Maddy displayed her healing abilities to Amber which left nothing to attack the training dummy so it was a quick display. Mostly Amber wanted to feel the power of the silver life mend spell from a life faery and she was shocked at how much energy was regenerated from the spell. The archer had used up most of her energy firing my bow as she did not have a large mana pool to draw from which was quite surprising.
She didn't appear to be tired the way we appeared when we were drained of energy and then I figured she was in her twenties so she probably was used to the feeling and didn't show it as much. I also didn't really think about the fact that she was more specialized in agility so she could fire her own bow with normal arrows and dodge for much longer than she could fire spells from a magical bow.
Adam finally stepped up as Amber had playfully told him he was last at the very beginning of all this. The moment Adam stepped up and summoned his double headed wyvern Amber squealed in joy. She was obsessed with dragonkind and had heard that Adam had one. Dante was pleased to get a reaction like he just received went up to Amber and gave her a lick on the cheek. That sent her over the moon as she hugged the head closest to her and then jumped up in the air squealing again as if she was the child in the room.
As if the squealing had summoned the old man from his slumber, a grouchy large white bearded man named Sergei Kilikov entered the room announcing his presence "Wow, your supposed to be a tutor and yet you squeal like a small child, if I have to tutor you I quit before this whole thing even starts!"
Ghaston introduced us to another tutor for us, Sergei was a dual beast master and if you followed the who's who of the adventurer celebrities he was quite famous. The dual beast master had two tank beasts, a bull named Blue and a turtle named Shell. His original beast being the bull, he had spent his life as a tank for some of the most famous battles and dungeons in the last fifty years.
"Now which one of you is the healer?" Sergei inquired of us.
Maddy raised her hand timidly which Sergei pointed out right away "Good timid just like a healer would be when being called out right away. You purple shell, she is what you must protect at all times. You can't let anyone get past you on the ground and you have to make sure you are always in a position to defend her."
Suddenly we were getting instructions when none of us were ready or even aware of what was going on. "You unlocked your own shell wall, correct?" Sergei looked Travis over knowing he was a tank with the purple shell being quite obvious. Travis gave him just as nervous and timid of a response as Maddy which annoyed Sergei.
"You have to pipe up, you are the tank, you are the first in, last out. You need to be the biggest here despite their royal status. If you don't take the initiative you will fail them as a tank." Sergei at this point was walking back and forth giving a speech it appeared he had made many times before.
"Now, you will want to utilize both your turtle and your own shell to funnel everyone into you. Bow boy, you will be behind me in this demonstration." Sergei was looking at me when he made that comment so I moved behind him as instructed. Sergei then demonstrated how having your ranged attackers behind the tank and creating a funnel where his turtle and his own spell created a V shape with him and his bull in the middle.
He held his shield out and lowered himself to be a perfect wall while giving me a chance to fire over his shield at enemies in the distance if this was a real fight. The opening he created made me feel safer than I have ever felt, his turtle shell and his own wall were almost twice the size of Travis' so there was that effect shaping my opinion as well.
Travis then stepped up and attempted to do the same thing as Sergei stepped out of the way. The gaps were different as there wasn't a bull and then Travis and his shield were smaller so I was actually slightly bending down so that my head was protruding so much. The walls were smaller but he had them aligned nicely.
"Now you just need to get a reflective spell shield and this is your basic setup. The reflective shield will give you a chance to send back spells that your enemies send at you." Sergei continued not expecting to be interrupted midspeech.
"My shells are reflective, they reflect all spells." Travis piped up as he was feeling confident with successfully doing the tutors instructions on the first attempt. Sergei eyed him with a side glance and then sent an earth spike at his wall and it reflected back bouncing off both walls and nearly hitting Sergei. Sergei caught the spike as if it was a part of him.
"They really are reflective, who would have thunk a turtle could have a reflective shell. How did you teach your turtle this? Or what item did you acquire?" Sergei was intrigued, having never seen a reflective shell before. I didn't know how rare it was till now seeing the fascination in the older man's eyes.
"It was my gift from the power font from the king. I woke up with Tim's shell swirling in arcane energy. My spell appears to take on the properties of the shell itself as well so I have two reflective walls of shell now." Travis explained to the older tank.
"From now on I want you to do one hundred of these V trap formations each day. Place the two shell walls for five seconds then bring back and summon again but move ten feet forward at a time. So do five then turn around and do five back, ten of those will get you to your hundred." Sergei instructed Travis on the reps he wants Travis to work on.
"Next, let's see how you block!" He said as he sent an earth spike at Travis' head. He blocked the attack with his shield at the last moment not expecting the attack or the speed of it. Sergei created an earthen spear, something older beast masters who had mastered their elements could create what they wanted with their minds. The spear was a great tool to use in sparing conditions and Sergei would make it significantly stronger when actually fighting.
Sergei engaged with Travis in melee combat and he didn't hold back as he lunged and strafed back and forth attacking Travis with everything he had. Travis did an admirable job of blocking but to be honest the experience won out and found openings that an eleven year old was bound to make. Travis was knocked down multiple times but kept getting back up to resume defending.
Adam finally stepped up to a training dummy and first fired an arcane missile, which was five missiles. Then followed with an arcane orb, the explosion was much larger than I remembered, then I realized I hadn't seen him fire it as a silver beast master. Adam sent out an arcane flame that encompassed the entire training dummy.
"Damn your spells are super powerful! How in the world did you get five missiles?" I inquired.
Adam adjusted the necklace he was wearing, "This necklace from the dungeon made all my spells gold ranked." Amber's eyes widened in disbelief as she looked closely at the strange necklace that Adam adorned on his neck. The glow of arcane energy from it seemed to be seeping into Adam clavicle as she looked closely. I tossed my bow to Adam who was shocked to see my bow flying to him but then realized why I sent it to him.
He set his aim on the ranged target and fired an arcane explosion arrow. The bright explosion of arcane purple was intense. The walls and beams around the target all lit up as if it was affected by the arcane energy. The explosion was quite different from the orb and suddenly Amber was intrigued to know the difference.
"Why did that explode differently than the previous attack?" Amber inquired.
"Arcane orb was my first attack and it pulled in on the explosion while the arrow I fired with Jordan's bow was an arcane explosion which was just a burst of explosive power. I can use the orb to pull the beast together with human and just the explosion when I want to hit everything." Adam explained.
'You can do arcane explosion as well, you have never used it and I have never needed to.' Wispy spoke up in my head. I grabbed by bow from Adam as he was handing it back to me and I too sent an arcane explosion arrow at the target and needless to say mine was quite smaller. Wispy informed me that it was a silver ranked attack compared to Adam's gold ranked attack.