Mina stopped in her tracks, hearing him. She turned around and looked at him in disbelief. “Are…Are you sure?” She asked as her voice broke due to astonishment.𝔬𝓥𝐿xt.𝑪𝓞𝓂
“Yes. I’m 100% sure. I know you don’t want to continue sparring because you are afraid to hurt me but rest assured. If anything happens, it’ll be my responsibility, and no one will blame you.” Max said as he clutched his ribs. Fortunately, Mina had gone easy on him, or some of them would definitely be in pieces by now.
“Okay, let’s continue then.” Mina finally gave in, seeing that he was determined to improve himself. But she decided not to be so heavy-handed when hitting him, and she would hold back at the last moment so as not to injure him.
She waved her hand and summoned one earth golem this time. After seeing his performance, she knew that one golem would be enough at the start.
Max stood straight. He stopped clutching his ribs as he endured. “Let’s start again.” He shouted and conjured two fireballs with ten mana points each. This was not a fight to the death; thus, he couldn’t put more mana into them, it was only meant to be a learning experience for him.
Mina controlled the golem to charge at him head-on. Its speed was faster than before. Although Max was still faster with his twenty agility points, he didn’t run-up to the golem and let it come near him.
“Go.”
When the golem was ten feet away from him, He fired two fireballs at its legs as fast as possible.
Mina didn’t seem surprised by it as she simply gave it another command and the golem skillfully dodged the incoming fireballs by moving its body sideways and punched in his direction.
“Fuck.” Max cursed and dodged to his right side and conjured another fireball, but as if the golem knew he would escape that way, the punch changed its direction and punched at him again.
Max didn’t lose his calm and hurled the fireball at the golem’s face. Mina, who was controlling it by standing far away, was startled. This was a simple strategy in a fight, if you can’t dodge the enemy’s attack, then attack him so that he has to defend himself unless receiving an injury for an injury, and Max was doing the same by attacking the golem in the face.
Mina shook her head and commented, “It would be a very wise move if your enemy were someone with intelligence. This golem won’t fear getting an injury, or even if it gets destroyed, I can summon another. So you have to…”
Bang
She stopped talking mid-speech and gaped at the Max, standing behind the golem with a fireball above his hand.
The golem couldn’t hit him as he dodged the punch at the very last second by squatting down, and because Mina thought he was exchanging injury for an Injury couldn’t react in time. The fireball exploded after hitting the head of the golem while Max came behind it.
A one-inch deep crack appeared on the golem’s head, which vanished as soon as it appeared. Max wasn’t too surprised by this as he only used one fireball with ten mana points which couldn’t do much damage to the tough body of the golem.
He conjured another fireball ball, but this time he used fifty mana points. The size of the fireball grew twofold, which was a lot smaller than before when he used it with fifty mana points. It was because of him constantly trying to get more familiar with mana as he poured it into his mana core to strengthen it. The way to strengthen his mana core was simple, but it was helpful to him to get the hang of his mana.
After the first few times, Max realised this and actively tried to understand how can he use it more efficiently, and as a result, he now can compress them, which resulted in even more destructive power. His current fifty mana point fireball is comparable to the previous 70 mana point fireball in destructive power.
“Explode!”
He shouted as he fired it at the back of the golem’s head.
Bang!
With a bang, it exploded simultaneously, destroying more than half of the golem’s head. The golem stopped moving. Mina was surprised at how quickly he thought of a way to destroy it while using the minimal amount of mana.
Her thoughts were interrupted when she saw him dashing toward her at full speed with a fireball hovering above him.
She quickly summoned another golem in front of her, which punched at his head as soon as it appeared. Max, who wanted to strike while the golem was destroyed and she didn’t have time to recover it using her mana, was stunned when he remembered that she could easily summon other golems.
He fired the fireball at the fist of the golem, but he only put ten mana points in it, thinking that more might injure her, so he knew it could only do a negligible amount of damage to the golem and can’t buy him much time. Therefore, he used his agility to the limits and used mana to boost the strength of his legs and jumped to the side.
When he landed to the side, the golem which he had previously destroyed was now standing beside him with open arms and grabbed him.
“Fuck me.” He cursed as he was grabbed by the golem, which restricted his movement.
“It was a nice try. But as you are now, you don’t stand a chance against me.” Mina walked toward him with another golem behind her.
“I can see that with this spell of yours, you’ve made a bit of progress which is commendable considering you didn’t use the skill scroll for the skill fireball.” Mina smiled for the first time in front of him.
Max looked at her slightly smiling face that, for some reason, looked extremely pleasant to the eye, but he quickly snapped out of it and asked, surprised, “You mean there is a skill scroll for my fireball spell? Why didn’t Emily or Anna tell me about it? they must have known about it.” After finishing his sentence, he quickly understood why they didn’t tell him and praised him for his talent.
“Maybe they didn’t know it as neither of them have fire element, which means they shouldn’t have a good understanding of fire skills, or they knew but didn’t want to say it as not to demotivate you after seeing that you could invent a skill with your imagination.” Mina said.
“Hmm, you are right.” Max nodded. He also thought this might be the case. Knowing them, they definitely won’t tell him even if they knew it.