What a Rune

Learning By Pain

A green Halo appear above Dean Body, flashing before dispersing. Lekyan watched his boy standing up.

-Remember I can't help you here. My role is to prepare you to the future and not protect you, and no one apart you can protect yourself, so get up and fight! It's not the time to talk anymore use your intelligence to adapt, to be at least an Emperor!

Said Lekyan, watching his son breathing, back on his two feet, not knowing that he'll got a shocking answer from his Son.

-I don't want to be an Emperor, in all the books I read, they are trash not understanding how to use the powers they got, I want to be a Guardian, one that can protect Myrheilm even if the world crumble, even if mana became berserk and crush the earth, even if the sun explode!

What followed these roar was the laughter of his Father, acknowledging his dream and Ambition.

-Then fight!

He looked at the beast before focusing his mana and starting casting Runes the shock of the hit and adrenaline unlocking the comprehension of the last elemental rune, the neutral rune.

'I was looking too far without any goals, not seeing that the neutral runes is the way to use mana at it is, it's more a mana rune than a neutral, I will be the first guardian, able to protect this city and inhabitant!'

A layer of grayish energy appear on him, it was condensed mana, able to protect him of everything taking form of a knight armor. Then Flame appear on his right hand, taking the form of a one meter sword, quickly followed by the a triangular great shield in his left hand , formed by compacting air. 

A guardian appeared!

The Beast didn't care about all this and jump at him with a powerful leap, fast and ferocious, the claws on each paw showing sharpness and force. The beast fall upon Dean, stick of mana implanting itself in the earth to support himself, his mind focused to the extreme by the excess of adrenaline helping him control 3 sentences of 2 runes.

The air Shield blocked the attack of the Blood-Leopard, feeling it was to much for him, he quickly focused his mana to change his Air shield to explode like a powerful gale, sending the leopard flying.

-Take Your medicine.

Said Dean with cold eyes, before casting another Air shield and then jumping to follow the Blood-Leopard, attacking with his Fire-sword. Every strike was taking, he didn't know how to use efficiently a sword, resulting in a myriad of moves with no real techniques. But that was enough, he began to deal damage to the Blood-Leopard that was launching fierce paw at him. He tried to block every paw with his shield but some pass away, colliding with his mana condensed armor he was send flying again, but the armor did it job by stopping a part of the monstrous power behind the paw. But his organ where unprotected, letting him suffer when his body fell on the ground. Followed by words of his father.

-You're not a super-man, so don't forget the weakness of your body, and don't forget you can use rune to protect yourselves internally too!

He stand up again healed by the power of the grimoire, he cast an Armor again, but this time he let his mana be connected with the external mana, linking every part of his body and protecting his organs. He will learn that way.

He fight 1 more times, but was expelled by the explosion of his own spell. Then he started again and again!

Dean was looking at ceiling, he was lying in his bed, the experiences acquired last night reflecting in his eyes. He fight five time and lost every time, after the third time he lost cause of exhaustion, on the 4th he lost when the Leopard start using his spiked tail like a whip, on the 5th he lost when the frequencies of attack got up to the extent of not being able to follow with his eyes. The Leopard was playing with him from the start to the end.

-I need better knowledge about mana beast. It's start to learn!

He get up, prepared himself, went to his father office in the house and start surfing on the Subnet. The Subnet was a system controlled by the guild, it let you have every last confirmed information, it was an internet deployed subterranean, due to the satellite unusable anymore.

He didn't need to search a lot before finding what he needed.

Blood-Leopard, Giant Leopard with red fur, like warm climate. Power: Copper.

'So he like warm climate, maybe ice will be sufficient?'

He was about to try casting an ice runes when he suddenly remember.

'I don't have any ice runes, are we able to cast ice spell with Runes? I need to ask someone about it.'

He closed the subnet and went to see Ariel who was training in the garden.

-What's up Dean?

-I'm fine just a little troubled, can I take a little of your time?

Ariel paused her training before turning to Dean, taking the towel to clean the sweat on her face before beaming a smile to her little brother. She was beautiful and her sport outfit was not hiding any of her asset.

'Great thing that I'm not a siscon or some embarrassing event would have happened, I've to be sure that the guys who want to woo my sisters will treat them great or it will be like sending rose to demon, wait, I just forgot that my two sister are pretty devilish themselves, better be sure than sorry!'

-I'm waiting Dean, what do you need?

-Sorry, could you explain me how to cast an ice spell with the help of rune?

-If it just that then it's easy, come, the easiest way is to first cast a water rune...

Ariel cast a water bubble. It was floating above her slender forefinger, moving slowly.

-Then you need to cast an air rune to dispel any heat, frosting the water!

The second spell was made of an air rune and unstable runes, when the spell was activated a blowing wind completely frosted the bubble letting it become an ice ball.