Elara started getting back her powers.Herald layed her down calmly on the bed, but he cannot see her in the eye!
Very ashamed, and guilt is covering him...
But she reaches to his face with her soft white hands, and tells him two words.
"It"s fine!"
Herald finally looks at her, but only smiles back and goes to his bed.
During the whole night, he couldn"t sleep.
"...He"s right!
The many times i"ve preached about sacrifice, the spirit of togetherness...
And when I"ve been put in a situation to really proove it.
I failed myself!
How could you...."
Herald contemplated what happened for the rest of the night.
He also thought about the mystery of the Grand Master!
Why hasn"t he appeared in front of them all this time...
What"s the secret of the floor.. The darkness and gloominess about it crushed his soul.
And the weird powers of him!
How could it have an effect on Elara like that, Elara being the strongest of them all!!
"The Grand Master, is that for a reason...
Even Heracles, who has a superior hard character, seemed to have the utmost respect for him."
Said Herald in his mind.
Before he could notice, Morning has come!
The rest started getting up one by one.
Oumad. "Good morning Herald!"
Herald. "Oh you woke up...Good morning."
Oumad asks. "You woke up early didn"t you?
I see, you"re drawing?".
Herald. "Yeah..."
Moments later, everybody woke up and wore their training clothes then got themselves ready for the training.
*9am, At the Arena*
Heracles. "Welcome again to one of the physical trainings.
I said earlier that this is going to be a very important one for the simple fact that, we"ll focus on defense rather than offense!
There"s a famous saying that says, "The Best way to attack is to defend."
Another says the opposite.
In my opinion, neither are true.
Offense is offense and defense is defense.
Both cordinate with each other to give a complete image of a fighter.
One has to have both, if he wanted to attain great powers.
I already know you have developped some defensive technics automatically through our previous training.
So we"ll strengthen them, and even push ourselves to create better ones.
All with helping one another, in order to do that it is going to be me versus all 7 of you!
Unlike previous times!
It is going to be my offense versus your defense.
If you could stood up and not give up for the whole 3 hours of the training.
You"ll be victorious."
Sebastin. "...So you mean we can only use our defensive technics?"
Heracles. "Yes!"
Beazly. "Oh G.o.d....Here we go again."
Heracles. "I am not going to take it easy on neither of you!
I don"t care about broken bones and ruptured muscles. Protect yourselves and your companions at all cost!
Is this understood?"
Heracles isn"t messing arround. Everybody got the message.
"Yes Sir!" They all replied.
Wasting no time, Heracles rushed towards the closest target...Which happened to be Beazly himself.
But Oumad noticed seconds before and teleported him away.
Heracles launched a series of fire b.a.l.l.s right towards the place where Oumad intented to transport him.
Oumad was surprised, but Beazly shielded him and deflected the attack!
Heracles then walks slowly towards Joshou.
Who turns himself invisible...
"Don"t think that n.o.body can detect your place when doing that.
All I have to do is make you move to know where you are."
Heracles blows flames out of his mouth but they got cooled off by Sebastin"s sound waves!
"Hmmm...Sound can put down fire.
But not FLAMES!"
Heracles blows even harder as if it was h.e.l.l"s fire!!
Sebastin could not cool it off and it catched up to him before he ran away as fast as he could.
"There you are!". Heracles detects Joshou and without any mercy.
Punches him meters away on the air.
Joshou took the attack with his arms, but the punch was so strong it broke one of his bones!
Heracles screams angrily.
"WHAT DID I SAY????
PROTECT EACH OTHER AT ALL COST!!!!
ARE YOU GOING TO LET AN ENEMY INJURE ONE OF YOU THAT EASILY????"
Ayla quickly comes to Joshou"s aid and heals his broken bone quickly, as her healing abilities became excellent!
Heracles then attacks both of them, Ayla has an ability that shields herself and whomever she wants with an invisible wall in order to protect.
But Heracles is strong enough to break it.
And so he does, but the moment he did they weren"t there.
It was just one of Elara"s illusions!!
"Hmmm...
Illusions are very helpful in defense. But...
To what extent?"
Heracles does not attack Elara, but rather Herald!!
Who was standing in a nonechalant manner in the Arena.
Oumad warns him.
"HERALD WATCH OUT!"
Elara tries to put an illusion in front of Heracles but he dismisses it with ease...
Sebastin makes one of his sound bubbles in order to shield Herald with it.
But Heracles destroys it before it reaches into him.
The invisible Joshou was the only one able to take him out of Herald"s way as he was preparing to kick the living s.h.i.t out of him!!
Herald though, does not look surprised.
He says calmly. "Hey...
Don"t worry about me."
Joshou lets him off and looks at him for a quick second without talking, before Heracles attacks once again!!
This time no one could interfree fast enough to prevent the damage!
But Herald"s eyes had no fear or worrying...
The moment Herald hit him hard on his face...As everyone was expecting Herald to be knocked out.
HE STOPPED HERACLE"S ATTACK!!!
Everybody was shocked!!
Love herself had wide open eyes when seeing that!
She asks Alkeyder. "...Since when??"
Alkeyder. "Just yesterday!
But I didn"t expect him to control it this fast!!"
It seemed like Herald stopped the attack bare handedly.
Heracles smiled, then suddenly flames started growing out of his body...
"Stop these if you can." He said.
The flames were about to devour Herald"s body before Beazly came very quickly to snap his friend out of it.
As he told Herald.
"Hey...I don"t know how you did it but that was AMAZING!
I myself cannot stop his attacks completely!!"
Heracles stopped attackin for a moment and stretched his muscles..
Then said. "Alright Alright...Playing time has ended!
Time for some blood."