Dark Souls

First Training

Aafreda listened to the man who kept calling every disciple nonstop, he felt under pressure because beside him there was the figure of Achiel who was still cold to him and his left side was Alex who was friendly and warm with him. He doesn't know what to do with this.

It felt like I was in the middle of ice cubes and warm water. A little hot and cold at the same time.

After the division of the spirit group was completed, continued with the burning of the Alliance faction's flag was a culture that the Dunkelheit faction had to do. Aafreda stared at the white-colored flag with that lotus flower, she felt the Alliance faction was innocent at all. According to Aafreda, it was the Dunkelheit faction that started the war with the Alliance faction, why was the Dunkelheit faction so obsessed with defeating them? Aafreda could not understand it.

After the burning of the flag, the opening ceremony was completed. All the students immediately went back to their dormitories including Achiel who passed Aafreda coldly. Aafreda sighed and looked down sad.

"You've been sad since breakfast, what are you thinking?" Ask Alex

"Nothing, I'm just tired"

"How about we walk in the garden" Embrace Alex's spirit

Aafreda let go of Alex's embrace, she stepped away and left Alex not forgetting to greet him.

"Go, I want to rest"

Aafreda who had just stepped down from the stairs felt a gaze lead to her. He saw at the end of the building a figure he knew, Aafreda smiled and followed the figure of his teacher.

His teacher walked in front slowly, Aafreda felt that they were far away from the building and in the depths of the forest. His teacher suddenly stopped and turned his body staring at Aafreda from top to bottom.

"Hm...Your abilities haven't improved at all, haven't you practiced?"

Aafreda shook her head in embarrassment, she did not know how to train her spirit power. He had never even seen Achiel train his spirit power, so Aafreda had no information whatsoever.

"Huh... You should be diligent to increase your spirit power. In a few more years, you will have exams between students, if you do not pass you will not be able to enter the middle class and will be in the elementary class forever. Do you want to be stuck in this academy?"

Aafreda shook her head quickly, of course she has no desire to stay longer in this place. He didn't want to be in this weird, stifling place.

"Alright we'll do the first training today"

"Umm here teacher?" Aafreda asked confused

"Of course, in the academy it is not possible. You also want to keep this a secret, right? How could the council from the Dunkelheit faction become the teacher of a disciple of the spirit light academy? Do you want bad rumors to circulate?"

"Of course I don't want to, all right let's do this exercise"

"First prepare your horses"

"Horses? I don't have that thing"

"Not horses but horses"

"Ah...I didn't learn that from the teacher"

"So what have you been doing all this time?"

"Eat and sleep, then play" replied Aafreda loudly

"Spread your feet by a meter, bend your body forward a little and stretch your right palm forward"

Aafreda followed her teacher's instructions, and she did all of those things easily. Aafreda thought the horses in this world were different from her world, it turned out that this world was the same as her world. These are the same types of horses as the karate he had learned.

"Slow your breath slowly, breathe in with your nose and throw it out slowly from your mouth. Do it 5 times"

Aafreda followed her teacher's instructions again, for Aafreda this was easy because she often learned karate, taekwondo or boxing during her life in the previous world. It seems that this world is not much different from its own.

"Now bring out your power"

Aafreda was puzzled, how did she unleash her power? He was now in the position of karate horses, did he have to expend his physical strength?

"Teacher are you asking me to fight?" Ask Aafreda plain

His teacher let out a heavy sigh again, he approached Aafreda and patted her right palm that had been opened earlier.

"Take out your strength in this palm of your hand, you remember that during the spirit graduation exam, all the disciples were tested looking at its strength from the palm of your hand. The spirit power of the plant focused on the palm, the spirit power of the beast focused on the chest while the spirit power of the tool focused on their weapons. You can draw your plant power out of this palm, try to focus and understand it"

Aafreda nodded her head in understanding, she just needed to focus on her palm. The point was that he only needed to drain his spirit power there.

For several hours Aafreda did not produce anything, she began to fatigue. Sweat was pouring down his forehead nonstop, even so Aafreda did not give up, at least he had to have the strength to be able to protect himself in this world. Seeing that Achiel could be cold to him now made Aafreda confident that Achiel might kill herself in the future.

Slowly golden rays began to appear on Aafreda's palm, but it was very difficult for the rays to form into a golden chamomile plant. Aafreda exerted all her strength but the beam disappeared again without a trace, Aafreda was uprooted by losing her balance. He felt tired in every muscle of his arm.

it feels like my arm is going to break, why is it so hard to be strong.

His teacher looked at Aafreda coldly, he stepped closer to Aafreda and spoke softly to her. He understood Aafreda who had the unusual ability of the other disciples.

"Aafreda I know you are special, so I am after you to be my disciple. Did you give up on this exercise?"

Aafreda caught the implied meaning of his teacher's words, he stood up again and did his position again. He will of course not give up, he will gain the strength to protect himself and his mother.

It was late in the afternoon, but Aafreda was still unable to do her training perfectly. Aafreda felt her right arm start to cramp as well as her legs. His teacher stroked Aafreda's head and asked her to return to the dormitory.

"Rest, we'll continue this later"

"Well...Huh..Huh...When's...That's teacher?"

His teacher smiled as Aafreda started to get excited to train herself. He moved his feet away from Aafreda, saying.

"I'll see you later, son, prepare yourself"

Aafreda stared at the departure of her teacher with a pale face, she lost her balance and lay down on the grass. Aafreda looked at the orange sky, so beautiful and charming.

"I'll be strong"