章 17: The Power Control Class (2)

– Calmness did not belong to the innate gift. It was more likely belonged to experience and maturity over the years. (Eugene)

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Normally when Angus saw Eugene, Eugene all wore training uniform which consisted of a long-sleeved and pants, so he did not look very different from teacher Fred or male assistants like Ralph, Gerardo. But currently he had just showered, wearing short-sleeved T-shirt and spacious pants, looks both comfortable and youthful.

Angus looked at the half of the solid arm exposed under Eugene's sleeve, then looked at the muscles of his chest and shoulders looming behind the T-shirt, suddenly aware of one thing: The man before him was a male dragon matured. A male dragon matured and powerful.

With his hands clenched a little, Angus became even more convinced of his decision.

Just now lying on the bed in the dorm, he suddenly remembered the night that he held for race for Iris.

At that time, when he was at a loss for what to do to get Iris to fully exploit his sprinting speed, it was this normally lazy-looking normal teacher who gave him the idea of using blindfolded cloth.

Normally Angus did not always seem to care too much about his surroundings, including the group of teachers, however, he still gave them his minimal respect.

"People do not empower unworthy people. So, if a person has a higher position than you, at least he or she must be better than you at some point. You need to respect them." ⬅ Again, this was by Grandma Sienna.

Eugene was a special case.

This person was always very quiet and did not care about things around – It sounded like he and Angus were quite similar. But in fact, who knew him very well would say that: Angus was quiet in a nice way, while Eugene was quiet in an arrogant way.

Angus' willingness to interact with someone depended on that one's attitude, but Eugene's willingness to interact with someone depended on his own feelings.

Angus always used polite attitude to respond those who were nice to him, but Eugene, well, once he did not like you, no matter what goodwill you showed, you would never succeed in making his mouth open, even his close friends - the ones who could communicate normally with him - also often got "bullets" lying in his words.

That was the reason why Fred felt Angus was both similar and different from Eugene!

Eugene's attitude was like that, making Angus somehow had a negative view to him. But after the night race of Iris, from the moment Eugene pointed out something to him, Angus began to quietly observe this teacher more.

And then he discovered: Every time he faced this teacher, he always had a very indescribable feeling.

That was the feeling when facing the strong.

So, he decided to ask this "strong" for help.

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Because Angus only greeted and said nothing more, Eugene guessed this student did not want a short conversation. But he still asked to confirm.

"Need my help?"

"Yes." Angus nodded slightly.

"Come in."

Teacher dormitories were somewhat more spacious than students. Each teacher had a large room, including a living room, a bedroom, a bathroom and toilet.

Eugene sat down on the sofa in the living room, continuing to dry his long hair with the towel. Angus did not rush to talk, he just stood aside and waited.

About five minutes later, Eugene put the towel aside, saying, "Okay, now tell me, what's the matter?"

Angus did not show any unpleasant attitude, directly came to the point: "I want to ask... After practicing with glass sphere, what is the next step for power control?"

Eugene frowned: "Oh, I thought you already know?"

Angus hesitated for a few seconds, then replied: "Yes, I do know... But I feel that my approach seems to be different from the training so I want to... ask for your help."

In the impression of Eugene, this Class Leader had never made such an expression of hesitation or "kind of hard to talk about" like that. Most of the time, he was always calm, confident, and brave.

Suddenly Eugene felt somehow interested, he asked: "How's your method? Show me."

"My method is... To feel the natural energy of the environment, then use our internal energy to turn it into a skill."

Angus said, while his hand was performing the action.

He opened his left hand, the hand moved slightly in a circular motion with very small amplitude, then the air mass on his palm gradually condensed into tiny particles, finally gathered into a small ball of water.

The most important point – There was something below the water ball, like a very pale white border shaped like a cloud, which, if left unnoticed, would not be easily figured out.

Eugene's golden eyes were slightly narrowed: "What about the other skills?"

Angus answered: "For "Water Whip", I can condense water from the air, or take water from a nearby water source. For "Water Wall", I have to take water from the outside environment to be able to perform. And for other higher skills, I have yet to perform them."

"That's not what I meant." Eugene shook his head. He leaned forward, his long and beautiful fingers touched the pale, cloud-shaped border above Angus palm: "I meant this one. According to my observation, this is the key to help you perform the skills."

He leaned backwards, his back on the sofa, looking lazy as usual: "The one who taught you magic, when performing other skills, especially advanced skills, how this shape would be?"

Angus was surprised. Unexpectedly, the teacher figured out everything with just the first look!

But that was also good enough, proving that he asked the right person. When he came here, he was already prepared, so he did not hide: "This is... the seal. Whenever I perform a "magic" skill, I have to draw it."

Eugene was silent.

After a while, the man lifted the corners of his mouth: "Of all the people I've ever known, no one has done it this way."

"In other words, this is not the method of Dragon races. Can you tell me, you learned this from whom?"

Although he did not know exactly which races that Angus came from, Eugene could be sure of one thing: Angus was a dragon, a Dragon human. But why would a Dragon human have such a strange way of power control?

In fact, Eugene was always curious about Angus.

If the fact that he had good physical strength and the ability to control internal power before school age could be explained by his innate gift, then how about his calmness, careful and thorough thinking - compared to his peers?

Calmness did not belong to the innate gift. It was more likely belonged to experience and maturity over the years.

After all, what did this kid go through?

Angus was stunned.

Could it be... The reason why he could not use Fire power well, besides that "incident", was there – he used the wrong method?

"So what is the method of the Dragon race?" Angus was slightly agitated.

Eugene stared at Angus, his usual lazy appearance suddenly disappeared: "You haven't answered my question."

Angus hesitated a little, the struggle cleary shown in the pale blue eyes.

If he told Teacher Eugene about what happened on the Earth, would the teacher think that he was crazy?

More importantly, Grandpa Hubert and other grandparents in the Hills village had carefully warned him on this... Tell the teacher, or not tell?

After a moment of hesitation, Angus took a deep breath, persistently asked: "May I not answer?"

The atmosphere once again fell into silence.

Angus seemed to foresee that, in the next seconds, Eugene would say "No", or "If you don't answer, don't expect me to teach you anything."

But Eugene was just silently looked at Angus for some seconds and then he waved his hand. "Forget it. If you don't wanna say, don't say." His serious appearance flied away with the waves.

"Alright, I'll teach you."

"About your method, it seems that the person who has taught you doesn't possess the ability like the Dragon race."

"That kind of power control, is more likely to be taking the power from an energy source of outside environment. I once read about that method or a similar method from an ancient book. To perform it, we have to grasp the source of "air" around, then perform a spell or seal, which can be a hand seal or a drawn seal like you did, then turn the surrounding energy source into a skill. That's why it's called "magic"."

"With that method, when we need to perform the skill on a large scale, we have to possess either extremely abundant internal power to transform the surrounding environment, or to have a "conductor" from the outside – just like when you took water from the stream to fight against Hawley of Class I."

"But the method of Dragon races is different. The internal power of our body is the only energy source to perform skills."

"Therefore, Dragon race's method is to directly feel the internal power in the body, then practice controlling it and release it into a skill."

"Like this..." Eugene opened his hand, then flame burst on his palm. It was worth mentioning – the pale root of the yellow fire almost originated from the hand skin.

Eugene then regained the flame. Five seconds later, some lightning bolts appeared on his hand.

"Although the two methods lead to the same result, in fact, the implementation mechanism is very different. I don't know why you could do in that way, but I can tell, it would not help you maximize your power."

"Because in the end, you are a Dragonman."

Angus was stunned for some seconds. Then his eyes brightly looked at Eugene.

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