Chapter 30: Combat, Young Princess Victory Albert vs John Venhorst.
John spent the whole day familiarizing himself with his soul sea, it was now easy to come and go between the real world and his soul sea, he discovered that only his soul traveled between the soul sea and the real world.
Oni, showed how John looked in the real world while he was in the sea of soul, John saw himself while he was in the sea of soul, his body seemed to be sleeping, in fact he had already seen this scenario.
Back in the favelas when John was on the verge of death, the Oni showed John's body through a holographic screen while the two were in the sea of souls, meaning John could see the real world even through the sea of souls.
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Three days later
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It had been three days after John's evolution, now he was familiar with his new evolved body, now he was taller and bulging muscles could be seen.
On the second day, Fernando personally organized an evolution ritual for Alex. Catarina, Alex's mother and father, Fernando, Felícia and of course John were present at the ritual.
Unlike John's ritual that left everyone worried and on edge, Alex's ritual went beautifully, there were no complications, the time it took Alex to evolve was only 4 hours unlike John who took two whole days, now John and Alex were both level 1 primary beings.
And the days to join the institute were getting closer and closer.
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Even after three days of visitors, Prince Leonel Albert and Princess Victoria Albert, the two still remain at Venhorst Castle. Since the day of John's evolution, Leonel Albert has locked himself in his room, refusing to see anyone. He claimed to be studying and did not want to be disturbed.
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In the living room of Venhorst Castle were Felicia, Catarina, Fernando, Vitória and John.
Fernando looked at John and said.
— Son, you are a real man now —
Fernando patted John on the shoulder, he took out a ring and gave it to John saying.
— Now you can use this, it's a gift for your evolution —
John looked at the ring, he put it on his finger but there was nothing special about it, he assumed it was just an ornamental ring, this is because the ring was really beautiful, strange patterns surround the ring, he looked at Fernando and said.
— Dad, thank you for the ring, it's very beautiful —
Fernando patted John hard on the shoulder and said with feigned anger.
— Just like any other handsome guy. Drop a drop of your blood and use your sonar, then tell me if he's handsome or not—
John scratched his shoulder where he was tapped, he made a cut on his finger and dripped a drop of blood on the ring and used his sonar.
The ring reacted to John's blood, then from the ring he could see a black holographic screen, he tried to touch the screen with his hand and then something he wasn't expecting happened, his hand entered the dark screen, it looked like there was a space through the screen.
John used his sonar to pass through the screen with his consciousness, he saw a space the size of a football field, there was nothing in this space, inside it he could not feel the air or other elements, only the spatial element, he came to the conclusion that people could not enter the ring.
— Did you like it, Junior? — Fernando said, laughing at John's face.
— Yes, I was very curious about the space storage rings, I never thought it would be like this. How do I use them? How do I put things inside? —
Fernando took a glass that was on the table and gave it to John.
—You just need to pick up the object and wish for it to go into the ring, and to take it out you just need to think about having the object in your hands — Fernando explained.
John took the cup and willed it to enter the ring, the cup shone and entered the ring, now on the black screen it changed color and looked blue, an image of the cup could be seen on the blue screen, John willed to take the cup out, and the cup appeared in his hand.
— Now you can store your things in the space storage ring — said Catarina.
—very convenient— replied John.
— Now it's me — said Catarina.
She took a data crystal from her own storage ring and passed it to John, he received it, John already knew what the data crystals were for.
The data crystals were small crystals similar to data storage cards on Earth, similar to a flash drive that John used on Earth, they had the same function, data storage.
John took the data crystal and placed it on his forehead, he used his sonar to absorb the data recorded on the crystal.
With the sonar activated, countless data entered John's frontal lobe, and just like that, by magic, all the magic art of the North Star, the magic art of the ice attribute at the middle level was recorded in John's brain, now he just had to master it.
Since John was a warrior mage, he could learn both the magical arts and the warrior arts.
It took John two minutes to absorb all the knowledge recorded in the data crystal, he could now use the magical art, from the polar star, until he reached the middle kingdom to the same kingdom as Catarina.
Since John had an affinity for the earth and water elements, he would be able to use the magical art without any complications, after absorbing everything John's eyes shone, smiling he said.
— Mom, thank you for your gift —
— My turn — said Felicia.
Felicia clapped her hands and a maid came in holding a small cage, she placed it on the table and left.
Felicia lifted the cloth covering the cage, as soon as she did so, she revealed a golden bird appearing with a hummingbird, in fact this bird was the Golden Hummingbird, the same one that was responsible for the war between the water clan and the Barbarian Bo tribe.
