“Boom… boom… boom…”
A series of explosions ran continuously as the spell arrows released by Mohini bombarded the pond water.
“H-How did you do it?” Kt questioned in a weak tone while staring at the pond water, which rose to the height of hundreds of meters.
“List carefully, I will say this once. First of all, you don’t need to spell your arrows before releasing them. You can do that in the middle, after releasing the arrow.
The second thing is that you are practicing a bow-like physical thing. You don’t need to draw the bow string every time you release an arrow. Just a small tweak is ough. Like a Tanbur (guitar in the modern sse) string, you just need to vibrate the bow string to release the arrow.
The third and most important is, you won’t get any combat sse if you practice with static targets. During combat, your emy will move like a snake, evading all your arrows. You need to develop a sse of anticipation to figure out your emy’s movemt and strike them on point.”
Mohini gave a long lecture while staring at the horizon. She found it a little difficult to focus on her words while staring into Kt’s eyes from a close distance.
But Kt is listing to her every word like God’s scripture. He never expected this ordinary-looking old lady to know so much about archery. What she said is pretty basic and instantly improves Kt’s mastery of the bow.
“Who is this old lady? She seems to know about archery. I must use this chance to train properly. If not for her, I would still be thinking that my two spells were ough to win the tournamt.” Kt muttered before taking back the bow from her hands.
“Madam, thank you for your guidance. Now, I understand how I’m practicing this bow like a layman. If you don’t mind, I also have another small doubt.” Kt paused, waiting for the old woman’s response.
“What is it?” Mohini responded with a proud look.
“Why is mastering defse arrow spells easy compared to attacking ones? While my proficicy in defse arrow spells surpassed %, my fire-based attack spells didn’t ev reach 30%.” Kt asked while staring at one side of Mohini’s face, who is staring into the horizon, with a nonchalant attitude.
Mohini smirked with an ignorant look after hearing his doubt. “Boy, you definitely need to hire an elder for guidance. Your doubt is very basic, and almost everyone knows the answer to it. But as a kind woman, I will answer your doubt. List carefully.”
Mohini adjusted her throat before speaking, and Kt curiously stared at the old lady, wondering about her backg.
“It’s not about defse or attacking spells. Any spell linked to any of the sev elemts (i.e., fire, earth, water, air, ergy, time, and space) can’t be mastered beyond 33%. You need to master the elemts to increase the spell proficicy of that particular elemt.
Suppose that if you start mastering a fire elemt, your fire spell proficicy will increase. Usually, people start mastering elemts after the elder maga stage. With normal talt, one can only master one elemt, and it also depds on your affinity for the elemt.
Till now, only one magus has be able to master five elemts, which is the highest by any person. If you start asking questions, it won’t d for days. You will know all about mastering elemts after reaching greater heights. For now, conctrate on raising your level and mastery of the bow.”
Mohini finished her explanation with a long sigh. She knows that the information she shared is a lot to understand for Kt. But it is pretty basic, and Kt will evtually know wh the time comes.
Kt stood dazedly, thinking deeply. Mohini pushed him a bit with her staff and brought him back to reality.
“Stop wasting time on unnecessary things and focus on what is in your hands. If you want to learn to fight a real emy, try hitting an arrow on my pig.” Mohini said it with a smug look and walked back to the large boulder to sit on it.
Lambu, who was listing to their conversation, complained with a loud noise. But Mohini ignored his complaining and closed her eyes in meditation.
Adjusting his focus, Kt drew the bow string and began practicing the bow like Mohini said. He tried releasing the arrow first and applying a spell to it. It took some time for him to master the timing of release and spell casting.
But what surprised Kt is that he failed to hit the pig, and it is easily evading his attacks. “What happed to my aim? I ev hit the moving targets inside the combat rooms.” Kt muttered, focusing on the pig’s movemt, and began anticipating its next move to hit the pig.
“Whoosh… whoosh… whoosh…”
Kt soon found the rhythm and began releasing the arrows continuously, like Mohini described. Ev though he is still not matching her speed, the casting time has be reduced to half an instance ( second), and the bow string is vibrating on his fingers like a music string.
“Not bad… He learned faster than I expected. I need to find more excuses to help him master the bow. At least it’s not boring now, and I can watch him closely.” Mohini muttered while observing Kt from the back.
Lambu, who evaded Kt’s arrows easily at the start, began gasping for air as Kt increased the onslaught. Also, his skinny paws were not helping him to move his fat body easily.
Kt’s determination grew with each second to smash the pig, which is making laughing sounds while taunting him.
While Kt is practicing diligtly in the small crow forest, Black Belle Miss got ready to travel to the capital city, i.e., Gold Bamboo City, to meet her aunt, who practiced the same forbidd yang essce technique.
On the other hand, Lucy is spding more time in the pet store, anticipating to meet Kt again.
Meanwhile, the brother of fire Kirin, who is an evolved beast, reached halfway to the silver leaf city to take away his sister from Kt.
*[Energy is a separate nature elemt in this Magus world, and there is an interesting acceptance of ergy spells, which will be explained in future chapters.]
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TQ