Stronger

6 years has passed since Justine had met with Kronos in his dream and ever since then he has been trying to get stronger to ensure that he would win against him. Once Justine was 6 years old and was now fully able to walk and swing a stick, he started to practice his swordsmanship using a stick as a substitute for a sword, he also practiced magic since he needed to use anything so he can win against Kronos, fortunately he knew some spells back in his past life and thus started to practice those first, since his body still can't handle the powerful spells he knew of, he just started off with basic spells like [ Fireball ], [ Wind blade ], [ Waterball ], [ Rock toss ] and other spells that can enhance his physical prowess and healing magic.

Right now, Justine is 10 years old and is currently practicing near the forest where there was a small lake, practicing with a stick as a substitute for a sword, imbued with some mana on it to make it so it felt like a sword that suited his current body. After he was done practicing 200 swings with the stick, he took a rest for 10 minutes and started to practice fire magic.

He circulated his mana to his fingertips to create small flames appearing in each finger and then gradually made all the small flames into two [ Fireball ] in each hand, he then stopped casting the two fireballs and then tried to circulate both of his hands to cast [ Wind blade ], there were two ways to cast this spell which was to either coat your hand with mana and swing it at the direction you want the [ Wind blade ] to go or to envision the [ Wind blade ]

in the direction you want it to be, the latter can be harder if the caster does'nt know about the fundamental things about mana and will highly result in a fail of an attempt but the former is also hard but a lot easier to do since one will also have to envision the mana being transformed into a blade of wind but one can freely aim and hold onto the blade of wind since it mana is coated around the hand.

Justine was currently practicing the [ Wind blade ] and aiming at a nearby tree since their village was located near a forest near the border of the kingdom.

" My attacks are currently weak but i think i can make them stronger by adjusting the construction of my [ Wind blade ]. " He murmured after finishing up attacking the now slash filled tree.

He then moved onto practicing water magic by forming a ball of water and figuring out how he can adjust it to make it stronger, faster, and harder in terms of durability to withstand attacks also.

' Water is very unique due to it being very strong in attack, defense, and speed... but i'll have to test things out which form of it would excel in those three fields. ' Justine thought.

He then started to form various shapes with water, testing out its fields it excels in. After 15 minutes of experimenting, he chose 3 shapes of water that exceled in the three fields that are attack, defense, and speed.

" For attack i can make it denser and make it into a ball [ Water ball ] to make it hit harder, for defense, i can also make it denser but by making it larger takes up more mana and more focus than when i just make it into a small shield or cover my current body height with. "

As of now Justine was currently 52.5" or 133.3cm which is the average height of a 9 year old. " for speed i can make it thinner, making it have a sharp point and also make it longer making it look like a lance. " once he was done speculating those, he then moved onto the earth element.

' I can't really do anything to it for now since i only know of two spells for it but i think i need to fix my aim for it. '

Justine stood up and walked to a nearby tree staying 3 feet away from it, and started casting

[ Rock toss ] against it. Every time he casted it, 6 rocks always appeared, being formed by mana by command of Justine, and every 6 rocks, only 3 were able to hit it with strong force behind it.

Justine practiced this until sunset when it was eventually time for him to go home, at the end, the 3 rocks that hit the tree with strong force behind them turned into 4, Justine was satisfied with the results of his training today since he made progress in his pursuit of getting stronger.

As he was walking home he saw a small beast that almost resembled that of a wolf but with one key difference, it had 4 tails!