The Crystal - 28 The training began

After those annoying sessions of questions and answers, Lazuli finally started their training. What Marium is supposed to do is try to create plasma. Lazuli showed the creation of Plasma a few times by herself to Marium but it was very confusing of a task as she never used her aura to make plasma. On top of that, Lazuli couldn’t even describe how to use the aura to create plasma because it is not a particular movement to be described. One has to feel it for himself. So she was just left guessing.

On the other hand, Zohaifa was instructed to create lightning as slowly as possible, so he could observe and feel it by himself: How is it he creates lightning? But out of misfortune, lightning had to be the element that Zohaifa had. If it were water or air, he could’ve just observed how he controlled it by manipulating it slowly. But Lightning is extremely fast by nature. Thus it became an incredibly hard task. After giving them their instructions, Lazuli told them, “It’s time for me to go. I have a lot of work to do. Do not slack off.”

“Aren’t you going to train?” asked Zohaifa.

“Maybe I will warm up a bit before the tournament,” answered Lazuli arrogantly.

Thus, Zohaifa and Marium continued their days of hard work. A day in their training life looked like this:

They woke up in the morning and hit the road for some roadwork. But they did not go too hard, just slight jogging alongside some small gossips.

Then they would have their breakfast and walk around to digest it. After a few minutes of rest, they would be onto their training as instructed by Lazuli. They would continue it until noon.

After taking a bath and launch, they were sent to their room to sleep. Zohaifa, by that time, always became exhausted and gassed out as he had to create lightning again and again since morning. Marium did not feel nearly enough tired as she could not even do what she was supposed to. So, she inquired Zohaifa to play video games with her, which Zohaifa could not refuse despite the exhaustion he felt.

In the evening, Lazuli conducts a sparring session where she spars with the two of them where Zohaifa did worse than Marium. Lazuli often motivated him by saying, “Where is the fighting spirit you showed me on the first day?” While sparring Lazuli would observe their weakness and tell them to be conscious of it.

“Marium, your guard is low.”

“Zohaifa, don’t stop. What are you doing?”

“Marium, you are too focused on speed. Stop telegraphing.”

“Zohaifa, what are you doing? Sleeping? When are you going to get up from my attack? You need to learn how to absorb it.”

Zohaifa could only rest peacefully in the night after supper.