Not far from the heated commotion, Calea who's still getting punched repeatedly, peeked through small crevices between her hands, she saw Carsel falling down and a few moments ago, and thought that he will be killed soon.
'Guh!.. If Carsel falls, then he will be killed! Shit! Now that's two people who escaped from my revenge!' Calea thought, she gritted her teeths in frustration.
But just as she thought that Carsel was done for, Calea sees him waking up from his exhaustion and immediately regained his stamina, he mocked the two men who punched him and told them to continue, which shocked Calea.
'What!? What is he thinking!' Calea said to herself, confused by Carsel's true intention. 'Did he lost his mind!? Wait, he already did long ago, but why did he do that?.. Is it because—
"The fuck did you just say kid? You're seeking death." Said one of the cloaked men, he was pissed by Carsel's words, he fixed his posture and then looked at the kid infront of him, Carsel's face was smiling, as if his fear and anxiety had been thrown away completely. "Tch, it's pissing me off."
THWACK!
The cloaked men landed a punch on Carsel's forearms, yet despite the extra strength he added, Carsel was surprisingly unfazed and there was no sign of reaction from him.
"Huh?" He said, realizing his punch was ineffective. "Hey kid, don't tell me..."
Suddenly, Scythe shouted from his spot not so far away, "That one has awakened his aura, Increase the difficulty!"
Everyone was baffled at the news, all of the students redirected their attention towards Carsel, they saw his faint but noticeable aura glowing all around his body.
"Shit, how does he know.. I haven't even use it until now, damnit that shitty all-knowing and bastard instructor.." Said Carsel, his voice sounded nervous, knowing that the cloaked men will now also use aura on their attacks.
It was his first time using an Aura, and the feeling was in short, addicting. Carsel felt refreshed, his body was tingling, eager to move wildly like a river current, all things that he previously thought were impossible now seems possible, just like how a dancer entered a trance state, the feeling of using an Aura was dominating and can make someone forgets the concept of time.
But, that's just what it should've been like. Because of the cloaked men constantly throwing out barrage of attacks, Carsel was stripped away from every feeling he should've felt when using an Aura, instead of the berserk-like sensation, he only has one thing in his mind, and that is survival.
Amidst the small downpour, Carsel held out with the best of his ability against the attacks from the cloaked men, they tried to land a punch on his stomach, shoulder, and chest, but Carsel managed to block all of them, his heightened sense and reaction time helped him to avoid any direct hit, and if he can just endure this for an hour, then he would live to see another day.
'Shit! I just awakened my aura, so i can't use it for a long time.. I think 3 minutes is my limit, however.. Because of my awakening, all of my stamina was replenished, i can do this!' Carsel thought, his flaming aura started to slowly dissapear, and his body then returned to the normal state.
THWACK!
'Keukk!! The punch suddenly got stronger! Is this how big the difference is with using aura and not using it!?— In the first place, someone who had just awakened their aura wouldn't be able to fully use all of their energy, since their energy core had just been created, it needs time for it to adapt and settle within one's body, if i try to force my way through and kept on using it.. I'll just faint again...'
THWACK!
'Kuggh!! But training like this and constantly pushing my body past its limit will help me increase my energy core capacity, the more exhausted i am, the more energy my core will absorb as i rest, since my condition is critical, my energy core will try to absorb and gather energy as fast as possible, resulting in energy stored exceeding way past its limit, if i do this daily through this training, i'll slowly get stronger!'
Until the end of the training, Carsel kept a vague smile all over his face, while everyone was way too busy dealing with their own situation, Calea was able to simultaneously watch Carsel as she block the attacks from the two cloaked men.
She calculated Carsel's aura usage limit and found out that it was the same as her.
'three minutes..' She said to herself, 'Carsel also has a three minutes time limit for using his aura..'
Calea was kind of stuck in a confused state, at some point, she was confused with how she can awaken her aura despite being a mage, although she didn't receive much lesson about Aura in the past, she frequently saw her brother Valden using his aura when training or dueling with Leoth.
The other thing she was confused about is how everyone seems to have different aura for themselves.
'My aura was a black and red flame, but Carsel was normal, does an Aura have elemental affinity to them?' Calea thought, her eyes flickered as she tried to think but also block at the same time. 'If that's the case.. That means Carsel's aura might be a fire element, and brother Valden's blue flame was a water element aura– Then, what is my element?'
Calea remembered her aura when she performed her scythe technique a week ago and thought of an Element that is colored as black but also sometimes red, and that element is..
'Did i awakened a dark aura?.. KEUK!! Seems like it, there's no other explanation as to why my aura is colored like that..' Calea thought, a punch almost hit her in her shoulder, but thankfully she managed to block it in time.
Upon realizing that she had awakened a dark elemental aura, Calea suddenly smiled, it was a wide smile that startled the two cloaked men that is attacking her.
"What the– what's wrong with her?" Said one of the cloaked man.
"How should i know, she's the weirdest one amongst these kids." The other man replied.
Calea grinned like an insane girl, there's an unknown reason that makes her joyous about getting a dark elemental aura, and not even i know that reason, the two cloaked men continued their attacks while calea blocked it, her exhaustion was ignored by her newfound excitement, and before she knew it, 2 hours had passed.