Felicia took out a sheet of parchment and said.
— puts a drop of his blood on the parchment —
John frowned and asked.
- what is that? -
"It's a master-servant contract. Your aunt is giving this little beast as your slave beast. It will be very useful in the future. You must accept," Catarina said.
John hesitated for a moment, but then a voice coming from the sea of his soul, a voice that only John could hear said.
[Put a drop on the parchment and another drop in the bird's mouth] said the Ôni.
Without hesitating any longer, John dripped a drop of his blood onto the contract sheet, then opened the Golden Hummingbird's mouth and placed a drop of his blood.
The contract sheet turned into two beams of light, one entered John's body and the other entered the Golden Hummingbird's body.
Suddenly, the golden Hummingbird began to struggle, it struggled fiercely, everyone in the room was confused, they immediately looked at John, he rolled his eyes saying he didn't know what was going on.
After so much debating, the Golden Hummingbird stopped, he fell to the floor inside the cage and didn't move anymore.
— Is he dead? — asked the young Princess
Everyone used their sonars to sense the vitality of the Golden Hummingbird, one by one everyone was surprised.
— What did you do? — everyone asked.
The golden hummingbird released a sticky liquid and covered its entire body, everyone's mouths dropped open.
— It can't be —
— he is! —
— is evolving! —
John was also stunned, he concentrated and stirred the sea of the soul a little, with a lazy voice, the Oni said.
[I ejected a large amount of crimson energy into your blood which you passed into the bird's mouth, thank me later, I gave a lot of energy, now I'm exhausted. I'll need a week to recover, don't come here until then]
After a while a sound of.
Crack
Crack
It was heard, the Golden Hummingbird broke out of the evolution cocoon, with a cracking sound, the Golden Hummingbird broke out of the cage and flew to John's shoulder.
Once again everyone was amazed, now it was not right to call the bird a Golden Hummingbird, now the bird was a crimson color and its wings seemed to shine, its eyes were large and round, the hummingbird was a very cute creature.
— how did you do that — victory asked the question that was on everyone's mind.
— I don't know, I didn't do anything, I just signed a contract and this happened — John lied.
John didn't want to be seen as a freak, his evolution ritual was already very shocking to say the least, he didn't want to say that the Oni did it.
—It must have been a coincidence, John signing a contract while the beast evolved—said Felicia.
—That must have been it—Catherine agreed.
—But then, why did it change color? — asked Victoria.
—maybe it's a mutant golden hummingbird—Fernando replied.
— He's so cute — said Victoria as she tried to hold the golden Hummingbird.
[ Pil pil pil ]
The golden hummingbird flew away with incredible speed, he refused to be touched by anyone other than John.
Victoria looked at John and said.
— here it is —
Victoria took three vials of green potion and gave them to John—it's my gift to you, superior grade healing potion—
John took the three vials and stored them in his space storage ring.
— thank you, young princess —
John was truly grateful for the gifts he received today, they were all treasures one after another, but a look of sadness passed through his eyes, and this was noticed by everyone.
— What is it, John? — asked Felicia.
— You didn't like the gifts? — asked Catarina.
— It's not that, I really enjoyed everything and I'm very grateful for them — John replied.
—So what is it? You can tell me what's bothering you — Fernando said.
"It's Íza. Now that Alex and I have evolved, she's been avoiding me. I promised I'd take her to the institute and help her evolve. But now I really don't know how to help. She feels left behind, so she's avoiding me. She doesn't want me to notice her sadness," John said listlessly.
— Junior, there are things you are not capable of doing, you should think very carefully before making a promise — said Fernando.
— Son, your father is right, you shouldn't deceive a woman by promising what you can't keep — Catarina reprimanded.
— Mother, I intend to fulfill what I promised her — said John.
—And how do you intend to keep your promise? — Felicia asked.
John lowered his head, he had no idea how to help her at this moment, before he thought it would be easy as soon as he entered the institute he would quickly get the ritual for Iza, but now after going through a ritual and seeing Alex's ritual, he knew it was not that simple.
— You don't need to be so depressed, the good thing for you is that I'm not finished giving out my presents yet — said Felicia.
Felicia drew from her space storage ring, a golden sword, and a scroll. Back in the past, Felicia explored a ruin with three shepherds: the Druid shepherd, the Dark Church shepherd, and the Protestant Church shepherd.
