- Zion Water
…Confidently unconfident, huh.
Very well.
My identity is not important to this story, but the other storytellers insisted on bothering me to log this. With my full name.
Sigh.
Anyways, we’re continuing this story.
Thinking back again, Rael didn’t know how did he survive that fight either.
“I can’t really tell. It was one of those moments I’d have those energy rush, and then pass out later…” Rael’s shoulders slumped down, as he recalled that fight. “But now that I think about it, I did worse than before.”
Eating something may liven Rael up a bit. But with that thought, he was down again.
To Aurielle, she didn’t really mind the sudden mood change. As long as Rael had eaten something, she’s ready to proceed with this session. Readying her backpack, Aurielle got up from the bench with a direction set in her eyes. “All right then, I’ve decided on our next move. Follow me.”
Rael followed her sight towards the outside of the town, got up from the bench, and followed her outside of the town. Even after they had entered the forest territory.
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During their walk inside the forest, Aurielle mentioned a task for Rael she’d give upon arriving at their destination. Rael expected to do some slaying. But instead, Aurielle stopped at the clearer part of this forest, with no one else around.
“Now.”
Aurielle backed away from Rael as she’s facing him.
“Bring back whatever you used from the Minotaur’s fight, except for that club. We’ll fight until I say stop, got it?”
“Got it.”
With that said, Aurielle propelled herself towards Rael with her light magic circle chasing behind.
Rael fired away his wood blasts towards her. But as he sent away the first ones, she flung herself to Rael’s side, formed a magic circle in the air, and struck him with gold blasts. He guarded the seconds and the thirds. But not the first.
As Aurielle was beside him, Rael bombarded his magic bursts towards her. The first few blasts scratched her dress, as she dashed away with her light magic. But with almost every evade comes a chase. Rael flung himself towards her with his jump spell, with his blasts fired. Only for them to be shattered by a large blast of gold, straight from Aurielle’s palm.
Upon being hit by Aurielle’s blast too, Rael fell and lied down on the grass, as Aurielle landed. Before Rael could aim his next attack, Aurielle stopped him.
“Wait, wait, wait. Stop. I have a question.”
“Yes?”
Still lying on the grass, warmed by sunlight. Rael dropped down his aiming arm as he turned towards Aurielle. As for Aurielle, she adjusted her skirt and crouched down.
“Out of the curiosity, can you shoot just one single blast? You can try shooting one at that tree,” Aurielle asked as she gestured towards a tree nearby.
“Just one?”
“Mhm.”
Speaking of Rael’s blast spells, he only recalled firing several blasts at once to destroy things. Even the time he unlocked his magic for the first time, he did shoot down his hut in an uncontrollable barrage of blasts too.
“…I’ll try,” Rael replied to Aurielle’s request, as he sat up, and aimed towards the soon-to-be-destroyed tree.
Just one blast, Rael thought, until his palm fired out… Onetwothreefourfive. Five. Five blasts overkilled the tree.
Aurielle was watching there, with her eyes narrowed, along with the hmm sound. As she’s thinking about the next course, Rael had already fired out more blasts at the other unlucky trees, destroying them with wasteful blasts. Even worse, some blasts simply hit the ground.
“Have you tried holding back your spell to charge them? I’m not sure if this will be harder without circles, but I’ll try to explain.”
“Please do.”
“All right. Now, raise your arm to the front. Don’t think about firing anything just yet.”
Both cast their arm towards their front, with Rael following her.
“And now, think about your magic being kept inside your palm, and slowly going down into your arm. Don’t fire any atta-”
As Aurielle started to summon her magic circle, Rael had already set some blasts loose.
With Rael realizing this fatal mistake, he asked her about the magic circle’s usage as he tried keeping his magic energy in his arm again. A few attempts had passed. Before Rael tried out holding out with his fist clenched, to keep this magic energy in his arm. Thanks to Aurielle asking him about his magic energy charging posture.
As Aurielle thought, Rael’s brawn over brains person.
“With this, you’re giving yourself a little more moment to decide on your next move.”
Rael nodded, with a concentrated glare at the tree. That glare can either scream out ‘why didn’t I think about this earlier?’ or ‘I am going to destroy everything with this new knowledge’ to Aurielle. She chuckled as she visualized Rael saying those sentences, before firing out a gold magic blast at the tree.
After learning about this skill, both the student and his mentor tried out a few more tricks they can do with it. Along with yet another spar, and several conversation bits from Aurielle that loosen Rael up.
“One blast, one blast, one blast!”
“Oak!”
“Yeah!”
With Rael’s clean one-shot at the tree, Aurielle cried out a sound of relief, as Rael simply sighed with the same emotion.
“All right, that concludes today’s session. I’ll be checking on my other student at New Alalea later,” Aurielle mentioned, as she grabbed her backpack.
“Other student?”
“Mhm.” Aurielle gestured the student’s height at around her shoulder level, as she chuckled. “Now that I think about it, she’s like your opposite. But in the way that’d make a fun duo, you know?”
Rael nodded as a response, as he glanced at the sun going down into the woods.
“You’re going to New Alalea now?”
“Mhm. I know it’s going to be dark on the way out there, but I’ve got the safe route! You can go back to the tailor I was talking to earlier, either she or her brother will provide you some shelter for the night.”
“But…”
“Hmm?”
- “Can I come to New Alalea with you?”
- “Nevermind, I’ll just stay at Riverville.”
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