Combat training
The very next day there was commotion in the house because Kevin fell down from first floor and hurt his face. A doctor was brought to the house to cure Kevin. Everyone swarmed to help Kevin except Ash and his mother.
Ash did not even come to look at Kevin because it would cause more ruckus rather than good if he visited. Ash wore combat clothes which resembled the martial arts clothes which he got for 50 gold from the system. Since the shop is unavailable the system has presented basic items present with it outside the shop.
The weapons, armor and other items were stored in the system inventory. He only wore combat clothes and made his way to training ground after having a bit of breakfast. He continued his warm up and other things which he did yesterday.
He had already ordered the knight captain "Joshua Ghomes" to put some targets in the open space yesterday. The knight captain could not retaliate because even though he may be an illegitimate son he still has noble blood in him.
The reason Ash did not train with the knights or the knight captain is because they will either look down on him for not having magic or keep gossiping about him which is irritating.
After finishing his exercises he took out the spear started training in it. As soon as he started a sound came:
[Ding! New skill Spear art has been added to skills menu]
He did expect this so he was not completely surprised. He started practicing different spear techniques like: Horizontal Pierce, Spinning slash, Upper thrust, Lower thrust, Vertical Pierce etc.
He practiced them for nearly 2 hours. After that he took out bow and arrows. He looked at the targets and decided to see from what distance he can launch the arrows. He kept himself 50 meters away and shot an arrow and it completely shot the outer ring. He understood that his body is not suited for that distance.
He decreased it by 30 meters and launched it and it nearly hit the bullseye. He decided that he will start from this distance and keep on increasing it over the weeks. He started shooting and within an hour he shot many arrows to bullseye. He decided he will increase 10 meters tomorrow.
After resting for 30 minutes he started the energy training. This time he did not feel difficulty in collecting the energy inside. But the challenge now is to see what shape it would take.
He started condensing the energy and concentrated on giving it a shape. After nearly 20 minutes of struggle he achieved the shape which took the form of a star. His body was sweating continuously but he held his concentration and did not let the star disappear. He did not let the star from collapsing as it could cause imbalance in energies which could hamper his training.
After another 20 minutes his struggle ended and the star did not collapse but remained there.
[Ding! Congratulations host has succeeded in the first step of magic energy manipulation. The stats from the training before and after achieving the shape of a star are added and all stats have increased by +3]
Status:
Name: Ash Randell
Level 1
Class: Evoker
Subclass1: Locked
Subclass2: Locked
HP: 140/140
STR: 12--->15
AGI: 14--->17
VIT: 16--->19
INT: 22--->25
LUCK: 10--->13
Skills: Fire bolt(Active), Ice Wave (Active), Mind Immunity( Passive), Poison Immunity(Passive), Spear art (Active).
Ash smiled and asked the system "System what are the shapes an evoker can have and what attitude the shape represents".
[Providing the list of shapes and corresponding attitudes]
When he looked at the list:
1)Star---> Determined, Dominating and Unyielding
2)Diamond--->Calm, Powerful and Resilient
3)Spherical--->Hot temper, Brutish and Tenacious
4)Triangular--->Secretive, Cunning and Practical
5) Circular---> Open Minded, Talkative and Combat frenzy
When he looked at the list he was a little surprised because in the star portion he could relate with being determined and unyielding but he found it hard that he is a dominating person.
He completely forgot for a moment that he dominated the room when he threatened everyone in the room.
He shrugged and closed the status window. His body felt different from inside and outside to him. He felt huge amount of energy from inside and his outer body felt strong. He thought that it may be due to stats increase and his internal energy taking shape.
He took a look at the manual. There are three steps which involve magic related to evoker. They are:
1) Magic energy collection and shape formation
2) Controlling the energy from the shape to control the spell power
3) Providing stable energy to the shape through meditation.
"System I understand the first and second but what does the third step involve?"
"Host has already achieved the first step so he will be taking on next step so I will explain what next two steps involve.
"In the second step the host needs to control how much magic energy he should take from the star to conjure or strengthen a spell which can only be achieved through practice.
The third step is highly critical host because the shape may become completely depleted if a persons magic power is not high. To overcome the issue the host needs to meditate to gather energy from the nature and through cosmos and create an energy gathering array in his body. This method is not useful to anyone except evokers because they are living powerhouses" replied the system.
Now Ash understood the extreme importance of the third step because the magicians can replenish their mana through potions in this world but evoker like him cannot replenish his magic energy with those potions since his magic power is not in 200.
"System how much has my magic power increased?"
"The host's magic power in now 90. It has tremendously increased after the first step in basic energy manipulation is completed" replied the system.
"Finally" shouted Ash with excitement. Now they will definitely notice the change in him as his magic power has increased a lot.
In this world it is not easy to increase magic power as it would at least take 6 months to increase the magic power by 10 but Ash has achieved 40 point increase just with 2 days of training.
"Today they will witness my power increase and I will not hide it because they should feel threatened by me and should postpone their plans of hurting me even further" though Ash in his mind.
Ash has noticed that the knight captain Joshua has been observing him since an hour. "My stupid father might have ordered him to keep an eye on me. But knight captain is at a very far distance and could not hear what Ash was talking tot the system.
If the system knew Ash would be heard it would have definitely cast a domain where knight captain could not hear Ash. But knight captain did sense that Ash's magic power has raised to 90. His face started sweating due to the sudden increase.
"So host what are you going to do with knight captain as he is going to inform your father about the tremendous increase in magic?" asked the system.
Ash immediately burned the manual of energy manipulation using fire bolt spell as it can be misused. He had already memorized the methods by which he needs to achieve second and third steps. The knight captain understood that Ash has sensed him because he was burning the manual.
He immediately ran away from there and made his way to the estate. "What a moron" thought Ash.
He put the spear, bow and arrows inside the inventory. The time is 1pm and in an hour lunch is going to be served. He made his way to the estate and took a shower. When he looked at his own body his hands, shoulders and legs have become strong and hardened a bit. When he looked into the mirror after the shower hi face has also shaped at bit. His looks are shaper.
He wore his clothes and after 2 pm went to the table to eat. That day no one on the table uttered a word against him as everyone ignored him due to fear.
He felt peaceful and continued with his lunch. Since he came from earth the food here is not up to standards from him. "I will develop the foods of earth in this world in the near future" thought Ash.