Element Magic

Chapter 9: Training

Chapter 9: Training

The next day, six days before the inter-class tournament began. Precisely in the academy, I kept silent while watching the teacher who was explaining about the theory of non-elemental magic that is dangerous. It is true that there are non-elemental magic that is dangerous if used, but also useful if in the right hands.

For example, [Regeneration], although it can restore lost body parts, but the side effects of the user can feel tremendous pain due to lack of blood. Although it can regenerate parts of the body, but not with blood, so the best way is to use [Recovery] at the same time to recover parts of the body such as blood.

But in the end it is forgotten by everyone in this era so that the death rate increases dramatically. But yes, forget about it, and I am not thinking too much about the problems of the world today.

During the break, Molda and Shasa invited me to eat in the cafeteria, because it just so happened that the money we made from bringing in the fugitives was so much that We could enjoy the food in the cafeteria.

"So Loid, are you going to join the tournament?" Ask Molda to me.

"I don't know exactly what the rules of the tournament are. But I'm not coming, I guess." I answered while eating a piece of meat that was on my plate.

"You're going to the tournament, I heard there are four participants in each class who can participate in the tournament. In total, there are twenty students. And again, the one who entered the tournament was only the one directly chosen by the homeroom." Obviously Shasa.

"If I've seen Master Larn lately, I think he's quite interested in your abilities, so you should be chosen for the tournament" Molda said.

"Then, you two will also be in the tournament." My reply.

"Why do you think that?" Ask Shasa.

"Of course, when viewed from a month-long class, the student who scored the most was us. The others also did get high marks, hmm..."

"Rather than dizzy thinking about it, we better see it later, because it should be after the break, Mr. Teacher will choose four students right. So now, it's better to eat first." Reply Molda.

On the advice of Molda, we decided to immediately finish the food purchased in the cafeteria and wait for the break to end. Upon arrival in class, as usual everything seemed a little moody, and after a few minutes, Mr. Teacher also arrived at the class.

"For this hour lesson to be postponed for a while because I will explain about the Tournament held next week." Master Larn said as he placed a book on his desk.

"Interclass tournaments are held once a month to measure how developed the student is. And the person who wins the tournament, his class will be given one star." Reciprocity.

"And again, the star of the class and the star of the student were different. The higher your class stars, the more facilities you can get. But not only that, if you win this tournament, all four participants will get stars."

"Therefore, I'll select those four participants. The tournament will be Loid Astra, Molda Nearia, Shasa Dafire, and finally, Arez Levitear. The four of you will take part in the tournament, I hope you can win it."

"Ap-What?! I can't follow him sir! After all how can the Non-element class win this tournament. This is so absurd. And again in the tournament, we are not allowed to use weapons and grimoires except magic clubs, and are required to use magic neatly." Arez protest to the Master.

"Then, you can ask Loid about the matter."

Hearing the teacher's words just now made me a little surprised. Why not, he's going to ask me to help him solve the problem. But, I have no other choice. After all from the beginning I did intend to train him.

After school, Me, Molda, and Shasa were intending to go to the field where we used to train. But at the school gate that was always full of students, Arez appeared and said he wanted to practice together. And yes, I invited him also because of this to win the tournament.

And upon arrival in the field, I taught him a little bit about magic as I had taught Molda and Shasa. And also I've checked the elements that show that Arez has a talent for soil elements. I can deduce that the element fits perfectly with the non-elemental magic that is [Strength].

In that day, I strengthened Arez until his earth magic reached Rank C. But the most important thing was that Molda had achieved Rank B water magic, and Shasa had achieved Rank B fire magic as well. Even so, I feel like they are about to reach Rank A.

"Then what can I do with my earth magic and [Strength]?" Arez asked me in the middle of training.

"Because using weapons is prohibited, but there will be no denying if the weapons used are made of magic. So use your earth magic, you can mold it into a weapon or not it's up to you. But I suggest to use [Create] magic to create weapons if you can do it." I clearly.

"Using my earth magic as a weapon? What is it like to create a ground with a sharp edge? Even without [Strength] the earth magic will still work." Arez answered confusedly.

"It's not like that, I mean, the ground is heavy. Although relying on earth magic alone, it does not rule out the possibility that the magic will move more slowly and the enemy can dodge. Just imagine if the [Earth Spike] you created and then added [Strength] and hit it as hard as possible."

"[Earth Spike] will jump quickly and create a big impact..... Really Once!" See Arez beginning to understand what I'm explaining.

And without me knowing, it was getting dark that made us decide to go home.  I walked alone to the new house because I and my family decided to move to the middle class as a result of being adventurous for a month.

