Emperor and magic

Chapter 16 - Military School

Chapter 16 – Military School

Now all he could do was to sit on the sofa and wait until he felt sleepy, or rather force himself asleep.

        The morning approached early with Ghou already set up to go into the training center. The book was going to stay at home since it was very risky to be handling such type of book in the streets in risk to theft.

         Opening the book to the Fire Wall page, he began to mumble some words as he tried to memorize the instructions. After some seconds, he closed the book and ran to the door which he opened in a hurry, finally switching his location to the outside of the house. Twining the local bronze key to the door, it made a low bang which signified it was locked before leaving for the training ground.

           Ghou finally reached the training center, where he hurried to the Fire section that was already present of few other elemental that practiced their various skill individually.

“Hahh, Fire Wall, here I come.” He muttered walking into the farther corner of the huge hall that was scarce of people, unlike the other part.

It didn’t take long and Ghou was already indulging into the postures and body movements that were required to push the ability into effect. After some more minutes the ground glowed and golden red flames began to appear out of the ground.

           Within some seconds, he was completely surrounded by the tall waves of flame that was already drawing the attention of the others. But unfortunately the heat from the flames had its effects on him as he felt his skin submitting to the fire that was immediately ceased as it reached its limit of five seconds.

“That was hot.” Ghou heaved a sigh making his way for a bench that situated in the forefront of the hall.

         Within some minutes, he stood up from the ground to a free space and immediately began to redo the previous instructions but this time, increasing the width of the final move that was called the Leg Roll that involved swiping his toes to the ground within some distance which had the responsibility of creating the distance between him and the wall of flames.

The flames immediately sprang up from the ground surrounding him with a more faster pace than the last try

“Please, can you teach me.” A voice said from the outside of the flames, prompting Ghou to cease the skill whose jaw-dropped to meet a crowd of people watching him. Another repeat of words stunned Ghou who turned behind to see a well dressed girl, about his age whose smile looked nice

“Oh! I… I’m not so much of a teacher, the ma… mage school could teach you this.” Ghou stammered staring directly at the young lady whose smile transformed into a bitter look

“I spent eight years of my life in mage school only to learn piece of sh**.”

“Well, then when Tier are you.”

“It’s actually awkward if you’re asking, but I’m an advanced level.”

     Ghou’s face instantly turned worried hearing the words of the girl, who stared blankly

“Aww, unfortunately this is a Petal-King leveled skill.” Ghou lied still keeping his sad face to fit his mission to escape her request

“Oh, really.” The girl frowned as the crowd dispersed with different face and exclamation “So you mean you’re above the King level.”

“Y.. Yes.” He lied trying to avoid eye contact with the lady who stared with a frown

“Then what are you doing in a local training center, these dumb proud animals.” The lady cursed eyeing at Ghou who nodded a smile. It was vivid that she was calling for a fight, but he wasn’t such a loser to fall for the fight as it would be immature to battle a slog fight with a total stranger.

“What ever.” He nodded already making his way to the wide opened door, as his time here was complete.

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“Ghou, you would not believe how long I’ve been waiting for you.” Pengfei upon sighting Ghou returning from the center called, standing up from the door pavement that partially stained the buttock side of his parsley trouser which was worn over a blue shirt.

“Oh, Peng, what’re you doing here, where is Xia.”

“Before answering those questions, you have to tell me why you locked your door.” Peng spread his hand over Ghou’s shoulder with a smile

“There are thieves in the Empire, Peng.” Ghou drew the key out of his pocket, pushing it into the door that instantly made a clinking sound before pushed over by Ghou who came in alongside Peng.

“Oh, new furniture.” Peng gasped staring round the room which had a new wallpaper design, a new couch, table and many others “Now I understand.”

      Just then, Peng sighted the skill book that laid on the seemingly soft sofa, as it released an energetic aura

“What book is this, a book of skills or something?”

“Well, it is actually a hard-back magazine I bought yesterday.” Ghou instantly picked the book from the chair, immediately taking it into the bedroom before placing it on his bed

“So, what’s with the visit.”

“Oh yeah,” Peng paused, staring nervously at Ghou who looked ignorant “you should have remembered Xia speaking about, me joining the military.”

“Oh, so you’re serious with that.” Ghou laughed as he found Peng’s decision quite intriguing. “Well, then it’s it good idea.”

“Right?, but Xia is making everything so difficult.”

“She’s protesting against it.”

“Yeah, and the main problem is… Is that,” Peng immediately began to stammer as he found his next words extremely difficult to say, since he was not sure of Ghou’s reaction “Emm, Xia does not want to be left alone in our house since it’ll take a long time before I return. So…. I was asking for a favor if she can spend the three years with you.”

           Ghou eyes widened hearing the request as well as the duration which was going to last over two years.

“W… Well, that’s really serious.”

“Ghou, please.”

“But, I’ll be going out of town very soon.” Ghou stammered, brainstorming the idea of homing his late friend’s sister.

“Ghou, please, you have to do this for me and my late brother.” Peng knees already kissed the ground as he continuously pleaded for Ghou’s help

“Peng stop. Okay, you win, bring Xia over when you’re leaving.”

          Peng jumped off the ground with a wide smile that tried desperately to subdue his need for laughter

“Thank you Ghou, I’m already signed into the military school in the Featherstone kingdom. She’ll be here in the next dawn.”

“Okay… But are you aware, the Featherstone Kingdom is a rival to the empire.”

      Just then, a whole new discussion came into the picture that accompanied a burst of laughter.