Chapter no 4: Dual Ascending

After four weeks, Zayan had no dream like that but he started training harder than before, he was so worked up, so was Selina, Selina was always hard-working but now by seeing Zayan giving his best she start training more harder, she changed her training hours from 8 hours to 12 hours daily. Zayan was training day and night, In Academy, there was nothing special event happened, there were just some basic classes about elements, Zayan was more close to George and Sierra and only talks with them or Selina, the popularity of Zayan and Selina in the academy was increasing day by day, Selina became One of the most beautiful girls and Zayan was so popular among girls.

Due to the growing popularity, Selina came into the spotlight and some boys from bigger families started pursuing Selina cause of her strong family background and her Beauty, in campus no one knew Zayan and Selina are engaged except George and Sierra. Even though Selina received so many purposes from some popular young masters of the top 10 families but she rejected every single of them cause the only man she likes and wants was Zayan.

The magic system is categorized into tiers, A single person can hold only a limited amount of internal energy, but it's not like you can't increase the limit, every tier gives you a boost and increases your internal energy space, and makes your magic elements purer. The tiers are as following, Bronze, Silver, Gold, Black gold, Platinum, diamond, Ace, conqueror, and so on. But most of the strong people in glory city are at conqueror tier, there are more tiers after conqueror but it's not easy to surpass it, all tiers carry five stages, Some spells need a lot of Internal energy and some require a little of it, that means as you ascend or breakthrough a tier you can use some higher-level spells. At the Black gold tier mages enters spirit transformation, which helps them to use their spirit magic more effectively, also when a mage transforms into a spirit, his magic becomes purer and strong so the body of the mage.

Zayan entered the silver tier stage 3 with a lot of effort for some reason Zayan faces a lot of difficulties ascending towards higher tiers, George and Sierra both entered gold tier stage 5 which is higher than silver and Selina, was already at gold stage 1 only a breakthrough away from Black gold stage 5 and transformation stage. Zayan was depressed but still, he was trying his best, all of the classmates including Martin and Ember everyone was at the gold tier and Zayan who was considered as dual element genius was the weakest cause no matter how good elements you have if you don't even have the ability do bigger and effective spells you are weak so are your attacks.

-Purple forest near glory city

Zayan fighting with a normal size ape who was at the silver stage as strong as Zayan, He is fighting with the ape all alone in the night in the purple forest, he delivered a blow by a basic dark spell.

"Erando"

making ape stun and blind with the help of his magic which produced black smoke covering ape eyes, Zayan used his fire element. He was the panting cause of dodging and running to avoid the ape who was going mad and throwing rocks randomly, Zayan raised his hands straight towards the ape and closed his eyes chanting the spell loud.

" *huff* *huff* Fire Strings!"

From all fingers of Zayan fire threads came out and pierce the ape's eyes, Ape screamed from pain "WAAHHHHHH!!" Ape falls putting his hands on his eyes, still screaming from pain. Zayan used the opportunity and ran towards the ape, he chanted another fire spell raising his right fist in the air

"Fire fist!!!!"

He hit the ape right into his forehead which penetrated his head. The ape lying lifeless Zayan stumble and fall on grass. He laid down on grass putting his hands at the back of his head, he looked at the sky and said.

"Phew *huff* *huff* that was the eleventh, *phoo* they are just as smart as humans fighting with them sure gives me a lot of experience," he said to himself and continued watching shining stars in the sky, slowly his eyes closed, suddenly a light start glowing from the east and atmosphere became hot as he was lying right beside a campfire, Zayan stands up and saw that far away something was glowing, Zayan made his way towards it, and when he reached the destination he peeked from behind a tree saw a beautiful girl sitting cross-legged on the ground, bright energy surrounding her, her eyes were closed trying to absorb the energy in the surrounding.

magicians use this way for ascending their tiers by using energy in the air and internal energy in their body, it's so risky for a single person to do this all alone, as if they couldn't refine the energy in the air and inhaled harming energy, poison which may kill the person doing this or evil which may corrupt a person soul and end up killing them. There is also another which is if a person accepts extra energy which exceeds their limits and results in bursting themselves the cause of exceeding energy limits, that's why people use this with their partners because the person who's doing this can have help and assistance from each other which can help them in refining and helping each other to exhale extra amount of energy, so the safest and easiest way is to practice this with your partner, Zayan was shocked as he saw her doing this dual ascending technique which she was doing all alone in the purple forest full of poisonous plants and evils souls, it was as she is doing suicide, Zayan moved a little closer to the girl and saw her face which surprised him. It was Ember!

"(Hmm... doesn't she have a fiancée, why is she doing this all alone, it's doing suicide.!)" he thought.

As Zayan was still in shock and watching her from so close, Amber realized someone is watching him she panicked a little, still, eyes closed trying hard to avoid and maintaining the refining she is doing, Zayan realized and steps backward, but suddenly amber start acting strange and began sweating, it seems like she was suffering and messed up and then suddenly energy around her which was so thin start gathering faster, Zayan looked at Amber with a concerning look, Zayan doesn't care about people but when he saw Amber in pain he approached her to help, he was so confused what to do but still, he was calm and steady he was trying to come up with a solution because it was clear Amber is absorbing a lot of energy and if this keeps going she may explode. Zayan sat cross-legged legs in front of Amber. He hesitated for a second because it's not appropriate for a boy to practices this dual ascending technique because it's mostly used by couples, plus if a girl never has let any other boy do this technique with him then the first person to do with her will be the person who will always be best for this dual ascending technique no other person can do this technique with the girl if someone else tries to do they will mostly fails in it or end up hurting each other, cause while doing this both partners internal energy mixes as they exchange the internal energy in each other body.

