Life: 2.2 The Training begins : Part 1

Lesson 1: Swordsmanship

I am facing Kiba while everybody is watching. Kiba and I took our respective stance. I waited for Kiba to make the first move. Since we are practicing we have just wooden swords.

The first clash was even. I blocked the simple strike of Kiba. Feeling that I can take a few more strikes he increased his pace and bombarded me with strikes I blocked each one of them, everybody was shocked.

"I am a kendo champion remember!"

After I said that everyone understood.

"Now let resume Kiba"

I attacked and was blocked as expected he is not some pushover. I then tightened the grip of my hand and spared with him each strike was blocked.

"Let's get serious Ise-kun"

I then just smiled.

"[Sharingan]"

SHUN https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=06fhZca9KuI

"Let's go," we both said at the same time.

Kiba activated his [Godspeed] and I had my [Sharingan]. I just predicted every attack and blocked it with ease. No matter from where he attacked I could trace the coming attack even the fakes won't work seeing this Kiba was confused. Now I was just deflecting his attacks with just one hand. Suddenly I saw a gap in his defense.

"Bingo!"

I thrust my sword in a piercing attack and to widen my range I bend forward. At that moment, Kiba stopped. His sword was in the position of having a horizontal slash. And was just near my neck and the tip of my sword was near his neck. I deactivated my Sharingan.

We sat on the ground. Asia came to us and handed towels to each of us.

"You are good at handling the sword. But I didn't expect you to be this good" said Rias.

I just smiled and nodded.

Lesson 2: Demonic power training

The one who is teaching me is Akeno-san.

The only person present in the room is Asia, Akeno, and me.

"If you are teaching us to control, then I have the control over my magic"

She just smiled at my comment and said,

"Ufufufu. Ise-kun be patient. Tell me one thing up until now you used magic right!"

"Yes?"

I was puzzled.

"You used mana to cast you magic right?"

"Yep!"

"What we devil use is demonic-power. We have more reserves of it than the mana and in more quantity. Mana is something which human and other races use. We use demonic-power. Magic is cast in three ways. One is a magic array. The second is spells also known as chants and the third is the magic circles which are the zipped and ready-to-use form of magic array. But to cast large magic you need to draw a magic array. Some skilled magicians can cast many magic circles at a time and can cast a big spell. As everything has exception this thing too, has an exception. I won't usually tell you about it but since Ise-kun uses it so I have to tell you. The exception is if you are skilled and understand the magic sequence or if you simply understand the essence of magic, then you can cast it directly without any of these methods, which is quite rare. Also, there are bloodline limits like Phoenix clan's healing abilities and Buchou's [Destruction] which also is an exception there is much more to it but it isn't the time nor the place to understand it, okay!"

That was something I didn't know. It's interesting probably I should visit the library.

[Partner! The normal library won't contain the knowledge you are looking for unless you read the bible. But, you are a devil and can't read it.]

Huh?

While I was lost in the thoughts, Akeno-san said,

"Ara ara, don't think about it too much Ise-kun. Let's start the lesson."

She put her hand over a bottle and the water starts to boil. I can see vapors rising from the bottle, it forms pressure inside the bottle as the bottle exploded due to pressure, she froze the water.

SPIKE

The water turned into ice spikes in instant.

"You must be able to do this. Now, for the first step try to create a sphere"

After she said this, just in a few moments, Asia created the sphere of size of a football. It was a bluish-green color ball with a green core, probably influenced due to her sacred gear.

"Now try to imagine an element and turn your sphere into that element"

Akeno guided her.

After that, her attention shifted to me.

"What happened Ise-kun?"

"Uh…. that um…. It's nothing"

"Ara ara don't be so reserved Ise-kun. What's the problem? You can tell me!"

"Let's talk about it later. By the way how big should the sphere be?"

"How big can you make?"

"Let's go out of the room first! I don't have the confidence of size of it after I pour in it my all"

"Ufufu! As you wish"

After coming out of the villa, I had my eyes twitch.

How did this situation come again?

Everybody was present and was staring at me.

Well, it can't be helped. Let's not make a fool of me in front of all of them.

[Sharingan]

SHUN https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=06fhZca9KuI

I then cupped both of my hands and slowly concentrated in between them. I concentrated on the energy which I used to summon my devil wings and guess what! A huge sum of energy started to gather from all around my body and it felt strong. Stronger than the mana I usually use. I smiled,

"HAAAAAAA"

I summoned all the energy from my body. And raised both of my hands above my head having the same stance as the 'Spirit bomb'.

