The Master Of Elements

ME 73

Over the next few days, Matthew, Jasper and Ellie were only focused on increasing their strength. They get considerable resources for their training. Ranging from the use of special rooms to speed up their soul energy, to the granting of element crystals.

Every day that Matthew and his two sisters did was forge their soul energy. For now Matthew holds back first learning new elements. The power that he prioritizes.

They are now officially students of the academy. So, they were trying to match the basic standards to become students of the academy. Although they also know that a few weeks will not make their strength increase quickly.

But Matthew is not his name if he does not find a way to "cheat" increasing their power. Matthew found a reproach to hasten the increase in their strength.

Earlier, John said that soul energy, which allows one to use elements, was likened to a large lake, and where the elements were likened to a small lake. The lake is connected to a river.

If one wants to be strong, then he needs to expand, not only the lake, but also the river. That's the theory used here.

But according to Matthew it is not completely right and also not wrong. There's still a more efficient way than that. How about shortening the distance between a small lake and a large lake? So, even though the connecting river is not too wide, but the energy that reaches it is much faster.

In theory, it is indeed very easy, but it is quite difficult to apply. To implement that, Matthew hundreds of times suggested that the distance between a large lake and a small lake was not too far away.

Matthew needs full concentration on this. What Matthew did made Jasper and Ellie stunned. This is because they rarely see Matthew pouring all his concentration into one field.

...

"Phew." Matthew breathed a long breath.

"Are you done with your training Matt?" jasper, who saw Matthew, no longer closed his eyes.

"Yes I'm done. How long have I been training here?"

Since beginning his serious training, Matthew has never been out of his room. His two brothers would always bring food. So, Matthew trained without getting any other distractions.

"You've been doing closed-door exercises for a full dozen days. Grandpa John didn't expect you'd be doing closed-door training when you got to the academy. How's your training going? Is there any progress?” ask Jasper curiously.

Matthew nodded with excitement.

“Yes. I've made progress now. I managed to shorten the distance between the main pocket where the soul energy is located, with where we store the element.”

“Really?”

“True. I managed to do it. You just imagine a large lake containing soul energy in your subconscious world, then ask the elements that exist to form a boat that floats on the lake.”

“In this way, we no longer need to wait for soul energy to be channeled. We will also no longer accept restrictions like before. We can do as many attacks as possible with certain elements as long as our soul energy lake still has its contents.”

“Wow. Have you tried all that? Can it be applied now?” jasper asked excitedly.

Successfully finding the theory is not necessarily successful in doing so in practice. Matthew must be able to practice his theory so that the theory can be learned.

“Let's go to the practice room only. I want to try my new strength.”

The two then went to the training room to test their strength.

“You've finished your closed-door training, Matt?” asked Frank who was currently in front of the training room.

Frank and the other elders had already fought over Matthew. They even went back to arguing afterwards to determine the first lesson Matthew would take. But what they did felt useless.

This is because, Matthew suddenly announced that he would start closed training for an indefinite time. The eldest who had previously argued, could only shut up and let Matthew do his training.

The elders know that Matthew's knowledge is still very minimal regarding the professional world. However, they gave Matthew the opportunity to do what he wanted until the resumption of learning at Andradius Academy.

“Yes mentor. I've finished my closed-door training. Now, I want to check how much my power increases,” replied Matthew.

“Don't expect too much with your training. It's only a ten-day exercise, moreover you don't have a solid foundation yet. If you want to be stronger, me and the other mentors will teach you how. So don't get discouraged,” Frank explained.

According to Frank, this was a good time to get Matthew to follow the training schedule they gave him. There was a possibility that Matthew had become arrogant because he was already considered a genius disciple. Matthew must think he can do it all himself.

“Sure Mentor. After this I will no longer do closed-door training. I'll follow all the directions you set.”

“Then let's now go in. I also want to see your ability Matt.”

The elongated room had an area of thirty square meters. Inside the room was a barrier protecting it from attack. According to John, the barrier can withstand the attack of someone who is at the platinum level.

So, it's perfectly safe for Matthew to try his hand here. Not only that, there was a stone like a monument that served to measure the strength of one's attack. So, when Matthew attacked, he could see the level of his strength. This is one way to determine one's strength.

In this world, determining one's strength was two ways. First, they needed to concentrate themselves on expelling their soul energy into a stone filled with runes. Then the second, is to determine it by looking at the strength of the attack.

But, most of what became the benchmark was the strength of a person judging by the amount of their soul energy. Before, Matthew, Jasper, and Ellie had already checked the amount of their soul energy. The results are very satisfying for children their age.

Matthew's strength was currently at the Iron III level. Jasper and Ellie are in Iron II. Perhaps this was thanks to the training they did during the journey to the Andradius Academy.

Matthew then focuses the elements he has to carry out the attack. This time Matthew would use the fire element in attacking. Matthew used half of the soul energy he had in this attack. He did not dare to use more than that.

Matthew still remembered what kind of threat it would pose if his soul energy ran out. Half is more than enough to do this test.

“Fire ball.”

A ball of fire that was bluish-red color instantly attacked the small monument that was in the room. After that, there was a loud explosion.

Frank who saw all of that opened his eyes wide. I was surprised to see what Matthew did.

“This is impossible. How could you have carried out such a big attack?”

The three people then looked at the small screen in the room. There are the results of the tests Matthew did.

[Iron X attack power]