In those ruins, after exploring they found many treasures, among the treasures there was a golden sword and the scroll that she was giving to John now.
After treasures were found, Felicia satisfied her greed and fled with all the treasures to the Venhorst territory, but unfortunately the three shepherds followed Felicia back, she killed the druid shepherd and left the other two.
John looked at the sword and the scroll, he could feel elements of the earth in the sword, he then took the scroll, on it was written in the Babona language.
Druid Primary Evolution Scroll
Evolution requirements: a heteromorphic animal race or affinity to the element of darkness and metal,
Magical circuit of the ritual: inner and outer circle, oxinal pentagram, overlapping patch
Ritual Material: Elemental material from the elements of nature, tortoiseshell, swamp mosquito, bark of the calala tree, essentials from across the animal kingdom, animal vitality.
On the parchment were more than 200 rare components listed, John only read a few, he looked at Felicia in confusion.
— This is a damaged Base level warrior sword, now it is a primary level earth element warrior weapon, you can use it while you are still a Primary being, and that — Felicia said while pointing at the scroll — is a druid evolution scroll —
— Your friend, Iza, is from a heteromorphic animal race, a werewolf, she also has an affinity for the metal and darkness elements, she can use the druid path to evolve — explained Felicia.
When John heard this, his eyes shone with excitement, he gave his Aunt Felicia a big hug — Aunt, thank you very much — he said.
"Easy there, kid. Don't think I'm going to spend my money to buy a single component for the ritual," Felicia said as she took out her spatial storage ring.
In fact, considering Felicia's personality, she was very generous today, after all Felicia only had three things on her mind, money, power and family, her life revolved around these three things, with emphasis on family of course.
John took the parchment and looked at Fernando, more to his misfortune Fernando said.
— Junior, don't count on your father to charm a girl, you promised now you'll cover the expenses, I'm out —
John then looked at Catherine, but unfortunately Catherine also refrained from helping, he was discouraged, it was then when the young Princess Victoria Albert spoke.
— I'll pay —
— What? — everyone asked, open-mouthed.
An evolution ritual wasn't cheap, Fernando paid for two evolution rituals, with Felicia paying 50% for one of the rituals, but even so he was almost broke, and he was a lord, the expenses for two rituals were two months inside the territory.
For Victoria, a primary level evolution ritual was similar to two months of allowance as the young Princess of the three great families of the kingdom, for her it was no big deal anyway her father would reimburse her anyway.
In return, he could ask John for something in return, after all, his father has a certain interest in John's power, not to mention that his father told her to get closer to John.
— Yes, I'll pay — said Victoria, smiling slightly. John was enchanted by the princess's beautiful laugh.
—But don't fool yourself, there's no free lunch in this world, you owe me a favor, okay?—
Victoria said as she gave John a wink.
— Okay, John said — he accepted with a worried look on his face.
***
Four days later
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Four days passed, during these days, the Oni, has been sleeping all the time, John could not go to the sea of the soul.
Leonel Albert had not yet left his room, the young princess contacted her contacts in the capital, and soon the Isa ritual would also be ready, John did not tell her, he wanted to make it a surprise.
Now John, Alex, and the young Princess Victoria were out in the open on the plains, where John had been receiving training from Ferdinand and Felicia.
— Show me what you're capable of — said Victoria with a smile on her face.
Victoria closed her eyes, she regulated her flow of elemental power, with each breath her power decreased, middle realm level 2, middle realm level 1, base realm level 3, base realm level 1, primary realm level 7, primary realm level 4, primary realm level 2 and lastly, primary realm level 1.
— I suppressed my evolution realm temporarily to the same realm as yours, now you and I are both level 1 primary beings — said the young princess.
"All right, here I come," John shouted.
John advanced on Victory with a war cry, he used his fist to deliver a right cross blow, but unfortunately for him, Victory easily dodged it, he tried several times, right and left hooks, but Victory easily dodged each blow.
John took a deep breath and decided to be more aggressive, he increased the speed of his punches, one by one his punches were blocked with ease.
— I'm going to counterattack — said Victory.
John stepped back and tried a kick, but it was blocked, Victory caught John's foot in the air and tripped him, John fell and rolled on the ground, the next second he was already on his feet.
John attacked again, but this time he was more cautious, he threatened to attack with a side punch with his right fist, when he had prepared a hook with his left hand.
Victoria took two steps back, avoiding John's attack.
— Use your sword — said Victory.
— okay — John replied.
