Strengthening

"Flame-Strike!" Magic spell released by a Fire aptitude mage.

"Photonic-Ray!" Attack spell released by a Light aptitude mage.

The other day, I saw a flash of light shining brightly in the mountain. And today, once again, I encounter that moment when I saw the two mages battled each other. The mage is using a fire attacks and the other one is light.

Their battle cause a major damage in the surrounding.

"Fire-Pressured-Blast!" A final blow being casted by the Fire mage.

"Photonic-Flash-Strike!" A final blow being casted by Light mage.

Their final attack they made was released simultaneously and collided which causes a bright light illuminating the total side of the mountain, and massive explosion that leaves a huge crater.

"Wooohooo! That was Amazing!" said by Fire mage.

"I am exhausted." said by Light mage.

"Ummm, Hello…" said me.

"Oh… a girl? She's cute…" said by Fire mage.

"Who are you?" asked by Light mage.

"Eh? I am May Gem." I replied.

"Are you perhaps lost?" asked by Light mage.

"No, I was just about to passby when I see you two having a duel, and this also the first time seeing both mages very close while having an intense battle."

"Oh… Is that so… but anyway, my name is Efren Lima , I am a fire aptitude mage, you can just call me Elm." The fire mage introduced.

"And my name is Lux Solis and I am a Light aptitude mage. Just call me…" The Light mage introduced and then Elm butt in the introduction.

"Lolis!" Teasing nickname made by Elm.

"SHUT UP!" Lux whack Elm's head.

"Just call me Lux."

These two gentlemen were very powerful. When they casted that Three Word Spell, I was amazed entirely.

A "Three Word Spell" is a chant that hardly anyone can use. And it is used as mage's special attack, or a final blow during battle. Not many people are able to master this three words chanting spell.

"By the way, that was an amazing Three word chant!" I complimented the two mage.

"Haha, I am flattered… Those spell are our original magic, we made them based on our experience."

"Yeah, for me, it took me three years to master my very own three word spell."

"But Lux, if you could only add the word "Heat" before the word "Flash" in your Three word spell, it could have been more powerful. Hahaha, just kidding… As if Four Word Spell is possible." My suggestion as a joke ended up in a good hint and idea.

"No… It could be possible… May, just now… did you just say "Heat"? What's the meaning of that?" Lux was curious about the word "Heat"

"What do you mean? It's a term when something is hot." I gave the meaning without realizing something in a long-short moment.

"Eh? But that word is unknown… I've been doing some research on how can I make my Three Word Spell into Four Word Spell. So the term for "something is hot" is "heat"."

It took me a minute to realize that the spell they used is a magical language. But yeah, come to think of it, ever since I retain my memory from previous life, I've been talking to my parents with different language. Could it be that my language from my country in my previous life is a magical language in this world? So therefore, I should be careful saying words that is unknown in this world.

"Where did you learn this May?" Lux asked.

"Eh… Uhh… I mean, when I was a child, I heard a word "Heat" as a sound…"

"Word "Heat" as a sound?" Lux was confused.

"Wow... Luxis, you sure are really worked up about this, just chill man, we can't be certain whether that word is a magical term. And beside, it's "something is hot" which means it has something to do with my aptitude hehe." Elm is saying that it is impossible for light aptitude mage to use fire related magic.

"I don't know about that, but light is capable of causing fire depending on its energy source." I told Elm about light can make fire.

"Yeah that's right, learn more also about physics idiot. It may be non sense but it actually works." Lux said.

"Eh… I'm idiot…?"

"By the way May, where are you going? If you go further, you'll be in danger, plus, this path is actually a route towards the Demon Forest. You can't just go there to be killed." Lux warned me.

"Which is why, I need to get there!" I said a misunderstanding.

"Eh? You want to get killed?" He misunderstood why I want to get there.

"Eh? No, I mean, I am searching for something." I clarified what I meant to say.

"Well… you see, I don't have magical powers… So I am going there for the "Spirit Stone"." I told him my reason.

"What?! A spirit stone? Don't you even know how much heap of monsters gathering around that stone?" He tried to warn me again.

"I do know but I have powerful gear… See!"

"Ugh… You can't be serious. I mean, that's not enough to defeat all of the monsters you are going to face… In fact, demonized creatures will obviously appear in instant once you get there."

"That's right, we could accompany you to fight those monsters. But I can't guarantee you that we'll be able to reach that place where the Spirit Stone was."

"Eh? Well… Sure, but don't you have something to do?"

"Nah… we pretty much kill time by doing some mock battle and training."

"In that case, could you teach me first some techniques of using a sword before we get there?"

"Wait? You have sword?"

"Yeah, I have, but it's heavy… I could lift the sword better this days, the sword actually weighs 40 pounds. So I had to use my crimson stone to lift the sword and able to swing it properly."

"Yeah… we could tell, without using your crimson stone, you emit such physical strength."

"Huh? What do you mean?"

"I mean, we can feel the aura in your body that you possess great strength but still weak if we compare that to us. Does that mean, you have been doing some training and exercises?"

"Yeah, I did, but I didn't think I could give off some aura. Do I have magic?"

"No you don't, you're aura has nothing to do with magic… If you only had magic, you can conceal your aura for safety."

"I see… Then, shall we start training? I need to get stronger!"

"Yes! Let's go."

Our intense training starts at teaching a basic fighting techniques of swinging a sword in a right way. During that time, they forbid me to use the crimson stone enchantment for my physical strength improvement, and then afterwards, they gave me more instructions and I tried to learn it faster as I could.

Since I am reincarnated, as someone who was a game programmer as well as an animator before, I do know some of the sword fighting moves, but that's just in a game and I was the one who designs the movement of the sword. It's very complicated if I try to do it, but now that I hold a real one, should I do those fighting moves? It requires fast speed movement when doing those moves.

One basic movement I made when I design a movement for a character holding a sword in a game, I name the fight move called "Lie Eight". It's pretty much lame name when I make it for the first time, and my other workers even laugh at my work.

The move "Lie Eight" is swinging a sword shaped like a number eight in horizonal, or so it can be called an infinite loop symbol.

Until I become a professional, I already made eighteen sword fighting moves in a different games with a different names. I didn't name those moves because I'm not good at naming a thing or a person, so I only asked my other workers.

Now as for my real swordsmanship, I have to get stronger. With these two mages who have the experience of using a sword until now, will teach me everything starting from basic.

Basic training involves body and muscle strength improvement, memorization, sharpening senses, and enhancing dexterity.

"Alright, let's start the training!" Elm exclaimed.