Chapter 3: Stronger!
Time fly's by as Alec is sleeping waiting for his mother to come get him to go to the library. But Alec couldn't possible sleep with everything on his mind. He soon woke up, just in time to make sure he had everything in order. "I need to find out what to book I need to take out to help me become stronger for the first part of the test." Alec said with a long yawn. Jumping up out of bed Alec starts pacing back an fourth in his room which was a habit from his past life when he was very focused on something. "I need something strong to deal with some dangerous magic." Alec muttered to himself as he is still pacing back and fourth in his room, but suddenly he came to a stop and a big grin appeared on his face. "That's it! Mana ball!"
(Mana ball has 2 secret conditions. One, if a person is able to throw the ball at a speed of 100mph or more the ball will explode on impact doing massive damage in a wide area. Two, the ball can be condensed into a smaller ball the size a golf ball and when thrown at a speed of 100mph it gains a piercing effect that a can break through a low tier Ash level wizards mana shield, which is one level above black level.)
"Mana ball is definitely the best pick at least at my level. Though mana bolt is good. Mana ball is better when the conditions are met. Its power is comparable to Black level spell Fire ball. But my main problem is how will I activate the hidden skills?" Alec wondered to himself. "Ahhhh! That's it Enhance Strength!" Alec yelled with excitement knowing that his knowledge was finally coming in handy. But soon after he remembered that Enhance strength is a knight skill. Not only that but it is a bronzes level knight skill which is one above a regular knight. Right now Alec isn't even a knight yet and he would have to reach bronze rank in 3 months only a genius could have that level of success when it came to training. Normally it takes one year to go from knight to bronze rank. Luckily Alec isn't a regular person anymore. Alec knew what he would have to do to reach bronze rank before the dead line and that is find a old book lost to time called, The First Knights. This book would allow the user to increase ones martial power and knowledge of what Martial power is. Alec knew exactly where he need to go but he would first need to prove himself to be able to leave the town by himself.
"2 months and I will leave to go get the book! If all goes right I will be back 3 days before we will need to leave for the grand magical academy." Alec said with Iron Determination.
"Knock, Knock..." two loud knocks rang from the door. Opening the door his mother asking if he is ready, Alec replying with a nod as they start to walk to the family library. As they are walking Alec ask him mother if the could take a knight book instead of another spell. Alecs mother didn't see why not and nodded giving her approval.
Now everything is in place Alecs heart is resting easy. On the way to the library Alec mother and him enjoyed small talk as they closed in on the library. As there small talk comes to an end they arrive at the big library doors it is a impressive door for a half noble family luckily his mothers reputation was enough for the manor they stay in. His mother started chanting and then the doors started to open. Alec almost forgot his mother placed a spell on the door that would alert her if anyone tried to open it with out using this spell or unless she gave them access. As the two big doors open huge stacks of book on many shelfs all neatly place and in order of rank and name. Alecs mother was looking at her son the whole time to see what his reaction would be but she was surprised again when his face didn't even budge like he seen this many time before and Alec was so focused on getting the books he didn't even notice he face was so stern. Though his focus was broken quickly due to his mother laughing. "Pfffhhhh!" Alec mom let out a huge laugh and Alec was puzzled on why, but his mother quickly told him why. "You just had such a serious face I couldn't ignore it. hahaha. "Oh sorry if I made you worry mother I was just so excited I was focusing to hard." Alec said in a apologetic voice. "No it's alright I'm glad too see you focused and driven." Alec mother said with a smile. "Now you may pick out 2 books to study 1 white tier spell and one knight skill." Alec shook his heads happily and ran off, but not before tell his mom "Thank You!
Now i can get these books what should i do to stall for time. Alec thought about it and he walked around for a few before grabing mana ball and enhance strengeth. As he returened to the entrance he showed his mother what he choose and she was honestly at a lost for word because Alec choose mana ball one of the worst spells they had in the libarary so she was taken aback by this choice. After letting out a sighh she decied to let her son find out the hard way and help him learn to pick more carefully when he had better spells to choose from. Alec smiled when he saw his mothers face because he knew what she was thinking why "Mana Ball?" Alecs choice stunned her enough to the point where she didnt even ask to see what knight skill he had picked up.
She told him to go back to his room and study the books he picked up. Alec happily ran off because he left with more that just 2 books... While alec was just walking around he thought of another book that would be very useful he didnt know when he would be alowed into the libarary again so he had to take the chance. The book Alec thought of was a recovery spell called
("Fatique" this spell can be used at all levels and can help get rid of exhaustion for a 1 hr. The higher you magic power level is the longer you can stay in that state.)
