My New Life in TBATE

Tessia meets the Leywins

"Again." I could see Tessia breathing heavily as she rested her hands on her knees, but she raised up and held the sword out in front of her. I could see her arms trembling from weight, proving her approaching her limits.

Holding my sword out I nod for here to come at me and I begin deflecting her blows. Most of them have no flow or fluidity to them, but they all have a purpose behind each swing. She's not taking this training lightly, which is something I can appreciate. She overextended slightly so using her own hand I pulled her past me and hit her across the back with my sword.

Instead of being stunned or annoyed, she immediately spun around and stabbed out at me. I sidestepped her strike as I deflected it away and with a spin I placed my blade by her neck.

"Alright that's enough for today." With that she collapsed onto her back and heaved greedily for air. I sat next to her and glared, she quickly understood the meaning behind the glare and got into a meditation position.

"So for my first piece of advice I would recommend you work on your flexibility. Being a girl and an elf, you have a significantly higher innate flexibility and potential. Use that to your advantage, and you can achieve quickly what has taken me daily stretches since I was 2 to accomplish.

The rest will come with time. You aren't going to be using a single edged sword, so I can't teach you all of my techniques as they would be detrimental to you. However one thing that you can do in your off time is practicing your slashes. For me I would do a certain number of slashes before meditating and then repeating the process."

Tessia nods as I speak, but I could tell she was rather fatigued and was having a difficult time keeping up. We sit and meditate for the remaining hour of time before the end of the day. With the chiming of the bells I took my leave telling Tessia that I would meet her at the gates, as I had to go get Kathyln.

The walk there was almost uneventful until I ran into Reginald and a few of his fellow soon to be graduates. Ah, Reginald please don't do something that you'll regret.

"President." I said evenly as they formed a wall in front of me, Reginald in the center and 2 lackeys on either side.

"Ah Jaron! Just who I was looking for. Come with me I have something that could prove useful for you in life." He didn't even try to hide the wicked smile on his face. I made eye contact with Kathyln just behind him and gave her a look that said to not intrude.

"I look forward to the lesson." I say with a small smile of my own that only causes Reginald's to grow.

"Good, good." I was then herded in between the the 5 boys and we walked to a secluded courtyard like area, it was the opposite direction of the dorms so we wouldn't be seeing any students this way. Truthfully I was a little giddy internally, this was the fabled 'bully and his lackeys try to put the new guy in his place."

"What did you want to show me, council president?" I asked with a curious expression that only further widened his and his goons grins. They all began to channel mana into their bodies, and I feigned surprise by widening my eyes.

"You see, people like you need to learn their place in the world. Orphans should remain below the noble born, and you don't seem to realize this yet. But don't worry, we'll make sure you never forget your place again." I just smile brightly at him causing him to pause momentarily.

"Please, guide me to the best of your abilities. I wouldn't want to misunderstand anything." His face went from smiling to furious as he and friends all grew angry at my words. I just maintained my smile as I observed their cores.

Reginald was a light orange water augmenter, which is a decent enough core stage. However his lackeys were considerably weaker with the highest only being of light red stage. 2 augmenters standing next to Reginald, the left was a wind mage, and the right a fire mage. The 2 on the end were conjurers and they were both Earth mages.