Deathly Spar

"Water that submerges all, Water geyser!" I summoned a smaller torrent of water than what Lord Ling cast before, and it vaporized the flame.

The garden was scorched and beautiful bushes were damaged.

God, I will get scolded for this…

"That is of no importance now, Basara… buckle up." He said

'Huh? Why?' then I understood a moment later.

Veins on my body began to pulsate, my fingers turned rigid, my movements dulled and I was unable to move. For but a moment, I dropped to my knees in pain.

I was barely able to breathe as a wave of fatigue hit me.

'W-What is happening…' I groaned the words.

'Qi insufficiency, your body used more Qi than it can handle at the moment, it is true that your veins were opened, but your body has yet to be accustomed to the natural energy. The pain will subside in a moment, but tell me, Basara, how did you feel using real magic for the first time?' said Nocturne while laughing.

'Heh… how can I say it… I felt like if I was a god.'

'Indeed, that power over nature makes one believes themselves to be above the laws of the world, however, like you have just witnessed, that power is fading, and so you must never become arrogant enough to believe yourself on equal footing with the beings of above.'

'I will make sure to remember that,' I said as I stood up. The pain was gone but the fatigue still hanging .

'It seems that my limit is two spells with incantations, seeing how long it takes to just use a single spell, this will be needing massive amounts of practice and preparation to properly use.'

'And for that, I exist, I needed that Lord to show you the path, and I will be the one to guide you through it. Now lad, to properly use magic you will need to be able to circulate Qi within your body and explore all of your unsealed potentials.'

'How is that?' I asked

'Simple, it is no different than to continuously assimilate, I will be doing a practice session with you inside your sea of consciousness. Now get your matters settled and go back to your room, it is time for your first enclosed training session.'

He is probably speaking of the garden catching fire, I need to get it settled before I go and see what nocturne truly wants from me.

Melinda was the first I met after I went to the servant's room. After explaining what happened, I got scolded but she still praised my ability to learn magic, I really felt joy for being praised even while I was scolded.

Once she said that she will take care of it, I went back to my room and began meditating.

I instantly dove into my consciousness and saw Nocturne hovering around the floating dark orb.

The white void that encompassed everything had but four things within it.

An enormous floating orb of fire that represented my sea of consciousness.

Nocturne that was hovering around it.

His throne and me.

He went back to his throne and sat as he said.

'Welcome Basara. You should know that this training will be taking a toll on you, so be prepared.'

'How long will this take?' I asked ' I might be called outside, so I need to help if they task me with anything' I was speaking about my duties as a butler, but Nocturne seems to have understood.

'Time flows differently here Basara, you can will it to flow slower or faster than real time.'

'I can?' I asked questioningly

'Yes, it is simple you can spend days here and only moments would pass in the real world. However I don't recommend you to do it continuously, your mind and fatigue might not cope with it, and you may lose your mind after awakening.'

'Then I will do it in moderation, how about a ratio of 4/1?'

When I said that the floating swirling orb slowed down considerably.

'what happened?' I asked

'What do you mean, didn't I tell you, you just need to will time to slow and it would, now every four hours spent here is one hour spent outside. Don't overdo it or you will go mad.'

'I will not. This, it is really surprising, I thought that I will need a lot of practice to do this but heh. It was as simple as this.'

'Indeed, now' he said as he stood up bringing up his scythe.

'Survive' he said as he disappeared from view.

It only took a moment for my view to turn upside down as I saw my body standing… without a head.

'What the fuck?' I said while my body dropped down and fell.

Nocturne was behind my body and got down, his scythe was bloodied… this was mind shuddering.

"You are far too slow Master." He said as he grabbed my head with his bony hand.

"How the hell is this possible?!" I said shouting my lungs out… hang on, my lungs are still inside my body how am I able to even speak?

"This is your sea of consciousness, it is like a dream world, whatever happens here cannot affect you physically, mentally. However, that is a different story.'

'Did you just kill me Nocturne????!" I cried out

"Kekekeke, Didn't you hear what I said, you can't die here, but can still feel pain. So will your body to reconstruct.'

The moment he said that my body was back together.

I began tapping on my neck fanatically as I looked around and saw nocturne with an amused face laughing.

My brows furrowed as I looked at him.

'That was uncool! Yet cool at the same time damn…"

"You find yourself being decapitated to be cool, then I guess we will have a lot of fun here. Ready up!' he said as I saw him disappear once again