The new house is four times larger than the previous house which only consists of a kitchen, washroom, bathroom, and loft my bed. Now in my new home, there are many rooms such as three rooms, bathroom, kitchen, dining room, living room, living room, attic, and even a warehouse.

And now, my father no longer works as a delivery man, but instead works in a bakery and earns more than ever before. But the most important thing was, We now do not have to worry about finances because I made a lot of money from the Guild.

If calculated the average wage of a Rank D mission is about one silver to fifty silver. And that was separate from the results obtained from selling monster parts. If everything is calculated, then my average income is about one hundred silver per mission.

Although not much, but it should have covered all the living costs of our family. And the song I can still climb the Rank and earn more money.

On arrival at home, as usual, my mother cooked so much food that she made a table full of food. And Dad was enjoying a cup of coffee by the fireplace. I feel happy because the house I bought for them is very useful.

"Welcome Loid, what about your school?" Ask Mom.

"I think it's pretty good." My reply

"Good to hear. I've prepared a lot of food for you, so eat a lot." Saying Mother.

"By the way, Loid I heard from the academy that you were chosen to be a participant in the inter-class tournament." Suddenly my father talked about the tournament.

"Where did you hear that?" My toot.

"From my childhood friend, I think he was one of the teachers at the water academy. I rarely met him because he was always busy with his research. But I accidentally met him." My father replied with a little pleasure.

"I think he's a good friend." My reply.

And our conversation continued until the next day. As usual, we gathered in the field after school. The three of them practiced continuously by controlling their magic until they could freely move magic. However it still could not be considered a powerful magic.

Then a brilliant idea, which was to train them an advanced elemental magic. I can teach Molda how to use the ice element, then Shasa the lightning element, and Arez an iron element, but just in case, I think teach other elements such as the plant element, the lava element, and so on, and the element of gravity.

"Molda, there's something I need to tell you." Call me when Molda is controlling the water magic.

"What's up?" Ask Molda.

"Do you want to practice other elements besides water?" I asked to make sure.

"Another element besides water? What do you mean I have to practice fire, wind, and earth magic?" Said Molda in confusion.

"I mean, do you want to practice the advanced elements after the water element?" Ask again.

"Then, I'll ask how knowledgeable you are about advanced elements. So what are the advanced elements of the water element?" I asked him to ascertain his knowledge.

"Only...Ice Element? I guess" Reply Molda with a little less confidence.

"There are many advanced elements after the water element, for example the Ice Element, Plants, Steam, Blood, and so on. For example, I'll practice the ice element first." Evidently

"Ice, Freeze Everything, With Cold Ice, [Ice Area]" Rapalku.

Right after, the surroundings instantly froze and formed a sharp ice around me. However the magic was only Rank E ice magic, so the effect was not too powerful to use to attack. But this is enough to prove my ability to Molda.

"W-can I do that too!?" Asked Molda who was immediately excited.

"Of course, I can teach you with the others." My reply.

And after that, I explained how to use the ice element to Molda in length and width. Although in the end it took a lot of time until He fully understood and managed to use the ice element. So I decided to teach him some ice magic spells I knew.

Then I taught the others also about advanced elements. Starting from Shasa, I taught him lightning magic first before teaching him another magic. And how surprising it was to find out that Shasa quickly understood the concept of the lightning element. So that made it perfectly suited to lightning element magic.

But unlike Arez who recently started training. He still needed to learn his earth magic efficiently, but I still taught him iron magic as well to save practice time. And in a few days, exactly two days before the tournament.

"I congratulate you all for mastering advanced element magic. Although not at the same level as basic elemental magic, but at least this was enough for the game the day after." I said.

"Because you have trained hard, rest today and rest tomorrow." My welcome.

"Why should we rest? We can continue the training to get stronger." Reply Molda.

"Resting before the game is the best thing, right? Save your energy, then show your training results to the maximum on match day." My reply.

And then everyone agreed with me and decided to have fun for the whole day. But I decided to visit Yuna to help with her research on the elements. He invited me to work together a month ago, and I was only asked to come every week.

"So you have arrived. I've prepared a lot of theories that will be tested. Are you ready?" Yuna.

His room was so messy and filled with piles of paper containing various theories that He wrote. I was asked to test the theory of the spells he made by using different types of elements combined to form an extraordinary magic. Even so, all the theories he made always ended in failure.

But still, Yuna never gave up on finding the right theory even though I didn't know what she really wanted until she never gave up on it. But one thing is for sure, this theory has a lot to do with the theories I made in the past. That is, how to talk to spirits or spirits.

Spirits are the first creatures to use the element as their power. In this world there are four elements, namely Undine as a water spirit, Sylph as a wind spirit, Salamander as a fire spirit, and Gnome as a land spirit. The four spirits are the most famous among humans and are the contracted spirits of the four heroes of the past.

