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"He is a tall human.", the little man said.

"Okay. I get it, Dwun. Pick a leather armor and adjust it to him.", she said angrily at the dwarf.

"Anything more?", the short man asked.

"One tassel spear too.", she said.

"Gonna train him on the slimes then.", he concluded.

"Tassel?", Leo said it to himself. "Like a tassel, tassel?", he made a mimic.

"It's more like a trident but has property to resist the inner of a slime.", she explained.

"Here's the weapon. Now I'll make the adjustments. So come here boy.", Dwun called him. "Hurry.", the dwarf took his measurements. "Now off my forge. Go to the otherside of the balcon."

"Take and swing it a little.", she passed the spear to him.

As when he thought how to use the scarf the same happened as soon he touched the weapon. Movements clear and with a continuous flow. Between some movements there was throwing the weapon. So he knew why marksmanship was there now.

"You know a little, don't you?", she was surprised by his movements.

"This is the systems help. It shows what to do and I'm trying to follow it.", there was a lot of flaws and yet she complimented. What was the best he could achieve with the system?

A few minutes passed and the leather armor was on the balcon.

"Everything will be twenty five pieces of gold.", the dwarf said.

"Here.", she passed a little bag with the money. "Grouchy man."

"Now leave that you are keeping the clients away, no god hero.", he replied and Leo noticed but did nothing.

"Lets go.", she said to the boy.

On the outside.

"Why do you let them treat you like this?", he asked.

"He's that way but don't mean it.", she smiled. "Now lets go the forest of the slimes."

"Forest?", he asked.

"It's only on the name. The place is an Ancient Ruin that is desolated from any city.", she explained. "The perfect place to train.", she returned with a question. "Did you gained any spell beyond Minor Healing?"

"Ignite, Fire Lance, Fireball, Telekinesis and Reverse Inertia."

"You have higher tier spells already.", she said. "So don't use Fireball and Reverse Inertia. They would only dry your low Magic. Maybe using Ignite sometimes to improve your use and your Magic."

"And about Fire Lance and Telekinesis?", they looked like good spell as he researched a little.

"Fire Lance would consume greatly and you could defeat a slime in one go but this isn't what we are after.", she thought a little. "Telekinesis is a battle spell. So I really don't know much about it."

"Okay.", he said that but for him the higher spell on his hands was actually Telekinesis.

"Show me the Ignite spell.", she said.

"Accendere.", a flame showed up where his palm was directed.

"Okay, Now we'll be increasing the distance till we know the limit."

After some tests and a few minutes training. Leo was exhausted and as he was about to use Minor Healing she stopped him.

"You won't have time for this on the battlefield.", she hold his hand and threw him like the man earlier.

His mind was empty. He saw the tassel on the ground. So his hands were free. He took the scarf and with a sudden movement it became attached to a tree and he swang to avoid the fall.

"And I thought this was a simple scarf for the cold weather.", she said.

He smiled and fall of mental exhaustion. When he woke up they were on a site near the ruins. Still inside the forest but the stones were near enough to he know that this place was humongous.

"It's here?", he asked.

"Yes.", she smiled eating a roasted bird. "Eat up too. From now to the next eleven day will be a hellish training."

He grabbed the stick with his food and started to eat. He put the scarf on the Dimensional Bag as it wasn't a good match to a spear. There were another food as well in any case. Now he took his time to look at her equipment.

"Didn't you say that you used a flail?", he clearly was seeing a mace. Magical one but still a mace.

"Here.", she pulled the weapon's head and a fire chain showed up. "It's a flail still."

"And a towershield. You're nothing less than a tank really."

"If you talking too much is time to start.", she smiled. "Take the weapon and keep that its head up.", she looked and the night was about to fall. "Some of them can become almost invisible at night and fire will call more of them. Be cautious."

"You're not going?"

"They are level zero monsters. A kid with a weapon can kill them. You are more than that. Now go and return after defeating ten at least."

"Okay.", he left the site and entered the outside of the ruins.

A lot of stone pillars some yet standing and others on the floor. There are some marking of gold on the floor and they weren't dusted. He started to look on the stones more carefully and muffle his steps. The first one was a blueish and round. He immediately remembered one anime that he loved. The problem was that this slime was about three times Leo's size.

He maintained the target on the sight and approached tooking his time looking the environmental around him. When he was on reach of the Ignite spell he started.

"Accendere.", the monster size decreased. "It's made of water. Accendere. Accendere. Accendere.", the size was now half of Leo's. So he went for close combat but with the casting another slimes approached. "Not now.", he threw his weapon against the water slime. On hit the damage was enough to kill it. His hand was like a certain god looking for his weapon. So the spear returned with the Telekinesis spell.

One, two, three, four, five. There are another five on his chase but he was smart than them or so he wanted to think. Another use of Telekinesis would mean his end even for that monsters.

"Two green, one blue, one purple and one red. I need them to be aligned.", he started to take turns around the ruins and then he looked again at the monsters. "One green and two purple? They fused while walking?"

He kept his pacing and the monster was now a great brown slime. So he turned against in a straight alley. Fire started to circulate him and a great lance started to be formed of it.

"Lancia di Fuoco.", the spear went through burning the slime and killing it. "I wouldn't have succeeded if there was one more red slime on its fusion.", he was tired but the knew about the another wave of slime so he went stealth.