章 8: An Itching Question

Asa was packing her books when she heard Ciobara's question "Nope" she immediately denied she was still mad thinking she had been cheated but

"Sure," Yaseang said with indifference amused wondering why would Ciobara call him on a trip with her friend. Oh, wait her friend denied as he was about to decline Asa interjected

"Eh… Ci O bara… wait, I'm coming too" she immediately changed her stance while looking toward Mr. Saja she blushed once more.

Amused Ciobara shrugged at her friend's antics as she hadn't even taken a single step, a grin made its way to her face.

She took lead leaving the classroom making both Asa and Yaseang walk side by side. As she led them towards the academy city training area.

The training area was large as it consisted of many open arenas, practice zones, and rentable training rooms.

Sounds of "Ha.. Ha.. Ha" while practicing their martial arts and sword arts were heard from the training area they were now close to. It seemed many were training with extreme focus.

They walked past the area of sword and arts training and were now passing the many arenas one of them had even been packed with an audience.

"Two tickets to the match between Senior Renard and Senior Stacia if anyone wants to buy, I cannot go in as I have been called by the professor" A student in red student robes was shouting

"Are we going to watch the tournament?" Yaseang asked in curiosity as he had himself bought a ticket for the competition but, it had totally left his mind and he had now already promised to accompany them.

"No" a straight answer dashed his hopes of being able to do both at the same time.

Passing the arena zone, they reached one of the rooms that could be rented for training these were where you would find most magic students as practicing in groups could be more dangerous than other professions

"I would like to rent one of the facilities" Ciobara offered staff a hundred credits which were converted by the original owner from the gold coins her father had sent the other day.

Gold could only be converted to school credits in a limited amount per month for the first six months in the academy. After those six months, the credits reset. If you hadn't spent a single credit last six months you lose them all.

The academy credits were the only accepted currency after that, you would have to earn them to do everything in the academy. You could say they were the most important currency at the academy.

There was still a week to great reset so the gold was still useful.

The training room was big with many dummies put there with a crystal orb near them so you could adjust the difficulty of damaging them with your spells.

The room was large enough to host twenty people, there was even a kitchen and bathroom if you wanted to seclude yourself while training.

Walking down the stairs till all three of them reached the dummies Ciobara stopped

"Why did you call us here" A panicking and shivering Asa asked as the worst of bullying always starts in a rented training room. Yaseang turned his attention as well due to curiosity.

"There are two reasons for calling you both here, I want to ask you guys a question, two let's define that after we are done with the first one" Ciobara gave a confident but firm smile which for some reason crept Asa even more

"Sure! Go ahead and ask" Yaseang said while he noticed how scared Asa is currently wondering if it was even a good idea for him to be here.

"Have you guys heard of the humanoid monsters who drink blood, and are active at night but are found nowhere during the day", Ciobara inquired, her curiosity reaching its peak.

"Nope! Never heard of blood-sucking undead", Yaseang replied immediately as if it were common sense.

"Umm… No", as she answered, Asa's skin turned paler and she broke down sweating profusely and she fell down

"Asa! calm down I did not bring you here to bully you. but, to help you dear" Ciobara suddenly shifted her attention to Asa. While she was stumped as no one even heard of the vampires. The only place that could have answers now was the library.

That could wait for later as right now, Asa mattered the most.

[Ramus]

She consoled and calmed Asa. While also, casting a mind-calming spell.

With its calming effect and her consoling, she managed to calm down Asa. While Yaseang was feeling awkward at the scene in front of him.

*cough*

"Oh yes, sorry for keeping you waiting Mr. Saja," Ciobara said as she lifted her head and stood up while helping Asa up

Although he still could not figure out why was Asa scared of him. He now had another concern "Can you tell me who is responsible for her fear of training rooms" his cold aura indicated his rage under that calm voice.

"You would only make the situation worse! Believe me, when I say, they will get what's coming for them"

He wanted to shout and inquire more but he thought he might be overstepping his boundaries. But he was still determined to help in any way possible

"Anyways, I've called you both here to help you train in magic" She continued

"I can't believe, you were serious in the café" Asa shouted "No way you're going to say your better than the academy again" she snorted

"Training huh? can you even train me" Arrogance and pride left his tongue while snorted his rage was still there

"Asa I won't say that again but prove it to you" tilting her head towards Yaseang she continued "You must be a master already at your class, right? Why were you studying magic were you trying to check if you could multi-class?"

"How did you know?" all pride suddenly gone replaced by curiosity and eyes that contained stars he asked her

"It does not matter how I know. What matters is that I can help you achieve that but, for that, I would like to know what your class is"

"You know if someone in class asked me the same question, I would have refused but, I will let you guys know that I, Yaseang Saja, am a berserker"

"Now tell me what can you do? There has never been a magic berserker in history?" an evil smirk formed over his face "If you fail to answer I might want to test myself against a genius mage"

"Even if something did not exist before today, who is anyone to say it will never exist? I, Ciobara Vendaul, vow on my friend's crush that I will make your wish come true in under a month"

Asa was still in a state of recovery or she might have blushed again at the teasing vow made by her only friend and was now glaring daggers at her.

"So, you will make me a magic berserker even if it is impossible to do so? Hmm, I like your answer" he said while standing a finger tapping his chin

Ignoring him, Ciobara moved her gaze toward Asa "What do you think will you let me train you?"

"Yes, sure" she nervously replied while her gaze remained sharp as daggers

"Stop staring, will you? I am only trying to help"

"for starters let's abandon performing spells for a week and focus only on our mana control, try making different shapes, or an object. You can imagine and draw anything with it"

"Meanwhile, I'll try my best to recover this week so we can start with the real training," an evil smile that seemed to entrap one got drawn over her face

All three of them sat in a meditative stance and started training