317 Mercers Training (1/2)

Everyone remained in the deck until Trade City and the rest of the continent disappeared on the distance.

Even fishing boats didn't go that far, so they were entering an unknown territory for all them.

Everyone held expectations about the travel, but they didn't plan to remain in the deck forever since at that moment there was only water by all sides and it seemed that it would remain like that for some time.

Yale was lost in his thoughts, so he remained there even when the others left; the only others who remained were Wyba who was on Yale's head and Mercer who was still looking to the ocean with an excited face.

After some minutes, Mercer stopped looking towards the ocean and looked towards his master.

”Master, this is awesome!”

Yale turned his head towards Mercer and smiled.

”Oh, so do you like traveling through the sea?”

Mercer nodded his head quickly.

”I like it a lot! This is my first time in a ship, but I read a lot about them this last year, so I can't believe that I am currently experiencing it myself.”

Yale was quite surprised that Mercer had read books that year, but it wasn't like if Mercer had much more options.

Mercer quickly reached the peak of the Mortal Rank, and even his swordsmanship couldn't improve more until reaching the Apprentice Rank, so he ended up spending time reading books and expanding his knowledge because, given his previous status in the clan, he had never been able to access to a huge number of books.

Aizu tried to teach him some magic at that time, but Mercer wasn't too interested in long-distance battles with magic and didn't seem to have too much talent on it either, so even though he learned the basics, he didn't work too much on them.

As for healing, Aizu tried to teach him, but Mercer had no talent in healing magic, so she stopped trying to teach him since healing magic was difficult to learn without enough talent.

Yale started to speak with Mercer and found that Mercer had read some of his favorite books. That made that Yale increased his evaluation of Mercer since it was hard to meet someone with the same literary tastes.

”You truly deserve to be my disciple; you have a great taste in books.”

Yale was very pleased with Mercer, but the same applied to Mercer, he was glad about having a master that wasn't only extremely powerful, but also had a great taste to choose books to read.

”Master, do you think that one day I will be able to have my own ship and experience being a captain?”

It wasn't only that they read the same books, even both had the same thoughts about being the captain of a ship when they had read a specific saga of books.

”Of course, you are still too young, but you are my disciple, so I am sure that one day no one will be able to stop you if you wanted to adventure in the seas with your own ship in the future.”

Yale knew that Mercer would probably forget about that soon because it wasn't a serious dream, but he spoke sincerely because as long as one was strong enough, something like traveling across the sea wasn't that difficult.

After thinking a bit, Yale continued speaking.

”How about if I teach you Water Magic? In a place filled with water like the ocean, it is a must.”

Water was the normal element in which Yale excelled the most since the day he obtained the Frost Wolf Bloodline for the first time, so he thought that it would be good teaching it to Mercer who hadn't trained magic too much.

”Water Magic? I like to learn everything that master wants to teach me, but I learned a bit of magic from big sister Aizu before, and that battle-style didn't seem to suit me...”

Mercer really felt that casting spells didn't suit his personality. He trained both paths, so he had the capability to learn magic, but casting long spells to create a huge attack was something he felt too boring.

”Well, if Aizu taught you, I suppose that you have a very shallow idea of casting magic. Although she trains both paths, she had been always more a pure mage than a warrior. The magic I will teach you isn't focused on that kind of long and tedious spells.”

Yale also didn't like spells that needed a lot of time to be cast, and he knew that wasting time in those spells wasn't too useful because controlling the laws it was possible to achieve similar effects without wasting so much time casting it.

Of course, not everyone could train as fast as Yale had trained, so for most of them, those long spells were the only way to use devastating spells in their lives.