Cosmic Paragon-Chapter 38: An Idea That Simplifies Forming Constellations!
Chapter 38: Chapter 38: An Idea That Simplifies Forming Constellations!
"As a 1 star Mage you can use magic power reinforcement to enhance any part of your body, but reinforcement is one of the lesser abilities of a Mage. To be honest, it can’t even be called a special ability and is only useful against weaker Mages or non-Mages. That is why you have to have special training in all kinds of martial arts, these exist to help you use your strength more efficiently.
In fact, it is actually possible for a non-Mage with training in martial arts to defeat a 1 star Mage. In front of a person with training even if you are a Mage, you will only just be another slightly stronger human. As long as he uses some good technique he can put you down easily. So you have to train in fighting styles and martial arts, this also applies up the ladder for higher levels."
Drake nearly applauded when the teacher said this, he agreed very much with this. isn’t this the reason he has been able to take down Mages as a non-Mage. Every time he went up against Mages they never got the chance to land a good blow on him, why?
Because of how many fighting styles he had mastered while training with Queen. ’So what if you’re stronger than me? If you can’t even hit me then you can forget about defeating me. But with my training in different techniques I can slowly wear you down and take you out.’ This is the power of technique over power.
"After the Mage breaks through to 2 star stage, they now have to purify and accumulate more and more energy at this stage the energy cannot simply be stored in the energy nodes and the flesh, now it is being stored inside the bones.
At the 2 star Mage level, the Mage can project magic energy a few centimeters above their skin to form the Mage’s Energy armor. This Magic armor can defend the Mage from harm from sword or spear, and even from the elements and other harmful conditions.
When the energy is purified and accumulated in the bones and condensed to the limit it forms liquid magic essence.
Once the first droplet of liquid magic essence is formed the Mage is deemed to have broken through to 3 star Mage. Only with this concentration of energy will a Mage be able to cast spells with their magic power and attack with long distance attacks.’
When you breakthrough to 4 star Mage all the liquid magic essence accumulated within your bones will be sent to the heart where the energy is purified even more and compressed then it is merged into the heart to produce blood essence. This blood essence is pure energy that one develops at 4 star stage with blood essence you will be able to control magic energy not just from inside your body but also from all around you in your environment."
When Drake heard this part he was shocked. This immediately gave him some ideas that he thought would be useful.
Drake paid close attention to everything the teacher was saying, and he took notes every once in a while. The teacher also noticed that Drake was actually paying attention so he was even more enthusiastic with his lecture. It was as if he was the only one in class.
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The next class was not until the next day. This time it was battle tactics and combat training.
Combat training didn’t really seem appealing to Drake. He already had more than enough combat training with Queen.
Plus the only thing combat class was even doing was just regular basic training, that caused him to lose interest even more. For Drake who had been in life and death situations, any fight that wasn’t a serious fight lacked any thrill. Since that was the case he decided he would only focus on the battle tactics section.
Drake was something of a new celebrity in class after the Cassandra incident, everybody in class had their eye on him so they were paying close attention to everything he did.
When they found out that Drake had actually chosen the Commanders class over Combat class loud laughs burst out everywhere. The Commander’s class was a department that focused mainly on strategy, planning and directing the battlefield, they did not participate in any fights
In short they were office workers.
This department comprised mostly of non-Mages. That is because most Mages believed in their own combat strength. As far as they were concerned strength was more important, so they looked down on the commander class.
Even though some Mages who whose abilities weren’t really good for close combat like telepaths, Healers and beast tamers would sometimes chose to attend the battle tactics class, only very few of them would chose this. instead they would mostly go for combat class.
"Humph, what a wimp! You’re a man but you are too scared to take the combat class." Craig said. He was Zack’s right hand man in the class so it was only natural that he was against Drake.
When Zack found out about Drake’s choice he snorted disdainfully. "At least he knows his place there is n place for cowards on the battlefield."
After what happened on the first day with Cassandra he had been looking forward to combat class. This is because he knew Drake was also a Mage and he believed that Drake would definitely choose combat class. Since he was the strongest student in class, he did not think Drake could compete with him. once they met in combat class h would shame Drake in front of the whole class and also impress Cassandra in the process. This was his goal so it annoyed him when he heard about Drake’s choice.
But then he sneered, ’This is also good, now I don’t have to worry about him ruining my plans and taking away all of Cassandra’s attention. I’m sure I can impress her with all the distractions all out of the way.’ With this thought on his mind he happily left to combat class with his lackeys.
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As expected, Cassandra was in combat class. She had not attended magic class because she swore she would rather die than attend a class that thought nothing but children’s knowledge again after that first class, especially magic class. But once she found out the next class was combat class she jumped with joy.
’Maybe I could get matched up with Drake.’ She thought and a gleeful smile branded on her face, ’Who knows? If I play my cards right this might result in some benefits for me.’
She had been waiting patiently in the gym where they would be having the combat class, wearing a red students basic training uniform that perfectly revealed her sexy figure with all her curves nicely highlighted.
As students filled into the gym she instantly caused all eyes to be focused on her, that body made their teenage hearts race and they felt like their chests were about to explode Several people even had nose bleeds because of how fast their hearts were beating when they laid eyes on that figure that could cause genocide..
Cassandra ignored all those looks though, this was something she had gotten used to a long time ago. As far as she was concerned the only thing she was here for was Drake.
