Tiers

After hearing their small squabble Claude understood two things. First, that this woman is not just a pampered daughter of a merchant but someone who won't even look forward or backward to kill even the emperor if he tries to harm her son. Second, his respect for Ares increased as he had managed to handle both his wife's. Truly a man of culture.

' Let's be serious. I was thinking of avoiding the mother son duo but after seeing this woman, I don't think she is heartless enough to kill a small child like me for her son. That means I have to be on the good side of this woman.'

Even though he was thinking something else, deep down he was actually jealous of his step brother. Where is this woman who is willing to sacrifice the whole world for her son and where is the woman who is actually punishing her own child for the mistake he didn't even commit. This was the difference of heaven and earth.

When the woman decided to leave Ares's office, Claude decided to hide himself and when she left he came out of his hiding and went inside Ares's office.

" Listening to someone's private conversation and on top of that the private conversation of a husband and wife is bad manners, kiddo. " Even though he said that he did not look even a little bit annoyed or angered. In fact he had a mischievous smile plastered on his face

" As I thought, it was the right choice. A sword saint's senses sure is amazing." Claude replied, trying to avoid Ares's earlier taunt.

" Heh~, As I thought you really are something kid." He was going to say something more but decided to hold back.

" So, do you need something from me ?"

" Not actually, Layla didn't come to give me my lunch so I decided to check on her but overheard you and your little squabble." I continued.

" I was going to come anyway. Do you have a book regarding different species and races of the world ?" I asked.

" With their history. I will send it to you tomorrow with Layla. Anything else ?" Ares replied.

" You said you can train me in swordsmanship, right ? I agree as long as you are willing to teach me without any partiality." I asked.

Ares understood the meaning behind his words but he was still surprised. Ares is a sword saint. Most of the sword rankers are extremely sensitive to mana and life. They say if you become a sword emperor, you can even a person's true talent and potential. Even though Ares is just a sword saint, he still can see every living being's mana capacity. If you consider a normal person's mana as a glass of water and a sword saint like himselfs mana a small tank of water than to his eyes Claude's mana was like a medium size pond and at such a young child at that. So he thought that Claude would choose magic over swordsmanship.

As if reading his inner thoughts Claude said :-

" A magic user is not always with a staff or bare handed."

Ares had a look of understanding after hearing Claude's reason. There were quite a few people who tried to learn both the tier and ranks but most of the talented people avoided this path to follow a particular discipline. As they don't have to fight much like rankers and even the basic spells can literally destroy a normal beast.

" Haah, I don't understand what you are trying to do but I won't pry into your life as I am not your parent and just a guardian. Though I will warn you during my training I don't even spare my own son so be prepared and if you are going to be my disciple then the least I expect from you is to reach the sword master rank. The training will only end when you become a sword master. I will share my sword saint techniques to my son only."

When Ares completed he smiled and left the room after saying :-

" Deal "

After that Claude got his lunch and went to his room. After reaching his room he ate his food merrily.

Then he read the tier section of the book for more than five hours. After completely reading that part, he felt a small headache as the information was too much on the body of a mere child but he was glad that he completed that part today itself. The reason was simple, he wanted to know what future options he had because after the age of 15 in this world you become a full fledged adult and are ready to live your own life. And Claude was no different, instead he would prefer going away than staying within this house.

' First of all, to understand tiers one needs to understand elements first.'

' There are various elements but for better understanding these elements are divided into white magic and black magic. While white magic consists of elements of creation and preservation, Black magic consists of elements of destruction and chaos.'

' The basic elements are fire, water, air, earth, light and dark. The fire and dark elements are included in black magic while light and earth are included in white magic. Both water and air are again divided into lightning and ice in black magic, while water and wind in white magic.'

' Light and dark elements are special than any other elements as they have variations in them. Life and holy are the variations of light while death and abyss are the variations of dark.'

' There are other complex elements such as space, gravity, blood and time but the reason why they are called complex elements is because you need to use more than one basic element to use them.'

' The tiers are a bit more confusing than the ranks as the tiers are a system of spells. Each tier is divided into spells.'

' But just like ranks, tiers also have a base. The first three tiers just like the beginner rank and intermediate rank are used by younglings to create a base.You can use any spell from tier one to three depending on your mana capacity, after that you need to get used to them to the point you can use them like the back of your hands just like how rankers train their reflexes.'

' But the real problem starts after the tier 3 spells. Unlike ranks where you follow a particular discipline right from the start, in the case of tiers you need to choose a discipline to follow after your base is completely formed.'

' Right now, my target is to have complete mastery over all the seven elements with their variation and division until I reach the age of 15. While also learning swordsmanship till master rank.'

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