BATTLE CRY'S
Lontara 43: Red Tiger Bones
"I'm home.." Andros said slowly and Vein who came from the direction of the forest greeted him and helped Andros to sit in the lodge.
"Welcome... How is the exercise?" Vein asked in a loose tone.
"Weigh more than any physical exercise I've ever done." Andros smiled slightly and looked at the sky that had started to turn orange.
"During here have you not practiced?" Ask Andros just to fill the silence. But Vena did not reply to him immediately, he just smiled and shook his head.
"I'm starting to think about stopping being a Magician." Veins smiled thinly. He had thought about it, by seeking strength he was not satisfied at all. With a simple life like this he felt satisfied enough.
"But, if we go back to our original world. Then there will be a dangerous place. I'm so worried about getting out of here"
Then Vena issued an answer that she did not think of at all.
"Andros, will you take care of me from now on?" Vena let out her smile and looked at Andros.
Andros was fascinated by it. And Vena who was aware if she had just issued an embarrassing statement immediately flushed her face. If only there was a hole Vein wanted to hide in it.
"Ah, not lup..." Vena wanted to draw a word but Andros first answered it.
"Yes, okay." Andros answered lightly. And that immediately made Vena's face even more blushing like a ripe pomegranate.
"Then promise yes" Vena nervously pulled out her little finger and Andros hooked it with his little finger and said if he promised.
Even so, Andros was still unconscious. He only thought that this Vein was his sister whom he had to protect. The young man passed his brain so he just nodded lightly.
That night they missed with laughter with grilled fish and fresh fruits. This whole new Vein life he felt really happy, if he could ask again then he did not mind if he could not get out of this place.
Then they slept in the hut together. Andros quickly fell asleep due to fatigue that he experienced while Vena saw the sleeping face Andros clingy. Vein smiled to herself and slept beside Andros with her hands in her hands, thinking why they slept in a hut like this, while on the hill there was a library that was actually quite comfortable if cleaned.
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Andros woke up from his sleep, he felt something clasping his hand and it turned out to be Vein, the girl's face seemed innocent if asleep. Andros just smiled a little and then wrapped Vena in his outer clothes and headed towards the lake to refresh himself.
Although the sky still looks dark he is already in the lake, he swims and dives. If he can get out of here and get great power, then he can protect the people he loves all his abilities considering the world of magic is a dangerous world.
Andros chuckled, remembering the curse and the curse he had and the title of the damned child he had pinned on him. Makes him more eager to be strong, if he can prove to the villagers that he can be strong even though he does not have magic.
But, he thought. The ability of internal energy alone is not enough on the battlefield, other factors such as martial arts, weapons and tricks affect more in a fight. In the Dragon Star book itself there are martial arts listed there just too complicated and requires deep energy, with large numbers to use it.
So Andros re-opened the books and manuscripts in the library. He found several books and scrolls that caught his attention but Andros opened a blue book first, on the cover of which it was written. The Book of a Thousand Knowledge, the super thick book explains many things such as magical plants, heirlooms, legends about buried treasures, and others.
He looked at the explanation of some good plants to improve bone quality faster and found information about three strange fruits given by his teacher.
The blue banana is called Wicked ice banana, and the correct way to consume it is to burn it for an hour, although it eliminates fifty percent of its efficacy but the way to avoid side effects is like that. Andros just laughed wryly reading that explanation.
Next is Blaze Heart Apple, the fiery Apple fruit if consumed directly can make the body burn instantly, Andros grateful not to eat the fruit first. He began to wonder his teacher was about to train him or kill him.
And lastly is the Devils Head Fruit. Which can make the wearer die in one bite. Andros raised his eyebrows, this was for sure his teacher was about to kill him.
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After reading the book of a thousand knowledge Andros took a scroll and a book.
The book contains the Iron Tiger Tread. He showed some movement in it. Then trying to hit his foot on a stone, he impressed one time the footprint that he removed three incisions like a large tiger claw formed on the stone, but once using his inner energy directly exhausted this shows that in comparison to the old swordsman he is nothing.
Andros did breathing exercises from the book of the Dragon Star to recharge his inner energy, the result was very different from the breathing of the Sun and moon he used.
The inner power produced was a little purer and stronger, after gathering energy in Andros saw the scroll its contents was one of the science of lightening the body called the Lightning Cloud Trail.
Andros tried to practice it, and he was able to quickly move places.
"Your knowledge from the library is great, if I can master various moves from it then I can defeat Mage-level Magicians easily" after a while Weiss came along and they resumed bone-building exercises. Andros gulped and set the horses afloat, preparing for the oncoming attack.
The exercise continued for three months. In the morning he would read in the library when the sun began to rise Weiss would accompany him to practice and go home in the evening, then when they arrive at the lodge Vena will greet him with a warm smile and some food for Andros at night they talk to each other lightly before falling asleep.
Now that Andros had reached the bone stage of the Black Wolf, when he absorbed the efficacy of the Wicked Ice Banana the sound of bone cracks rang out from within his body. Then after the sound subsided Andros took a deep breath.
"Finally you reached the red tiger bone" Weiss was very impressed by Andros' development which could be said to be terrible. This child is very fast in learning and also the application in practice is very precise and efficient.
"The more pain from the formation of the Black Wolf bone" he lamented, indeed the higher the level of Forging the bone then its consummation effect would be even more painful.
"But from now on it will be difficult, as it is not an easy thing to break through the next stage of Bone Forging."
