Jim's message said we will leave in four days, in this time, I've solely decided to train on my ability, after freshen up and eating, I leave for the training.
"Let's start! Ashlynn," I said, as I started to summon the swirling fireball.
"Chew chew.." Ashlyn cried out enthusiastically and the fire started to materialized in front of her beak.
"Puff!" the fireball in my hand puffed as it was gaining traction, I didn't feel dejected looking at the puffed fireball.
I knew that yesterdays attempt in successfully summoning fireball was a fluke but because of that I understood the process and it will take just little more time.
"Boom!" Ashlyn threw a successfully formed fireball, it is also fist size but it packed the punch of palm size fireball and it also hit the off-target just like mine.
"Chew chew.." Ashlyn gave happy chirp as she successfully formed the swirling fireballs. "Very good, Ashlyn," I said as I petted her head.
I also keep trying to successfully form the swirling fireball, it didn't take long as I thought, after one and half hour of constantly trying, I formed my second successful fireball.
And within four hours I perfectly got hang of it without failing once just like Ashlyn, now what I have to do is work on it's summoning time and my aim.
It takes sixteen seconds to successful form but it is not enough if it takes that much time in the fight, my opponent will kill me two times over.
Because the fireball is swirling, it will change in trajectory little in the air and if the target is far it will miss the target altogether, just like it did with mine and Ashlyn fireballs.
We both started to work on the two weakness trying a different approach on the fireball, I started to modify a technique which suits me.
Most of them unsurprisingly failed but one did work and it helps me to lessen the time by two seconds.
Every time you practice something for enough time, you start to develop the rhythm of your own which is suits you most.
Ashlyn had tried to swirl the palm size fireball but it puffed as soon as she summoned, I have not tried because I know, to swirl the fireball need more mental energy than fist size fireball.
"Ashlyn, do the normal fireballs," I said to her, seeing trying will be worthless, first she did not listen to me but after repeated failures, she again started on the normal fireballs.
I practice till evening, by the time I finished for the day, I already brought down the timing of summoning a fireball to the twelve seconds and my aim is also improved as well.
The repeated training with my ability has also improved my control with the ability, it's lethalness has improved 5% to 7% and mana consumption has come down to 10%.
If I continue practicing, it will help me a lot now and in the future, I have read that those have extreme control over their abilities, they can make their abilities transformed into fine threads and needles.
Time passes on and it is already forth day, tomorrow I will go outside with him. so, today I decided to fight Android, I will not use a sword just my ability and Ashlyn will also fight with me.
I chose android, it is in monster form and looked similar to hog species monster. I chose its combat level at Lv.1 Specialist.
If I were using my sword it would be easy for me to defeat it but with using ability it is hard to say, I will find out when I attack it.
"Grunt!" I commanded the start of the fight, "Grunt!" it grunted like real hog monster and come to attack me as Ashlyn is in the air.
I started to summon fireball as it comes toward me, it comes closer to as I was summoning the fireball but I dodge its attack.
"Grunt!" it grunted as it missed the attack, "uhnn!" I startled because the swirling fireball I was summoning got puffed as my mind diverted for the second.
"Boom!" my mind was diverted but Ashlyn not, she attacked with worries that gave me to dodge its another attack.
It is as I expected, in midst of fighting it is very difficult to summon a swirling fireball, I didn't waste time and readily started to summon another fireball.
I didn't stop at that, I started to circulate the third movement of the exercise as I was having difficult problem dodging its attacks but most important reason is to give myself pressure as in real combat, I will be circulating the moves of the supreme combat exercise and I have to have practice of successfully able summon fireball amidst fight and bearing pain of the exercise.
The fights go on, in the first two hours, I was able to create a single swirling fireball and only kept dodging, the only one attacking is Ashlyn as she is flying, she bore no pressure of fight and continue to rain down fireball after fireball.
Many time in the fight, I sensed her enjoying my misery as I kept dodging and wasn't able to attack for a single time.
"Grunt!" it roar as I dodge another it attacks, I have to say this android is a way too similar to the monster, if it was in its silvery form and I hadn't seen its metal parts, I would have thought is a real monster.
"Yes!" I said as I created my first swirling fireball during the fight, I have been feeling really miserable as I haven't able to launch a single attack on it.
"Boom!" rang out as I attack it, it feels really good to attack it but the sad thing is my attacks damage isn't that strong, Ashlyn has thrown nearly hundred fireballs and its life bar is half empty.
I kept attacking it, more than half of my fireballs had diffused without even forming but still, Ashlyn and I able to beat it together with little more than an hour later.
After resting for some ten minutes we again started to fight as there is a whole day left.
We fight total six times with monster in the whole day and last two fights were able to beat it within an hour and my success rate in summoning fireball had also increased to 78%.
