A Magical Tale: The Peerless Summoner

Swoosh!

Helena smoothly executed the back handspring. And this time, she did it very fast.

When she went back to her standing position, she couldn't help but be shocked again.

"Is it right for me to easily get this move at my first time?" She asked in a bemused tone.

'Awesome!' Helena then cried out inwardly in the next moment with frothing excitement in her heart.

Then she tried to do as many as possible.

Executing the back handspring in the same spot, she did it more than ten times.

Then she came to a stop with the excitement in her heart becoming more intense.

And since she had gained a lot of confidence from doing just the back handspring, she proceeded to do the back flip that she also saw the girls do.

Swinging her arms backwards and then throwing her body into the air, her body suddenly turned in the air due to the backward force generated by her powerfully swung hands before landing back to the ground.

Helena had also smoothly executed the back flip.

When she landed, the excitement roiling in her heart began to overflow.

"I am surely going to watch and learn everything that those girls would do anytime I go the training field again" Helena said in an exceedingly glad tone.

"And when instructor Deylina comes to teach me and I execute these stunning aerial moves, she would be greatly surprised." Helena said and imagined the heavily surprised expression that would appear in Deylina's face when she executes the acrobatic flips that she just mastered.

Then she continued to do them so she could master them. And as she did them, she fluidly switched from the back handspring to the back flip and again to the back handspring.

She was rapidly mastering the moves.

After sometime, she stopped so she could have some strength left for the basic defense and attack training that she would learn from Deylina when she arrives at the training field.

Then when she stopped, she sat in the cross-legged position in her bed to begin to comprehend the thousands of incomplete spells that she branded to her memory sometime in the past so she could complete them and make them unique for only herself. They would become her plethoric signature moves.

A few hours later after being immersed in a deep comprehension state and achieving only a small amount of success in understanding some of the incomplete magical spells and how to complete them, she suddenly heard a voice in her head which jolted her awake from the apprehension state that she had entered.

"Helena, come to the training ground now"

When Helena's eyes snapped open, she said "Deylina is already at the training ground."

Then she abruptly stood up from her cross-legged position in her bed and rushed down to leave her room and to the training ground.

Immediately she got there, Deylina who had been waiting with two long, smooth wooden poles in her hands unexpectedly threw one of them at Helena with her powerful strength.

Helena caught the pole and arrived before Deylina.

"Good evening, ma'am" Helena greeted.

Deylina didn't respond.

Instead, she raised the wooden pole in her hand and then brought it down with a decent amount of force to strike Helena with it.

Helena's eyes widened in shock upon noticing Deylina's action, then with her mind rapidly replaying in her memory all that she observed from the girls fighting in the morning, she held the pole at both ends with her two palms and raised it over her head to block the incoming downward strike.

Bang!

Helena's hands trembled in shock from the strong hit and then staggered backwards in the next second due to the amount of force that moved to her body from the pole that she grasped with both hands. 

However, she had successfully blocked Deylina's strike. 

Then when she regained her body's stability at a distance of five feet from where she previously stood, Deylina suddenly appeared before her with a single step and then horizontally swung the pole grasped with her two hands towards her with a tolerable amount of force.

Helena's eyes instantly narrowed from the horizontal pole attack strike that Deylina had suddenly sent towards her without any warning.

Then without knowing how to block the move, and without thinking of the kind of technique that she wanted to utilize, she abruptly forced her body to horizontally spin multiple times in the air, aerially evading the horizontal pole attack that Deylina sent at her.

She then landed back to the ground with one knee against the floor and then looked up at Deylina who suddenly had shock fill the bottomless abyss of her black eyes.

"Helena, how were you able to do that? That evasive horizontal spinning move that you just executed?" Deylina asked.

"I don't know, Ma'am. I just executed it without thinking and I successfully did it." Helena said in a slightly surprised tone.

"Hmm. I guess your powerful mind must have picked up many of the things that you were observing earlier in the day. That's good for you, Helena. You have awakened another marveling ability - A copying ability" Deylina said.

While Helena who now understood that it was just an ability that she had awakened, nodded her head with a radiant, delighted smile in her face.

