บท 4: Growing Up
*Swish! *Swish!
Several light spears soared throught the air towards a silver haired man who just smiled. He stretched out his right arm and conjured his own light spears which he launched towards the incoming attacks.
*Crack! *Break!
The light spears broke each others upon impact, but then a shadow appeared in front of the man. Then a fist came at a fast speed, but the man was still smiling and calmly tilted his head to dodge.
*Swish!
Finally the shadow was revealed showing a kid who seems to be age 12 with silver hair similar to the man earlier with blonde in the tips of his hair creating a contrast.
This kid after seeing his punch being dodged swiftly changed attacks by kicking upwards. But the man just stepped back, the kid followed the man while attacking the latter.
But unfortunately, all his punches and kicks were either dodged or blocked by the man. Seeing this, the kid jumped back and created distance between him and the man.
He then stretched out his left arm and a golden light manifested in his left hand which formed into a light bow. With his newly created weapon, the kid rapidly drawed the bow and shot multiple light arrows.
*Swish! *Swish! *Swish!
But the kid didn't just stand, he was running around while shotting his bow. But the man was still calm even with the countless light arrows rainibg upon him.
He then manifested a light spear for himself and skillfully destroyed the incoming attacks.
*Boom! *Boom!
This time the impacts created explosions which caused the area to be filled with dust, blocking the view. This situation created an oppurtunity for the kid, he was currently flying in the air with 6 pairs of golden angelic wings behind his back.
Once again raising his right arm, he created multiple large light spears pointing downwards, each having the thickness of an electric pole. With a wave of his hands, the light spears rained downwards.
*Swish! *Swish! *Swish!
*Boom! *Boom! *Boom!
Shortly after the kid rained his attacks, explosions were heard. Then slowly, the dust around the area dissipated revealing the unscathed silver haired man still smiling. There was a faint light barrier surrounding him.
"That's it for today, Luke. Looks like you've improved again on your mastery over holy power. But you need improvement on other aspects..." Lugh commented as he watched Luke flying down before landing.
Luke's wings retracted after landing. He then turned to Lugh, "Father, can I go out today? I want to go to Vatican. I haven't seen my friends for quite some time now."
"Of course, you can go. You already know teleportation magic right? You should be able to go out of this small dimension then." Lugh smiled in reply
"Thank you father, hehe." After saying so, Luke immediately teleported back to their house. Earlier, they were doing their daily sparring which started since he was 6 years old, and now he is 12 years old.
Their sparring place was quite far away from their house so Luke needs to use teleportation magic to get home easily. Speaking of which, Luke has been improving rapidly this past 6 years ever since he started training with his father.
He was mainly trained by Lugh in aspects of Energy Control, Physical Training, Body Control, Increasing Energy Reserves, and Innate Ability Training.
Energy control is as the names says, though for Luke, he mainly trained in control over his holy power reserves. This training improved the effeciency of his usage over his holy power. Meaning he uses his holy power without wasting much of it when creating light based weapon or casting magic spells.
For physical strength, he was put under Lugh's gravity manipulation while doing various physical exercises. This part of his training also includes martial arts and weapon training. After all, Lugh was well known for his martial arts and weapon mastery along with his mastery over other crafts.
As for the other training, let's leave that for later.
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Italy~
On a certain church warrior institution, a magic circle appeared but quickly vanished. What came out of the magic circle was a kid. The sudden appearance of the kid slightly surprised the instructors of the place but calmed down after seeing who it is. The same goes for the kids being trained.
This is the church's warrior institution, one of the many scattered around the territory of the church. This institution's main purpose is to train children into becoming warriors for the church, in other words an exorcist. The children here are either orphans or children of exorcists of the church which was sent here by their parents. This may seem cruel but it was the norm for the supernatural world.
Luke who appeared, looked around and saw children of varying age, the youngest looks to be 5 or 6 years old. And the oldest seems to be just 1 year younger than Luke.
After looking around the place for a bit, Luke spotted a particular kid in one corner of the place. It was a kid who looks a bit younger than him with blond hair, green eyes.
This new kid was an different from the other kids currently being trained as he was leaning on a wall with a lazy expression and not training at all. Seeing this, a smile appeared on Luke's face as he rushed towards the lazy kid. A moment later, he arrived beside the lazy kid and greeted the latter.
"It's been a while, Dulio! How's your training going?" Luke beamed as he sat beside the kid.
"Oh? Big brother Luke, you finally visited. My training's going well too." Dulio replied
"Then how about we spar for a bit? I want to see the fruits of your training." Without waiting for a reply, Luke grabbed Dulio's arm and dragged him towards a free training ground located just outside the facility. On the way, he grabbed a training sword and a spear.
"Why do you always drag me whenever you want to spar?" Dulio sighed
Luke on the other hand just grinned, "If I didn't drag you, you would just laze in your previous spot."
"...." Dulio stayed silent as he knew Luke was right. Most of the time he was just lazing on a corner. But that's just when his teacher Ewald Cristaldi was not around and going on an exorcist job.
