Chapter 29 : made me slip
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Azazel turned around with a feral smile.
"C'mon, one last time." He happily pressed, his energy flaring once more, like a sun ready to explode right into my face. "This time… with emotion."
The clash resumed, this time I decided to give my fullest and…
An hour later I fell on the floor with a solid Thud, my body on fire as I went beyond my limits and gained something of an edge against the stronger being.
I noticed how he restrained himself from flying, giving me the chance to unbalance his footing with the creative use of mines bouncing off the barriers.
It was like using a medieval cannon against Terminator and the grinning bastard managed to still recover quickly enough to render the initial advantage minimal.
"You almost made me slip," The Fallen Angel teased about with a small smile. "That was some good thinking… and I think this is will be enough for today."
I sighed in relief accepting his help to get off the ground for the umpteenth time, drinking quickly the last bottle and taking few moments to recover from that beating.
"Your potential is quite higher than I initially thought," Azazel praised with a genuine nod. "I can see that you will be quite the dangerous individual for the great game once we are done with your training."
As I contemplated his words, Azazel slowly handed me a small USB. "What is it?"
"A tome from Grigori's finest library," The man replied quickly. "It contains the first ten spells for Shadowcraft."
At my confused look, the leader of the Fallen Angels sighed. "It's a craft that very few individuals can achieve, humans being the prime individuals because of your Basic Magic."
"Nothing about developing my current Light arsenal?" I asked out of curiosity.
He scoffed. "I have already planned to teach you more about that during our training days, but I want you to also learn Shadow-craft by your free time, or in the field."
I nodded at his response but decided to ask some more, this time forwarding a question that had been bothering as of late.
"Yesterday, you said something strange about my biology and all," I started with an uncertain tone. "What were you exactly talking about?"
He blinked in surprise but smiled. "I guess that had been quite the heavy brick to digest, and I think I should have been clearer than the flimsy explanation I had delivered yesterday."
The man slowly sat by the ground and I followed his example by sitting in front of him.
"Your current self, body and soul, are slightly different than the standard human being," Azazel started to answer my doubts. "You are currently housing a powerful core that make use of Holy and Basic magical energy, something that should technically be achieved only by Angels or Fallen ones."
I nodded while he pointed at himself, understanding that my case was curious.
"But your current biology isn't neither similar to an Angel nor a Fallen one," The Governor-General continued with a fascinated tone. "You do feel like one to someone that can feel your energy, but after checking some more, I can say that someone with a good sensory ability can see that there is a prevalence of humanity within you compared to Holy or Fallen, that kind of simple mortality only humans can have."
"So you mean that I'm still a human despite the injection of Holy energy?"
"Correct. You are a human being that has merely increased his magical and physical growth. You will develop some more mass, get some muscles, and maybe swoon some women in the process-" He chuckled at that teasing, and I cracked a small smile at that. "But you are not still capable of making full use of any Holy spell potential you are using."
At this I let out a frown, confused over this last part.
"I thought I did all the right things about it," I interrupted calmly. "Conceptualizing and materializing the magic while giving the proper amount of energy."
"That is what a spell generally need, but those that are reserved to Angels and Devils require also a specific essence from the caster," He corrected me with a sigh. "A personification of your will that fuse harmoniously to the technique with the energy that fuels it."
I blinked, realizing what he was talking about.
While I was fighting Raynare, I had noticed that my Spears were slightly weaker than hers, but I had thought of it by the fact that I hadn't trained enough with those, and those lacked any of proper reinforcement and energetic harmonization spells required.
But if this was the case, then anything I learned that wasn't something humans could magically use in a normal instance was going to always be inferior compared to the version used by Angels, Fallen ones or Devils.
...Shit.
"So that is why you want me to learn Shadow-related spells?"
The man nodded. "Yep. While I think those will hardly present any powerful attack to use against your enemy, it will give an edge in supporting your allies or giving yourself some time to recover."
I nodded and as I was about to call the day and go home, the man patted my shoulder.
"You are going far, Hoitsu, but I have to ask you… what do you wish with this life?"
I frowned. "What?"
"What do you seek with this life?" Azazel pressed on. "What do you want to achieve by becoming stronger and stronger?"
I blinked and thought about it, finding it difficult to ponder for how many things there were there to do in this world.
What did I want from the situation created by my presence here in the world of DxD?
I guess my priority is to make sure that nobody died as much like in Canon, especially the innocents that would die the moment Trihexa was awakened.
I wasn't sure that there was something in this world that could help up in dealing with the Dragon of Apocalypse in a fair fight, and even training the hardest possible was still going to leave me short of enough power to beat back the Beast.
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