But they are only spirits, there is still a Queen Spirits that they do not know, and only I know. In the spirit world, there are estimated to be five Queen Spirits. Spirits are divided into three levels, Upper Spirits, Middle Spirits, and Lower Spirits.

However, the current one who managed to make a contract with the Upper Spirits were only the four heroes in the past. And though I am the one who made that theory, though I have only perfected it. I never made a contract with any spirit.

The reason is very simple, which is so that I can borrow the power from spirits of different elements. Because a witch can only borrow spirit power from her contracted spirit. But for the magician who does not have any contract then the magician can borrow the power of other spirits. But I was a little curious as to why Yuna wanted to try the theory.

"I'm a little curious, why are you doing research like this?" My toot.

"Did you know? Each descendant of the hero is obliged to make a contract with his own spirit. But the spirit contract ended in the era of my great-grandfather. The reason for that was that the current spirit summoning spell had completely vanished. We can't do duplicates of the spell scrolls because the spells written are so complicated that we don't understand them. Right now I only have a few fragments from the spell alone. But from the theory I heard, spirit summoning spells require four elements to be able to summon a particular spirit." Obviously Yuna.

I did not expect that the World had forgotten the spirit magic summoning spell. And moreover, the theory about spirits had also been very chaotic. Spirit summoning spells are part of the Non-Element. And it is likely that Yuna thought that needing the four elements to summon a spirit was a misunderstanding.

But I feel that the world now no longer needs to be involved with the spirit because now the world is very peaceful. For the spirits, they no longer need to interfere in world affairs unless it harms the spirits, for example the threat from the demon lord. The demon lord I have defeated in the past so now there can be no more such thing as a demon lord.

Afterwards, Yuna asked me to use my magic on a large piece of paper that filled one room with a slightly long spell on it. The ink he used also came from a magical squid monster that contained a lot of magic energy and could be used easily.

I activated my magic by placing both of my palms on the paper and immerse them with magic energy. Then the magic energy gathered in the center of the paper with four different colors and reflected the colors of the elements.

In the middle then formed a white light that increasingly enlarged until the size almost filled one room. And in how many fractions of a second that white light instantly shrank like the size of a marble.

"THEN!!" and instantly, his magic suffered instability that made him explode with a powerful force to make one room into dust.

And luckily, I had anticipated this incident by setting up protectors all over my body and Yuna. Because of that all the theories he created have now disappeared along with the rest of the room. But it did not make Yuna look disappointed, instead she looked like she was very happy.

"It seems like there's nothing else I can do right now." My speech.

"Thank you for helping out today. I'll look forward to the tournament the day after tomorrow. I hope you can win it." Reply Yuna.

"Of course, we've trained a lot to be champions. But I also don't understand why everyone is after the stars in the academy."

"Oh yeah? I thought you knew it. I will briefly explain about the star of the academy. The star here aims to measure how accomplished the student is.. But lately many people think that stars can get fame, even if it's true." Evidently

"Not only that, if you reach a certain number of stars, students will get a special degree. There are five types of titles in the academy, namely Bronze, Silver, Gold, Platinum, and Diamond. But students who achieve the Diamond degree are just one person in history. Twenty years ago, he was the strongest magic user of the four elements of his time. Yeah, I don't think I need to tell you that because eventually you'll find out, too." Reciprocity.

"Then, there are also class stars that are useful to determine how good the class is. But the most important thing is that there are many facilities in the academy that should not be entered by just anyone except getting a class star. For example, the academy library. But not only that, every year will be held a festival and at that time also the class star measurement will be held."

"What would happen if you got the highest grade star?" My toot.

"The class that gets the highest stars will be the best class and will go into history as the best class. Last year that won the most stars was the fire class of the sixth school year. And I forgot to explain that every year the star class will be reset to zero. But the right to enter certain rooms or facilities is not eliminated if you have obtained these rights. Yeah, I guess that's all I need to explain to you. I also just remembered having a job to do."

Afterwards Yuna left her research room which had become dust. I cleaned the dust in the room with [Clean] magic and left the room.

{Day Inter-Class} Match

I stood before the three of them, Molda, Shasa, and Arez. Then the atmosphere became quieter until I started the conversation.

"Do you still remember about last week's training?" Much

"Of course, we are very prepared for today" Molda replied

"Well, let's win this tournament and get the stars of its class!" My speech.

"YES!" Answer them spontaneously.

And then, all of us instantly rushed into the arena surrounded by thousands of academy spectators. This tournament was only a fight between classes, but everything looked so excited.

Arc 1: End