Another day have passed, since Yuri found out about his elemental aptitude.
Though interested, He mostly focused on practicing his swordsmanship and techniques to quickly gain a fighting style.
His sword technique's movements are very smooth, as if it can cut a mountain in one slash and the mountain will get cleanly cut in two.
But, the sword technique that Yuri wants is to be able to move swiftly and at the same time, deliver a very painful attack at the enemy. His slashes are smooth but when it hits, it's like a chainsaw that's trying to saw the flesh and bones of the opponent.
"Creating a new sword technique is easier than i thought..." He said, looking at his katana.
He put it back to it's scabbard and then headed straight to the biggest tree where he usually go to escape from the inside of the academy to the outside.
Just when he was about to reach the top, "You going somewhere today?"
'!' Yuri suddenly stopped, unsheated his katana, and then dashed straight to the one who just talked.
CLANK!!
"I'm not here to ask for a fight although i do wanna challenge you, please just listen to me." The man said.
It was Leonn Lionheart, he jumped to the top of the tree and then leaped towards the top of the wall.
Yuri on the other hand, continue to ascend to the top of the tree, maintaining his distance from Leonn.
"No need to be on your guard. I just wanna congratulate you for achieving a Colored Elemental Aptitude." Leon continued, as he turn his transformed right hand to it's normal form becayse he used it to block Yuri's attack
"..." Yuri didn't say anything but rather, he just looked at Leonn with calm expression.
"Thanks." He added.
"No need to. You will become more popular than you already are right now thanks to your colored element." Leonn said which made Yuri confused.
Him? Popular? About what?
The bews that he has a colored elements still hasn't gotten to the whole academy, so what is the other reason?
'Nevermind that, i need to refrain the rumors about me from spreading.'
"Can you not tell anyone about it? If possible, tell the others not to go around spreading about it."
"I'll pay you." He said, which he sheated his katana when he was sure that the boy was only there to congratulate him.
"Sure but why do you want to do that?" The boy agreed but also asked a question "..." a question where Yuri didn't answer.
"Did I make you uncomfortable? Sorry about that. I'm just confused as to why do you want to hide something that can change your whole life."
"...Just being careful." Yuri answered Leonn's question, then junped from the other side of the wall to go out of the academy.
"...." Leonn watched as he sees the Yuri jumped and slid to the wall from top to down with an unchanged expression that can be seen on his face.
'Just being careful, huh?' He thought and then suddenly dissapeared.
***
3 hours later...
Outside the kingdom, about an hour walk from Yuri's cabin, Yuri continued to walk and walk until it began to rain.
He didn't stop but rather began to increase his pace.
Whoosh!
After a while, he started to run, not looking at his back at all.
The rain get's a bit more and more heavier and then suddenly, Yuri stopped in the middle of an open space.
It is a circled part, about 50 meters wide and it is inside the forest so it is of course getting covered in trees.
"It's kind of annoying but you should come out now." Yuri said and wait for a few seconds.
Then, someone from behind of the trees behind Yuri just appeared and then dashed straight to him, about to struck Yuri's neck.
CLANK!
But fortunately, Yuri managed to blocked it using his katana that he quickly unsheated and then turn to his back. But instead of dashing backwards, he attacked vertically but the opponent jumped backwards instead.
[Immediate Movement:
Allows you to react more faster in an unexpected or incoming attacks of your opponent. During the first 10 seconds after Activating, you will be able to completely see in the dark.]
The moment Yuri has a chance to attack back, he quickly dashed towards his front and then kept on attacking his opponent who's also wearing a what it looks like a new cloak.
He continue to attack a couple of times using his sword but ultimately, his opponent found an opening from his attacks and then struck the left side of his abdoment which throws his whole body to a tree and it got destroyed in half along with two more that he hit after the first one and then dropped to the muddy ground because of the rain.
He quickly stand back up and then run behind the closest tree he can find.
'!' His opponent didn't waste another second and as soon as Yuri was behind the tree, he attacked that tree using a fire arrow.
Fire Magic: Fire Arrow
Even though the fire arrow was smaller than a normal one's it still caused the whole tree that Yuri hid behind to explode and the other trees near it caused to burn.
The burning trees recovered because of the heavy rain which made the man in a new cloak to clench his teeth because of annoyance.
WHOOSHH!
"!" The man suddenly bebd his upper body backwards becayse Yuri's sword was about to cut of his neck but lucky for him, he managed to dodged on tine and then dashed backwards.
'What the?! I'm sure I directly hit him with my fire arrow! Even though it was smaller and weaker because of the heavy rain, he wasn't supposed to come out in one piece becayse of the explosion!' The man thought.
Not only did Yuri came out is one piece, he was also unscathe. Not a single burn will be find on his ragged cloak.
He take it off to make his movement more effective and faster and dashed straight to the opponent whose hood of the cloak is still on so Yuri can't see his face.
He focuses on attacking and didn't mind the other things, just his opponent.
"Urgh!" He managed to hit the opponent on the side, so the opponent took off his cloak too.
It was the same guy who reported to one of the leader of the Four Horn Mercenary Guild.
He has a long dark green hair, his eyes were also green but light.
He quickly jumped to the tree behind him and then took his weapon which is a bow and arrow wrapped in a cloth.
It was the same weapon he uses to blocked Yuri's attacks.
As soon as he landed on top of the tree, he fired 5 arrows at once, enveloped in fire magic that explode whenever it hit something or someone.
It was twice as strong from a normal fire arrow without an actual arrow. The fire arrow he uses to attack Yuri who he had seen run behind a tree and attacked him, it doesn't have an arrow.
Yuri dodged all five arrows and all of it explode as it hits the ground.
"Urgh!" Yuri grunt as the last explosion almost hit him but managed to run behind another tree.
"Don't be relaxed. You might die." He heard the man said but he can't see him anywhere and that's where he sees three arrows from his right side coming to him at a fast speed.
Yuri ran straight forward to avoid it which he succeeded. He tried to find the man but another batch of arrows flew straight to hit but this time, some of it scratched his body.
Luckily, it was not enveloped in fire magic.
'This it gonna be tough...' He says.