Chapter 100 The Time Has Come
Time flew by fast.
Kye kept training with Ras, and sometimes, with Aria as well. And if he were, to be honest, he preferred training with Ras a hundred times more over Aria. The former, even though was ruthless with him when they were fighting, was still letting him fight or parry his attack.
Aria, however, even though was just using a small part of her real strength, still felt overwhelmed. She was also giving him tips, but he just had so many difficulties applying them because he just couldn't do anything against her.
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Nonetheless, he still managed to improve by leaps and bounds. He understood that he couldn't do anything against Aria since she never managed to adapt her strength well to him, so he just tried to observe her movements as much as possible during their spars. Thus, he managed to formulate some new moves and tested them with Ras when the opportunity arose.
The latter was impressed by how Kye could pull something out of his training with Aria, while the latter was proud of him.
Of course, she didn't forget to slap Ras' head as well for such comments.
Kye also managed to control his holy energy enough to hide his wings completely (AN: check the discord if you want to see what they look like now.) They were now in their tattoo form. And even though he didn't like the tattoos, it was still better than being discovered and chased down.
Thanks to Ras, he also learned how to fly. He was a lot more skillful than when he flew for the first time during their first spar. He could now fly around as he wished. However, flying used a lot of his stamina, so fighting while flying wasn't really possible right now. And even though he knew how to fly, it was nowhere near Ras' level, nor at a winged being level. Nonetheless, he could still fly, so it was the most important thing.
Also, since he could now control his holy energy to a decent level, he could use it to protect his external body as well to defend himself. It helped him a lot when fighting Ras and Aria because, without it, he would have surely fainted because of the pain multiple times.
And it wasn't the end.
He also applied his holy energy to his sword, making it a lot sharper and stronger. He could also use it without applying to anything. For example, he could use his holy energy to create a sharp ball of holy energy that could even cut rocks.
Thanks to all his sparring sessions, he also managed to level up Holy ray to level 2. It now had a ten-meter range and looked a lot stronger. And since his control over his holy energy increased, he could also make his rays a little bit stronger or weaker, but not by much. However, the most important thing was that thanks to his control, he could change the trajectory of his ray. He could only do it once per ray, but it was already strong enough to catch someone off guard and kill it instantly if the ray was strong enough to pierce the head or heart.
And just like this, almost a month had passed, and it was finally the day Kye was looking forward to the most. The day he had finished all his other training. The day he will learn an ability.
The astral ability.
"Is it finally the day?" Aria asked as Kye nodded excitingly. They were all around a table. "Time flew way too fast."
She sighed.
"I know right?" Ras said with a sad smile. "Kye will go in a few days."
Kye smiled hearing that. He had passed a good time with them. Sure it was hard and was annoyed by the pain he felt, but both of them were amazing people.
Or rather monsters.
"I will do my best to visit the both of you, I promise."
He said with a radiant smile. His holiness shone through his face. It was almost otherwordly.
Almost.
"Thanks, I will wait for you then."
Aria said.
"Me too. Don't forget me, okay?" Ras added.
"How could I?" Kye chuckled. "I suffered so much because of you two that I can't forget both of you, even if I wanted to."
Aria and Ras chuckled hearing that.
"Anyways, shall we begin?" Aria asked as both men nodded.
Aria then pulls an orb from her dimensional space. The orb was almost pitch black. If it wasn't for the numerous but tiny little dots that looked like stars, one could think that someone painted the orb in black.
"Is it the ability orb you retrieved a millennium ago?" Ras asked.
"You still remember?"
"A millennium? Kye repeated in shock. He knew they were old, but not that much.
"Yes, I remember. You asked everyone if they knew about such a thing, but even the ancient dragons couldn't answer you. It was quite pitiful if I have to say for them. Dragons are proud of their wisdom, but even them couldn't answer you."
Ras remembered with a mocking smile.
"That's right. That is why Kye. I'll ask you one last time. Are you sure to want to learn an ability that is off the record and that no one remembers seeing or studying?"
Kye was silent for a moment. On the one hand, he wanted to learn it immediately because he thought about a lot of things in anticipation. But on the other hand, as Aria said, this ability was a complete mystery.
If even dragons didn't know about it, then probably no one could.
Or so he thought.