Ken’s POV (12 yrs. and 3 months old)
Okay, so now I only need to apply this effect on my seedlings, *sighs internally* now conserving mana or energy will be possible in the future, okay back to work now.
“Great! Now that everyone’s here, we shall now proceed to the next class, Performance Task.” said master Klein, a magic circle appeared below our feat encasing all of us in white light and my vision blur, after the light subsided we are now here at the field again, mass teleportation, nice.
Third Person’s POV
“For today’s Performance Task, Allen, Ken, Celine, and Lila, shall focus on swords, shields, daggers, and hammers, Glen, Wilbert, and Saber, shall focus on Bows, short and long range Magic, and healing.” said Klein, the students replied in chorus and walked off to pick up some equipment.
‘I’m getting meself some shield and hammer, onward barbarians!!!’ thought the boy.
“Masters, to your positions.” Klein added, turning around to the four.
“I’ll explain to you four this class, performance task, basically we assign each one of you in different tactics in battles, be it physical or magical combat, we also indulge in mental battles but so far those with far superior magic control are able to at least withstand the brunt of mental magic, other types of tactics are also being developed but for now these three are what we would like for you our students to indulge yourself first.
Now I’ll assign you to what suits you best, Princess Lang and Riyah, go to short and long-range battles, Flin and Icarus, take up swords and shields, now, go and join the others.” said master Klein. “Yes.” said the four and immediately proceeded to the equipments and prepared themselves.
Ken in hand a shield, Allen took a sword and shield, Celine took daggers, Lila took a hammer. Glen took up a bow and arrows, while Wilbert and Saber are doing rock-paper-scissor to decide who would do short or long range magic,
Ken chuckled watching the two.
‘Ahhh they’ve finished.’ with Wilbert’s head hanging down because he will be doing long range magic.
“Shall we now start?” Ken looks at Master Ulysses and Master Lana and nod, in an instant, two clones each from the masters with other weapons, positioned themselves with the ones of the same weapons, Ken facing Master Lana, or her clone.
“Ken, where’s your weapon?” said Lana preparing herself, clutching a medium sized shield and a sword.
“I won’t be using one Master Lana, I’ll try defending this time.” replied the boy cheerily, Lana could never get used on how enthusiastic this kid is, but she would think otherwise if she’d ever get to hear his thoughts.
“Light Moon Magic: Light Moon Form!” power welled within as it turned Ken’s clothes white interlaced with black lines here and there, hair turning white in color. “I’m ready!” with a kick, he bashed his shield towards master Lana, pushing her quite a few feet back.
“Again” encouraged, Ken happily obliged, a clang of metal was heard, before he blinked once at his Master’s sudden disappearance.
Sensing an intent upward, he quickly glanced up, but with calm and determined stare.
“Blink!” appearing behind Lana he held in both hands the shield and slammed downwards.
“Enchant Magic: Strengthened Pummel!” a spell specifically made for enhancing the arms with strength, and with the buff of the Light Moon Form, inflicting decent damage may be possible.
*BOOM*
Smoke rose from the blast.
*fwip*
“Good strength output Ken.” said Lana jumping out of the smoke, oh another crater.
“Thank you Master.” Ken said smilingly towards her.
“But that won’t be enough to defeat an opponent!” She lunges forward, but Ken smiled eagerly at the charge.

-after another hour, near five thirty-
Fighting in different styles today, in Ken’s assessment, have more or less made them familiarize with a weapon’s limits and strengths, making it a little bit easier to fight their Masters in different conditions.
After all, it wouldn’t be just their main weapons or tools they are going to use when fighting.
An honorary battle is of different topic, but still, they’ve improved quite well.
‘Agreed, you guys have shown remarkable growth since eight years ago, especially you.’ -White-
‘Awwwww, shocks, you’re flattering me White, but nonetheless, thank you.’ -Ken-
He sat down from under the shade of a tree a few moments ago deeming him as good for the exercise commenced, turns out it was his Master Lana’s clone all along, unable to bear the brunt of his constant ramming and mischievous way of fighting.