When we left the training room at evening, we were both sweat ridden and extremely tired but it was worth it, we have made a lot of progress and it will enough for my tomorrows trip with him.
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Today is a day when I and Jim will go outside for the hunting, I have made all the preparations and also brought some things which may need in hunting the monsters.
Jim had just messaged me that he will meet me in half an hour outside my building, I've already eaten and packed my backpack, I am just waiting half an hour to pass.
A half hour passed as I was reading the news, I lifted my backpack and exit my apartment with Ashlyn.
I stood outside my apartment building waiting for Jim to come.
I was just waiting when I saw Bert come out of building with another young man, he looked similar to Bert, just little older, he must be Robert's elder brother.
When Bert's and my eyes met, his facial features became little distorted, a mixture of anger and shame could be seen on his face.
He said something to his brother and his brother also looked at me with anger in his eyes and started walking towards me, I can clearly see the complacent expression on Bert's face.
I don't know what Bert's problem is, ever since I beat him, whenever we met outside or in training facilities, he always looked as if he wants to kill me.
It's was just a little spar, he may have been carried away in the fight by his emotions but it was still just spar, there is no need to show anger.
As they were walking toward me, I just stood there. even if his brother is powerful enough to beat me, he will not do anything here as we are just outside our apartment building.
"Soo!" A hovercar suddenly landed in front, is the sleek black armored type and looked very powerful.
It is from Trident, one of the best brands out there and are insanely expensive, they are especially known for their solid defense.
"Sup!" it door opened and Jim's voice rang out from inside the car, "Get in Micheal! we are already late, someone has been grumping being late." Jim said I walk toward the car without caring as Bert and brother who were stopped on their tracks seeing the car.
As I was entering the car, I noticed there is the very beautiful girl sitting him, I already had noticed that there is someone in the car but her view hidden by Jim's.
The most striking thing about her is her shoulder-length shiny purple hair, they looked very striking on her.
In her lap has cute Lynx monster cub that I hadn't seen before.
Normally lynx monsters have this fur and black hairs above their ears and they have an aggressive look in their eyes while this Lynx monster cub is a complete furball, although Lynx have thick fur they are not fur ball like this one.
This is a complete furball, if not for the thick line of hair above it's and it's padded claws which are lynx know for, I would have thought of it any other Lynx monster.
This monster has golden/orange fur with purple spots from which purple bolts of lightning could be seen traveling all over its.
As I took a seat beside Jim, the door automatically starts, the front part is blocked, I can't see if it is an automatic car or someone is driving away.
"Micheal, this is my girlfriend Sarah." he introduced me to the purple hair girl, "Hello!" I said she nodded with a small smile.
I am always a little awkward meeting new people, we stayed silent for while during the ride but then I notice we hadn't really planned anything and me completely clueless.
"Jim, where are we hunting monsters?" I asked, as he brought his girlfriend, he must surely have made a plan, the only idiot will invite his girlfriend without a plan.
"I decided on the outskirt of mist valley, there are a lot of Initial levels specialist grade monster and only fifteen minutes away from the signal range," he said enthusiastically.
I have to say, he really made a great choice, mist valley is also on my list when I choosing on the location for hunting, the reason I had chose Austin lake because it's less dangerous.
Mist Valley is one of the optimum areas for the hunting, it is filled with monsters, it also very good scenic spots, so one can enjoy good scenery while hunting in the valley.
It is called mist valley because the whole valley filled with light fog all year around but there is one problem with the valley that most of the monster are in groups.
Most of the people who hunt in the mist valley are hunts in groups because of the large amount of monster there.
We didn't stop at Mista bazaar as we have everything we need in our Backpack, it will take us about half an hour to reach our location.
The ride was silent as everyone doing their thing, I was studying the very detailed map of-of Mist Valley that Jim had just passed me, it is the most detailed map I've ever seen, the detailed map of Austin lake that I had brought, is looked nothing front of it.
I try to memorize the map as I didn't want to project it every minute to see that I am walking in the right direction.
The current Jim and the Jim I know two weeks ago are completely different, I am really confused as more than I was two weeks ago.
first time I had seen Jim, when he was fighting rat monsters, he was wearing normal clothes and had only Grade 1 sword in his had, he seemed normal except for his little-cultured manners.
But today's Jim completely different, He is riding in very expensive and wearing at least four magical artifacts and I can sense little difference in him.
I am not confused about the expensive car or magical artifacts as I know his parents are very rich and he lives in center ring.
What I am confused about why wasn't he wearing any of his artifacts two weeks ago, it was that they took lot space, they are just like normal clothing just a little heavier and most importantly any of his parents hadn't come to visit him at the hospital.
If my parents had known I was in the hospital, they would have booked ticket to next train no matter how expensive it is, anyway it not my business to pry into his affairs and we are not that great friends, that I ask him about such personal thing.
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