Cassandra was Proud of her assets, to her apart from her cultivation that was her greatest power over men. She couldn’t really oppress anyone with her powerful cultivation so she made sure to enjoy the full power of her assets.
She would flirt with men just because of the way they reacted when faced with her charms. For her that was an achievement. And the stronger you are, the more resistant you were to her charms, the more competitive she would get. So she would try even harder to seduce you.
She would torment you then leave once you were broken.
’You want to look? Go ahead! Unfortunately, at the end of the day you can see, but you can’t touch.’
Drake had also piqued her interest by rejecting her, so she had made him her target.
However, even as she waited she never saw him. it was then that she overheard a few girls gossiping saying that Drake had actually chosen the commander class instead of combat class.
This piece of info annoyed her, it was like all her enthusiasm was for nothing. and when she had to now sit through a few hours of watching a bunch of weaker teenagers do basic exercises it vexed her even more.
Zack was naturally very excited when he saw Cassandra. Unfortunately for him she completely ignored all his advances, which really frustrated him, and he hated Drake who wasn’t even here even more.
Not only did she not talk to him, she didn’t even look at him when he acted like a class leader nearly driving him mad. ƒree𝑤ebnσvel.com
Zack was walking to wards his dorm with two of his most loyal goons when he saw Drake walking alone in the distance, a nefarious glint shone in his eyes and he signaled his goons.
The three of them immediately started to close in on Drake, but then just as there were only about 10 meters left between them, two guys ran up to Drake and began talking to him. They were very friendly as they continued heading deeper into the dormitory area.
One of the two loyal goons upon seeing these two turned pale with fright and hastily stopped Zack and the other.
"What now, why are you stopping? We need to teach that Drake a painful lesson for getting in master Zack’s way with Princess Cassandra." the second loyal goon of Zack growled lowly.
Zack’s face was also filled with displeasure. "Why are you stopping us?" he inquired.
"Sir! Master Zack, we can’t touch him now." the guy that just stopped them said solemnly.
Zack’s face darkened when he heard this and he demanded, "Explain yourself!"
"Master Zack I stopped you for a good reason." He hastily apologized then started, "You see the two walking with him. I recognize them. They are the twins from Obsidian Palace."
"So what if they’re from Obsidian Palace?" Zack growled angrily, "What’s so special about them?"
"Master Zack please calm your anger, if it were just anyone from Obsidian Palace I would not stop you, but these two are special. They are Peter and Paul Anders. "Not only are this set of twins 2 star mages, they both have a rare Space affinity, which makes them much stronger than regular mages in the same level as themselves and much harder to deal with."
"Not only that, but I know that their mother is a manger at on of the branches of Obsidian Palace, and there’s even rumors that their father is also extremely influential. So it would be really unwise to target Black Drake while he is with them."
Obsidian Palace was a true behemoth in the empire, and someone related to the higher ups was not a person Zack dared to casually offend. Zack hastily stopped and fear flashed through both his and the other lackey’s eyes.
But Zack hastily restrained his apprehension and hid it.
"Mmm, your right fine we’ll let him be for now. Zack pondered a bit then agreed to restrain his wrath till a later time."
Seeing him agree, both his goons heaved a sigh o f relief and followed him. If they had their way, they really didn’t want to offend Obsidian Palace.
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Drake didn’t really care what the other students thought about him and after an uneventful day of class he always returned to his room to focus on forming his next constellation.
While he was trying to control the stars he tried incorporating the idea he had in class that day. A 4 star Mage is able to use blood essence to control the magic energy in their surroundings, this is mainly because the essence blood to command the outside energy. But why is it possible for energy to control energy? It’s because the purity of the energy of the essence blood makes it stronger than the freely occurring energy.’ He thought.
It’s just like military the soldiers must obey orders from those at a higher rank than them. Forming essence blood is simply like appointing a general to command the soldiers. As for that general, he is the purest energy that is the essence blood.
’If the Mage is the King giving orders to the essence blood who is the general, then the general will mobilize all the soldiers under him. it’s genius! So if I want to control a star all I have to do is control the purest energy of the star, if I do that then all I need to do is give the order and all the rest of the energy will follow the generals orders.’
Drake did not waste time and immediately put his plans to action. As for where he would find the purest energy in a star it was naturally at its core.
Before long he had full control over the energy at the core of the star he had chosen with his fingers crossed he sent out his intention to the core. Sure enough the star moved and circled around him.
"Haha, It works." He exclaimed excitedly.
Initially, he had to painstakingly do his best to try and control all the energy that formed a single star by the wisp before he could move the whole star. That was why even though he had spent weeks he had only managed to control seven stars of energy.
Yet, now he no longer had to go through all that stress.
With this new achievement motivating him, he immediately got to work with forming his new constellation.
While he was doing this though, he found a small problem. Even though he could move the stars his way, they moved extremely slowly when compared to how fast to how he could move his original seven stars.
For the seven stars that he had used to form the Libra constellation, he could make them go round him in seconds. But having these stars do the same would take anything from several minutes to half an hour.
Drake immediately understood that this was probably a consequence since he did not completely control every wisp of energy that made up the star himself. If he moved one and that one now had to move a thousand, then there was bound to be some delay.
But he did not this bother him, for now he had no idea whether this constellation thing would really work, if it did then he swore that in the future he would definitely make sure he completely mastered all the stars in every constellation.
