sparring

POV (Arthur Leywin)

I was looking at a strange elf boy, at first glance you can understand that he is not normal, let's put aside his appearance, white uniform and sunglasses. To begin with, he is at the light red stage, of course I knew that elves form their mana core relatively early compared to other races, but I don't think the difference is that high.

Has he been reborn too? This is the first thought that came to my mind.

From the beginning of his appearance, he looked into my eyes, his glasses were slightly lowered down so that you could see his azure-blue eyes, it seemed they wanted to look straight into my soul, find out everything about me, I felt uncomfortable from his gaze. But after the handshake, he stopped looking at me, he started looking at the training room, he seemed to have satisfied his curiosity.

Tessia had a suspicious expression on her face, she could not immediately accept her grandfather's new student, and to be honest, I understand her…

The fact that he was also reborn, I was almost sure...

POV (Roel Askart)

I was looking at the training room, almost everything was planted with plants, only a small circle in the middle of the field on which we were standing was untouched.

Arthur continued to stare at me with his piercing gaze. Virion coughed to get attention.

"As I see you have already got along, then let's have a little sparring,"

Virion took out a wooden sword from his spatial ring and threw it to Arthur. Arthur's indignation could be seen on his face.

Virion looked at me and asked.

"Roel, you have a wand, don't you?"

I nodded and took out a wand from my spatial ring. By the way, the spatial ring was given to me for my fifth birthday, I begged my parents to buy me this ring, in the end they agreed and gave it to me for my birthday, in my opinion it is a very necessary thing, you can store your things in it and get them when you need them. Of course, it had a limit of 10 cubic meters.

Arthur looked at Virion, then at me and asked.

"Are we going to spar?"

Virion shook his head and said.

"No, you won't fight each other. You will fight against me."

Arthur just nodded and looked at me. I looked at Virion and made a joke.

"Fine, old man, but then don't regret your decision."

Virion grinned and said.

"the rules of the game are simple if Arthur can touch me with a sword, then you will be considered the winners, if Arthur cannot touch me, then you have lost. You have to work in a team, without teamwork you can forget about winning. So are you ready?"

I didn't like battles where teamwork is required, I usually prefer to do all the work alone, but on the other hand, i can evaluate Arthur's current strength, what he demonstrated before was enough to understand that he already had experience of fighting in a previous life.

In the end, Arthur and I answered "Yes" at the same time

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Arthur was standing in front, and I was behind. Our plan was terribly simple, Arthur has to fight Virion, and in the meantime I help him in every way with my spells.

Virion looked at us and said.

"Start"

Virion was instantly in front of Arthur, Arthur was stunned, but he quickly recovered and crossed his sword with him, but no matter how hard Arthur tried, every third blow certainly hit him.

This creepy grandfather used only his speed, it was clear that Arthur had seen all of Virion's attacks, but he could not react to them in time.

I started channeling mana into my wand, the speed of my spells was still mediocre

The ground under Virion's feet began to shake and two small vines came out, the vines were about to reach Virion's feet, but he was able to jump away from the place where the vines came out.

Arthur wasted no time, he strengthened his legs with mana and jumped on Virion, aiming a wooden sword at his head.

Virion threw his head back, the sword passed right in front of his face. Arthur landed quickly and regained his stance.

Virion looked at us and said.

"Not bad"

He looked at me... goosebumps went through my body, he's not going to attack me, is he? Isn't that right?

Arthur was going to fight Virion again, but he was no longer in the same place.

Virion appeared in front of me.

He was going to hit me with his sword, but I was already prepared for this, my wand lit up and vines began to come out of the ground.

A stunned expression could be seen on his face, I could easily tell what he was thinking, "Why didn't he use protection magic? Why did he put himself under the sword?"

The sword was about to hit me, I used the remnants of mana to create a strong wind that could push me away from him.

But I seemed to be overdoing it.

I flew at a staggering speed, I made several rolls, I was lucky that I flew in the direction where the plants were growing, otherwise I would have broken something for myself.

My efforts were not in vain, Arthur used the remnants of mana to strengthen his legs and headed towards Virion.

Virion tried to escape from my vines, and you can say he almost got out, but I once again created a large flow of air and directed him to Arthur. To say that Arthur did not expect this is to say nothing, Arthur gained a stunning speed, he somehow stayed on his feet, he jumped to Virion and aimed his sword at Virion's head. The sword successfully hit Virion's forehead. Virion couldn't resist and stumbled, and Arthur flew off in the same direction where I was.

I wanted to catch him with the vines, but my spell didn't appear in time, and he fell right on top of me.

We were lying on the grass, Virion came up to us, rubbing his forehead.

"Good job brats, you are much stronger than you seemed"

"Arthur, as I thought. The use of mana is just terrible. Your body is a mess!"

"Roel, though you have control over mana is much better, you still not perfect to use it for Conjurers it's still a little below average, and you need to train your body!"

I nodded, but Arthur simply stared at him, it seemed he didn't understand what he did wrong.

Virion, noticing his dubious look, took his hand and put it on his chest. Arthur closed his eyes and concentrated.

"How... how did I not think about using mana like this before?"

"Haha! You people have such a narrow view of manipulating mana. But your sword control techniques and combat experience are just incredible. How did you find out about all this?"

I looked at Arthur, I wanted to see his reaction.

He scratched his cheek and said.

"I just read books and studied with my father"

"Books, right? Hmm... either you're an incredible genius, or you're hiding something, but I won't insist."

I got up and realized that I wasn't wearing my glasses, I started looking for my glasses, but someone touched me on the shoulder, I turned around and saw Tessia with my glasses in her hands.

She held out her hand with the glasses, and I took them.

I smiled and said, "Thank you, Princess Tessia."

She smiled and said, "You can call me Tess."