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Aquarina always changes when she goes serious, and I had the chance to see her training with her father several times. I don’t really want to steal her time with her father, so I have not been able to find the time to ask Shade to teach me his assassination techniques and dagger techniques either.
And I also feel like my father got some sort of rivalry with Shade where they are competing for who teaches the most techniques to their daughters… which worries me a bit, but I have to bear with it as I move forward, I cannot really concentrate into it all the time, right? Yeah…
I wouldn’t mind losing against Aquarina, but that seems hard to do and even without putting effort, infinite mana really makes me a cheater in this competition, because I don’t exhaust my mana as fast as Aquarina and can use it constantly with my techniques and magic and combine all sorts of spells with techniques swiftly with the power of Mana Usage.
Meanwhile, Aquarina has a limited mana pool, it regenerates super-fast because she had been using and practicing magic since she was a kid so she had slowly increased its quantity… but she still cannot compare to her parents’ mana capacity, so she gets tired, eventually.
Nonetheless, I am all for her surpassing me, even less things I have to worry if she becomes that strong, so I am sparring with her every day too, to see how she slowly progresses, she likes to spar with me a lot, although she dislikes doing it with Zack because she says he’s “a muscle-brained brute”… She still doesn’t like him as much, but she had certainly slowly began to accept him more.
Anyways, my Aquarina is the best anyways, she’s growing so strong, it makes me proud, it is like seeing my little sister growing stronger over time. I care a lot about her, so I am always secretly watching over as she trains harshly with her father. She sometimes likes me to see her training and it is very cute when she waves her little hand at me to give her attention.
Her spirit, Undine, has been training through the same regime as mine, this regime actually came from my mother, she makes her spirits exhaust themselves to near death by training every day when she’s not doing anything else, so she said that we must train non-corporeal beings by merely making them conjure all sorts of spells constantly.
She said that: “Magic for spirits is like muscles for us, the more they train it, the stronger they become, but if they neglect it for some time, their magic begins to weaken once more, so you must make sure to make them train every day, conjuring random spells works the best, it also might awaken new spells within them, this is how my spells became so strong, I’ve been making them do this for all age…”
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Imaging these spirits training for over 600 years is really frightening to think about, my mother is really like a tyrant to them, I bet they are so scared of her that this is why they treat her so respectfully… At this point her pact with them doesn’t look like a pact but more like slavery!
A-Anyways, moving on, Undine had been training hard, and as Aquarina’s best friend after me, she always watches over her and is like a sister to her too, I’ve discovered that she sometimes begins to talk alone, but it is because Undine is speaking to her through telepathy.
Undine is now able to embody the tridents of Aquarina way better, and might even conjure them as spells now… We’ll have to see more of that though.
And moving on, she now has a second spirit in Leviathan, the small sea serpent dragon-like ice spirit, he’s still an infant and a few days won’t make it the best yet, he’s slowly getting better at ice magic, but its going to take more than half a week for him to become stronger, but for now, Aquarina can now conjure small icicle spears to shoot at enemies, which seem pretty fragile, so strong enough foes might just resist them easily. Nonetheless, over time, she’ll get better and better and might be able to do more crazy stuff like freeze a foe into an ice statue or something cooler.
Moving on to Zack… well, that boy has been spoiled, isn’t he? Now Nepheline and Nin are teaching him stuff, and he’s getting better and better at the axe. His body type is more “compatible” with Nepheline’s techniques, so she’s teaching them to him by muddying them a bit, she’s good at using an axe and a hammer so she’s the best for the job. His wind spirit is developing a bit more, and his ability to unleash electricity from his body is becoming a bit better over time, but I don’t know if he can use the axe to unleash the true power of wind and thunder yet, although I am looking forward to that eventually.
And lastly, me! Well, I already said what I did over this week, but I didn’t included by training of the Agriculture Skill! Now that it can level up and gain proficiency by repeatedly using the Skill, I have been doing it behind the scenes to not bring any unwanted attention, and I have gained a nice amount of proficiency over time, enhancing the level of the Skill up to Level 5 in just these few days, amazing, isn’t it?
Each level slightly enhanced the Skill’s powers and speed of conjuration of the ability, it overall makes the effects stronger, so I can control plants better and do more things with them, like make them stretch and then reduce size, and I might be able to make plant monsters last longer now when I create them out of their seeds directly into plant monsters.
Although it is taking its time, Alice said that if it reaches Level 10, something special might happen, so I am looking forward to that!
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