The Wiz
Chapter 26: Power

"Good, kid! Your abilities have improved a little!"

Camoline snorted loudly. There was no improvement at all that he felt. Barcus was obviously just bragging. Moreover, the old man's tone was very clearly filled with ridicule.

With a severed breath, Camoline stopped her magic power. Her plant magic continues to be honed — by force— by Barcus. The old man said, as a useless power user —sampah— like that, his strength must be honed continuously in order to be of little use. Despite the fact that Camoline has other magical elements in her body, Barcus forbids Camoline from using them for frequent periods of time. According to Barcus, it would be better if the original element in the body Camoline can develop so well that it can —at least a little— resist the attack of other elements that weaken, such as fire.

Sweat was already running down Camoline's forehead. He just dropped his body onto the grass. It did not matter if Barcus looked at him like a corpse that had lost to being trampled by a horse, or whatever derogatory epithet that the old man had always thrown at him.

For today's practice, it could be said to be the first time for him to fight Barcus — head-on. Normally, Camoline would only fight against a fortress, monster, or tree that was turned on. Which of course requires a lot of energy to be able to destroy all that. And fighting Barcus head-on, it was like picking up the death of both of them. His energy was completely depleted, if only Barcus had not stopped this exercise all of a sudden.

The difference in the levels of both levels will clearly have a different effect on these two people. When the current state of Camoline is quite terrible, with some bruises on his arms and legs, it is far different from the state of Barcus. The old man just looked sweaty. There were no injuries the man received, making Camoline snort involuntarily. Because from the beginning, even he seemed not to be given the opportunity to hurt the man.

No wonder he became a teacher here.

Even if it's not officially.

"Looking at your condition after the fight, it seems like I have to increase the intensity of your training, boy."

Camoline did not look. Wanting to refuse, neither would be heard by Barcus. If only the man had not known of the existence of the Opal stone on his body, it was possible that Barcus would not have been this crazy to force him to train harder. Camoline took a deep breath. He then woke up and positioned his body sitting on the grass with his back resting on the tree trunk behind him.

"Both friends. How are they developing?" ask Camoline. Already these last few exercises, he did not see the process of the two friends. He will only find both exhausted after training, or simply their complaints because of the torture of the training disguise that Barcus gave.

"ah! Those two boys, I kicked them out."

Camoline's head immediately turned towards Barcus quickly. Barcus' statement just now certainly made him so shocked. He had never thought that Barcus would expel them so soon. Yes, Camoline had expected that to happen to Violetta and Lily. But this fast, it felt so strange.

"What's? Why?"

"Their abilities, they're terrible. So better, they just focus on the scheduled activities of the Academy" Barcus said. On the other hand, Camoline instantly rolled her eyeballs, panted. Apparently, Barcus's mouth would be very itchy if it did not taunt someone for a second.

"Again, stupid boy. It's enough you're always ditching class hours. You're, lucky I didn't put you in Academy jail for constantly skipping lessons." Now the old man grumbled. And Camoline's response was simply to shrug her shoulders. Barcus' words are true. He often skipped lessons just to train with the old man.

"Exercise is necessary, but classroom learning is equally important. After this, I don't want to hear you ditching anymore, boy."

Camoline could only sigh deeply. The reason for more frequent skipping classes is, no learning attracts his attention. In addition, of course to stay away from the Chromos man. At first, Camoline thought that Londer would start to stop following her since the day the Palace officials returned. But unfortunately, Londer just back to buy himself. And it pisses him off not playing.

"I didn't promise." In the end, Camoline said so. And Barcus, looking unsurprised by Camoline's reply.

Both were silent for a long time. Barcus wasn't really quiet. He sharpened a dagger that was always on his left waist with the help of a stone. And Camoline was completely silent. The woman let her body rest for a while to restore her magic energy that was almost depleted after fighting with Barcus. Even though it was called a fight, it felt like a one-way fight, as only Camoline was making an attack. Barcus did more on defense.

"By the way, why can't I use the power of my other elements? I should be able to control all those elements just in case." Barcus' head turned slightly towards Camoline. Just for a moment, before the old man's attention turned again to the daggers and stones in his two hands.

"Because it's not an element that I'm good at, it's a simple answer. Others, I suggest you find another teacher to train your new elements," Barcus said in a quite indifferent tone. Camoline immediately let out a rough sigh. His mind was suddenly complicated just by hearing the words of the Barcus. Good advice, but a big risk as well.

"Go away from here, right there. I don't want Zelden to go back to babbling because he got another teacher's report if you go back to ditching their class hours" Barcus said. The old man stood up and stepped away from Camoline. I don't know where the guy's going, Camoline doesn't really care either. With the condition of the body —more both feet— are still quite limp, Camoline forced herself to enter the Academy building. After this, he would go straight to the blue dorm building, resting his body. There was no intention at all for him to rest at the Academy health clinic, even though his body needed some medicine to speed up the recovery period of the bruises on his body. He didn't like that place. The reason being, that place could be visited by anyone easily.

"ah! You're right here. I'm looking—"

"I want to rest full. So please, don't bother me for one today, Londer."

Londer stopped his footsteps. He let out a long sigh, as Camoline immediately walked away from him. Well, Camoline already said that, and Londer doesn't want to make trouble —more more— on Camoline. He turned around and walked away feeling so empty.

For the umpteenth time, Camoline refused herself.