Burning Soul

After around 3 hours of intensive training under Milot, Nuae and Naomi were completely exhausted,

“That’s it?

You won’t even last against those sentinels.

Let alone anything stronger.”

Hearing him mock them it got them fired up again

after all

they had pride of their own

Both were Paladins and Nuae was from one of the most infamous killer fraction, and Naomi being trained as a warrior couldn’t simply take this in,

“Argh

Damn you are too quick”

Milot was testing their abilities though only he knew that he was paying full attention to their moves, both of them were quite well trained and were no jokes

‘Damn they are good, if they were any better, I’d be in trouble, the only thing that I Accel too much is speed and skills.’

Milot thought to himself.

“Let’s see how you deal with this,” Nuae said so before charging in, seeing his movements Naomi understood what he was up to without even exchanging any words.

Getting back at him with sheer strength was not an ideal option, though with combinations and hitting his blind spot was the way, it’s not that they didn’t try earlier, it’s just he was too fast to react.

“The same techniques won’t work guys.”

He read their moves yet again, but to his surprise, instead of keeping a distance Naomi jumped towards him closing the distance,

‘Did they figure it?’

Seeing her movement Milot got thinking.

Her actions were a tidy a bit faster and were much cleaner than before.

Unlike before she wasn’t keeping any distance now and was attacking him head-on. While she was dealing with him, Naue jumped in as well making matters difficult for Milot to deal with, though his speed and skills were too much for them to comprehend, speeding up steadily both of them were trying to get better at the nest slash, but to no avail, finally

‘Double slash: An extremely high-speed slash skill allowing the user to hit two slashes with seemingly no latency.’

A simple yet effective technique filled with massive strength shattered both of their balance causing them to fall on the ground.

“Crap!

That wasn’t a simple slash!” Hearing Naomi complain, Milot let out a laugh and replied,

“It’s not always about skill, but how you use it!

It was a simple slash but with other sub-spells like boost, heavy sparring, and heavy grip.

You can stack spells one after another and increase the effects dramatically.”

Hearing him say it sounded easy but it clearly wasn’t, no one was ever trained in a way to use multiple spells in one go, it takes a lot of strain on Mana consumption, also it wears down the stamina, but by his looks nothing of this sort was visible,

‘You say like it’s easy!

What is he, a monster!

Damn you, how much did you train yourself?”

Naue, who was a bit familiar with using such techniques asked him back, making him giggle.

“Okay then, for the next two days

I’ll train you on how you can elevate your Mana efficiency and stacking skills as well.”

Saying this he leaned forward to help them get up, only to be rejected.

…

On the other hand, Dimitri also was about to wrap up his first test in which both Vivian and Catherine failed, though Sylph and Ember managed to pass with more or fewer efforts.

“As promised, now I’ll teach you how to break such spells, and not only that but how to use multiple spells without spending much mana

Did you know you could take advantage of naturally available mana!

There’s a lot of it in the air you breathe,

in the water, you drink,

in the food, you eat,

it’s everywhere, you just need to learn how to control it for your use and you will be good to go!”

Dimitri explained his plans before giving them a helping hand.

‘Damn, we have less time, I need to get stronger, better!

Or he’ll surpass me.

Then he’ll have no reason to keep me around.

No!

No!

I can’t let it happen!’ as Vivian thought to herself, she felt a sudden feeling of helplessness run through her nerves.

“Let’s take a break and continue!”

Dimitri said looking at the exhausted lots, but to his surprise, he got a different reply, “Let’s just keep going, we don’t have time to waste around, do we?”

Vivian, who was still out of breath stood firm and replied, Catherine, followed her as well, looking both pumped up he showed a hint of a smile on his face before continuing.

‘I hope they get to the level you will be training him at

Don’t disappoint me Lumiere!’ Dimitri thought to himself.

The second training session has just begun, for everyone!

It was time they grew stronger, as they had someone waiting at the end of the rope.

Belphegor, who was hiding in the bushes a bit farther from them was clearly getting restless,

“Sweet, sweet,

it makes my blood run faster, heartbeat louder, I can feel my skin crawl over the shackles of bones as I see this beautiful sight!

I can hardly hold my thirst, and so does she!”

He touched his forehead with one hand while holding his dagger on the other hand and licking its edge with his long tongue.

Hearing his thoughts, his acquaintance sank in thoughts,

‘What kind of monster he is?’