Alec had grabed this book and put it in his shirt. Now usally his mother would easily find out he had taken more than the two books but his mother was in such a shocked state that she forgot to caste a spell to make sure he didnt take more then he was aloud to. This also was another reason Alec got Mana Ball. Mana Ball was a spell used manily by commoners because it was used primarily for enertainment. Mana ball was never considered to be a spell that was anything more than that and his mother knew this which is whhy she was so dumbfounded that Alec choose it. Lucky enough it had the impact he needed to get another spell out if he needed too, Which he did after figuring out he needed to go get The First Knights book. Alec knew alot about this book the fact that the person who descovered it was a Sliver level knight and once he got the book and learned it he jumped one who level and it was said he weilded a special wepon? But Alec did not know much about the wepon only the fact that he jumped a whole level after gaining the books knowledge.
Alec slaming the door shut and locking it, quickly hid (Fatigue) and immeditly started the process of gaining the book Mana ball knowledge which is called Bonding, which is the process one must undergo to gain the spell or knight ability. When bonding accures it test you knowledge and understanding. Depending on how much you understand you will learn the skill. When bonding the words on the book ingrain themselfs on your body and burn into your brain. When one has the best understanding you can get your body will let off a bright glow meaning you have a good understanding of the book. The glows will let off different colors which mean level of understanding the colors ranges are, balck, red, white, purple, gold, and a color that only Alec has ever see which was Grey. These are in order from lowest to highest the higher the uunderstanding the better one can uses the skill. If no glow happens that means you failed to bond and must try again when your undestanding is better.
Well lets get started Alec sits on the floor and crosses he legs with the book a few feet in front of him then he closes his eyes and foucsed his magic power on the book which was completely closed. Once the magic power hit the book it flew open and all the word became like long snakes which wraped around as the book slowly falls to the ground a glow starts to emerge from Alec first a flash purple then gold and finailly grey to anyone seeing this grey color it would look gold Alec never knew why but he would always see gray and then a flood of info pored into Alecs mind as he now knew how to use Mana ball and how to switch the forms at will but it would still take pratice. So he Quickly learned Fatigue and got purple which he was fine with. Now Alec was ready to begin his training.
Opening his window he jumped out and ran into the forest which was very thick and he could practice with no one around so he ran to a old ruin which was 1 to 2 miles from his house and he began to pratice throwing mana ball at a wall Alec casts mana ball and a ball of condenced mana was held firmly in his hands at he cocked his arm back he threw it at the wall one throw after another dent after dent landing on the wall after 100 throws his mana is running low and his arm is hurting just as he was going to run back home a chill went down his spine as he seen a young white wolf running at him at full speed, Alec quickly jumped backward about 10ft and instantly cast Fatigue on himself, Alec felt the tiredness leave his body leaving only adrenaline behined.
Now Alec and the young wolf stare at each other and a chilling smile creeping up on Alecs face. Any other person in Alecs age would be peeing them self but Aleec smiled this even sent a chill down the white wolfs spine. The wolf knew that he had the advantage against Alec but yet he still smiled like he knew he would win this battle which made the white wolf waver for only a second and in that second Alec ran at the white wolf which caught the white wolf off gaurd before the wolf could react in time Alec sent his fist flying at the wolf but the wolf doged by jumping back 15ft. befor ethe wolf could even land and recover it was his by Mana ball whichh was moving very fast but the place it hit was its hind leg which completly broke the wolfs leg eleminating the one advantage that the wolf had. The wolf who was now the one being hunted was confused and now being cornered in a last ditich effort to survive it lunged forward in a attempt to bite Alecs throat
Again Alec smiled and as the wolf who thought he was a esay prey was now desperately try to turn the tides, but it was to late, Bangggg the sound of many bones cracking as a 2 Mana ball flew crashing in the the skull and the side of the young white wolf ending it life.
Alec jumped for joy as he just had his first life or death battle. Tho it did seem one sided the white wolf did scratch Alec on that first attack of his. Alec who wanted to rest couldn't cause he now need to run home to rest for tomorrow. Alecs Fatigue spell was soon about to run out so he would need to hurry. Running home he jumped up to his window and got in his house after taking a shower he saw the scratch on his neck from the white wolf. but paid it no mind he drunk a small healing potion and got ready for bed. After laying them he felt his concisness drift away from him into a slumber luckly for cause Fatigue ran out after he was in his deep sleep.
Alec didn't know yet but he had already become stronger from that fight a young white wolf is no esay kill but he managed to kill it with ease. Alec knew he would need to become stronger. It was just a hunch Alec had but he knew that that wolf was hunting alone for one reason the right of passage, basically become a man or a women in the humans prospective.
As Alec slept the sound of many wolfs cry resounded that night "Aaawwwwooooooooo!!!"
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