Chapter 307: Magic Deal

Chapter 307: Magic Deal

Losing control of the ball of mana in front of him Lake weathered the explosion and stood up from where he had been sitting for the last two hours. Training had gone well and he had gotten really close to the 15 rounds of compression he had been told would get him equal on the two factors the cube method trained.

Stepping out into the main part of the training room Lake saw a lot of familiar faces inside all doing various tasks to get ready for their trip. Taking the fact they were in here to mean he had time to do a few other things he tried to think of what he wanted to actually do. Usually most of his free time was spent running from place to place but with him not traveling right now he was running out of things. Continue reading on No_veLbIn

Reading and training were both usually good time sinks but he wasn't in the mood for either. While thinking, two people sparring with swords caught his attention and Lake wondered if it would be safe for him to fight someone he didn't want to kill. Just activating two of his skills at the same time could cause an explosive effect on his stats and he could end up killing someone by accident.

Deciding he was willing to take the risk he walked towards the people who were also watching the fight and asked. "Are you waiting to fight next?" There were two of them so it made sense to him that they were going to have a duel next. "No, one of us will be fighting whoever wins if they're up to it."

"If they aren't up to it?" There was really only one answer so he wasn't surprised when the guy said. "Then the two of us will go." Hearing how this worked, Lake got in line and started to wait for his turn. After about twenty minutes he realized why the other two were doing other things while waiting passively and formed his ball of mana back to continue his training as he waited.

After a while he made it to the 13th round of compression which was where he had failed earlier right before he had decided to be done training magic for the day. Squeezing the mana ball as hard as he could, Lake made slow but noticeable progress but really started to struggle towards the end and eventually hit another wall like the one he had asked the Temple Head about where she told him what he had been doing wrong.

The man who had helped him was in the front of the line so he would be next to fight whoever won the current fight and would need to win against the reigning champ and the person in line between them. "If he wins I'll let you go next. I'm fine with waiting."

Hearing the person in between them would give up their spot to Lake if the guy ahead won his first fight Lake said. "Thank you." He really had no idea how strong the guy he would be dueling with was so this could have really helped them. "It's no problem just promise whoever wins your fight will duel me. No one has lined up so if neither of you want to continue to fight I might have waited for no reason."

Lake and the man he had made the deal with agreed at the same time. "Good. It looks like the current fight will be coming to an end soon so get up there." Right as the guy in the middle said this one of the two people fighting on the platform when flying into a wall that softly caught them. A second later the person who had lost climbed out of the wall and yelled. "Good fight." To the person who had won.

Watching them walk away, Lake turned back to the one still on the stage who seemed ready for another battle. With their decision to fight again it became necessary for the guy he had a deal with to win so as they were walking away Lake reminded them to be serious. "Don't mess this up for us."

Lake was tired of waiting already so if they ended up losing they would have to set the battle up for later and the amount of time they had before leaving the Temple was uncertain so it might never happen if it wasn't soon. "Don't worry, me and Kell have fought before and I won." Seeing how certain they were that they would win as they climbed onto the stage, Lake stopped thinking about them losing and went back to focusing on the ball of mana.

He was really close to getting to the 15 rounds of compression now that he was doing it right so he wanted to get it done before his battle started. He also needed to start on the speed training since he still hadn't fixed how far behind it was to the solid principle. Starting the expansion on the 15th round the ball of mana had gone through Lake started to struggle.

Usually this was much easier than the compression but you couldn't let the new mana you were gathering into the ball drop its density or you failed so the amount of mana he was gathering was thousands of times greater than the first round since it multiplied each round and he guessed his affinity just couldn't handle this amount of mana at once.

This made him wonder how he was supposed to fix this problem up until now the problems he had faced were on him but now his affinity was what was slowing him down and that was granted through a skill. He guessed it was time for him to ask someone like the Temple Head what he was supposed to do about a skill that you thought was lacking at level one.