Academy Part 2

Tal used his skill [Battle Cry]. He yelled extremely loud. Everyone around him part of his party got a boost to their stats; a .3 boost to Str to be exact! Volker was nervous that his yell would attract other undead towards them. He knew he had to save his mana for that time. But moments after he felt much stronger then normal. He quickly opened his stats to see the affect.

[Battle Cry] While in affect all members of party within 20ft will gain a .3 Str boost and damage reduction by 10%

Volker felt much stronger! It was great!

Simultaneously Volker and Tal used their weapons to push the undead back and got some breathing room. Just as they did a bolt of fire and an arrow wizzed by their heads completely missing the undead.

"Watch where you shoot those things!" Volker cried out.

Tal lunged forward and hit a goblin in the face with the pommel before he arched his sword in a semi-circle slicing the undead clean in half again.

[Goblin Zombie Lv 2 Killed: 150 Exp]

Nuva was crouched in a corner and was casting another magical formation. His previous one was a sound proof shield using wind magic, but he had a sinking feeling more would show up anyway. He wanted to be prepared, but his formation spells always took a while to prepare.

A handful of goblins on the edge of the horde ignored Tal and Volker and turned to run towards both Nemia and Jiv.

Jiv knocked two arrows into his bow and used his skill [Pinning Shot] again. He quickly knocked another two arrows and shot at the pinned monster. The monster had fallen to the ground and just as it looked up at its target the two arrows pierced its eye socket and flew out the other side.

[Goblin Zombie Lv 1 Killed: 100 Exp]

Nemia lashed her hands out as she casted a spell in either hand. She used [Dark Flame Sword] and created two blades made of pure fire. It had black wafts of darkness flowing through the blade. As undead got closer Nemia crossed her arms and sliced the monster into 4 pieces. The [Dark Flame Sword]'s cleanly cut through the undead. The spell had cauterized the wounds, but also drained them. If Volker happened to be looking he would have noticed the monster seemed to have even its color drained from its body!

[Goblin Zombie Lv 1 Killed: 100 Exp]

While Tal was fending off a handful of the undead one happened to sneak between him and Volker. The monster quickly jumped on his back and grappled him! It had its arms around his torso sinking its claws into Tal's body, its legs were wrapped around his waist doing its best to restrain him as it sunk its gnarly teeth into his neck.

"Aghhghh" Tal cried out in pain. Even though he had a damage reduction from his [Battle Cry] skill it still hurt being bitten on the neck!

Volker slightly turned his head and saw what was happening. In one motion Volker used one leg to kick the closest undead away from him, balanced himself on the other foot and reached out to slice the monsters back! Unfortunately being an undead it didn't feel any pain and instead bit down harder!

With his back exposed to the horde Jiv and Nemia covered him. Jiv shot an arrow at a undead mid jump while Nemia had changed her [Dark Flame Blade] into a [Dark flame Javelin] and threw it at another undead about to take a leap towards Volker. As soon as the two attacks landed Volker once again slightly turned his and was impressed.

'Seems like these guys know how to work as a team!'

Ignoring what happened behind him Volker had to help Tal. He had to be careful as one wrong move he could hurt Tal. He grabbed his sword with both hands quickly thrusted his sword into the right shoulder of the creature. This didn't stop the undead from biting down more, but he completely severed the arm! His blade was just thick enough to cut the arm off at the shoulder.

Volker's adrenaline started to pumped more and more in the heat of combat. He had multiple magical affects on him at once. With his left hand he grabbed the undead by the forehead from behind. His fingers dug into the monsters eye socket as he used his full strength to pull the undead off of Tal!

Tal screamed more as Volker pulled. Not only was he pulling the undead by the face and Tal's flesh off! The undead never let go of him and was still clamped down. Volker noticed he was about to rip parts of Tal's flesh off he made a quick adjustment. He wanted to wait till the undead was off, but had no chance now. While he gripped the creature with his left hand he took his sword and thrusted it through the back of the undead's skull. He even sliced part of his fingertips. Tal was stunned for a moment seeing a blade so close to his head.

[Goblin Zombie Lv 3 Killed: 200 Exp]

Volker and Tal breathed a sigh of relief, but they had more to fight!

"IT'S DONE!" Nuva had shouted and stood up with his hands raised.

A spell circle appeared above his hand. It was in a triangle shape with each spell circle at a point. This was his personal Tier 3 spell [Burning Quick Mud]. It was a spell of the Fire, Earth and Water elements. Underneath the remaining undead the group quickly changed into mud. The undead started to sink into the mud, but as they resisted the mud would pull faster like quick sand!

As the undead were pulled down once the mud reached their knee's they were set ablaze! The spell had the power to restrain enemies an set them on fire. For an opponent with an actual mind they would be able to resist this attack. Thankfully the undead had no such luck.

