293 Growing Stronger Little By Little
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After what had happened with the Blue Demon’s soul, I decided to calm down and listen to Ninhursag’s classes. As always, she started by letting his make Mana flow across our bodies. It was not hard at all to get to that step. And after that, we had to concentrate a little bit to get out the Beast Spirits. Back then, she had to help us getting them out with her magic, but now we can get them out… slowly and barely, but we can.
“ROAR!”
An enormous brown bear with a sharp, spear-like black horn emerged from within Zack’s body, emanating like green and golden light essence, spiraling and spreading out. He was having a hard time concentrating the entirety of his elemental mana into the Beast Spirit, which seemed to be Wind and Lightning Element.
“Nngh… Ugh…” He was groaning while gritting his teeth. Ninhursag walked to his side and checked on his Beast Spirit, quickly finding it had many interesting things.
“Good, good, it is growing bigger I see. I cannot see any other beast spirit by now, it seems you’re making this bear your main for now, Zack?” Wondered Ninhursag.
“Y-Yes…!” Said Zack while resisting the beast’s power.
“The Wind and Lightning Attribute Mana is flowing nicely, but you’re still lacking a lot of manipulation on it, you’re leaking a lot of your Mana…” Said Ninhursag, as she walked to Aquarina’s side.
Aquarina was resisting the same as Zack, if not a little better. The power of the Beast Spirit she had was quite notorious, an enormous sea snake roaring with a furious intent. It was splashing mana as if it were water everywhere and creating a storm around itself.
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“GROOOAARRRR!!!”
“Hmm! It is strong and it seems way more realistic as well, the scales and the details are better than Zack’s Beast Spirit… And your control is also nice…” Said Ninhursag, noticing that Aquarina was lacking something, however.
“But your recipient is still small. Your body can control mana very well but it lacks the physique to sustain the enormous burden of this Beast Spirit, which is way stronger than Zack’s one… Keep practicing and do more physical exercises with your papa, Aquarina.” Said Ninhursag.
“O-Okay!” Said Aquarina. She had a great potential in terms of physique due to being half Amazon, who all have enormously strong bodies. She was a child and she was already pretty strong, but it seems that Zack’s physique was greater, well, he was also a pure Amazon, and a male, so perhaps he was superior to her in terms of physical strength. I am actually the third out of the three of them in terms of physical strength… If I don’t go all out by abusing my Endless Mana through buffing my muscles with various spells to compare to them.
Lastly, Ninhursag walked to my side. Unlike Aquarina and Zack, I was the best already at controlling the Beast Spirit. Although it was enormous and the burden was painful to bear, I was actually managing quite fine by my own. It seems that the immunity to soul pain I had developed through my fights for years against Ignatius inside of my soul scape made it so I was in total control of this pressure and its pain, without letting it stop me from thinking and manipulating the power.
“Amazing job, Sylphy! You’re not letting go of any excess Mana, and the dragon is not going out of control either!” Said Ninhursag. “You’re the one that has improved the most… But you still got a long way to go, you’re still feeling the burden just as much as the rest.”
“Ugh… You’re right.” I sighed.
“Alright, maintain this posture and let your Spirit Beasts for the next twenty minutes… I will help you slowly keep your mana in place.” Ninhursag said. She was incredibly helpful and an amazing teacher despite having never taught magic to anybody before like this.
I think my mother said she was an innate magic teacher and could even work as a magician teacher in the elven kingdom. Polymorph magic and Beast Spirit magic were very rare, so a teacher that specialized in that subject would be appreciated, apparently. Ninhursag had yet to even think about it though, she wasn’t into the life of a teacher and liked to adventure and hunt. Working as a teacher wouldn’t really give her all the freedom she enjoys having on her own.
After we finished classes, Aquarina and Zack were stuck to me praising me a little bit for how much I’ve advanced… I felt a tad bit embarrassed.
“You were amazing, Sylphy! You can already control that powerful dragon you got!” Said Aquarina. “Well, I couldn’t expect anything less from you!” She said while hugging my arm.
“Well you were also quite good at it, Aquarina.” I said. “I don’t really need praises, but you were pretty good, your progress has been great.”
“Hehe… Really? Y-You’re being a bit exaggerated again…” She said.
“Well yeah you were pretty amazing though, Sylphy.” Said Zack. “To tell you the truth I am super jealous, I wish I had the same talent as you! But I’ll make up for it with extra hard work. I have been practicing this same thing every night, so I am going to eventually catch up!”
“Wow, every night?” I asked surprised. “I suppose you’re putting a lot of effort into it, Zack… You should be more careful, you might collapse out of exhaustion… Is Ninhursag okay with this?”
“Yeah she’s helping me out in that!” Said Zack.
“Ah… I guess she was probably the one with the idea to begin with then, isn’t it?” I sighed.
“Well, she said I had to work extra hard to compare with geniuses like you girls.” Said Zack. “As we keep growing you two will keep growing stronger, I can’t fall behind at all… Or it would be too late for me to stay at your side when the time for you to fulfill your duty as a hero finally begins… I cannot allow that to happen.”
“Zack…” I sighed with a smile, as I hugged my two friends tightly, and kissed the two’s forehead.
“I love you two so much! I am so happy to have such good friends!”
“Uwawahh… Sylphy… y-you kissed my forehead…!” Cried Aquarina in embarrassment.
“S-Stop it! C-Cut it out! T-This is embarrassing!” Cried Zack, just as red as Aquarina.
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