Chapter 135 - No Fire(3)

The 8th round passed, then the 17th, then the 29th!

Eric managed to stop most of the little beams of fire shot at him, but he stopped half of them with his body and several went to his face.

But it wasn't something to be concerned about and it was above all beneficial as it aided him to get a more protective mindset.

Reaching round 30, was the final and hardest to tackle round yet. He couldn't risk for any of the training dummies to be hit again because they got hit 6 times already. Meaning Eric needs to read and memorize 3 books because of the deal he made. Which would be worse than getting chased by Black Wolves for him.

As if reading was an enemy stronger than the ill.u.s.tratian Alliance for him.

If Eric fails to protect the Training Dummies in this final round, he could be risking reading up to 5 more books. But lucky for him, he picked more tricks along the way. Playing purpose to help him go through this round easier.

"Are you ready?"

Asked Mogranius calmly.

"Always!"

Not wasting a blink of an eye bothering to tease his c.o.c.kyness, Mogranius disappeared on thin air and his foot taps were so light that no person on earth would be able to hear them. So it was impossible for Eric to track where the next shot would come from. He just had to listen and trust his senses.

Suddenly Mogranius appeared again and 6 Shots of Fire were coming from the left 30 feet away, a foot apart from each other and each one timed a split second apart.

Noticing the small roar that bundle of fire caused, Eric raised his shield right away and received 3 of those shots on the shield, 2 on the body and one hit a training dummy without causing it to burn.

The only way a training dummy would start burning from this small amount of fire, would be if Mogranius shot it continuously from a very short distance.

The second Eric took a moment to seek Mogranius, he had already disappeared and his next move was unpredictable.

It would be more challenging if Mogranius shot this harmless fire while remaining invisible, but he simply can't.

Because once a Fire Controller is attached with smoke. He becomes smoke. And smoke of course can't shoot fire but is just an aftermath of burned wood for example. Which is why Fire Controllers can connect with smoke to begin with, explaining their invisibility skills but can't shoot fire while at that state.

In order to shoot fire, he had to disconnect with the smoke, a.k.a re appearing.

Appearing again from the right, but 20 feet close now, Mogranius started running from the right to the left in a straight line and kept shooting Fire until the count reached 10.

Eric was able to stop each one except the 8th one when Mogranius took a sharp turn, on the opposite way he was running, so effortlessly that it didn't give Eric enough time to think. The Fire hit the training dummy on the left while Eric was all the way to the right making it almost impossible to protect.

But of course this was only wave two out of four of the 30th level.

Not bothering to disappear again he used the two main fingers from both of his hands to continuously shoot at almost the same spots 20 times.

That of course wasn't challenging but in a weird way trained endurance.

Of course Eric was able to hold off each one but the last and final wave of level 30 left him dumb founded.

This time, Fire didn't just go in a straight singular line but were widely slithering around like snakes, and were much longer than the previous ones.

To make it more difficult, there were ten of them and they all were unleashed at the same time. As if he unleashed one from each finger.

Eric was far beyond prepare towards this move. One slithering fire hit the training dummies after the other, leaving Eric only able to stop 4 of them. That was the hardest wave he ever faced and more than doubled his end of the bargain. Now he will need to read 7 books in total and memorize them all.

But even though he doesn't like it, it will work to his advantage sooner or later. Knowledge is power!

"You did well!"

"Are you kidding? I handled 29 rounds with only 6 shots hitting the training dummies but 1 round caused so much damage."

"It was beautiful to see though."

Said Mogranius while walking towards Eric and Giggling.

"It felt like the Sun exploded!"

"Hehehehe. You did well. We will continue this sort of training for a week everyday before you try forming another fire shield. Until then, don't try it. It will mess with your self dependence."