The undead stopped sinking into the mud at knee height. As they couldn't move around or dodge Tal and Volker made quick work beheading them. Jiv and Nemia stopped fighting to retain as much strength as they could.

[Goblin Zombie Lv 1 Killed: 100 Exp] x3

[Goblin Zombie Lv 2 Killed: 150 Exp] x3

[Level Up]!

Volker mentally cheered! He had killed way more then he did before his level and thought it was odd he didn't level up previously. He then looked through his experience and noticed he wasn't getting the full amount. He was getting a fraction of the total. His face fell when he came to the realization that he was in a party with other people and that the experience was being divided by them all. He would have to explore ideas on that later though.

Everyone grouped back up by Nuva who had just broke down a door to a home. As soon as he was in the air dome that was around them blocking sound slowly dissipated and the mud changed back to a solid. The rest followed Nuva in. Volker was the last to walk in and saw Nuva and Jiv on a dusty couch, Nemia was looking out the window and Tal was in what he thought was the kitchen.

"Nuva. Can you explain to me what you did" Volker asked. He was quiet interested in learning more of magical formations. He barely understood his own magic. "What was that air dome and mud spell?"

Nuva had a bright smile on his face. He wasn't he best Warden in school, but was happy to be of use this time. "I just casted a Tier 3 spell formation. Any mage or spellcaster can use Tier 3 spells, but Wardens focus on magical formations. Spells to create stone fortifications, traps or stuff like the [Air Dome]. A spell to block noise in a certain radius. Very handy for battles like this."

"That being said formations take a long time to make. They are much more intricate then normal spells. Even those of similar tiers."

Volker looked at him with a confused expression. He had no idea what a tier spell was or anything. He just knew his own skills and barely how to use them. All he had to do was think of the spell that he wanted to use and used it.

"You have to start with the basics Nuva" Nemia chimed in while still looking out the window. "There are six base elements; Fire, Water, Earth, Air, Holy and Darkness. Holy magic is the hardest, besides Darkness, to learn. To even use it you must have an affinity with the element. Same with darkness. The others elements are instinctual as all beings are made of those elements."

Nemia talked like a teacher would to a student. "Right. And what I did was Tier magic" Nuva spoke trying to sound like a teacher himself. "I'm limited to Fire, Earth, Water and Air. So Tier 4 spells and formations. Each Tier type just represents how many elements one uses for a spell. But that doesn't mean a Tier 1 spell is weaker then a Tier 5 or 6 spell. For exam-"

Nemia had raised her hand and stopped Nuva from talking "Quiet. There's another horde. More this time, but they are all level 1." She slowly closed the curtain as not to draw attention and looked towards Volker for orders. Jiv remained silent on the couch and and Tal came back into the room empty handed. He was looking for food. He was starving after that small battle and hoped he would get a chance to eat before the next fight. That was no longer the case.

"I have an idea" Volker spoke. He slowly climbed the stairs to the top floor and went further to the roof. He wanted to test out fire magic.

{I'm going to try using fire magic. If I fail, let them rush in and let's use the door as a choke point}

The rest didn't respond, but nodded to his orders.

Volker looked down at the large group of undead. All [Zombie Goblin]'s and at level 1 just as Nemia said. This time there was little more then 20 of them. 23 to be exact. He stood at the edge and thankfully the undead didn't notice him. He looked around and found a chair, almost broken, but able to be sat on. He pulled it up and sat crossed legged on it while still able to see the undead.

He wasn't entirely sure what he was doing, but he held his hands in his lap palm facing upward. He looked into himself and felt the mana in his body. He tried to feel the Fire element inside. If Nemia was right he would be able to use fire magic. Although he didn't want to stop there. He searched inside himself and imagined fire. What exactly was fire? What was it to him? He knew fire was a combustion, but what was it in mana?

He closed his eyes and focused. He searched and felt his mana in his body. He tried to manipulate it and move it. He moved part of his mana aside and concentrated. He imagined it boiling. After a few moments he sensed it getting hotter and hotter before it started to boil.

'Successes!'

He tried to move the boiling mana through his body. He felt great pain as he did this.

He grunted and sweated profusely as he moved the boiling mana around his body. He strained himself to flow the mana through his hands. Above his open hands a magical circle started to form and fire shot out from it! He could sense the heat and light even with his eyes closed!

[Fire Magic Lv 1] acquired!

Volker was happy to finally learn a new magic element. Although he was sure there's an easier way, but he was happy to learn at least this!

He closed his hand and extinguished the flame. He wanted to try something similar to Nemia's [Dark Flame Blade]. An evil smile appeared on his face as he came up with an idea!