819 Bringing Your Lover Along To Training Part 1 (1/2)
Saleen was dumbfounded hearing his teacher's words and began to sweat. He did not know how to answer his teacher's question that came out of the blue.
”Saleen, I knew what kind of situation you were in when I first met you. This particular impasse is something you have to deal with on your own sooner or later. If I were you, I would never enter the Six Element Space. I would choose instead to stay in Raphael's ten-floored magic tower, and devote myself to training there. For the period of one year, you would do nothing else but open the path to the rank of a grade-8 sorcerer.”
”During this period, you would need to have nothing else in your mind, no concern for anything but your own practice. If you are unable to do so, I'm afraid my lineage would die alongside you,” Jason elaborated.
Saleen looked at Sika. She frowned and said, ”Master, I want to enter the Hell of God's Punishment too.”
”Oh? Why would you want to do so?”, Jason was hardly surprised, and merely smiled at Sika.
”Master, What the Northern Caucasus people from the south of the city want is but a farce. It isn't something Caucasus people should want. I just want to be with Saleen. If I'm not going with him, Saleen will be concerned for my safety. The reason why you can want such a thing of him is because you have no children of your own,” Sika said while touching her belly, and then smiled, ”The two children in me will prove to be Saleen's greatest courage. If he were to fail, they will possibly not have a future.”
Jason was stunned. This was the first time he realized how strong Sika actually was. Her words were brief, yet they rendered him speechless. He had no children, and so would have never understood Saleen's feelings. Sika was right.
”I may be pregnant, but if anyone wants to get to him, they will have to go through me,” Sika said while brandishing her weapon and thumped it heavily on the floor. Saleen shuddered for a moment, as he felt pity for the steel rock flooring beneath her. That thump made quite a dent in it.
Jason's brow twitched. While Saleen might have had the Elemental Eye, his ability to appraise equipment was still somewhat below his teacher's. Sika's weapon had actually struck a bit of fear in Jason.
The higher the expectations Jason had for Saleen, the more he feared his student dying at a low level or getting killed. Even worse; never being able progress further.
”Letting his lover and unborn children go keep him company while he trains?” Jason gave the thought some serious pondering, to see if that was something feasible. To mages, children were akin to spawn of hell, capable to disrupting your thought by simply crying. Worse still, the crying of children carried some sort of mental penetration power with it. It was so potent that even common mute enchantments proved incapable of shutting it out completely.
That was one of the gifts of humanity, which unfortunately, was also one that mages hated the most. That was the reason why mages shunned crowds, to keep themselves out of earshot of children crying.
Mages were, of course, free from the concerns for such cries during battle, as that was when they were on guard all the time. When a mage proceed with their practice and conducted magical experiments they did not confined their senses into tight spaces that could be detrimental. Instead, they were required to expand their senses to their limits, so as to acquire more experience and details of their practice. They would not have required magic towers if it was not so.
”Fine. When Lex gets here, we will have six grade-9 mages. You will leave the matters of the city to Lex for the moment. Your Metatrin City will also need refurbishing, or else it will be like I wasted my efforts all these years,” Jason eventually granted Sika's request.
Jason was a mage, but he was not a magic beast devoid of emotions. He felt a need to test Sika's words. If Sika's children proved to be so important to Saleen, separating them would have proven detrimental to Saleen's advancement. Pressing forward with an indomitable did not make one immune to thoughts of family. Jason himself had chosen to relent when he ran into trouble at that time.
Mages never endeavored in anything that was absolutely impossible to accomplish. If they were to fight for anything, a one percent chance of success would be the lowest requirement.
The way Jason looked at it, if Sika were to be by Saleen's side when he trained, the possibility of him succeeding would at least be more than one percent. If Saleen succeeded, passing on his lineage would not prove so difficult.
Jason knew of the pain his practice entailed. There was little else but magic in his life, ever since he was born on Sregl Island. His teacher had taken more than a dozen students, but he was the one who made it. His seniors were just as hardworking as he was, and have given as much as he had, but all of them gradually lost sight of their initial dreams. It was due to the overwhelming loneliness that such practice brought about.Find authorized novels in Webnovel，faster updates, better experience，Please clickfor visiting.
Mages of his lineage were not permitted to give up their beliefs at any cost. Any backsliding would end their way forward right there and then.
That was the very reason why Jason never had any faith on the matter of taking students of his own. He had never thought of taking in another after taking in Saleen.
”Thank you, master,” Sika said seriously, but was still half-lying down, with her staff in her hands.
On November eleventh, Sika gave birth. It was midnight, and both children came to the world one after another. That was the first time all the Caucasus people stayed awake during the night, as they lit thousands of bonfires and organized their own celebrations of the event.
The temple guards turned a blind eye to the Caucasus people's unusual behavior and let them have their fun. There were Caucasus people among the temple guards too, but those Caucasus people stood guard according to military regulations, instead of joining in the celebrations.