Supreme Magus novel Chapter 1204

Chapter 1204 - Mana Geysers (Part 2)

"Then leave Reghia, but know that the moment you step outside the city, its doors will remain closed even if you change your mind. Here you have a house, food, and protection whereas outside you’ll have only the clothes you wear.

"I bet that even if you don’t meet any monster, you’ll die in less than a week." Phloria said.

The man stepped forward, looking around to see who was willing to share his destiny, finding himself alone. All those in their right mind knew that without the proper tools or training, life in the wilds was akin to a death sentence.

"Until this moment, you have wasted so much time crying over what you have lost that you have become reliant on another race for everything. Food, shelter, protection, and even the education of your children.

"I can’t force you to get along, but if you keep acting like pets rather than humans, I’ll make sure you are treated as such." Phloria said.

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Being Awakened for only four years and lacking any formal military training, Tista was aware of being the weakest in the group, even below Quylla who despite her almost as poor physical prowess at least had a violet core.

All Tista had learned about fencing and self-defense as a self-taught had allowed her to survive during her travels throughout the Griffon Kingdom, but only because she had faced non-Awakened opponents.

Only after joining Lith in his apprenticeship under Faluel, did Tista receive all the lessons that she needed. Even though she was shorter and lighter than her little brother, hand-to-hand combat was the discipline Tista was the most proficient with.

Just like Quylla, she didn’t train long enough to find a weapon that suited her talent and build whereas even non-Awakened mages had to be proficient in martial arts. Otherwise all the magic and all the artifact on Mogar wouldn’t save them from any thug with a decent weapon that managed to get close to them.

Between Professor Ironhelm’s lessons during her two years at the White Griffon academy and Lith’s self-defense lessons, Tista’s skill in close combat surpassed that of most soldiers in the Kingdom.

Alas, such training gave her an edge only against non-Awakened human opponents without powerful enchanted weapons. Beasts had fusion magic as well and a physical prowess greater than most humans while a skilled opponent with a weapon capable of piercing her armor would have an easy time keeping Tista at bay.

It was the reason why both Faluel and Lith had given her a vast assortment of weapons, hoping that among them she would find something that suited her. The only problem with that was finding a real combat situation where she could employ them.

No matter how seriously she took it, sparring always felt fake and every weapon gave her more or less the same feeling. Hence Tista had chosen to perform several missions, each one of them with a limited number of enemies.

Olua the Roc and Bodya the Nidhogg fought with her, being careful to leave enough opponents to make the fight dangerous but not so many that the chaos of the battle would keep them from noticing if she needed help.

During each mission, Tista used a different weapon, yet even after slaughtering several tribes of monsters, she didn’t feel like she had made any progress.

"Don’t worry too much about it. You are still very young and you have already achieved a cyan core." Bodya said while coiling his snake-like body around his companions to protect them from sneak attacks while they rested.