The mass of energy was about a two-storied building it was pitch black with a crimson-colored core. I imagined to concentrate the big sphere and after a couple of minutes I was able to concentrate that entire mass of Demonic-power into a sphere of size little more than a tennis ball into my right hand and hold my left hand a little front of the elbow to gain further stability I then applied [Lightning] nature to it. I imagined the energy converting into sparks and later into a mass of lightning. The color was not blue as normal [Chidori] it was black with dark red sparks and with a little dark blue core.

I smiled and said

"[RAIKIRI]"

The mass of lightning sounded like the chirping of a thousand birds

"Ise, is that your new technique?" asked Rias.

"Yep. The credit goes to Akeno-san. She inspired me to form [Raikiri]. Now to test its effectiveness…"

I slammed it on the nearby tree.

CHIIII~

My hand passed through the tree like a hot knife cuts through butter. But I felt a little numbness from my arm.

[Partner quickly throw that mass into the sky. It's damaging your arm and would go berserk.]

I summoned a little mana into my right palm and projected [Raikiri] into the sky.

CHIII~

It went to the sky and decapitated after reaching a certain altitude. It was like a huge lightning storm had appeared in the sky and suddenly bolts of lightning started to rain down on us. Akeno-san made a barrier with magic to protect us.

BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!

'What happened Ddraig!? This shouldn't have happened I had my [Sharingan]'

[It's due to the inexperience and lack of physical endurance. You just created it and it wasn't tuned to suit you. In short, it wasn't perfect and your arm wasn't strong enough to take that much lightning energy. Let me explain, you added lightning energy to demonic-power which you were handling for the first time and demonic energy is destructive, to which you added lightning form having destructive nature again. So the moment your concentration disrupted, you lost control of it. If you had [Balance Breaker] then it might have been possible to endure it or control it. But now look at your arm it's ruined. You are lucky to have [Twilight Healing] with you. Or else your arm would need a very long time to recover without [Phoenix Tear]. So be careful next time partner.]

'Just imagine Ddraig if we added [Boost] to this then what would be the result'

[Were you even listening to me!]

After the barrage died down Rias came in an angry mood towards me while stomping her feet. But suddenly her expressions changed, her face changed into that of worry and she dashed at me took my arm into her hand and said,

"Ise your arm"

A surge of pain suddenly hit me.

DAMN!

By the moment my hand was inspected by Rias.

My hand was burnt there wasn't any skin visible on my palm. My right hand was seriously injured up to my elbow. Some of my muscles were burnt, near the wrist part exposing some of the bone. Asia came right away and commenced the healing process.

[Just a moment was enough to make your arm into this condition. Just imagine if I hadn't warned you then what would have happened. At least, you would have lost your arm. It's a very destructive technique. You shouldn't use it until you are strong enough or at least in [Balance Break] form]

'Um! Thanks, Ddraig'

"Ise"

"Well, I guess it burnt a little. It isn't a big deal"

"Are you in the position to even explain? You would have lost your arm if Asia wasn't here."

"Hahaha….." I let out a nervous laugh.

"Promise me you would never use it until you are strong"

"Umm"

"Promise me" Buchou demanded.

I just nodded.

"You shouldn't do it again Ise-san"

"Ara ara. You made us worried there for a moment, Ise-kun"

"Ise-kun be careful from now on okay"

"You should be more aware from now on"

Said Asia, Akeno-san, Kiba and Koneko.

After I got healed, I just smiled and stood up and stretched a little.

"Then tell me is this much enough [Chidori] "

I summoned demonic-power around the size of a tennis ball and applied lightning form to it. Surprisingly it was just blue like normal [Chidori]. It was a little more powerful than my normal move and was less tiring as well. Also, since it's Demonic-power I can quickly recover the lost power as I am a 'Devil'.

"Guys! Please back down a few steps, I am going to try something new"

"Ise, no. Wasn't previous experience enough for you?"

"Don't worry the situation this time is under my control and I am not trying anything dangerous. It's just a little experiment"

After everybody backed off.

"[Current]"

I suddenly increased the output of demonic energy causing the [Lightning] to go berserk.

"[Chidori-Nagashi]"

I again increased the output and controlled the lightning with help of my [Sharingan] and formed a lightning field around me for a few seconds and vanished. In those few seconds, I felt a few dozen lightning bolts striking in my surrounding.

"It's a good technique as it can be used for defense as well as offense and the advantage is it's an AOE attack"

Explained Rias.

"See it wasn't a little bit of dangerous"

"Ara, ara. It's due to your control otherwise it is a very hard technique to master"

This time it was Akeno who commented.

"Still be careful Ise-san," said Asia