's not hard enough for you yet huh?"

Lucia started chanting the new spell she was finally able to use. With her chant, a large blue magic formation slowly formed in the sky.

She soon finished her chant, and pointed her wand at Cecil who was still in the midst of dancing with the lava bullets.

Lucia eyed the area around Cecil and spoke darkly.

"Neeeh... Cel~ you do remember what you said would happen when water comes into contact with a super-hot material right~?"

Cecil kept on dodging and replied with a puzzled face. "Of course, what do yo–"

Cecil took a look around and felt that the air and ground around him was abnormally hot. He didn't feel this since his body was enhanced with Mana Burst, but the temperature around him was easily over 100 degrees Celsius.

While he was still dodging Cecil looked towards Lucia. He saw the Aquafire Shield surrounding her and the wand that was pointed at him. He then looked towards the sky and saw the large magic formation. It was blue, so Cecil knew that it was a water elemental spell.

"S-since when?!"

He dodged the last lava bullet and quickly turned towards Lucia.

"LULU I DON'T KNOW WHAT I DID WRONG BUT PLEASE!"

Lucia playfully cut him off and replied.

"Tut tut, that's not it Cel~"

"P-please Lulu!"

"Nahahaha~ checkmate." Lucia said plainly.

Then she swung her wand down.