CHAPTER 324: CHAPTER 324 SECRET TECHNIQUE

"How the hell are you that good? You can’t possibly be stronger than all five of us combined; if it were a fight to the death, would you win?" Mabel asked as she sat down.

"I don’t know, maybe I wouldn’t win, but I’m pretty certain I’ll be able to bring down three of you girls, the two people most likely to stop me are Freya and Edith... though I’m sure the ice goddess would come out if Isabella is in trouble," Ethan spoke.

"So I have no chance of stopping you?" Mabel asked.

"It’s nothing to beat yourself over, I’m really powerful," Ethan said with a smirk on his face, "But without my summon, I don’t think I’ll get very far"

"All of you are a bunch of weaklings." A voice spoke from afar, and they all turned to see Freya’s sister watching them.

None of them noticed her until now, and they had no idea when she got there. She stood with her hands folded, shaking her head. All of them bowed their head to greet her.

"You Edith, you love to get up close and you’re fast enough but you have no finishing power, even without magic resistance I can take your lightning punch, Isabella is afraid to go all out so she wouldn’t have an outbreak like last time, Freya can’t get up close, Crystal...you did pretty well but yours spells are weak, Mabel, you’re waiting for the right time to jump in" Crimson spoke.

"And Ethan... you’re joking with training, also without that sword of yours, you can’t really fight" She continued.

None of them could say anything as they knew what she said was correct, but it was just a practice, none of them were actually serious because there were no safety measures in case of an injury.

Martha could heal a wound, cut, or burn, but she couldn’t heal an extensive injury.

"Also, all of you are weak, your physical strength is blank, just because you’re mages, you think you have no use for strength... Ethan, summon your knight, and I’ll show you something," She spoke, and Ethan placed his hand on the ground.

"Varek, come forth"

Varek spawned in front of Ethan.

"Order him to attack, tell him to strike with intent to kill" She spoke.

"Huh! Isn’t that a little rash? He has a sword and is magic resistant, you’ll have to..."

"Order him"

"Kill her," Ethan spoke loud enough for all of them to hear, and Varek, without wasting a second, dashed forward, and in an instant, he was in front of her.

Crimson didn’t bother casting a spell or anything, she just waited, and once Varek swung his sword, she simply dodged and countered with a punch to the stomach.

*THUD!!*

Varek was thrown across the training ground and took a tumble before landing on the ground, even Ethan, who was watching, was shocked.

Varek stood up the next moment before Ethan ordered him to stop and release the summoning.

"That’s pure strength, I didn’t use any mana... I’m not saying this is the kind of strength you need to obtain because you can’t, but you should be able to do at least half of this" She spoke.

"How do we go about that? We can’t possibly do the type of training you did," Freya spoke as she had seen her sister training before.

"There are two ways to achieve strength like that, first is Mana forging and second is with Mana weights, but you’ll have to go for the latter since you can’t bear the first one," Crimson spoke.

"What is Mana forging?" Mabel asked.

"It’s a secret technique that only a few know. I’m not going to explain it since not all of you can go through it. When a person is skilled enough, they can be recommended to go through Mana forging, but for now, stick to Mana weights," Crimson replied.

(So there’s another way to gain strength like that, I’m sure that third-year student who punched you would have gone through it, this would be a good addition)

’Sure it would be but you heard it’s something secret, let’s hear what she has to say first’

"But I’ve used Mana weights before, it slows you down considerably, but it doesn’t give you much of an improvement" Isabella replied.

"It’s not the normal Mana weights, this is different" Freya spoke before her sister could answer.

"Can we see it?" Ethan asked.

"Do you think I carry weight around with me? I can have someone run home and bring them," Crimson muttered as she raised her hands, and from outside the training ground, a mage began running towards her.

Crimson stepped away to take on the mage, and after some seconds, the mage began running away, not full sprinting, just a light run.

"Did you come here to train us? And how did you know we were here?" Freya asked.

"Why would I come to train you girls? You’re on break. I came to see if Ethan has arrived, and I think you girls are forgetting that I’m one of the heads of the academy. Why would I take my time to train you?" Crimson spoke.

"Maybe you saw how serious were were with our training?" Isabella replied.

"Maria told me about that, but I have no interest in training anyone, I’m too strict as Freya has experienced, and she would rather die than have me train her"

"Is it that difficult?" Ethan asked Freya.

"You have no idea, and I was 15 years old" Freya spoke.

"That’s a perfectly good age to start training, so before the weight arrives, why are you girls still training? All your peers are inside resting" She asked.

"Miss Maria has asked us a similar question to this," Martha spoke.

"Well then I must be on the right track then, among all eight of you, only two would be able to reach the highest of heights, not because the rest of you are weak, but because your resolve is different"

"So Ethan, you tell me, why are you training so hard, I heard you have a duel with the Queen"

"What!!"

"Huh!!" The girls were shocked.

"The Queen!! You have a duel with my mother. How did it go? Did you win?" Isabella asked frantically.