52 New Techniques and New Friend? (2/2)
”If I can use these books to learn all of these techniques that are inside explaining the process of learning them by just using this screen, wouldn't that make my power increase drastically?” now excited, Leo used the next hour to learn every single technique and spell available within them.
To his surprise, these books did not disappear once he used them to quickly learn the techniques which they held inside. Though these were only considered basic techniques and spells, it still gave Leo the feeling that he had more attacks within his arsenal and that to him meant a higher survival chance against stronger opponents.
In total, Leo was able to learn ten techniques. These techniques were rather practiced by even the commoners within the city, but they were still hard for those independent of any faction to get ahold of. Unfortunately, Leo was unable to learn the other five techniques and spells in the remaining five books.
Unless a warrior was able to reach the Master rank of power, they were unable to train in a second elemental affinity. The only Master ranked warrior within the city was even more formidable than other Master ranked warriors. The reason was because he was able to combine his water and wind elemental affinities together to create ice.
Since the other five books had techniques that fell under elemental affinities that were not wind based, Leo was unable to learn anything from them, at least for the time being. To Leo, he wanted to even surpass the Master ranked warrior level, but he knew that it would still take quite a bit of time since he was not even at the Executive rank.
”Maybe I can eventually take on an apprentice, and these books can be used sooner than later.” He thought as he quickly put all the books away and started to work on leveling up his new techniques. Leo would spend five days training diligently to understand the new techniques he learned.
-On the sixth day-
Waking up in a dark place with only a waterfall next to him shook the older man to quickly try to get on his feet. His eyes were filled with a fear, the fear that he would die at any moment.
”What is your name? My name is Leo and you can say that I am from a human city not too far from here.” Seeing that the older man was longing for answers and trying to understand where he was, Leo was quick to introduce himself.
”Where is everyone else? Did our raid really fail this time as well?” the older man questioned Leo as he calmed down slightly. This older man still had a chip on his shoulder and was not willing to remain too idle.
”That must mean that you are most likely from that village close by to this location. If I had to guess, when you were battling against the spiders with the rest of the warriors from your village, you were unexpectedly paralyzed while still in combat.”
”It would be safe to say that you as well as many of your people during the raid were captured, the good news however, is that your village and its people are still alive and well. I apologize but that is the best I could really do for you right now. You should relax a little more, right now you are safe again and my current plan is to head back to your village as quickly as possible.”
”You may have been paralyzed for so many years, but right now it seems that the unfinished job stirred up the spiders to some capacity and they are already making a move to defend that cave of theirs. I am not sure what they are up to, but it can't go unchecked for too long.” Leo said as he allowed the older man to absorb all of the information.