start training

Maria rushed at me. she dipped and weaved right as she was about to reach him and punched me.

I avoid her attack lift my right hand and punch her but she backs off dodging my punch and lift her leg and try high kicking my face but in the last moment before she hit my face I succeed blocking her kick.

Now I have to start attacking her. I think

I quickly move from my defensive position to attack mode and punch her

She defends herself by hitting my hand so the blow doesn't hurt her and quickly moves to her next move and gives a knee to the chin and throws me into the trees.

Boom!

The shock wave caused me to crush on the trees.

"Max are you okay?"

"Hhhh" I uncontrollable laughter.

This is the first time I got injured in this body, I thought I would be dispersed about it but-

I think I don't really mind.

Maria looks at me dumb about my sudden laughter.

I get up with jump back standing again.

I turned my neck from left to right and popping it with a series of clicks in rapid succession. Then, I proceeded to do the same with the rest of his body as I loosened up the rest of his body.

My problem is I think too much in battle and this slows down my reaction time and making me not using my all might in the battle I need to fight more instinctively.

"I am okay Maria" I answer her.

Ahh, thank goodness I thought I exaggera--

Maria, I stop her in the middle of the sentence

"what do you think I did wrong?"

"Ahh well, I think you, first of all, you fought like rocky your fighting stance was horrible which cause your defense to be dull"

"your movements were very obvious and predictable also you switch from defense to attack at bad conditions you see little chance to attack you attack even though the chance to land a proper blow which causes damage very low and higher chances to get damage."

" you should stay in defensive mode and try to open a bigger opening in my defense and only then attack me."

Wows as excepted from hand to hand combatant.

"And the last thing it seems you holding back your self in some way I don't know."

"Thanks, Maria it helped me a lot." I smile she looks for a moment red but it instantly disappeared maybe I imagined it.

"Don't hold back Maria I won't hold back either ." I snarled at Maria.

I start clearing my mind from all kinds of thoughts from my head letting my instincts take control of the fight.

I turned his attention back to the fight, "Now, where were we?"

Maria pov

Max suddenly dashed at me with high speed punch me in the stomach making me flying to trees and crushing on them.

Ahh, what is that he completely changed from a few moments ago his power and speed are incredibly increased.

he walks toward me I look at him and he looks like a berserker

It seems I have to be more serious.

Max pov

I walk toward Maria and age get up fast with a much serious face than before.

"Good, it seems she is getting this fight more seriously."

She rushes at me and tries to punch me I block her attack

Boom! Shock created form her blow cracked the ground under me.

After I blocked her attack she starts to row of heavy strikes trying to break my defense. The ground cracked even more.

She finally succeed to break my defense and give me a heavy punch on my chest.

It hurts I feel my hand little numb and my chest feels like shit but I see opening in Maria defense and I use it to land hit on her face.

She endures it and we started to exchange blows of each other.

while fighting I feel Adrenaline is flowing in my blood and excitement is getting stronger.

"Good, I like it lets heat up the fight more I want to enjoy this fight more," I say and start putting more power and speed for each blow. The surrounding area got to tear up more and more.

Maria attack started to become weaker and weaker I could feel it in her attacks

So Maria to end the fight maria gather magic in her leg to enhance her attack and kicked me on the top of my head.

My head crashed into the ground.

Boom!

"Ahh," what happened I feel my consciousness fading.

I wake up and I see I am back in the house in my bed I see my injures treated.

I move to a sitting position.

"Ahh", my head hurts.

I look outside the window The sun almost finish setting.

"You finally wake up" maria enters the room with soup.

She gives me soup.

"Eat it will make you feel better"

"Thanks", I look at her and it seems she also got injured from our fighting she has On the right cheek patch on the left arm bandage.

"Maria are you okay?"

She sees I look at her injures

"Ahh, this is nothing special the injure isn't serious also I am a demon so this injures will vanish in no time."

"Good to hear."

"Maria, what happened after I lost my consciousness?"

"Ahh, this was really tiresome our fight caused a lot of noise so the people in the city noticed so I had to repair the forest from the damage we caused and eliminate any trance of us before the Marines come also lifting you back home and treating you and more of all doing it with all my injures I got from the fight was really hard."

Sorry, Maria and thanks for everything.

I look at her with a serious face and she seems a little uncomfortable.

"Okay I will go now you need to rest when you end the soup keep the plate

Beside your bed also be prepared we are going to start our real training."

I look forward to it.

"Okay, good night."

"Good night Maria."

She gets out of my room I end the soup and put the plate beside my bed.

I replay the fight in my mind and think about what was I wrong and how could I improve my power.

In the battle I was faster than Maria our strength was comparable the difference between us was experience and technique and lastly magic.

experience and technique I could gain over time but I need to resolve my low magic problem fast.

While I wonder this thought I fell asleep without noticing.