Chapter 252 - Hero summoning (3) (1/2)

As Jake opened his eyes again he felt a splitting headache and clutched his head before he suddenly smelled a soothing fragrance and looked up

”Is this... Tea?”

A cup of tea stood in front of him, the cup had some cute flowers painted on its side, then he heard Jacklin's voice

”Drink, it will help with the headache”

”Okay...”

Jake put his lips to the cup and sipped some tea and felt his headache slowly disappear as he slowly slipped the tea while Jakclin shuffled her chair closer to Jake's side of the table with an excited look on her face while she asked

”So what did you see?”

”Well...”

Jake explained what he had seen to Jacklin that gradually lost her excitement and looked disappointed before she spoke

”What so just the usual... Oh well, you should be able to use some spells now, judging from what you said you should be able to use basic ball magic, like this...”

Jacklin pointed up towards the ceiling and a ball of lightning apparead over her finger for a few seconds before it disappeared, Jake was about the same when he was stopped by Jacklin

”Wait hold it! No way you're trying to use a spell for the first time in my room..! Let's go to the practice range”

Jake gave a nod and followed Jacklin to the practice range which was located next to the practice field, when they stepped out of the castle Jake discovered that it was already dark and the night had come, apparently he  had been out of it for longer than he expected when he was learning from the grimoire

”Okay, now when you use the spells be sure to tune them down as much as possible... Just... Take it easy okay?”

Jacklin walked over behind some sandbags and only popped out her head while she was wearing safety goggles, suddenly Jake didn't feel very good about using the spells and asked her

”What are the changes it goes wrong?”

Jacklin gave a nervous laugh and ducked her head a little more down, which in of itself was all the answer Jack needed

”Well... No danger, no progess”

Jake closed his eyes and held out his hand while he decided to start with the water spell and when he opened his eyes after a few seconds a water ball had formed on top of his hand

”Good now you need to activate the second part of the spell structure and fire the water ball at the targets!”

Hearing Jacklin's advice Jake focused on firing the spell for a second until suddenly it fired off into the target, or at least it should have but didn't it hit the ground half a meter from the target and dug a rather deep hole in the ground from the speed of the water ball had as it impacted

'This is kinda lethal... Well it is meant for combat after all...'

Jake focused and fired off another spell when he suddenly felt something within him overflow just like it had when he was practicing [Swordsmanship] earlier and got excited and yelled to Jacklin

”Jacklin I just leveled up!”

”Already..!? Well the king did say that you would level up fast...”

Jake gave a smile and continued practicing, a few hours later he had leveled up [Water magic], [Fire magic] and [Lightning magic] to level 3, 3 and 2 respectively. As for the reason he didn't level up [Lightning magic] to level 3 was that he simply had run out of time and it was late, Jacklin even fell asleep(although she wouldn't admit it) while he was practicing, Jake said goodnight to Jacklin and headed back to his room and soon fell asleep...

The next morning Jake woke up feeling oddly motivated to learn again today, this continued for about a week, after a week had passed it was decided by the king that the hero should be shown off to the soldiers that were going to the front to boost morale, Jake was currently getting dressed in a set of mithril armor carved with magic formations that served as enchantments if he imputed mana

'Will this really be alright..?'

Although Gunnar and Jacklin had assured that it would be alright Jake was still feeling a little nervous but soon steeled himself

'This is the first test... And it's a test I have to pass!'

Soon Jake was dressed in the armor and stepped out onto the practice field the edges of the fields was lined with soldiers that were ready to see the show and when Jake stepped out he was instantly the focus of attention of the entire field but before he had a chance to get nervous the king spoke

”Behold the hero, sir Jake!”

”””””OOOOHHHH!!!!”””””

the soldiers let out a deafening cheer which shock Jake to the core, Jake drew his mithril sword and pointed it towards the sky which caused the crowd to let out another cheer, then he pointed it towards a dummy and activated his new skill [Instant movement] and momentarily disappeared from view before he reappeared behind the dummy as the head of the dummy flew into the air

”””””OOOOHHHH!!!!”””””

'Next is magic...'

Jake then pointed his sword towards a cl.u.s.ter of dummies and gradually the air around him was filled with balls of fire, water and lightning that then flew off towards their targets decimating all the dummies before he sheathed his sword and raised his fist and yelled