Lady Boss Of The Unpopular Dungeon

Rune began Alexa's combat lesson by first teaching her to sense magic in order to get her fully adjusted to using magic. "Okay Boss, now what you need to first is mimic what you did when you inherited the legacy of the founder of Astral Descent which was channeling your magic except this time, I want you to channel it throughout your body."

Alexa Followed Rune's instructions and she closed her eyes and began focusing on circulating her magic power all throughout her body and when she finally opened them, there was a pale shimmering magenta aura around her body. Alexa then opened her eyes and gazed at the the light that was surrounding her body. The light lasted for a full minute but it soon faded away and disappeared.

Suddenly she heard the Dungeon System make a sound that she assumed to be an alert. She pulled out the enchanted mirror from the pocket in her leggings again and tapped it to check out what was going on. The Dungeon System stated "Congratulations, you have become a rank one mage, therefor you have unlocked two combat spells. They are Crystal Barrier and and Aura Blaze."

Alexa smiled at the news and she then turned to Rune who was looking at her with a satisfied grin while asking "So how do I use these spells?"

Rune quickly began explaining the basics of combat magic to Alexa. "Boss, until you become a rank seven mage, when you want to use a spell, you visualize the spell in action and then you call out the name of the spell to activate its power."

Alexa nodded in response to Rune's explanation and quickly grasped the concepts and then she voiced a question "Hey Rune, how do I level up from being a rank one mage?" Rune gave Alexa a small grin and he quickly answered her "That's simple, you use a magic gathering technique to acc.u.mulate magical energy in order to enhance and refine your own power. That's how you level up and lucky for you, I just happen to have such a technique that Momma taught me."

Alexa thanked Rune and they soon agreed to first try out the magic gathering technique so that Alexa could strengthen her power anytime she wished and then Rune would train her in practicing her combat spells so that she could defend herself. As soon as they had set out a training schedule, Rune and Alexa immediately got to work.

"Now in order to level up, you need to start taking a deep breath while circulating your magical power, it's simple but it is very effective. That's the technique known as Mystic Breath, it's not very well known to any creature aside from demons or high monsters but it's a super simple technique that easy to learn and comprehend"

Alexa nodded and she sat down and she began to circulate her magical energy throughout her body like she had done earlier and soon she had a faint shimmering magenta glow surrounding her body like before except she began to try out the magic gathering technique that Rune had explained to her earlier. She took a deep breath of air and held it while she counted to three in her mind and for a very brief moment, the pale magenta aura surrounding her body quickly fluctuated and glowed a lot bright before returning to it's original color. Alexa repeated her actions a few more times and each time the aura surrounding her would glow brighter each time.

After Alexa repeated her actions for the twelfth time, she decided to take a break and she began to ask Rune if she had done the technique correctly. Rune quickly answered "Boss, you're doing better than I thought, It took me two hours to learn how to do Mystic Breath right but you nailed it on the first try!" Alexa felt happy at earning Rune's praise and at the fact that she was easily getting the hang of learning to use her magic but the moment was quickly spoiled by Rune's next comment.

"You're probably excelling because you're lucky to have me as a teacher."

Alexa's jaw dropped and she began to glare at Rune and sharply retorted "Careful Rune or your giant ego will screw you over in the long run." Rune then took a break from being arrogant and he began to glare at Alexa with his bright green eyes and he replied with the most obnoxious word ever created. "Whatever."

After their glaring party was over, Rune and Alexa went back to training with Alexa continuing to train her magic gathering skill for an hour and a half. When she was done, the dungeon mistress was thrilled to discover that she had leveled up from a rank one mage to halfway to rank three.

After a few seconds of celebrating, Rune and Alexa began to practice her attack and defense spells within the magic circle in the training room. With Rune's instruction, Alexa began practicing her defense spell first which was known as Crystal Barrier. It took her a few attempts but she eventually managed to use the spell correctly which created a pale colored crystalline barrier similar to quartz that could shield her from various attacks around her as long as she stayed focused. After another few successful uses of the spell, Alexa and Rune spent an hour of having Alexa use Crystal Barrier while having Rune aim attacks at her in order to help develop smart battle instincts.

Eventually the pair switched to practicing Alexa's attack spell which was call Aura Blaze. Alexa managed to get this spell right from the start and what started out as practice quickly devolved into Alexa trying to hit Rune at least once with a glowing pink sphere of light but the fuzzy black carbuncle would leap and dodge Alexa's attacks in the nick of time. This went on for a long while until both dungeon mistress and monster were lying on the cold stone floor exhausted by each other's antics.

Suddenly Una came into the training room with some news for the two.