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'...' Whenever someone thinks.

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Lee continues after some time.

Aptitude represents the disorder of elements in a body. A mortal body forms from an equal amount of each element like mana. But few people have some element present in excess amount in them which converts their neutral body to slightly ionic of that element. That said element will be the natural element of that person.>

Seeing the confused look on Eric Lee's further explains.

Warrior has 7 known levels from 0 to 6. When a person forms his core he becomes level 0. Now each level is divided into 3 stages. These stages represent the capacity of mana you can store in the mana core. At stage 1 1/3 of the core can be filled with mana. At stage 2 2/3 of mana can be filled with mana core and at stage 3 whole core can be filled with mana.

Increasing the stage is known as a minor breakthrough. It represents how much mana is stored in the core. Now going from 1 level to another level is known as a major breakthrough. When a warrior has a major breakthrough, his core reform and becomes more firm and big.

Master minor breakthrough is very simple but major breakthroughs required many conditions to be fulfilled. These conditions become harder as your level increases. Due to this reason, only a few people can achieve higher levels of power.

As warriors increase their strength their core will also increase in strength and size.>

"Mm, I already know that"

Lee asks.

Eric confusedly spoke.

"Oh, you do not know it. I thought that you will able to read my memories"

"Oh, things are like that."

After some thought, Eric agrees as their nothing harmful in the know the same thing one more time.

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"Well, OK you go with scanning stuff"

Then Eric's whole body starts shining in blue light. After 2-5 min it stops and Lee's voice once again comes to his mind. By now he become somewhat used to this mind voice thing.

Hearing Lee's voice Eric becomes stunned as he says.

"What my core is not damaged?"

Ask Eric in a hopeful tone.

Hearing that Eric becomes happy as he thought that his core shatters. But now, he can regain his power much faster than he thought.

With some concern, Eric asks

"Lee, what will happen when all mana leaves my core? "

Master in your case both your body and your core are losing the last of the mana present in them. This will make your core fragile and your body will revert to the same as when you were mortal.>

Hearing this Eric panicked. He does not want to lose his second chance. He hastily asks.

"Lee there is no way to stop it. Do my core break."

Eric knows that once a core breaks everything about becoming a warrior will be over. Lee speaks to him.

Hearing Lee, Eric becomes concerned that his core may break but then he composes himself as he has no solution for that all he can do is wait for Lee to finish his calculation.

Inside a dark cave, Eric sits with some concern waiting for Lee's answer while his eyes are shining with the thought of a better future.

Lee speaks 10 mins later.

Hearing this Eric raises eyebrows and stares at Lee thinking 'you are the one who tells me that a legacy does not need my personal life information now you are the one to ask me. '

Seeing Eric stare at him instead of answering Lee clarifies.

Well, Eric does not have any world-changing secret himself in the first place so he started telling.

"I belong to a small village at a far distance from here. I lived with my abusive father who died when I turned 11 years old. In every village, every three years a Warrior comes from the Academies federation to take any child from 12 -18 years who have an aptitude to become a warrior.

When I reached 12 that the year, I was tested to have an aptitude and I got selected to become a warrior with a dark natural element. From there I and other children like me gathered at the Destiny plaza where many other near village and city children came with Warriors.

At the selection plaza, we got to choose an academy from many Academies present in our region. There I became a student at 'Griffin white academy'."

Saying now Eric takes a deep breath to calm himself down as the name of the academy resurfaces many betrayals for him. Calming himself down Eric continues

"In the academy, we were taught much basic knowledge about warriors and wars. They explain the paths a warrior can take and they test us for which path we were suitable for. There they only tell us about techniques that are useful if you work in the army and nothing else.

From childhood, I was always skinny and weaker than the rest of my peers. So, I choose the mage path, and from that day my journey begins as a warrior. In the academy, I was one of the few dark element warrior mages from our year. I was happy at that time. I thought I will achieve greater heights in the academy. But my dream shatters when I come to know that I only have D-rank potential.

Even with a D rank potential, I tried to become stronger. And I even got early success. At the start of academy year when talent does not matter much I defeated many of the higher talented students.

From childhood as I always remain the last of the bunch, this change gets in my head and I made some stupid decisions in my life. I got in love with a girl not perceiving her true self.

After some time my talent come in the way and I became much slower in mana manipulation than others and slowly everyone starts getting ahead of me. I was once again slowly getting toward the last of the bunch but before than would happen regional war for mortals started after 3 years of my joining the academy.

In the war, I did my best to perform well but because of my lowly strength, I was not able to do much. Almost at the end of the war, I got my hand on a treasure that would improve my strength but then that girl betrays me saying that the treasure is better used on her than me."

Saying that Eric becomes Eric's eyes glint but overall, he remains calm. He does not want to get affected by his past. He needs to move on. Eric continues.