7 Metamorphosis (END)

The sphere of flame rotated at high speed on my palm. It formed into a beautiful orange marble due to how fast it spun, the sphere slowly grew in size.

The task my mother gave me was to slowly increase the amount of magic I could control, not to increase the power of small spheres. She reasoned that it was like a river, the wider the canal, the greater the amount of water could travel down it at a time.

"How long do I keep doing this?" As the sphere grew as big as a fist a second sphere started forming beside it. "How many spheres do I make?"

"Keep going until you make 6, then switch element to Lightning and then wind. You're going to make sphere less for each element." She was lying on her stomach, resting her head on her hands and elbows on the floor, her kegs kicking back and for in the air. 

Truth be told I wanted to learn to boost to mix it with the breathing and see how it could be used to help one another. But actual fire on my sword strikes might help a lot.

"Do it in one year and I'll pay the best blacksmith from Lorel Union to craft you the best Katana." Some strong motivation would help me along.

"Um no thanks." I raised my hand in a stop gesture. Makoto would be brought to this world soon and get ahold of the eldwarfs. Plus I get to see how he is so OP, now that I think about it are the heroes here yet? Gonna have to build some mental defenses against their busted mind control powers.

"Do you know magic that forms mental defenses with magic?" The second brid dissolved and the other one shrank.

"Focus." She threw a shoe at me before going silent. "I'm not sure, you could probably protect your mind using Boost. Mind reading or some kind of charming magc is extremely rare, you would have to comprehend a mind for you to be able to fully control or solve someone's thinking not many have that magic. Also, it usually is used for one person and is slow, akin to slowly building up muscles."

"Then when will you train me in Boost magic?"

"When you are able to form the 6 brids of fire and the other elements." Lilith brought in a plate full of fruit in a bowl. My mother did not wait for her to place the plate on the floor before she had a fruit in her mouth.

"One of the easiest or more convenient ways to imagine and control magic is to concentrate on one thing the element does, like for fire what it does. Imagen the brid in your hand burning something." I did as she said, memories from the other world told me it burned it and the more it burned at the same time the hotter it got. The flame got bigger and 2 more formed on my palm.

"Great, continue like that and you'll achieve the goal faster." She started juggling brids she formed.

Half a year later she was finally going to teach me Boost magic along with enhancement magic. I was finally getting the hang of brids.

"Ok boost is very simple, imagen tubes inside your body. Now Imagen magic running through it, imagine it as a white liquid. so you don't burn your body from the inside out."

A similar feeling built up to when I fought the orc, however this time without the pain or heat building up. I kept filling those tubes now covering those nerves with more magic, feeling the raw power filling my body I noticed a little discomfort like an itch I could not scratch. After 30 minutes I started to feel tired, another 15 nausea, and finally, I passed out after another 10.

When I woke up, I started again while my mother came back from doing a quest. Lilith sat on her knees staring at me rather forcefully, as if trying to figure something out.

"Something on your mind Lilith?"

"Ah no I mean yes Young Master, I noticed you're keeping all your magic in, thats not good for you if you plan to keep filling it with magic. Imagine a barrel with so much wine it cannot fully hold it, it leaks the wine, right? But in your case, you will pop. Now it does leak out little by little or else boost would only have to be used once, however, you just need to fill it back up." 

"Oh ok that will keep me in combat a lot longer. It sounds like you know about magic, can you teach me magic enhancement?"

"Certainly, however, know that your mother the mistress will come down on me like a raging inferno, please shield me from it when the time comes." She bowed to me, placing 3 fingers on the ground.

Wait doesn't that mean we're about to clap cheeks, do the sideways tango, offload the load on the road that's got a hole? "Uhhhh sure, I mean yes I will."

"Thank you, now magic enhancement follows the same principle as boost but you load your magic into an object. There is a danger to it, if you overload the item with magic it will blow up and if you place too low of a charge on it, achieving the sweet spot boosts the durability plus the magic effect. Keeping it hovering in the sweet spot of magic loaded is quite difficult, it will not have any or very little effect. There are special materials that help keep the magic lasting a lot longer." She stood up and left the living room, and after a minute she bought my practice sword. "Your weapon is supposed to be resistant to flame, the best one to practice with. Do keep in mind every item has a different sweet spot."

"Oh I see." I stood up, taking my sword "Then I will be going out to experiment with these lessons, I'm too excited to sit and practice indoors."

Trying to revert my breathing to how it was before would hurt my muscles now that they are used to having so much Oxygen so I'll give up on seeing the difference of how much Boost strengthens me more or less than sun breathing.

Chaining forms 1-4 again with boost but this time I felt I could do one more form before my body gave up again. Boosting myself did not just increase my strength and speed but also my endurance.

I kept practicing my magic until my mother came home and sat down to watch me, maybe how efficiently I used my magic.

"I see someone taught you magic enhancement," she gave a look to Lilith who shivered a bit, and kept a firm lock on me "There are some ways you can make your handle on it better but you'll figure it out in time, now then." She filled her lungs "OBITO!!!!!!!!" her shout had my ear ringing.

My father came running, with a sword in hand. "Where are they, those bastards dare attack my cute wife. BLOOD WILL RAIN TODAY!!!!!!!!!"

"No, you idiot!! You're going to test your son's combat skills." She jumped to his side and tried to slap him on the head, missed, tried again, missed again. For me, it looked like my mother's hand would go through his head. 

"GEHEHE!! Can't touch this na-na-na" He did a little dance on his way to me.

"Ok then, got no practice swords so I'll use this one and hit you with the blunt side, now use everything you have learned." He took a sword position in front of me, one foot in front of the other, squared shoulders, and the sword in front of him held vertically.

I took a similar posture "I'm ready then."

With a quick step we began, I attacked first, and every and any of my swings were either dodged or parried. Whenever I used boost he would counter but otherwise just be on the defensive.

"You're not using all you can, there is something more, hidden." I could the look in his eyes, like a master seeing a promising student. "The see-through world will allow you to predict your opponent's next move and also see their anatomical weakness." He spoke like he knew about it already. "Use it, try to evade my attacks."

Within half a second he disappeared from his spot and appeared beside me, the movement of his muscles told me he was about to perform a horizontal slash. His speed would not allow me to dodge the strike. I lifted my sword to defend myself from the attack however the moment they made contact I was sent flying. It felt like trying to block an unstoppable object, it left my arms numb.

"I did say evade my attacks." He smiled sadistically and disappeared again.

On the day before my 17th birthday, I was escaping my mother's home training and returning to the wasteland. 

Equipped with a normal half-plate armor covering my heart, and my blunt sword on my hip clothes too of course.

First I went to the orphanage to invite Lime and place our improvements to the test.

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