Triiffic-Soul: Can I Be In Control?-Chapter 79 – Training & Eating

Chapter 79 – Training & Eating

“Ah… Thanks for this…” Ethan bowed his head nervously as he stared at the warm, recently cooked food in front of him.

“Roo Woof!” Cobalt had no such reservations and immediately dove its snout into the bowl of finely chopped deer.

Syrus chuckled, “It is fine. Just enough for the meal, we’ll be doing some training after this.”

Ethan gulped, “O-Okay!” He was excited and nervous. Training with Syrus was definitely a little tough, but he did feel like he was making progress. With Syrus’ suggested exercises he was doing most days, Ethan was just feeling better in his day-to-day life. So he was cautiously curious about what was next on the training regiment.

But for the moment, Ethan and Cobalt were simply sitting at Gery’s Well Grill and being shouted food by Anlesa.

“Good to see you're doing well again!” Garry, the owner, let out a hearty laugh as he watched the duo scoff down the food, and Syrus calmly began her meal.

“Thanks. Surprised you recognised us.”

“Not too many people bring animals here directly, some can be wild and go after other people’s food, and not one wants to deal with the consequences of that. Though, I love seeing cute ones like this one around.” He dropped a little bit of extra meat into Cobalt’s bowl.

Cobalt looked up with his eyes shining. “Owroooo.”

“Haha, what a cutie. Well, you three enjoy your meal.” Garry walked off to continue his job.

Syrus waved the man goodbye. “Will do, boss.”

They started eating, but eating wasn’t the only thing Syrus had planned for this outing. She wasn’t just going to waste a good learning opportunity for Ethan.

“We’ll do the theory part of the lesson while we eat.”

“Ok-ay.” He nodded while chewing on his food.

“Good, first, out of the wooden weapons I gave you, which one did you find the most comfortable to use?”

Syrus grabbed a bunch of different wooden weapons–some bought, and some she carved–that she gave Ethan a while ago. She taught him the bare basics of each and how to use them properly, but nothing strict. The important part was for Ethan to find what he felt comfortable using.

“Ehh…” Ethan mumbled for a moment. He had been worried about this for a while. What if he chose the wrong option? “I liked the bow… and the axe…”

“Big one or small one?”

“Small one.”

“The hatchet then, good choice.” Syrus thought it was a good option. One-handed axes had a lot of utility even outside of combat, and in combat, depending on the design, they were good chopping and hacking weapons, could catch other weapons, and could be thrown.

“Is that fine..?”

“‘Course, I’ll figure out some good training plans.” Syrus tore a chunk of meat off the bone after she answered.

“I see…” Ethan continued to eat, before stopping again. “...Is it really okay? Aren’t there better options? Shouldn’t I be using one of those?”

“No, what you chose is a really good combo for hunting, not to mention you have Cobalt by your side. And choosing something you like to use really helps, and if your preference or needs change later, then you can learn more skills, nothing wrong with that.”

Syrus comforted Ethan’s choice.

They paused the talk for a moment so they could enjoy the meal for a bit longer. Syrus didn’t want it to go cold before most of it was eaten.

“Argh, that was some good stuff.” Syrus patted her belly after finishing the grub.

“That was amazing…” Ethan laid back.

“Roooooo.” Cobalt had also enjoyed the meal; after he finished, the small brown pup jumped onto Ethan’s lap and curled into a ball.

“It is not busy at the moment, so we will keep chatting here for a bit.”

“As long as we aren’t causing trouble.” Ethan massaged Cobalt's ears.

“If you are worried, I’ll just ask.” Syrus looked over her shoulder. “Garry. Cool if we stay here and chat for a bit while it’s not busy?”

“Of course! Just if people are coming in, either order more food or leave.”

“Understood, doubt we’ll be that long though.” She spun back around. “You heard the man, let’s get to talking.”

“Okay…” He nodded. “What’s next?”

“Wind talk. I will be going over what you will be learning with that, and going to inject you with some knowledge on the subject.”

Ethan replied, “Understood.”

Ethan didn’t say anything else, so Syrus began the explanation.

“Your Wind and my Fire are what would be considered elemental g-attributes.” Syrus had to momentarily stop herself from saying gifts like she normally would. “You have probably tested it a bit, right? Pretty simple with their application, but you can do a lot of fun things with them.

“Hmhmm.” He nodded.

“Now, you can do a lot with elemental attributes. What a person can actually do, does depend on what element they have, but some attributes have their scope greatly expanded with magic.”

Moonlight and other light-based attributes fell heavily into that category of attributes that were heavily based on the magic created around them. The centuries of development with those attributes have created a large category of healing spells.

“Is Wind like that?”

“Umm, yeahnah.” Syrus shrugged. “‘Some’ attributes was probably the wrong word. Wind can do a lot, and magic can make it do a lot more. But the uses with and without magic spells for Wind are pretty different.” Syrus looked out to the sky. “Wind and basic complexity spells are very much about movement, speed, and slashes. Oh, before I continue, basic spells are something most people can learn, or even make up themselves if they know what they are slightly doing. Then the higher complexity spells… well, they are kind of crazy from what I know. I heard someone pushed a storm away from a city, and another catapulted themselves across a county.”

The examples were based on rumours and non-confirmed information in books they read. In the books Jen owned, most didn’t have any details on high-powered magic.

Ethan’s mouth widened, amazed, “Wow…”

“Any questions before we continue?”

Ethan shyly asked, “Ummm… yeah, is it possible for me to awaken another attribute?”

“Do you want another?”

“It would be cool?”

Syrus sighed, “Potentially, but unlikely. Most cases of unawakened attributes are due to a physical condition, trauma, attributes clashing against each other, or early awakening of one. In your case, you seem to be fine, so it’s unlikely you will get another.”

“Oh… okay then. Why do people get multiples then?” fɾeewebnoveℓ.co๓

“Asking the big questions, kid.” Syrus chuckled. “We don’t exactly know, simple as that. There are some common factors. If someone is born with two, those two can pretty much be anything, but more than two usually–not always–occurs in patterns that people call an aligned arrangement of attributes. These are attributes just based on nature, concept, and all that shit, you can see they are related to each other, and make some sort of weird balance. Fire, Water, Earth, Wind; Light, Sun, Fire; Wind, Water, Lightning. There is a list of these common occurrences of two plus attributes, now having three or more is still rare, so yeah, and having three or more attributes that seemingly have no relation is even crazier.”

[I need to stop this… I’m becoming like you guys.] (Syrus)

[What’s that supposed to mean?] (Luna)

[I am confused as well.] (Eva)

Syrus snapped her fingers, "Okay, enough of that, now I am going to explain what I am going to teach you.”

Syrus wrapped up the conversation. She talked about how now that Ethan has chosen his weapons, she was going to teach him how to use them, and how to use Wind for movement first, then how to use it to enhance his attacks.

Before all that though, it was going to be one more day of intense physical training. With an adjusted list of exercises for the two weapons, he was going to use. Cobalt got to sit this one out, as he was too sleepy.