My Beginning After the End

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(Three Days Later)

I've been loosening up for the past three days, sparring with Aya, Ellie, my father, and some soldiers. Arthur never joined in, but he watched a couple of times, I think he wants to get to white core pretty badly.

In these sparring matches, I didn't use any magic, only reinforcing my body with mana, but that didn't matter, I was still on a whole other level, even above Aya, though, our match was the closest, because of her illusions, and her speed as a white core. She was a Lance, so it made sense, my blood magic is what makes me different.

I was in the sparring room at the moment, waiting for Aya to arrive, I was given permission to use my full power, I was no longer in any pain, my body wasn't tight or sore, it was time to go.

Rahdeas should be back tomorrow, or even possibly today, we'll tell him our plan, and then head out when I am cleared for the field, which I should be already. I couldn't wait to go to Ashber, it's going to be so fun.

I wanted Arthur to spar with me today, since I was going to be using my elemental powers, but he said no, even though he said he would the other day. I helped him absorb the mana in Uto's horn every day, and when I wasn't, he was either in the council room, or absorbing the horn's mana on his own.

"Veer." Aya said, walking into the room, I turned, and by her side was someone I didn't expect but could sense. "I hope you don't mind, I brought Mica along with me."

"Mica is happy to see the Little Lance." The dwarve said to me as they approached. "Mica is also happy to spar against you."

Oh, I was about to fight two Lances, this should be interesting. "It's good to see you too, Lance Mica." I faced Aya. "So, I'm fighting both of you?"

She smiled at me. "I know you want a challenge, so I brought Mica with me."

"Mica got here yesterday." I knew that, but I didn't see her at all. A stone hammer formed in her hand, and she held it on her shoulder. "Mica is ready to beat up the Little Lance." I didn't like the name Little Lance, even if it's true.

"We'll take it easy on you." Aya said, pulling her sword out of her mana ring. "Also, be cautious, don't hurt yourself today at all, and don't hurt us."

"I won't." I took a couple steps backward, activating "Blood Oath" and conjured an ice blade in my right hand. I wasn't going to fight them with my blood sword, it wouldn't be a fair fight, I mean, it's already not a fair fight, I have blood magic. "Let's begin."

Mica shot at me first, swinging the hammer at my head, I had to remember she had gravity magic, but she may not use it, I don't know how seriously they are taking this. The hammer missed my head by a mile, it felt so slow coming at me.

Aya's blade came at my face, I moved to the side, brought up a wall of wind into her gut, but she managed to dodge the attack. Stones were sent at me, I conjured a wall of ice, and on impact as the ice was shattering, created an illusion of where I was standing, and then made myself invisible.

They crashed through the illusion with their blades, then froze and examined the room, trying to sense where I was, but I made sure they could do that by disrupting their mana cores, and then charging them.

First, Mica's hammer crumbled to pieces onto the ground, and she had a puzzled look on her face. "Not fair!" I surrounded myself with wind mana, and instead of sending my sword at her, I decided to send a powerful kick into the dwarve's stomach, sending her flying across the room.

Aya was in shock, and started to project an illusion as her magic came back to her. "I should have never taught you illusion magic." Aya told me, still trying to figure out where I was. "The invisibility spell doesn't even work on you." She was right, I could sense her blood, so there was no hiding from me.