"Let's resume our training." Deylina unexpectedly said.

Then she said further in a roar "Don't try to keep blocking! You would be disadvantaged. Block and unleash your attack! Always cease the initiative to attack!"

And as soon as she bellowed these words, she raised the pole grasped by two hands over her head once again and then swung it downwards with some force at Helena.

Whoosh!

Cutting through the air like a sword towards Helena and at a high speed, Helena who had kept herself ready for Deylina' sudden strikes, instantly recalled a basic attacking move that she learnt from the girls earlier in the day.

Then she spun on the balls of her feet away from the downward swinging pole strike. And as soon as she did so, successfully evading the attack, she abruptly sent out hers without hesitation by swinging her pole with all the strength that she could muster towards Deylina's legs.

However, Deylina evaded her attack by doing a back flip. And when she landed to the ground, she appeared before Helena with a single step from many feet away and then executed a backward sweeping kick to shove Helena onto the ground.

Bang!

Helena landed with a heavy thud on the ground with her back.

Deylina then appeared before Helena and pointed her pole in her face, while Helena instantly surrendered by releasing her grasp on her pole.

"Good fight you put up a moment ago, Helena. You have really learnt a lot today by observing those girls with your powerful copying ability." Deylina said.

Then she stretched out hand to pull Helena back to her feet.

"I guess I don't need to teach you much again. You can learn on your own now" Deylina said with a smile.

"What? No ma'am. How do I learn those advanced offensive and defensive moves like the ones you executed a few moments ago?" Helena retorted and questioned.

Haha!

Deylina laughed.

"I know. I was only joking. That's my duty. I am going to teach you everything, Helena" Deylina said while Helena smiled.

"Alright. Let's practice." Deylina said.

Then she spoke further "Make sure to perfectly adopt every attacking and defensive position that I would take"

"Very well understood, ma'am" Helena said.

"Good" Deylina uttered.

Then she began to teach Helena many basic attacking and defensive moves. And since Helena had a powerful mind which could easily copy all that she sees and fluidly and smoothly reproduce them, she was able to learn all that Deylina taught her.

After a few hours of training and practice, Deylina left Helena alone at the training ground and then walked back to her residence to rest for the evening. While Helena remained behind to continue to train. She wanted to really sharpen all the sets of basic skills that she had learnt from Deylina. She wanted to be able to quickly and smoothly switch from one move or technique to another without appearing clumsy or funny.

When she trained for many more hours into the night, in which she also incorporated a few acrobatic moves into her attacking techniques to create a style that was somewhat peculiar to her, she left the training ground and walked back to her room to relax and gain energy for the activities of the next day.

***

Jennifer's room...

"Jennifer, Helena has been really training hard. In just a night, she has gotten to a stage where her hand-to-hand fighting prowess would easily match mine. I don't know how she was able to do it, but I guess it's because of her dedication to it. To be honest, you would have to be more stronger than this if you want to really beat her." Lydia said.

She was the dark robed girl that used her blade to rapidly teleport to whatever distance her solidness-phasing blade was thrown to.

She and the others, Jennifer's faction members, have been keeping tabs on Helena and would report her progress to Jennifer.

"Oh really? Because of some stupid, tiny progression in her combat prowess? Or what made you to really say so?" Jennifer asked with a curious tone in her voice.

"Jennifer, it's because of her combat prowess which is developing at an insane rate. At this speed that her battle prowess is growing, you might not be able to beat her. If only a night and I feel that her fighting prowess would certainly match mine, what about the next two or three months that you would come out of your secluded magical training? Her prowess would have gotten so strong that it would be very difficult for you to take her down like you have imagined." Lydia said.

Hahaha!

Jennifer grinned somewhat evilly.

"All is useless before magic. I am a Spellcaster. Not some hand-to-hand combatant." She said.

Then with an ominous light emitting from her sharp eyes, she said further "Actually, I plan to use all the three months I have for my magical training in seclusion to master a powerful magical spell that would fully ruin and destroy Helena's entire Aetha meridians, turning her into a total cripple who wouldn't be able to cast spells ever again. I would really love to see how she would be able to weave magical spells after that."