‘Sometimes I fight dirty, but not in a sense that it’s humiliating, but more fun in a way.’ Ah yes, his trail of thought still runs that way.
He must say, everyone has good form, it’s like they’re very comfortable in their way of fighting, everyone’s strong too, Ken’s happy about that, Celine has gotten more flexible in being an assassin archer, she wields the daggers as if she is dancing on the battlefield and is an absolute menace when it comes to wielding the bow.
She’s got herself well acquainted with light, shadow, enchantment magic, and a little bit of elemental magic, okay, maybe a lot more of it.
Wilbert has gotten himself relatively comfortable with using his magic, although he uses enchant and sword style, he doesn’t lack on using other magical abilities, but fire is what seems to be suitable for him,
‘I gotta help him in improving his fire capabilities, but how about I let others help him instead, hmmmm, hehehehehe. Nope wait, Ken you must not have yourself get carried away again.’ Surprisingly he has an affinity to light magic, and it’s very strong.
The twin panthers are a force to be reckoned with especially when they are together, their shadow blade assault is really scary once confronted, one wouldn’t know whom and who they are fighting, even using one of Ken’s tactics in the past when they had a tag team battle, that is by using every other opportunity a partner throws at you.
Whether using them as a spring board, or as shield at times.
‘brrrr, it still gives me the chills how accurate they are when using such method, at most I wouldn’t even be able to land a hit on them if I don’t use my weapons.’
Individually, Lila is much stronger on accurate executions of attack, she’s also good at chasing, while Saber is much stronger in using sneak attacks and traps like Ken -magic traps-. They still focus on shadow magic but with wind magic thrown into the mix.
Glen’s steadily becoming the tanker of the team together with Wilbert, and he seems to become very dedicated to the role too.
‘I wonder what him and Master Lana talked about last year that made him be that dedicated.’
Ken would go so far as to say that the guy was inspired to do such a job, everyone knows that being the one who soaks up all the damage is awful, but since then, his engages has become more aggressive and efficient in combat.
Despite being the ‘meat shield’ as what they would call it in a novel, Ken is confident in Glen’s ability to counter attack, coupled with him being nimble, oh it would be a lot more of a different story. And an earth magic wielder.
Allen, is by far the one whom Ken can say that is on par with him in terms of magic, but same with Celine’s combat prowess in terms of weapon, like swords and stuff, and just like Celine, he’s also good at using a bow, both are almost similar in their accuracy and output,
Celine is slightly ahead, since she’s picked up the bow one year earlier than Allen, but he’s showing steady and remarkable improvement.
As for his magical capabilities, the guy had gone on a path of experimentation with magic by doing combinations and skillful set-ups when executing spells.
Unlike Ken who just loves to maximize a spell’s output.
‘Hmmmm… He must have noticed it on one of my battles with the masters when I sneakily placed spell traps on the battlefield, unnoticeable when set but noticeable when an opponent scans the field once the spell is placed.’ maybe that is the reason why he’s always able to find his traps every time the two battle one another.
Being proficient in the four elements along with ice, and lightning…
As for the others, Princess Lang is good at using fire magic, she had mentioned she also uses time and space magic, but Ken have yet to witness it for himself, and of course a natural swordsman, being trained from birth up to now.
On one of her battles with master Klein, she used her fire to enhance her sword, coating it in flames as she swung here and there landing a couple of hits -only on the shield thought-, but it was also good of her, since she used that diversity in magic combat to her advantage as she also flung fire spells from her sword.
Her royal magic is like an enhanced version of fire magic, must be a magic distinct to the dragon race but more prominent on the royal family, it felt stronger than fire magic.
‘I guarantee that, and the destructive power, I must say is disastrous, why didn’t she use that when we battled?’ Ken thought to himself
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