John reached out, and from his storage ring a sword leaped into his dominant hand.
— magic of creation, flaming sword — victory intoned an incantation in the baboon tongue.
A sword made of fire elements appeared in Victory's hand, the sword was on fire, she swung the sword and rushed at John.
Clang clang clang clang
John blocked Victory's attacks and stepped away in the next second, he felt a numbness in his hands, Victory attacked again.
Clang clang clang
With each sword strike that victory delivered, John defended by taking a few steps back.
— You must fight using your elemental power, don't forget you are no longer a Primitive being, use your elemental power — suggested Victory.
—How do I use elemental power in my strikes? —John asked.
— You must use your evolution core to release elemental power, you must drive the elements around you and produced by your core with your sonar, like this — said Victory.
Victoria charged again, but now her speed doubled and a subtle aura of flame covered her body, the flame on her sword became more violent.
Clang clang clang
John was being pushed back, he could barely bear the force of the blows, his hands were hurting, he stepped back and briefly closed his eyes, and when he opened it the sword of victory was a millimeter from his neck.
— You must not close your eyes in a battle, or else you will end up dead — Victory scolded.
—but you said to use my sonar—John retorted.
Victoria sighed and said.
— To use your sonar, you don't need to close your eyes, you just need to concentrate. Like this —
Victoria activated her sonar instantly.
— concentrate and try — suggested Victory.
Victoria removed the sword from John's neck, he concentrated on a flow of spiritual energy that ran through his brain, his eyes glowed and the sonar was activated.
— let's start over — victory spoke.
— okay — said John.
John's core mobilized his elemental power, drawing back with the elements in nature, with his sonar as a medium he led the water elements to form an aura of the water element around his body.
— Very good, you have formed your aura, now attack — said Victory
John felt his body was lighter, he ran around Victory, he swung his sword vertically, but Victory blocked it, he then tried several times, with each blow John gave Victory blocked it, but now John was not being pushed back.
Clang clang clang clang clang clang clang clang
The two attacked each other fiercely using their swords, now John is not completely on the defensive, he occasionally launched his own attacks, and successfully defended the victory attacks.
Victoria stepped away and the sword in her hands disappeared, extinguishing itself in the air.
— fire-creating magic, flaming bow — victory intoned.
A bow burning with flames took shape in the hands of victory, she ran her fingers over the strings of fire on the bow, a fiery arrow took shape and was fired like a bullet at John.
Woxim
John dodged the arrow, but before he could recover, two flaming arrows were fired at him.
Clang woxim
John blocked the first arrow with his sword, the second he dodged, when he decided to attack, three flaming arrows came towards him.
Woxim clang clang bom
John dodged the first flaming arrow, blocked the second and third with his sword, but he didn't see the fourth coming and it hit him, sending him flying and falling hard to the ground, before he could even recover.
Woxim
A fifth arrow flew towards him, John had not yet gotten up from the previous fall, he had no way to block this arrow, he remembered one of the shortest incantations he learned from Catarina.
— water element, agree, water ball —
John hurriedly raised his hand, a grain-sized ball of water took shape and charged at the arrow. Unfortunately for John, the ball of water evaporated in a second and the arrow hit him again.
— cough cough cor —
John stood up in shabby clothes and smoking.
— concentrate, magic requires concentration to work and the incantation must be well intoned, if these requirements are not met the magic will not work — explained Victory.
— You are not yet ready to use magic in combat, use the arts of a warrior instead — suggested Victory.
"There's no way I can get near you with that bow of yours," John lamented.
— Can't you use long-range attacks? — Victoria asked, smiling.
John thought for a bit, the first form of the sea-splitting sword was a long-range attack, but he had never used the art, he just used the technique, well anyway the situation couldn't get any worse, better to use it.
— I have — said John
— then use it — replied Victoria
Victoria pulled the bowstring and three flaming arrows took shape and advanced towards John at a greater speed than before, and John wasted no time in doing so.
—sword of the seas, first form of rising waves—John shouted.
He swung his sword a few times in succession, his core produced a huge torrent of elemental power, his sword flashed, a beam of blue light turned into a wave and rushed forward, colliding with the three flaming arrows.
Boom
The arrows were devoured by the rising waves that advanced against victory.
— flame creation magic, wall of flame — chanted hasty victory
A wall of flame took form and rose in victory, blocking the rising tide.
Boom
The rising wave was gradually decorated by the wall of victory flame, until it completely evaporated.
— Not bad — said Victory smiling.
Continued...
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