187 Chapter 186 (1/2)

After blocking Amanda, Betty, and Sasha's attacks with Mana Armor for a few minutes, it was finally time Leon to let them practice their dodge skills again.

”… I know that I said that I didn't want to hurt you.” Amanda said. ”But attacking and not causing even a scratch is very frustrating.”

”You are never satisfied with anything, dear little sister.” Leon shrugged. ”You can't have everything, you know.”

In any case, they practiced dodging projectiles for another hour. After that, they started training to block attacks. It wasn't a good idea to block too much since that kind of thing could damage their weapons and those were their lifelines in fights against monsters, but sometimes somethings can't be helped. Anyway, they would try to block magic projectiles with Leon's steel weapons, so for the time being, that much was fine.

”Be careful; if you make a wrong move, my spells will hit you guys,” Leon warned them. ”It won't cause critical damage, but it will hurt like hell. Well, since today is the first day, let's start the blocking training slowly too.”

Leon shot Water Bullets, and since the weapons were quite heavy and thick, everyone had an easy time not suffering damage. This time, Hector had a very easy time since he also had a steel shield that was similar in size to the shield of dawn.

”Heh, now we are talking,” Hector smirked.

”Good, I guess you can endure the impact of something heavier,” Leon said.

Leon shot several Earth Bullets toward Hector, once again, he didn't have any difficult blocking the projectiles, but he felt his bones trembling every time the shield got hit. Leon's Earth Bullets could leave dent marks on a steel shield after all.

”When I said blocking, I didn't say block attacks directly,” Leon said. ”You can parry too, you know. Although that is not something you should do if you have allies nearby, you can't always count that you will have several people watching your back.”

That was an unpleasant idea, but Leon was right. No one could tell the future; for the time being, humanity was rebuildings its society, but for how long the dragons would stay quiet? No one could tell if they are planning to wipe out humanity once and for all, they definitely had the numbers to do so.

Hector heard Leon's advice and tried to parry the projectiles, it wasn't easy, but little by little he was getting the hang of it. The others also tried the same, but it was much easier for them to parry Water Bullets, and Leon wasn't sure if they could endure even half of the impact of an Earth Bullet. Even though Leon didn't level up that spell, his other earth-related magic strengthened all earth-related attacks. So, the damage caused wasn't something to laugh at.

Much to Leon's surprise, it looked they weren't blocking and parrying the attacks that easily. After hours of practice, Leon saw that the skin of their hands was peeling off. Despite that, they didn't complain about it, since something like that happened many times in the past.

”It is getting late, so let's resume our training today after meditating for one hour,” Leon said.

”What? Already?” Hector frowned. ”The training wasn't even that intense…”