'Forget about surpassing her previous self… I don't think she can even reach that power level.'
I thought whilst seeing the example of Alice's magic. Right now, at my request she performed one of her basic spells called Shadow Hands.
Even though I never used any magic or know literally anthing about it, I could tell that whatever she was doing, wasn't good.
Alice's shadow hands spell looked similar to a hand, made of dark shadow. But instead of it being dark and terrifying, it seemed as if the shadow barely had any strength left as it flayed here and there whist it's color slowly turned to greyish white.
I could see she was trying really hard to manipulate the hand to move at her command but was failing miserably. Still, look at the worst side, what if she couldn't even use magic.
I just need to give her time and someone to help her, I'm sure that she can pass this problem and become strong.
"Enough" I say stopping her as the shadowy hand disappeared into nothing.
Alice heaved a few breathes while saying, "I- I'm sorry, my- master. Let me try it one more time."
"It's okay. You don't need to push yourself so hard, just keep practicing every day and it will be okay." I said and then remembered about the regular branch of magic, "What about normal elemental magic, can you do them?"
She nodded with a beam, "Yes, I can. Do you want to see?"
Alice showed her palm and without even saying a incantation, a ball of fire, warm to our surroundings, materialized. This time the fire wasn't weak nor had any problem with control and actually looked quite steady.
She had a proud smile on her face as she marveled at the fact that her normal spell skill was good. But I had another thought.
"Is your basic elemental fire skill is the best or is there any other element that you marvel at?"
"I am good with all of the elements." Alice smiled brightly, "I am great at casting all of the natural elements and can quickly learn them too."
"That's brilliant, Alice. You're like a genius then." Anna said as Alice felt more proud of that and looked at me. But again… I had another thought.
"So your telling me you are good, no, great at all the other elements?" She nodded, "And bad at your core special ability to use dark magics… that should have been engraved in your blood."
"… Y- Yes." She said avoiding my dark look.
I sighed… this is much worse than I thought… she isn't bad at magic but she's bad at what she should have been great with.
"Alright… about the elemental spells, do you also know only the basics of them?"
"Anna, remind me to tell Redwick when we go back to buy some magic instruction books and also to hire a good teacher."
"Yes, master." Anna said and saw me get up to leave, "Where are you going, master?"
"To find a rat's location."
"Welcome to the my humble sho- Oh! It's you, sir." The slave keeper smiled as he saw me coming in.
"As promised, the wolfmen will be ready by tomorrow, do you want to see them?"
"Okay, do you want to see any other merchandise?" He said with a na smile.
"No, this is something else." I said and looked around to see for a moment before coming close to him, "I need your help finding someone."
"Find someone? Sorry sir, but I don't do those kinds of work. It would be better if you went to the guild for that."
"No no you misunderstand, I think you're the type of guy who can help find this one." I said shoving a bag of coins at the slave keeper who was confused.
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Alright, now that I have the guy's location, it's only a matter of time before I find him. Who would have thought that the guy was actually so close to me? Living right under my nose and I didn't even catch a whiff of him.
Granted, I didn't care about him at the time and of all the people it was fucking Gekko who reminded me of what needed to be done.
"The day has finally come for your demise."
'Hmm… that voice… it strangely sounds similar to a Gecko, I know.'
"What your doing is plain stupid."
'Another voice that seems familiar.'
"Then just do what I tell you to."
"And who are you to tell me that?"
'Yep, that's definitely Arthur's voice. Seems like he's in some problem.'
Turning to the place where the sounds coming from, I see a group of young people surrounding the training ground. Curious, I go there and see that it was none other than Arthur, Elisabeth and Samantha… the first threesome.
Opposite to him was Honzo and Gekko… with a bandage around his head, barking off words.
"I'm a viscount and you're just a lowly baron, it is your duty to listen to me!"
"I'm not a baron yet and you too are not a viscount."
"It doesn't matter if I am or am not, I will be the viscount. It's only a matter of time."
"That's years from now. Who knows if you'll even survive the war."
"Yeah, sure you will. You should hide away, just like your father." Arthur said as the crowd of young people laughed and Gekko screamed.
"You lowly scum! It's you who should be ashamed. It's you who is dallying around with a new girl every day. You use lady Elisabeth and now you even have a new bimbo with you." Gekko pointed at Samantha.
"I'll cut off your tongue right now!" Samantha insulted, pointed her sword at Gekko.
"Oh! You think I will have a sword fight with a girl and make a bad name by defeating you, that would be shameful of me."
"You! Show your skill in a real fight, you bastard!" She said ready to jump in but Arthur stopped her.
"It's not you who I want to fight, it's him," Gekko looked at Arthur, "Lady Elisabeth, I will finally show you what a real man is and you'll realize your mistake of being with someone like him."
"Gekko… How many times do I have to tell you? I don't like you!" Elisabeth angrily said stomping her feat.
"WHY NOT! I'm better than him in every way." Gekko said and pulled out his sword, "And today I'll finally show everyone."
Oh Yeah! I forget to tell you that Gekko's supposed to be the first villain.