Here is chapter 4 thanks for reading and sorry for slow updates will try to release a bit more chapters per week.
I woke up the next morning and quickly went threw my morning routine and after breakfast we headed to he guardhouse.
“Mother, can you tell me about dads friend”-Azure
“Hm well lets see he is quite old now but in the past he was a great warrior he was also the man who taught you're father so you know he's strong he used to be an A rank.”-Amelia
“Wow I can't wait to meet him”-Azure Hm I wonder how he'll be.
Nearing the guardhouse I could start seeing some of the town soldiers going on their patrols and some of the newer recruits training on the training grounds.
We walked straight into the post and headed towards the captains office although, we got some curious looks no one said anything. Guess it's because they recognize mother since she's the towns mage.
Knock Knock
“Come in”-?
A rough voice answered from the other side of the door. Mother went in and I followed the office was simple with only a desk and some bookshelves with a handful of books on it. The man sitting behind the desk was old but had the aura of a true warrior he reminded me so much of my old grandfather that my eyes started to itch however, I quickly got my emotions under control.
“Hello Gale how have you been?”-Amelia
“Amelia it's a nice surprise to see you I told you to tell me if you needed anything I thought of you and Arthur as my own children after all. Hm and who is this little one.”-Gale
“My name is Azure, sir”-Azure
“Yes, sorry I have not had the time to come here plus it's still hard to come here. I haven't been here since his death but, enough of that I came today to ask for a favor.”-Amelia
“Anything you name it and I'll get it done”-Gale
“Well I was hoping you could teach Azure the way of the sword and maybe how to better control his mana like a swordsman would.”-Amelia
“Hm I don't mind but, my training isn't easy are you up for it Azure.”-Gale
“Yes, sir”-Azure
“Ok then we'll see what you got and call me master from now on. Amelia you can leave Azure here I'll take care of him.”-Gale
“Alright I will come by in the afternoon to pick him up. Azure give it your best ok”-Amelia
“Yes, mom I will do my best”-Azure
We moved to the training grounds.
“So Azure first I will teach you how to sense mana inside your body and how to control the flow of mana.”-Gale
Although, I already learned how on my own I still listen to his explanation and don't bother telling him since he'll ask me to show him so I might as well wait and do it when he asks me to.
He told me to first concentrate and to feel the blood flowing in my veins then to look a bit deeper and try to find a similar feeling as that but different from it.
“ok, I did it”-Azure
After I said it he looked a bit shocked but quickly regained his composure
“You sure that was quite fast. Now I need you to follow that flow and steadily increase its strength once it reaches a certain strength then try to pass that feeling to your muscles, skin, blood, and mind it will help boost all your abilities. However, do not use this too much yet as since you are still young it could be harmful.”-Gale
I could easily feel the mana flow but this was the first time I would to move it to the outside. I first increased the flow which was easy then I started having trouble passing the feeling to the rest of my body. After a while I managed to get it to pass through my blood then it naturally went to the rest of my body.
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I opened my eyes and could see that quite a bit of time had passed even though at most it felt like a couple of minutes. I could also see that Gale was really shocked because this time his mouth was slightly cracked open and he didn't quickly regain his composure until I coughed.
“Well it seems you really do have quite a bit of talent. Okay now I'll have you wear a special training armor that will help you achieve finer control and train your body.”-Gale
He left and came back with what seemed to be plain leather shirt and trousers that you see at tailors shop I expected some heavy iron armor or something that would be really heavy.
“Heh that doesn't seem so hard”-Azure
After I said that I saw him smile. It gave me a weird feeling that maybe there's something different about those clothes.
“Okay put them on they will automatically change to your size.”-Gale
I quickly put them on and they really did change to fit my size. Wonder what else it's hiding. When I tried to move I found out I couldn't.
“Give it a bit to finish the adjustments.”-Gale said as he smirked
“These clothes are special that they will increase in weight according to the wearers age and strength so it will keep increasing with you to help you train of course there is a limit of 16 years old then it won't change much. It wasn't easy to get these I managed to win them of a traveling merchant a long time ago in one of my travels they are a one of a kind. They also have one more function whenever you use mana enhancement they will restrict your movements with the extra mana the user waste it allows for the user to get accustomed to using the exact amount of mana needed. In other words the less waste of mana the weaker the restrictions if you do it perfectly there won't be no restrictions.”-Gale
After, his explanation the magic clothes had finished their adjustments and had I really felt the weight coming down it felt like I was carrying rocks or something as I got more comfortable with the added weight I tried mana enhancement and found I couldn't move at all.
“Hehe seems you can't move at all. Don't worry it will get easier now for now all I want you to do is to build up your strength. You can start with running around the training grounds.”-Gale
I started running and kept running until I couldn't run anymore the perimeter of the grounds is about a quarter of a mile I could only run around it twice. Next, he made me swing a practice sword until I couldn't anymore I managed about 60 swings. It seems that today he wanted to test my endurance in order to make a training menu.
“Okay we are done for today take a break while you wait for your mom to come pick you up. Also, keep the clothes only take them off if necessary like taking a bath and such.”-Gale
After I waited for about 15 minutes mother showed up.
“Hey sweetie, how was your day”-Amelia
“It was great mom”-Azure
On our way home I told mom all about my day she seemed happy. Once we got to the library mom gave me lunch before we started the lessons. Afterwards we headed home ate dinner and then went to bed.
All in all it was a good day. The next day besides master giving me a training menu and weighted sword he told me to not come back until I could complete the menu in under an hour which was running around about 2 miles or 8 laps around the grounds and doing 500 sword swings.
So this is what my next couple of months consisted of.