1 Week Later
Huop!
Newt threw his rudimentary spear towards a fish flowing down the river, successfully missing it whilst scaring the rest of the fish away from the fish trap.
"Newwwt!" Tanya yells at him, "Stop doing that! You're scaring the fish away!"
She pouts with her arms crossed.
"Ah... S-sorry Tanya, I'll just fish with your Dad."
Newt responds with a apologetic expression as he walks up to Jared who was sitting on a large rock next to the lake the river flowed from.
"Want to join me?" Jared asks with a kind smile handing one of the two fishing rods to Newt.
"Do you remember everything from last time?" Jared asks as Newt struggles to get the line out into the lake.
Seeing the sullen look on Newt's face he once again begins explaining how to properly fish.
Once Newt had finally cast his line, Jared asked a question, "Any reason for your sudden fascination with the spear?" Giving Newt a knowing look before returning his gaze to the lake.
After a long pause Newt takes a deep sigh, "I gave my word to you that I wouldn't bring your family any trouble, sadly the Church is most likely searching for me. I'd say at most I have two month until they find this place, most likely less, the only thing limiting them is the manpower and the ground they need to cover. Even if they took a straight like towards me it would still take days a minimum. However that means they will arrive here eventually.
I'm sure that the three of you will be fine considering I can't sense anything from you or Jenn, and your faces aren't known considering." He gestures to his face in the corresponding burns on Jared's face, before continuing, "Which means I must leave as to not implicate you, though I must ask you, do you really believe I will be able to survive with my current skills in the wilderness and from the church."
Seeing Jared shake his head as an expression on understanding covers his face.
"Magic takes too much time, whether it be learning it, casting it, and using it in combat, maybe simple spells but otherwise, it's not realistic. That leaves training my body and learning to use a weapon." Newt explains.
"Kid, are you stupid?"
Jared's genuine question caught Newt off-guard, "U-um...What?" he questions.
"You do remember me telling you I was a Mage right? Or that Jess was a Warrior? We could have taught you."
Newt gets verbally smacked in the face but tries to recover, "B-but I don't want to trouble you two, plus you crippled your Mana Heart and Jenn Ki storage?"
Jared looks at Newt in a completely different light, "So you are an idiot."
Before Newt could respond Jared continues, "Kid, we don't want kids like you dying, imagine what Tanya would go through if she found out you died? She would be heartbroken, she finally has a friend. On the other hand, I could kick your ass in Magic without even a Mana Heart, you have fuel but no way to use it, let alone the experience to properly use it.
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Then there is Jenn, a WARRIOR, a person who uses Ki and fights with their body, let me reiterate. Fights. With. Her. Body." Jared flicks Newts head eliciting a yelp from Newt.
"Not even mentioning the fact you don't have a choice in the matter, it's either you learn from us, or you're pretty much dead. Throw away that small pride or shame and embrace shamelessness! Stand up!" He picks Newt up with a single hand and continues, "Now what is it you should ask me?!"
"I...."
"What is it?!"
"Please teach me Magic!"
"Good! I will!"
"Thank you Teacher!"
"You're welcome, now what will you ask Jenn when we get back?"
"To teach me how to fight with my body!"
"Good!"
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3 Hours Later...
"Please teach me how to fight!"
"Sure. We begin tomorrow."
"Thank you Teacher!"
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The next morning
Knock Knock Knock
"...mmm." Newt rolls over in his bed and snuggles deeper into the blankets and pillows.
Squeeeeek
"...hmmm? MMMMAAH" Newt's leg got grabbed and he began being dragged across the floor, until he was thrown onto the ground outside.
"Getup, training begins now. Run to the lake and back, if you stop once you have to repeat the entire exercise. Go!"
"...What?"
Smack!
"Ow!"
"Run, now!"
"O-okay!"
"Okay who?!"
"Okay Teacher!"
"Good! Go!"
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Half an hour later
"Congrats kid, you have worse stamina than Tanya, a nine year old."
Giving Newt a small period to rest she calls out. "Jared! Heal the kid!"
Jared comes out the house yawning, his eyes wanders over to Jennifer than to Newt, shrugs, than casts one of the few healing spells he could cast without a Mana Heart, and then leaves Newt to his misery.
Newt however experienced a dramatic change, his muscle fibers healing accelerated and repairs itself stronger and faster, his skin felt slightly more tight as his muscles grew slightly and suddenly without his body adjusting to his body.
Groan
His stomach growls in hunger as a sudden sense of intense hunger, which Jennifer who had went inside with Jared, giving a kiss and a thank you whilst grabbing leftovers and a few bottles of water, handing them to Newt who guzzles down a bottle whilst taking sips from the second, greedily devouring all the food available.
After taking his time eating and drinking, taking an hour break, until Jennifer calls Jared again.
'Oh no...'
"Jared could you cast a muscle relaxer and another heal spell?"
"Sure sweetie."
His body forcefully relaxes as the spell takes over before another heal spell occurs, making him more hungry, though once again, Jennifer expecting this passes him more food.
After finishing the food Jennifer tells him to get up and says something that sends a chill down his spine, a sentence that would haunt him for weeks.
"Since you didn't finish the run in one go, you will have to do the entire run again for each of the times you stopped, in other words, go run to the lake and back five more times." She says with a kind smile, that was what Jared saw at least, Newt on the other hand, only saw the embodiment of the devil staring at him.
Smack!
"Go." Jennifer smacks Newt again.
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2 and a half hours later.
"Good job kid, go to the toilet now." Jennifer instructs him.
"Yes?" Newt tilts his head in confusion, on cue his stomach growls, and Newt's face pales.
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Later that day
"Okay to start with I'll properly teach you the most basic Mana Breathing, it's so basic that if you can't learn it you must be the most untalented person in the world, to the point you don't even deserve to cast the most basic of spells." Jared explains, getting Newt a bit nervous.
Jared takes out a thick book with a leather cover and begins tapping seemingly randomly across the front and back of the cover, injecting varying amounts of Mana each time. Until a transparent barrier that Newt didn't even see originally, fully fades away with the lock holding the leather strap holding the book closed unlocks allowing Jared to open it and begin explaining the technique. Finally finishing his explanation and giving Newt the book for him to make notes and fully go back to truly understand the technique.