Those days were rare as Ewald was only called out when a high-class or ultimate class stray devil, vampire or other evil creatures appeared. And today was specific day so Dulio wanted to just relax for a bit but didn't expect for Luke to visit.
Though he was also happy that Luke visited as he treated the latter as a big brother due to him being one year younger than Luke.
Dulio stared at Luke in front of him who was grinning and gave up. Seeing the defeated look on Dulio's face, Luke's grin became wider before tossing the training sword towards Dulio who grabbed it.
Dulio held the training sword and swung it a few times before taking a stance. Luke on the other hand spun his spear and took his own stance. With his right foot in front and left behind, his legs spread slightly. His spear was slanted with its spear head slightly facing the ground.
The aura of the two became different, along with a serious expression appearing on their faces. Luke was the one who broke the silence, "Same rule, we will not use other abilities and only fight using skills. Of course, you can strengthen yourself with the magic I taught you since it would be unfair as my physical strength is higher than yours."
Dulio nodded as he used the body strengthening magic, that Luke taught him. He glanced at Luke who nodded, signalling the start of their spar.
*Swoosh!
With swift speed, Dulio was thd first to attack. Arriving in front of Luke with uis training sword. He did a simple stab with the sword but Luke easily parried it by swinging his spear upwards.
*Clang!
A loud metalic sound was heard due to the impact. That's because the training weapons they were using was made of metal but it's not sharp and was dull. So while it wouldn't cut, it can still cause pain after being hit.
.....
After the initial exchange, Dulio calmly continued attacking with Luke either parried or block the attack.
*Swish! *Swoosh!
*Clang! *Clang! *Clang!
*Pwwsshhhh!
Both Dulio and Luke slid a few meters away from each other due to an earlier exchange. But Luke quicklt stabilized himself and dashed swiftly towards Dulio. Then with a spear in hand stabbed forward.
*Swoosh!
*Clangk! *Bang!
Dulio who just stabilized himself saw the incoming stab and realized he can't dodge nor parry it so he blocked it using his sword. But he didn't expect the strong force behind the attack and was thrown away.
Their spar gathered the attention of those training inside the facility and came out. Coincidently, they saw Dulio being thrown away after blocking an attack of Luke.
"I'm not done yet!" Dulio smiled and quickly stabilized himself mid air and landed on the ground. Then with a 'crack' sound, the groynd beneath him cracked and he swiftly arrived in front of Luke with his body strengthening magic on maximum capacity.
Luke smiled back and readied himself by tightly gripping his spear and taling a stance. Then with a 'Whoosh' Dulio's slashed his sword downwards with Luke blocking it with his spear.
*Bang! *Clang!
*Whoosh! *Whoosh!
Upon impact, a loud metallic sound was heard along with strong winds generated due to the force of the impact between the two weapons. The winds generated caused dust to rise up and block the view of those watching the spar.
*Clang! *Clang! *Clang!
They only hesrd the sounds of the clashing weapons. This continued on and after some time, the dust as well as the sounds of weapons clashing vanished.
Then they saw the two who was sparring earlier with the clear winner of the spar. One was standing and the other was already lying on the ground.
"Huff...huff...huff..."
"That was a good spar, you've greatly improve once again, Dulio." Luke said as he reached out his hand towards Dulio who was lying on the ground, panting heavily. Dulio grabbed Luke's hand and stood up.
"Whoooaaa!"
"I didn't know Dulio was that strong!"
"So that's why the instructors let him laze around whenever Instructor Ewald is gone."
The various kids who watched the spar with instructors exclaimed.
"You're really strong, big brother Luke, I don't think I can defeat you." Dulio said to which Luke shook his head.
"Don't undermine yourself like that, I only won due to my superior physical capabilities. Meanwhile you used magic to strengthen your body and you still last nearly an hour fighting me, which was already an excellent feat as the burden of magic on your body is not to taken lightly. And your skills with the sword are very good. And you only trained for 1 year while I trained for already 6 years. You only lost due to you having less training and less battle experience. I'll say this Dulio, you're a genius." Luke said sincerely, his praise was backed up by facts about Dulio.
Dulio was an orphan as he lost his parents in a civil strife in his home country. He was then taken in an orphanage and coincudentally awakened his sacred gear which turns out to be a longinus.
After that he was brought in this facility at the age of 10 to be trained as a warrior of the church. And he's only been training for a year but he managed to match up to Luke who was trained for 6 years.
Though if it was a real fight with their life on the line then Luke can easily defeat Dulio. But Luke's point was, for a human child to match up to a demi-god with just little trainibg even if it's just a spar was an excellent feat on its own.
"Come on Dulio, I'll bring you to somewhere fun. Is that okay, instructors?" Luke asked towards the instructors who bowed their head.
"Yes of course, Lord Luke."
Luke nodded and immediately used teleportation with Dulio. The latter seems to be already used to this situation as he was calm through out the event.
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AN: Heya Everyone who reads this fic! This is another chapter for you, but I'm busy with school so don't expect stable released. If you are liking this fic, please consider dropping those power stones to show your support.
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