9 Elements, Combat Training and my own Noble Phantasm. (2/2)
”Ye- Yeah… Sigh” Anastacia says with a wry smile and a sigh at the end.
”Ok boys, at this moment we already know what elements Lucius has affinity. Let's go we need to do a lot of work; Lucius we will be creating a new regimen for your training, so expect good news” Says Medea in a beautiful voice.
In the afternoon of the same day, Lucius was in the Coliseum with Fran, Karna and Quetzalcoatl. Lucius was trembling when he saw the alignment of Heroes in front of him.
”Let's start. Fran, Karna and me, we will be speeding your training, we need that you start to development your origin and maybe only maybe know if you have more than 1 origin.” Says Quetzalcoatl while she is petting a Phantasmal Beast waayyy to big.
”IiiI… wWiiLLL… bBeee… FffFirsT” Finishing her lines fran start to run in a direct course of collision with me; I was in Battle Mode from the moment that I came to the Coliseum, so Fran couldn't catch me with my guard down.
She use her mace in a wild manner, is like I'm fighting a savage beast instead of a person. All her moments were wide, powerful, and most of all direct. I was having no trouble when from the corner of my eye I see a green silhouette that was riding a Pterodactyl and start to summon storms and lightning, the wind together with rain and debris was making my training a lot harder because I need to evade all the attacks that Fran made and above all the sneaky attacks of Karna together with the lightning that Quetzalcoatl was directing at me.
In every moment I was evading with my all, I can't retaliate at all, Fran with her form of attack that contains any kind of Form or pattern, plus the lightning that was increasing in number and power, plus the very accurate attacks that Karna was making equals, to my impotence to do anything in my actual state.
Very soon the time of each of their attacks is becoming more and faster. I'm reaching my limit very soon. Suddenly a lightning bolt was falling in my head, the power and speed of that attack completed with a very powerful trust of Karna's spear and the attack of Fran made every escape route that I was devised useless. My mind in that moment enters in an extreme state of cognosis. Every kind of possibility that exist was being analised at an astonishing speed, my skills TA and MP were at max trying to find a solution for my predicament and finally for the very first time take a glimpse of my Origin. Three space ripples appeared in the path of each of the attacks; the trust of Karna impact Quetzalcoatl, the strike of Fran connect with the flank of Karna and the lightning of Quetzalcoatl struck Fran.
Each one of them has their eyes wide open. 'That thing not only can block or deflect, it can distort space and transfer the attack to another person' Thought Karna after the impact he received, the other 2 are having the same thought.
Lucius was very exhausted by the use of TA and MP to the max but he himself is in a wonderful mood; finally in this very moment his Memory Partition reached the 16 Rooms and Thought Acceleration 800% that is the minimum for performing a Noble Phantasm.
Seeing the smiling albeit exhausted boy, the 3 Heroes are pretty much satisfied with their new achievement and successful for their first integrated combat training.
Grial devised this new form of training that includes at first 3 servants of different classes in the first phase, the second phase 5 servants and the last phase that includes battling the seven classes at the same time for making me experience battling multiple enemies. Between phases will be an interval of 3 months at minimum.
Lucius was contemplating his origin when a thought cross his mind. 'If my origin is Defender or Protector why is that I don't have the thoughts of standing in front of injustice or protecting the innocents', Lucius was having a serious thought, but no matter how he racks his brain he can reach an explanation. Without other option he asked Karna and Quetzalcoatl.
Karna replied in a serious tone ”Your origin doesn't mean that you will be protecting everybody and the like. Your Origin is the consecrations of your desire for defend yourself and your close ones in times of adversities. For example my origin is The Spear and Chivalry; in duels I will be performing my best as a form of respect to my opponent and my other origin, the spear means that I am The Spear, my weapon is only a tool nothing more.”
”In my case” Says Quetzalcoatl ”is Sun God and Benevolence. Don't made the mistake that my benevolence isn't for everybody, only the ones that I accept are the ones that have my benevolence and blessings, but my enemies are pretty much dead, except that little piece of spider and jaguar…” Quetzalcoatl was muttering the last part.
”Then according with what you two say is that I can have more origins and onlywill work when I acknowledge someone?” Seeing the two nodding I'm starting to understand my origin.
The rest of the week was more combat training and after one week my opponents started to change.
Three months pass in a blink of an eye and now I'm confronting Altera, Cu Chullainn, Robin Hood, Minamoto Raikoku and Anastasia in a five vs one in the coliseum. According with Grial this format of training will help me in increasing my attainment in the diferent kind of styles of combat: Short range; medium range; and large range:
Raikoku ruses to me with her Odachi making powerful strikes in combination with the arrows from Robin Hood; Anastacia use ice magic to freeze the floor in the Coliseum and together with the fast and powerful strikes of Cu Chullainn plus the sword strikes of Altera and her extraterrestrial weapon make a frightening combination: Saber, Archer, Caster, Berserker and Lancer. Five classes of servants in a formation that make me push my limits more and more. I transfer the attack of Altera that has the most power strike to Raikoku, she blocks the attack like nothing and together with Cu Chullain gang me in melee combat when Robin shoot a barrage of arrows to me; I deflect the strike of Cu Chullain to the right and block the barrage of arrows from robin but this made my flank wide open, thing that Raikoku never misses and cut me in two.
{Starting Reconstruction…100%}
{How you feel User?}(Moon)
”I'm Fine Moon, but is becoming more difficult to maintain the pace” (Lucius)
{That much is obvious User; you are battling with people that accomplished a lot in their lives. Right now you are only battling without weapons because you stated that you want to train your origin, so don't make excuses and start training again} Says moon in a very firm voice and I'm sure that I need to train more because the place that I'm going isn't Heaven or the like.
When I return to the Coliseum the same heroes are waiting for me to appear and start their attacks again. Like that 6 months pass and right now I'm comfronting the same alignment plus two more servants: True Assassin and Alexander the Great.
'This will be fun' I thought and a smile is forming in my face.
The conclusion, I died 10 seconds in the fight when Assassin sneaks behind me and stabs my heart.
'Well my strength right now is 5th level of Tyrant Profound Realm, my stats are D+ in every one and I'm starting to comprehend my own Noble Phantasm; with my Origin active I can create 20 ripples and infuse the skills that I own to make them more durable or flexible all thanks to Structural grasp, Reinforcement and Projection. Utilizing the 3 at the same time the ripples transform in 20 human figures each one holding a shield. I think I will call this Noble Phantasm Legion, because they are me and I'm them, so we are only one, we are Legion because we are many.