Ch 31: Discoveries About Revenant's 'Magic'

*BOOOOM!*

"Kyaaaa!" Yuria screamed while flying in the air, only to fall on the ground on her back. "Ouch. Was that really necessary?" She complained.

"If you can't help yourself how you can expect to help others." Said Sophia with a battle hammer in her hand.

"Yet, it was really necessary that explosion?" Yuria said while getting up and cleaning up the dirt from her skirt.

"Do you want to learn or not?"

"Ugh." Yuria couldn't complain against Sophia's question.

Among Cleria's peerage, Sophia is the only bishop who specializes in support magic. Unlike her husband, who is more focused in close combat magic due to his previous work as an exorcist, she works more with spells that can help her companions.

Alas, this didn't mean that she was weak. Even if compared with her companions she was the weakest physically, she compensates it with her magic and battle experience, which was equal with her husband.

"Now that we ended with this part of the lesson, Yuria, I want you to use your 'magic' again." Sophia emphasized the word 'magic' on purpose, making Yuria aware of what she wanted to see.

With a spark of white light, two lances made of something that looked like marble were formed behind Yuria. However, Sophia knew that she shouldn't let the appearances deceived her. The lances fair appearance could be deceptive in comparison with their real power; piercing a wall of steel like if it was a hot knife cutting butter.

"I can't understand yet how are you capable of doing that without using magic energy nor holy energy." Said Sophia with amazement.

"I think it's something related to my race." Said Yuria.

Honestly, she couldn't either explain how was she capable to use her new abilities. Each time when she uses them, it is as if she activates them by instinct. Unlike human magic which uses knowledge and calculations, her 'revenant magic' seemed to be like a predetermined set given to her, without the need of knowledge

"It's understandable. Not long ago I say Zircon doing something similar." Said Sophia

Zircon can manifest the lances just like Yuria. However, there seemed to be some differences in their applications

"Can you do the same thing as the other time?" Asked Sophia.

Yuria nodded her head and then closed her eyes to concentrate. The lances began to spin in circles like drills. Yuri then extended her hand while closing it in a fist, and the lances flew towards that direction like if there were following a command and buried themselves in the ground. After that, Yuria opened her hand and at the same time, the lances started to change their shape, forming dark blue roses with black stems and leaves.

Sophia then throw a pebble from the ground to the bushes of roses. Then, before the pebble could even touch a leaf, various thorns came out from them and cut it until all what was left was dust.

"Impressive." Said Sophia and then she grabs another pebble. "Now, try to stop them before they attack."

Yuria didn't answer and just nodded trying to not lose focus in the control of the blue roses.

Sophia throw again the pebble, and just when the thorns were about to cut it again, they suddenly stopped but with some resistance, making Yuria to drop sweat from her forehead with a painful expression. This time the pebble passed through the roses without any scratch.

"Very well. You can stop." Instructed Sophia.

"*Gasp*"

The roses started to wither like if they were left without water by years, and then began to crumble like pieces of concrete.

Yuria's eyes began to glimmer with blue light and Sophia, in the week that she had training both Yuria and Zircon knew that that meant the she was running low in blood. It seemed that the use of their racial abilities requires a considerable amount energy, which is replenished with blood, being from human, devil or even other revenant. Between these three, revenant's blood is the one that replenish most of their energy, but unfortunately, there were only two of them in the entire world, and these were obviously Yuria and Zircon.

Due to the need of replenish after the use of their racial abilities was great drawback if they don't have any way to obtain blood. Fortunately, during the week they discovered that if they manage to dominate them then their need for blood would be decreased, allowing Yuria and Zircon to use their powers more constantly in battle. However, this is a slow process, at least until they learn how to speed up their progress.

"J.B. How are you doing?" The familiar and lovely voice of a child reached Yuria's ears.

She turned her gaze toward the origin of the voice and she couldn't help but smile after seeing her lover's sweet smile.

"I'm fine, Da- Zircon." Yuria blushed due to the near slip of tongue.

Zircon noticing this smiled mischievously just like, well, a child that just found something entertaining to do.

"What~? I think I didn't hear well. Can you repeat it?" Said Zircon in a mischievous way.

A little optical illusion made the people around him see how a cat's ears and tail appeared in him.

Yuria felt the impulse to hug him, but noticing his attitude made her shy. "I-I didn't say anything. Hmph."

Yuria's feelings and mind were chaotic. Not only because their relationship advanced very quickly, but also because their age difference, still being accustomed to human's sense of time and age. In the meanwhile, inside of her mind her thoughts were split in three sides. The first one wants to 'eat' Zircon in that moment and that place. The second one was too shy for to even act. And the last one, still kept holding some of what remained from her morality, preventing her to 'attack' Zircon until he reaches the adequate age. She wanted to wait 'until the fruit is ripe'.

Nevertheless, for the moment, she conformed to just a hug and a deep kiss from her lover, in which both of them ended up losing themselves during a pair of minutes.

Meanwhile, Sophia and Albert who got somewhat accustomed to seeing the interaction between the 'strange' couple remained in silence. But it wasn't like they were judging them even if it seemed strange for 'normal' people seeing an adult woman kissing a 6-year-old kid passionately.

Because they weren't humans anymore, most of their moral conducts didn't apply to them anymore and didn't care either. Of course, they won't 'do it' until the 'correct' time arrives. Finally, Yuria and Zircon separated their mouths, letting the other regain some breath, and then looked at each other eyes with a glimmer on them. The next what happened was that they started to drink the blood of the other like hungry, lustful, animals. Of course, nothing too extreme.

Sophia and Albert looked at each other, with some expectation in their eyes.

"I'll wait you in our room." Said Sophie while walking back to the manor, and her husband following her from behind.

That's how the magic training session ended sooner than the others.