217 Aquarina’s Beast Spirit
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Aquarina and Zack were growing nervous already, the two saw what I went through and were certainly not desiring to go through the same thing as I did, but Ninhursag was a merciless teacher, despite being so gentle and nice with us, she was really merciless at the times like these, and it really showed what she was truly capable of. I am not saying she’s bad or something, I am actually happy that she’s helping us grow stronger, I’ve always wanted to learn a bit about her powers and even see if I could learn any of them if possible, and now this dream was coming true at long last, of course I was going to get happy because of that! It is common sense. ƒrēewebnoѵёl.cσm
However, I feared for Aquarina and Zack, I don’t know if the two were as accustomed to pain as I was. Yeah, I’ve seen Aquarina training very hard with her father, and he really likes the concept of tough love because he always leaves her in the floor gasping for air when they spar, he’s not as gentle as my father when he fights with his daughter to train her, perhaps it comes with the ruthlessness of an assassin? Although I used to be one and I wouldn’t be so rough with my daughter if I ever had one and she wanted to learn from me…
But perhaps his teachings were rough, whoever taught him all the knows about perhaps treated him just like that, and he just slowly learned to do it this way. But I am nobody to tell someone how to be a parent… It is up to Shade to teach his daughter how to do things, and Aquarina seemed willing to go through such training anyways… I was amazed by how this shy girl had evolved over the years, now she’s more confident on her own strength than ever!
And Zack… Well, he had always a rough life, he lived in the wilderness of the jungle for over two years and since he finally came back to the village that he had been training nonstop by himself, hunting down monsters to feed himself. He had been living a solitary life… But later, he was pretty much adopted by Nepheline and Shade and these recent months he had been training with Nepheline and learning a lot from her. If Shade was ruthless with training, we could say that Nepheline was a demon, because I think she really enjoys beating down the poor little Zack, but he always kept standing back up again and has continued training with her for some time now.
“I’ll do both of you at the same time because you’re easier to handle than Sylphy… I hope.” Said Ninhursag, as she touched the head of the two kids.
“W-Wait, I am not ready yet- AAAAGH!” Zack cried, as he felt the same pain I felt.
“T-This is a bit sudden but- GYAAAAH!” Aquarina cried, as she felt the same pain I did.
Yeah, they’re crying in pain… I don’t like seeing this but there’s no other way. It is funny how many ways to grow stronger all involve extreme pain. I guess this is the price you have to pay for power, excruciating and agonizing pain, not many people is willing to go through so much pain in their lives, some even think they’re not even living yet, some are still processing that they were born. And the three of us… Well, we are kids, so it would be normal to expect that from us as well. But I suppose we are not normal children at all.
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Only after two minutes, Aquarina and Zack were gritting their teeth and enduring the pain while standing up as straight as a tree, they were just as stiff as one as well, but they were bearing with the pain very well, they both surprised me a lot, and I began to admire them a bit more as I saw them putting so much effort into resisting the pain as they were doing now. Aquarina’s Aura resonated with the element of water and ice, both of such elements were the strongest within her physique and magic affinity it seems and resonated with the brightest azure-colored light.
Her aura emerged from her body into an enormous stream of blue light forming into an ocean of water and icy winds entangled together, slowly spiraling with one another until it suddenly formed into something similar to serpent! Yep, it is just as I thought, I had the Red Dragon and Aquarina has the… Sea Serpent.
“A-Ah… Leviathan?!” Asked Ninhursag. “Incredible, just like Sylphy, Aquarina, you ate the preserved meat of that Demon Lord that your parents defeated long ago… I suppose you’re a parallel with Sylphy in this regard, and both of you possess spirit beasts so strong that all the other smaller ones were simply devoured by them and assimilated…”
“GRUOOORR…!”
The giant sea serpent made out of Aquarina’s aura roared angrily as it swam across the air, it seemed to be capable of bringing a whole flood into the world if it really wanted, it looked like a truly frightening creature, but this is what was inside of Aquarina’s physique… I don’t know how much this one relates to Aquarina’s Leviathan Spirit, but that spirit seemed slightly similar to my Ignatius, but also not at the same time…
Whatever’s the case, there was another aura coming as well, a green colored aura with various golden colors, this was Zack’s Aura. It flowed outside of his body as if it were a spiraling tornado, and it was so strong it left me mesmerized, but I don’t really remember any special monster being eaten by Zack, and certainly there’s no way Ninhursag hunted down one like that for him when he was a kid, so what is this essence coming from him?
His physique has always been naturally strong from the very beginning, but this amazing potential within him showing through this Aura is… something way more than just the normal aura a person would have…
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