Zayan shakes his head because if he doesn't do this amber may die, he took amber hands into his, Amber flinched as she was shocked and worried as if she does and want to practice this technique in the future she has no choice but to share this technique with this person, she tried to resist because she also has a fiancée and in future, if he tried to do this with her he won't be able to do anything because only THIS person who's sitting right in front of her can do this with her but she was in so much pain and she realized she can't do anything but to share internal energy with this person. Zayan gave her time to reject but she holds his hand back, her eyes still closed.

Then Zayan closed his eyes too and began absorbing her internal energy, as Zayan's does this Amber face which was full of pain was now getting calm but Zayan suffered from a lot of pain as the energy of Amber was way purer than his, the energy around her spreads towards Zayan too and covered both of them in it, Zayan start suffering from a lot of pain as his body was on fire, he used his dark element using as a shield and covered his internal body with it to avoid getting burnt from her fire, at last, his body get used to it and Zayan also calmed down adjusting with it, Zayan realized that he almost died their, Zayan and Amber keep sharing their energy, after a while both of their pain was gone and they both feel like their body is getting lighter and for Amber, She received more of Zayan energy, she felt warming and comforting energy entering her. For the first Amber was receiving this amazing pleasure in her life.

After a while both their blazing aura awakened, power surging between them increased, refreshing their body with warm internal energy, Amber and Zayan both were feeling strange power surging between them and suddenly they realized both of their breakthroughs and reached the upper tier, Zayan wasn't sure but he realized that he reached a little higher and can feel his internal energy space widen, as for Amber she was sure that she reached black gold tier, so she used her internal energy and borrowed some from Zayan just in case if she needs more and starts trying to combine her spirit with her body trying awakening transformation, and after a quite, while trying her best but still struggling Zayan felt Amber struggling by feeling her restlessness, it was like she is another part of him, he pumped a little more power towards Amber body, Amber received a little more internal energy which she used and successfully overcome it!

Her body starts transforming, a pair of wings grow at her back, and her hair color turned into orange just like fire, her hands start burning. She transformed into her spirit which was the Phoenix vermillion one of the rarest bloodline spirit She was looking more beautiful with her hair and beautiful burning wings, Zayan realized that Amber transformed into her spirit but he realized that her fire is purer than his, which burnt his hand because Amber's hands were covered with fire.

The energy surrounding them start fading and then slowly both of them opened their eyes, Zayan saw Amber who was looking like a fairy with her beautiful wings, and her eyes which are looking more beautiful as her eyes lens changed their color into orange, Amber eyes widen as she saw the person sitting in front of her is the Dual element mage and her classmate, she gasps and said,

"W-Why did you do that?"

"I'm sorry, I didn't mean to do this it's just if I wouldn't have done this you may have died," Zayan said in an apologetic tone.

"No, I mean why you saved me?" Amber said still looking into his eyes curiously.

"Huh? What do you mean?" Zayan asked he was surprised.

"You don't... know me. Still, you did a dual ascending technique with me... you may have... died." She said nervously.

"I realized this later your energy was way pure than mine which damaged my internal space at the start but I couldn't just leave you there to die..." Zayan said.

"I... Am sorry" she said with a sad face, Zayan saw amber still holding his hand, he coughed and said

"Umm my hand?" zayan said.

Amber realized that she was still holding his hand, she let his hand go, her face began blushing, Zayan smiled and stand from there, he asked her, offering his hand to her.

"Ah... It's quite late soon the sun is gonna rise let's get going." Amber looked at his hand which was burnt cause of her fire, she quickly stands and pulled him from his wrist, examining his hand.

"Oh, I'm sorry... Wait ill..." she said with a worried look and then tore a piece from her dress sleeve and start wrapping the piece around his hand.

Zayan looked at her, her worried face was looking more beautiful and radiant, he noticed her hair falls on her face covering her eyes she tried to brush it away but it kept falling, she keeps wrapping Zayan's hand but her hairs keep falling and blocking her view, Zayan used his other hand, he tucked her hairs behind her ears, Amber turned red, blushing badly, but she kept doing it. Zayan leaned towards her

"You are so beautiful..." Zayan whispers in her ear. Making her shiver and blush, she stepped back but a rock made her stumble she almost falls but Zayan caught her in his arms.

Zayan and amber both kept gazing into each other eyes for a while, after a moment Amber pulled herself together and stand a little far blushing and embarrassed.

"Umm, I... Thanks." Amber said shyly trying not to look into his eyes. Zayan was going to say something but a voice stopped them...

"ROARR!!!" a voice from woods, Zayan changed his stance into a fighting stance so does Amber, both of them ready to face the roaring animal, slowly voice of steps increased as it's getting close and suddenly a giant three head lion jumped in front Amber and without a further ado it launches an attack at Amber!!

To be continue