Dragon's Conquest

3 - Training

'You... you can talk?!' A large yell resounded in Kyle's mind, except he was the origin of such sound.

'Yes. My bloodline of the Tailed Fox gives me a skill named Telepathy.' The Fox appeared proud of such a skill as it revealed a toothy grin while licking it's wounds. 'I have to thank you for saving me.'

'It... it was nothing.' Kyle cursed within the deepest parts of his mind. He, a reincarnated, was given such a trash body while a Fox was blessed with such a cool skill.

'It's very easy to gain telepathy.' The Fox's voice resounded as if it had heard Kyle's thoughts. 'You just need to be able to input the meaning of your intentions into Mana. But the minimum requirement is having an affinity based magic skill, unfortunately I can sense that you're still at the Basics of Fire Control.'

Kyle blushed with shame, except his blush led to his head catching fire though it didn't hurt. 'Can... can you guide me in learning Fire magic.'

The Fox looked surprised, then thoughtful. It then gave an expression that looked like a sigh before nodding. 'Hmm, I guess since I owe you I can. But first, answer my question. Why are you so intelligent?'

Kyle appeared stunned, he then realized his thoughts about the system were somehow unnoticeable by the Fox, so his mind gave off some bullshit. 'I have an extremely concentrated amount of bloodline.'

'Oh?' The Fox snickered. 'But it's still weird. Only the Fox's mindset are the closest to humans. Yet, when speaking to you I don't even feel like I'm talking to a beast but a human.'

Kyle appeared stunned. It seemed the Fox was actually suspicious of him and he couldn't quite release the information about the system.

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Host can give off information about Dragon bloodline.

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Kyle's mind flashed. 'Of course you feel like that. Even if I was cursed with this lower body, we Dragons aren't that different from humans.'

The Fox's eyes widened. That was true, the Drake was the beast at the lowest heirarchy of the Dragons. 'I guess I have no reason to refuse then.'

'Cool.' Kyle smiled happily even if his face didn't allow it. 'I'm Kyle.'

'Kyle?' The Fox was stunned. 'You named yourself?!'

He blinked. 'Of course, humans name each other, why can't we!?'

The Fox gave a pondering expression before bursting out in a loud snicker. 'Of course, of course. Then I'm Alex. Time to begin your training.'

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Kyle stood in the dense forest. Before him was a tree burning wildly but for some reason this flame did not spread to other trees. This was his training and was incredibly hard but compared to Alex's training, his was like a child's. During the week of training, his Fire Control skill had risen to Level 9 but it seemed harder to increase it. 'f**k it. I'll push the training further.'

Placing some distance between his two hands, Kyle directed his left palm at the burning tree before focusing on the tree not too far from it. With a growl, fire spread across the tree to encase it but he found trouble dividing his attention on the two trees. It took him a long time before this training yielded results.

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Innate Ability (Basic Fire Control) has increased to Level 10

Flame Aura has increased to Level 6

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'Nice nice! You've reached the max control of the Flames. You're lucky that I, the greatest tailed beast, is teaching you.' The Fox had that same toothy grin once more. 'Do you know the difference between Control and magic.' Kyle shook his head. 'Magic is the concentration of Mana particles to control the element in a structural way that leads to spells.'

Kyle squinted his eyes. 'You copied those lines from somewhere.'

Alex's eyes widened. 'You ungrateful bastard, can't you just aknowledge my awesomeness.'

The Drake scoffed within his mind. 'Yeah yeah. Just teach me what I'm supposed to do.'

'It's simple but hard. I'll show you. Concentrate on the flame.' A flame appeared before the Fox's gaze. 'You are to compress it.' The flame got even smaller than a bead but still radiated the same danger. 'Do the same to the same to 5 more.' As he spoke, 5 more flames appeared before being compressed to beads. These beads then moved to create a formation that seemed like a pentagram faced cone. 'Now, you spread the flame equally between the 6 compressed balls.' Flames arose around the cone shaped beads before forming a fire ball. The fire ball was then thrown at a nearby tree reducing it to splinters. 'Of course, this is the slow version. An enemy can't possibly wait for you to finish such a tedious task. You have to keep on practicing until you can do it in an instant. There's also a way of strengthening the spell. Layering.' At the end, another fireball appeared, it looked the same size but the tree was reduced to ashes this time. 'That was made with 12 beads of compressed fire. It's stronger but consumes more Mana. You'll get it.'

Kyle nodded before setting out to work.

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'f**k!' Kyle yelled in his mind as a half completed Fireball exploded in his face. Compression of the fire wasn't hard. The hard part was maintaining stability and balance for all the six points of the pentagram faced cone. After a week of training, he had gained the ability to keep on controlling 4 compressed beads simultaneously.

He looked at Alex who was surrounded by multiple compressed fire balls rotating around him and sighed. 'Maybe I'll go back to the basics.'

With a raise of his hand, 6 trees were caught amidst flames that threatened to burn them to ashes. Out of the 6, only 4 remained untouched. 'I have a long way ahead.' Clutching his fists, another 2 trees caught fire and he felt a hammering sensation in his head as his mind split to control fire around all 6 trees.

With a pull, all the fire summoned gathered to float around him while being compressed into 6 tiny beads of flames. The 6 beads then moved simultaneously to form a pentagram faced cone. Flames then surged about as the the beads transformed into a large fireball. 'Haha! I did it!'

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Congratulations! Innate Ability (Basic Fire Control)- Level 10 has evolved to Fire Magic- Level 1.

Flame Aura has increased to Level 8

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Level has increased to 61

28 sp gained

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Kyle was surprised to see that he had actually gained levels for gaining his Fire Magic but he figured that if one practiced his magic he could also grow stronger. He quickly brought up his system to assign his stats.

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Strength- 55 >60

Endurance- 45 >50

Intelligence- 60 >65

Agility- 40 >50

Perception- 43 >46

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Kyle enjoyed the feeling of becoming stronger before facing Alex with a grin. The latter always kept the Telepathic bridge between the two active because of its low Mana consumption so he could hear Kyle's thoughts. 'It's time I learn telepathy.'