'The voice of the teacher? What happened?' Eric said.

'He seems to be knitting for something again.' Mira responded.

It was not strange to them; they have seen it like this many times in just half a month, getting used is really scary.

'Since we came here and strange things happen over and over again, I'm not really surprised anymore.' Tai min participated in the conversation expressing his opinion.

'It's his responsibilities and we have nothing to do with it, so there's no need to interfere in vain.' Yoon Hwa added a few words to what Tai min just said a moments ago.

'As she said a moment ago, let's take care of our own things and let the teacher take care of his work. Prepare well for tomorrow and take advantage of this evening to practice or learn.' Dante responded to them telling them to not Cram their noses into what doesn't concern them.

'You are right, time is running out and the month is almost over, how many days have passed since we started again?'

'17 or 18 days I think? I'm not sure.'

Days pass either quickly or very slowly until someone loses the sense of time. Especially on holidays, it will end before it even starts.

'Our pace of growth has accelerated recently, why not aim for four times our points in the aptitude test by the end of the month, I am confident that we can achieve at least three times.'

The team gathered their hands and made an agreement to challenge themselves to get four times the previous score. Each of them went to train with their goals in mind.

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An evening of training passed and a new morning arrived, the weather was hot compared to previous days and the usual training was completed with its two phases before nine o’clock, their speed became great to be able to finish their training session faster, the enthusiasm that prevailed over them had an effective role in that. Each of them waited for the teacher's instructions, waiting for what he would teach them as he promised yesterday.

'When will we start training, Master?'

'We'll start in a while, just wait a bit.'

Maximus cloned himself several times and there are now eight copies, rather an original and seven copies. One of them sat on the chair and turned out to be the original among them and only he spoke.

‘Each of you will train with a copy of mine, it will teach you the skill you need the most right now. Treat them as you treat me and don't try to mess around.'

'Understandable, we will listen carefully so do not bother yourself.'

Each copy of him met one of the students and they all spoke with one voice.

'It's going to be really fun; you'll learn properly how to use skills related to your combat specialties so focus well with me.'

It was an irreplaceable opportunity for students and they had to make the best of it.

.........

In one corner of the room, away from the others, Maximus’s clone and Aliana sat opposite to it; it took a deep breath and focused with the explanation.

'I told you earlier that your specialty is related to spirits, or so-called masters of spirits. This discipline requires good control and close bonding with spirits that require conditions that I supposedly told you earlier.'

'Yes, I remember it very clearly. I train alone for about an hour in controlling the spirits, summoning them quickly and developing a dynamic fight technique with spirits.'

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'Yes, I noticed that you tamed multiple spirits. Did you notice anything strange at that time?'

'Something suspicious happened which is that the spirits that enter the ring merge to become spirits of a higher rank, Torupi is an example of this.'

She then summoned the spirit of wood from the green ring, which was terrified of the power of the person standing in front of her. The spirit did not even move and remained stationary as a statue until Maximus spoke.

'Good then. This is a unique feature in this category of items and as I told you earlier, I put the spell myself and it is one of the few in the world. Take advantage of it as much as you can. Hurry up for higher-ranking spirits at the earliest opportunity.'

The soul returned at Aliana's request very quickly as a mouse that saw a fierce tiger in front of it and Aliana stared at the teacher's version and did not understand why the spirit was so terrified.

'That pocket watch amulet I gave to you the first day, take it out right away.'

From her inner pocket of the jacket, which is seen as a pocket watch, but when she opened it it was a multi-colored spiritual stone and brought it to the master's hand and gave it to him.

'This pocket watch has a characteristic the likes of which I have never seen before except in the distant future. It has the potential to temporarily merge spirits.'

'Don't these rings perform better, their effect is also permanent, or I didn't get it right.'

The copy hit its forehead because it got it wrong with the explanation; it made a mistake in choosing words.

'I didn't explain it right, I mean it is able to combine spirits from different elements to produce a stronger spirit and with the characteristics of the two elements for a limited time. It does not have a limit to the number of spirits combined at once. Watch closely to understand.'

With a gesture of his finger, the spirits forcibly came out of all the rings. He began by gathering only two of them. The two spirits entered the colored stone and it appeared to be visible as if they were two droplets circulating until they mixed and came out of the watch. Half of its body was brown and the other red. The spirit was able to control both elements more strongly than each of them could alone. He waved his finger again and the two spirits separated. He repeated the process using three and then four spirits later and the results were that good.

When trying to combine the five spirits of the basic elements, the color of the watch's spiritual stone disappeared and became nothing more like a piece of polished transparent quartz. Ten seconds later, a transparent spirit emerged from the stone, which has regained its original color as soon as it came out.

Aliana wandered while staring at this transparent spirit, as she had never seen it in a book.

"What's wrong? What kind of spirit is this? Is it really a spirit?"

'Your expressions say you didn't know what it was. These are mysterious spirits; they possess the characteristics of several spirits and their shape and appearance change based on their power. In low rank its appearance is so transparent.'

Thirty seconds later, the fusion was broken, the spirits were separated from each other, and they hurriedly returned to their rings for fear of Maximus and his experiments.

'What should I do now?'

'Integration is automatic once spirits enter this stone but to separate them you must either wait for the time limit or separate them manually and this is what you have to learn.'

'Is there any advice or hint on how to do it?'

'You just have to practice separating mana of different elements from each other. To do this, you must differentiate between the mana properties of each element. Try to dig up the properties of each element in your head by interacting with the spirits of that element long enough. Start now.'

Aliana started with the spirit of wood as it is the first spirit she received and then entered a state of focus.

.........

In the center of the room, Tai Min, Yoon Hwa and their accompanying copies met and did not understand what was required. The rest were solo but these two were together, which meant it was joint training.

'It may sound strange but the two rings I gave you are very simple. Your ring increases speed and your ring increases strength.'

Maximus' version referred to Tai Min and then Yoon Hwa and continued its explanation.

'Their effect is immediate and does not require training. The thing that needs is the synchronization state that starts after the wearers arrive to get enough harmony and that is our training today. I am going to attack from close and he is going to attack from afar, you have to cooperate to try to defeat us by supporting each other. It won't be easy, little ones.'

Each adjusted his weapon and posture and said in one voice and a glow of mana in their eyes, the state of synchronization began to show the first signs since the beginning and this meant that the two harmonized from the joint training to face Maximus during the previous days.

'Ready, let's get started immediately.'

The two rushed straight towards the version without hesitation with their best from the start in the hope of a better result than the previous sessions...