68 Outing

Sagar could only look at Umbra's eyes for a bit before they returned to the ashy color that he was so familiar with. Umbra put on her glasses and didn't continue to talk allowing Sagar to process all that she's said. Sagar wasn't sure how many unique elements that Umbra has learned but she certainly knows about quite a few of them. Her trait if one of the main reasons that she even took the 'Unique and Specialized Magic' class and Mr. Stoor teaching that class shouldn't be completely coincidental, or at least him being in charge of looking after her when the principal couldn't.

Currently Sagar has only seen Umbra use two elements, one of which he couldn't exactly identify with the other being the shadow element. Umbra herself doesn't get into fights unless she has to, whether that be because she's defending herself or if she needs to accomplish something. This allows her power to be hidden for the most part, only showing it to those she trusts or just happen to see it.

"Is there a limit to the amount of unique elements that you could use?", this was asked purely out of curiosity, and this trait of her's hardly had any drawbacks to it if you could even call them that.

Shaking her head Umbra responded, "Not really, at least as far as I know. I have a great variety of elements that I could use, numbering at least twenty."

Sagar shouldn't be one to talk about being able to use such an amount of elements but even still that was a ridiculous amount. "Wait, didn't we learn well over twenty elements during our class with Mr. Stoor?"

"We did, but we merely glossed over a lot of them and I wasn't able to meet the requirement. When I said that I need to know the properties of an element, I mean that I have to know most if not all of the properties. Those that I'm able to use I've either was able to find material written by those who have used them or met people who were capable of using them and they explained their element to me."

Seeming to understand more about this trait of Umbra's, Sagar asked, "So, if I told you the name of the element I used earlier, you would be able to use it?"

"Well if you shared every single property of the element, then yes, I would be able to learn it and be able to use probably better than you."

Isn't that a terrifying thought, imagine you're telling someone about a unique magic that you're able to use and then suddenly that person is able to use it a lot better than you. Sagar wouldn't mind Umbra knowing how to use the Almighty element as he trusted her and if anything it would make her more powerful, but there were other things to consider.

"I wouldn't mind telling you the name Umbra, but there is one thing you must remember.", Sagar paused letting Umbra to move her full attention to what he was saying, "I mentioned earlier that I was only able to use the element because of my strong body and I wasn't lying about that. Using it without preparations or some sort of foundation could lead to your body being destroyed just from it's most simple use, do you understand me?"

Even though Umbra was being lectured a bit, she didn't mind as she felt the concern within Sagar's words and she met his statement with a nod. "It's good that you understand this, but I'll teach you more about my element at a later time. I'm not too sure how you would be effected by learning the knowledge of the element and I would prefer if you're body could withstand the pressure from it at that time."

Umbra wasn't really disappointed about Sagar not telling her at this time as he wasn't keeping it from her just because he wanted to. On the contrary he wouldn't mind telling her about it he was just worried that something would happen to her if he did so. She didn't say anything in response to Sagar and Sagar didn't say anything in return, feeling that their private discussion was over he got rid of the isolation barrier that was covering them.

They both stayed there until Umbra felt herself becoming a bit tired so she made her way back to her bed while Sagar remained. Even though his talk with Umbra helped alleviate his mind away from his main concern as soon as she left it immediately crept it's way from the back of his mind. The only solace that he could give himself is that if a demon that was strong enough that nobody could deal with it there was one more thing he could fall on, the 'Seed of Amala'.

With the 'Seed of Amala', he would have to hope that whatever he summoned would be able to either kill or at least deter the demon that crawled out of the Amala Network. With this Sagar went back to his bed carefully and managed to get some sleep for the day.

It proved more effective than Sagar would think because for the next month he would be able to sleep relatively more peacefully. During this month everybody fell into a routine of morning training and the free time they would receive in the late afternoon. Sometimes there would be a activity of some kind that would have all students participate in which took away their free time but it wasn't too bad.

Now was a time where the staff would send the students out of the training camp into the rolling plains to get into fights with some beasts. The students were going to be by themselves for the most part with the staff not being able know whether or not they were in danger. If the students needed assistance then they would have to send someone back to the camp to get some help from the staff. This was to get the students to try to rely on themselves to get out of a life threatening situation or at least survive long enough to receive help from a outside source. In the early days of the academy this resulted in casualties among the students but to try to stop this staff would go out and sort of control the population of the beasts around the area so that there wouldn't be anything stronger than the Expert rank, where most students were at.

Over the many years stronger creatures have learned to keep a certain distance around the camp, at least around this time of the year, otherwise they may end up dying. Of course this doesn't always work and sometimes a powerful beast ends up attacking several students resulting in heavy injuries but never death as the staff were able to repel the beast before the situation got dire.

The students have a choice of whether or not they wanted to form a group with other students or simply go out by themselves. It wasn't recommended but the staff wouldn't prevent the students from making such a decision. This led to the current situation among the group of four where one of them wanted to head off on his own.

"Come on, Klaus stop being so stubborn.", Talia was trying to convince Klaus.

"I've told you Talia, the point of this outing is to test the students limits when confronted with danger. How am I going to do that when I'm with you where any one of us could easily handle this by ourselves and you know it. Plus how am I supposed to have a good fight with all of you helping me, it'll just take away the satisfaction I would get from a goo fight anyway.", Klaus was continually raising this points to Talia.

Talia looked like she was about to blow a gasket until Umbra came over to mediate, "Klaus, isn't necessarily wrong Talia, any of us could handle this alone and being an group would be overkill."

Stomping her foot to try and vent some of her anger, Talia told Umbra, "It doesn't matter something could happen out of our expectation that could actually put us in danger and it would be even worse when one of us is alone."

Talia wasn't wrong either, even though everyone in the group was fairly powerful it didn't mean they didn't have to worry about anything. Sagar who was waiting for the discussion to die down joined in, "How about this, I'll give Klaus the communication crystal that Umbra gave us. I wouldn't really need it as I would be with you two and plus we would know where to go once it goes off."

Hearing Sagar's suggestion, everyone seemed satisfied with this compromise especially Klaus. Not only did he get what he wanted but he would also get to hold onto the communication crystal for a while since he's wanted one ever since he saw the other's use it, even if it's temporary.

With this settled the group waited around until it was time to depart.