Chapter 79 -- Training

KNOCK!

KNOCK!

"Come in"

"Teacher, i can't find Z.....oh there he is" Bella said. She had been called to come and train Zane but when she go to the training hall, she couldn't find him.

"Yes, he and I were just talking about some stuff, you can take him away now" Old man waved. However Zane was still deep in thought, he hadn't even heard Bella come in.

'I wonder if it's possible to cast a dual spell alone, if someone can use all the elements efficiently' he thought.

Ever since he heard about the possibility of him being able to wield all the elements, he had been thinking of all the applications he could do with them.

Zane still hadn't forgotten that he needed to get revenge for his father. A hunter had killed Zane's grandfather and moved to a City to become a lesser noble or subsidiary family.

Turns out that city was the same city Zane was in right now. Zane knew that his grandfather's killer was in Willow city the whole time, however he didn't know were his family was located in the city. Willow wasn't small after all.

Even if Zane found the noble who murdered his grandfather, he couldn't do anything at the moment, he needed to at least become a High Mage. The enemy was a noble after all.

Zane needed to get stronger fast and avenge his grandfather, even though he never met him.

"Zane!" Old man clapped his hand once, snapping Zane out of his thoughts.

"What's on your mind?" Old man asked.

"Killing people" Zane shrugged.

"Ohh..... that's good, i thought you were thinking about something weird" Old man tried to joke "Anyway go with Bella for your first real day of training" 

Zane nodded and stood up, but before he could leave Old man said something "Remember Zane, some things aren't meant to be spoken" 

Zane nodded slightly, Old man was obviously talking about his affinity situation. Zane then followed Bella as she led him to the training hall.

<You are welcome> Zane suddenly heard a voice he knew too well.

'Aurora?, what are you talking about?' he said in confusion.

<<She's gone Zane>> Alex said. Zane had already guessed as such. However he was still thinking about Aurora's words.

'It sounded like she helped me in some way. Like she did me a favor, what could it be?. Could it have something to do with my affinity?' he thought.

About a hundred and fifty kilometers away, it was at this point that a vampire celestial appeared before disappearing after a few seconds.

Zane followed Bella all the way until he found himself in the training hall, funny enough he had told himself that he wanted to memorize the way to get there, unfortunately Aurora gave him something to distract his mind.

"How many times can you heal yourself before you have to refill your mana?" Bella asked.

Zane thought about it for a second before answering "About three times depending on the injuries" 

Obviously Zane could heal way more times than that, after all the had over 80 thousand points of mana remaining. However he didn't know when he was going to kill his next victim so he couldn't use mana recklessly, otherwise he might find himself REALLY blind.

Bella nodded "Okay we will have two rounds, should i start or explain first" she asked. Zane was reminded of the initiation when she asked a similar question.

"Explain" Zane said as he started doing some awkward stretches, which made Bella chuckle.

"In teacher's school we believe that everyone has his or her own fighting style, everyone is different, everyone does different things and thinks differently so we don't see why we should have the same way of fighting" Bella explained..

Zane nodded in agreement. He also agreed with their philosophy but he still didn't understand.

"I can't teach you my fighting style because it may not suit you, even if it does suit you it might not bring out your full potential" Bella said.

"Who's fighting style are you going to teach me then? John did say i will learn a fighting style which suited me while not having anything to do with my fast healing" Zane expressed his confusion.

"I won't teach you anyone's fighting style" Bella's words made Zane even more confused. If she wasn't going to teach him someone's fighting style then what the fuck are they going to do?.

"I will teach you YOUR fighting style. The fighting style best suited for you is the one you already have" Bella smirked.

Zane furrowed his brows as he thought back to all his fights, he was trying to see if he had ever used anything like a fighting style, stance technique, anything.

However he didn't have any of that, he just fought according to what he thought he should do and Kieth proved that what he thought was the wrong stuff.

"Zane when one is born, they already have the perfect style in their bodies, however they can't easily access that technique, even when one's life is in danger." 

"So you guys have a way to access it" Zane guessed.

"Correct, that way is through pain. Did you know that the body fears pain more than death?" Bella taught.

'That's news to me' Zane thought.

"So when the body experiences pain, it will do anything in it's power to stop that pain. That's what the initiation was for. You are now sort of used to pain, but your body isn't. You can block out part of the pain, but your body can't" 

That's when Zane understood everything about their training styles. Basically they just forced their bodies to learn otherwise they will feel more pain.

"That's why having healing mana is an advantage, you can heal after a session and train again easily while others have to go home and buy healing pills." Bella finished.

"Enough talk let's fight" Bella suddenly said.

"Wait fight?," Zane was surprised, but then he remembered seeing mages fighting with the other students the day he came in.

Bella didn't answer and moved closer until she was a meter from Zane "Ready?" she asked. Zane closed his eyes, took a deep breath and nodded.

BANG!

Before Zane could even open his eyes he was lying on the ground with a dislocated jaw.

"Don't close your eyes, stand up. I will attack the same exact way with the same exact power" Bella said.

Zane stood up and popped his jaw back into place. Bella raised her arm and proceeded to throw a punch at Zane again. This time, Zane raised his forearm and successfully blocked the attack.

CRACK!

And his forearm broke. "Not good, if I punch again and you block with the other arm, both of them will be broken and your attack power will fall. Your opponent wont give you time to heal you know" Bella said.

Zane nodded and healed his arm before waiting for the next punch. This time Zane blocked with his palm, and his shoulder dislocated from the impact.

Next he blocked with both palms, this time no bone broke but he was thrown off balance and fell over backwards. Then he put his left leg slightly behind him for balance.

This time no bone broke and be was still standing after Bella's attack. 

"Not good, you managed to successfully block but now both your arms are occupied so you are defenseless, you can't even kick otherwise you lose balance. Try again same attack, block and stay in a good defensive position."

Zane nodded, he realized that blocking with both hands was impractical so he had to think of a way to block with one hand and not break anything. That was when he thought of his long sword, he remembered father teaching him how to parry.

Zane suddenly had an epiphany. 'That's it!.

Suddenly Zane's stance changed. He stood with his left side facing Bella, his right leg extended half a meter behind his left. He stretched all his fingers straight like he wanted to slap someone. His left hand in front of his face and the fingers of his right hand slightly touching his chin.

"Congratulations, you found your stance"