The Role of Mages

Training Training Training

Chapter 5

" Are you ready?" Ryland asks.

I nod.

" Your first task is to climb this cliff." she says.

After I talked to Celiest the doctor, I talked to the guys and they said that they've all decided that each of them would train me, individually. I choose Ryland for the first day. Loop

" Seems easy enough." I say.

" While I stand at the top, trying to prevent you from reaching the top."

" Fuck. Me and my big mouth..." I sigh.

" You won't move on without completing this. We shall begin." she disappears and appears on top of the cliff.

I take a deep breath and start climbing. She didn't do anything while I climbed but after I reached 10 feet off the ground, she snapped her fingers.

" Ow." Suddenly every time I grabbed a rock, they felt really hot and the temperature just went up on every rock I climbed. I fell off after the third rock I touched.

" What the hell?!"

" Your fingertips weren't burned." she says and I look at my hands. They looked perfectly normal.

" Hmph. Don't trust your senses." I get up and try again.

I failed some many times. I slipped off the ice. Rocks broke with she used "Earth". My favorite was when she snapped her fingers and a reaper like figure next to me and I fell off because I was scared.

" Geez you're an idiot." she shakes her head in shame.

I take another deep breath.

" This time, I'll do it!" I think to myself and started climbing.

What was weird was that Ryland didn't do anything after I reached 10 feet off the ground. 20 feet. 30 feet. Then I saw a spark. Wait... Then I see a ball of purple lightning in her hands.

I freeze for a second. I quickly climb the cliff.

" I have to make it before she can cast that ball of lightning down!" I think to myself.

And just when I was about to reach the top, the ball of lightning strikes the ground.

Everything went black.

I wake up, expecting to be on the ground, but instead I see a knife in my hand.

" What?... How?" Did I put that there? How desperate am I to finish this?

I grab the knife, pull it out of my hand and quickly grabbed a rock.

" Did... I make it...?" My hand hurts so much. I, some how, managed to pull myself to the top of the cliff. I lay on the ground, taking deep breaths.

" Well done." Ryland claps.

I attempt to push myself up with one arm but, fail.

Ryland sighs. She walks over to me, kneels down and touches my hand. I feel slight warmth in my hand and see a soft blue glow. The pain stops instantly and I look at my hand. The wound is gone!

" How did-"

" It's a healing spell." She says and picks me up by the arm.

I feel slightly sore as she pulls me up.

" Now that you're done, who do want to do next?"

" Um.... I guess Aster so I can get him over with..."

".... That's a good call but, good luck."