Chapter 395 - Confidence

The talk about their pasts is best described informative, but at the same rate it shows the emotional and in some terms physical struggle everyone had to go through in order to be where they are now. Knowing each other's weaknesses be it past or present, will help to understand each other better no doubt.

The Campfire was extinguished after an hour when the weather kept getting colder with no sign of stopping, they weren't training at that moment so it is only sane if they went all home, they were all tired.

However, the younger were not tired of putting a thought that was imprinted in their minds, to action. I'm talking about the power moves that can determine which level one Fire Controller is worthy of identifying with.

Unnecessarily, Dilli, Eric and Osira have been motivated to try out the moves that determine a new level. However, they knew that if they asked an authority figure to look over them, the figures would inevitably refuse. So they want to try it all alone, without anyone joining them and I mean anyone. These three who want to try the moves didn't even tell each other.

They all want to try these complex moves, and they all have rather strong motivations behind their decisions due to the fact that they have been training their asses off, even though one could have trained more than the other.

Eric for example, could possibly be having the most motivation and self confidence here. Which is in one way odd because he quite possibly could be dealing with an Inner Demon of self doubt brought upon him by Aresmqaal, who is the Source of Healing and furthermore the Source of this specific Inner Demon too.

But on the other hand, him being this confident could be making a lot of sense because he Eric has been training the most out of all in a span of a year because of his advantages. Osira and Dilli trained a lot less because Osira was constantly on the move and Dilli was surrounded by ill.u.s.tratios who would punish Fire Controlling.

Apart from that handsome fact, until a little while ago he has trained alongside with 5 Grand Masters of Lava Controlling. This doesn't directly link to Fire Manipulating but when you look at the fact that throughout half of the training, these Masters gave mental challenges, this attempt to try out the move makes more sense since the move focuses mostly on concentration.

Bottom line, he is also the Electus. So even as a 16 year old boy, he thinks he has what it takes to become a Master soon.

Eric made his way out of the Kingdom hours after they broke up just to fight off suspicion if there is any, most specifically he went out right after midnight.

Taking a deep breath, and letting it all out he took a second to acknowledge his surroundings. Listening to the comforting silence around here with snow lightly tapping against the ground, and wolf howls possibly over a kilometer away. He sure wouldn't want to see one of those again, but their soothing howl helped him concentrate a bit more.

He lightly starts bursting Fire from his nose, and that fire spreads a bit out of control. It doesn't come out at a vertical slim angle, but instead spreads wide and fluffy like a cloud. This is good, because it gives in more fire to work with.

He takes in a deep breath again, which means that no more fire is bursting from his nose. Now with the little fire that he got out of himself, he starts molding the fire to his preference, or at least tries too.

The fire coats over his chest, and stretches to his shoulders and afterwards surrounds his armpits. Keeping his concentration as sharp as possible, he leads the rest of the fire down around his stomach, being careful not to burn himself.

He breathes in deep, and with a sigh lets out a lot more fire from both his nose and mouth. Perhaps not the best idea, because too much Fire came out and now he has a bit too much to comprehend.

Because not only he has to control this new badge of fire, hold it still in mid air so it doesn't float its way up to the sky reducing in to nothingness but he has to be concentrated on the fire he already has molded around himself.

"Dang there goes my eyebrow again, it grew just a while ago." He complained to himself, his facial hair always seems to be a victim to his lack of control towards Fire.

Most of the Fire he just blasted out, flew towards the sky and disappeared. However, the little bit that didn't manage to escape, connected along with the rest of the Skin of Fire, although it made little difference.

He felt ready to blast fire out of his nose again, but something else caught his attention rather well. Fire... yes Fire. It is shinning about a hundred yards away from him, and at a rather extended amount.

He saw it pop out big at first and dim down a second later, so this can't be a torch. However, lending his focus to this fire far away from him, he lost most focus on the fire skin around him.

The skin broke, separated in all ways and made itself up towards the sky. He has failed to do this move, and considering how with three blows he only managed to cover 1/4th of his body, he has a long way to go in order to learn just this move, not to mention being a Master. However this is progress in a way, at least he could get it started.

With confidence as a previous topic, Dilli considers herself gifted in terms of Fire Manipulating. That's what everyone told her throughout her life and she even became a prized hunt for the Grand King, good enough to be put under mind control instead of being murdered.

Considering all of this, she went out to try the Skin of Fire a bit after Eric. And giving in three tries, failing miserably the first two times, on the third shot she found herself being half covered with Fire.

Seeing her progress and being happy about it, she kept her feelings under control and continued with the move. At this third shot, she has blasted fire through her nose twice so far and now burst out for the third time.

"I see you are doing better than I am." A male... childish tone grew behind her far from the comfort of light lended by her fire.

Ignoring the sound... thinking that no one would be out at this time, thinking that this could be just another one of those Voices she randomly hears. She continued with her attempt, refusing to break the skin of fire.

The voice behind her failed to break her concentration, but a large sum of fire in front of her did. She saw it growing larger and larger, and spiraling its way to the Kingdom.

Osira has gotten the least training out of the five Fire Controllers gathered up here in the domain, but she still feels confident enough to try out the power move that can determine if one has progressed enough to become an Expert (Level 4) Fire Controller, she wants to try out the Fire Tornado.

Personally, she never tried it but she did see a handful of the 15 ladies ascending to Level 4. She flew a bit above the ground, maneuvered one arm up and the other straight down, started blasting fire massively out of them and with the aid of her feet she started spinning in one place.

Three spins later, she felt a sharp pain on her arm. She has spun a bit too randomly and a bit of fire has landed on her arm, burning through her fur coat and making her arm feel like she has put it in a boiling pot.

Seeing the odds, she stopped blasting fire out of her hands and blew more through her feet. That sudden blast from below reduced the Fire Tornado a bit more, however it isn't enough to completely stop it.

"Do you realise how dangerous this is?" Dilli shouted from the background, afterwards blasting one after another concentrated blast towards the Fire Tornado.

"Um let's see if I remember how to do this." Eric murmured within himself as he did a sumo squat and aimed towards the half Fire Tornado which is expanding by the passing second.

He put his palms half a foot away from each other, blasted a little fire from both of them until a little orb formed big enough to touch his fingers. Afterwards he placed his right hand over the left, stretched out his arms forward and lightly tapped his left foot against the ground.

A 6 foot long concentrated blast made its way throughout the Tornado, reduced it at a considerable amount before it was tamed by six more shots brought upon by Dilli.

"You could have wiped out half a Kingdom, this is an incredibly irresponsible thing to do." Dilli scolded, looking at Osira.

Eric on the other hand, paid more attention on the fact that Osira is holding her arm. Hearing what King Michael theorized about a Zamerian's pure intend to help, he incorporated that thought in his head and waved his hand towards Osira.

A dim green light shone over Osira, and she felt a bit of her pain fading away. Looking down on her arm, the big wound that was caused because of her cloth burning on her arm, has mostly dissapeared. Ignoring Dilli's scolding, Osira spoke. "Thanks Eric."