Tina's Gift

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I sighed, leaning back rubbing my shoulder as I relaxed on the couch. My body felt the pain, and I was leaning back in my apartment, and I saw Tina coming up looking very Pregnant. I felt like doing things to her, but I held myself back at this moment.

I needed some time to decompress why I lost the fight. It was more than just not attacking at the right time. My plans remained the same with Francis. It was direct physical contact with him that I had to pull off in order to attack him. It was coming into his play area and taking his toys essentially. It was a bad choice, and I knew it. When I retreated to attack from a distance, I was trying to bring him back into my area of expertise.

This didn't work in the end, and changing the environment only slightly inconvenienced him. Francis was an anti-mage tank where his entire style was built around countering mana with his body. His sense of balance should be incredible, and walking and running on Ice should be something that he was used to.

Francis was correct. I took him slightly, slipping on the sudden ice I put under his feet, and took that moment to heal my arm instead of attacking. That was my mistake against him, and it was my only chance to win that I gave up. I wasn't wrong to use mana and wizardry in the environment. The problem was I decided to try and affect the entire arena instead of just a small patch where he couldn't see it.

It was sobering, and I took my large pool of mana for granted. Instead, I should look for solutions that minimize the mana I use while Maximizing their effect. I should take it like my stamina in a fight instead of something I can abuse. I used a lot of mana and achieved little, whereas before, I used a little mana to achieve a lot.

It was something that I would have to consider more in the future. I couldn't help but smile, thinking about Francis. He was a good sparring partner, and he was challenging to win against. I needed to take more time and prepare myself for the war that I knew was coming. I hadn't made much progress since I became a B-ranked Void wizard. It was starting to become a sore point of mine as I worked in the embassy. I did take some time to improve, but all I had done was implement better physical ways. This wouldn't help me fight other mages or anyone else other than Francis. It would help a little in fights in the future, but it wasn't the only way I wanted to improve.

Things like opening rifts on arrows or other wizard spells to deflect it back at them would be markedly increased battle prowess in war. I needed to learn the applicability of these things and experiment to see if I could use certain spells could be used to say deflect or stop spells. Then I would need to practice to see if they could, in fact, work in both small-scale and large-scale battles.

I stopped as Tina joined me and looked at me with worry. "You are stressing yourself out again," Tina said. "Here, I got something to show you in my workshop that I think you will like," Tina said with a mysterious smile. I raised my eyebrows, and when I tried to ask what it was, she covered my mouth with a finger. "Nope, not telling or answering questions till we are in my workshop," Tina said, silencing me.

I followed her watching her as she held her stomach while walking out of the apartment and taking me down one set of stairs. She then took me to the nearest door, making me smile. Opening the door, I could see tons of random gadgets materials all over the place. I could even see a small warehouse of boxed things filling a corner of the room. However, it was a mess with metal scraps and filings all over the floor and on workstations.

"When was the last time you allowed a cleaner in here?" I had to ask as I followed her deeper into her workshop.

I saw her blush with the question, and my eyes narrowed, "I may have forgotten that I told them not to enter the room a couple of weeks ago. They are also swamped cleaning up after your meetings..." Her voice trailed off, filled with amusement. "I have a question, though; I hear that you are having a meeting or party with the Incubi for a meeting," Tina said, although it sounded more like a statement.

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