Five years later, Cain is now nine years old. Ever since the day he successfully cast that light sphere, he has been practicing trying to cast different types of spells.
Out of the many spells in this world, he knows three by now: his first spell being {Light Sphere}, the first spell he ever cast; the second being {Fire Dash}, a simple spell that boosts him multiple feet forward; and the third being {Water Drop}, a spell that drops a bubble of water.
Cain feels more confident in his magical capabilities, but he still needs to learn a lot about magic combat. He has asked his mom to train him in magic combat since she seems to be well aware of magic.
So, Cain begins his training on magic combat with his mom, Meyra. He and his mom go to a farther part of Bars to train. Most of the time—or should I say every time—Meyra absolutely defeats him in battle. Let's see if anything is different today.
They both have short wooden swords and they both get into position. Cain starts the battle first.
As light shines bright in Cain's hand, he throws it like a ball.
Meyra is not fazed and uses the spell {Light Acceleration}. With this, she dashes with a trail of light behind her; her speed is so fast that she basically teleports.
"She is as fast as the speed of light!"
"Wait!! No, even faster than that. I seriously can't even tell."
"Come on, sweetie, you've got to do better than that."
"Take this!" Cain says as he uses {Fire Dash} to close the distance between him and Meyra.
Meyra gets ready to evade, but Cain casts {Water Drop}. This causes the ground that Meyra was standing on to become muddy.
"Is he trying to make the ground slippery?" Meyra thought as she leaped backward.
Cain then uses {Fire Dash}. With a trail of small flames on the ground, Cain lunges at his mom, but he covers more distance due to the ground being slippery, allowing him to slide.
Cain swings his sword. Meyra counters by using {Air Launch}. This causes her to hop multiple feet off the ground. Cain thinks, "Now she has fallen for my trap."
Cain throws another sphere of light at Meyra. But she is not fazed; she uses {Air Walk} and starts to walk on the air. She dashes away from the light sphere easily.
"It's about time. He seems to be learning," Meyra thinks with joy.
"He has the potential to be a great combat mage."
"But it's early to tell, Hehe," Meyra thinks with a bright smile on her face.
Cain wonders what his mom is thinking that has got her smiling like that. "Probably thinking about my future."
But then Meyra snaps back to her senses and uses {Tornado}. With that, a small tornado forms. Cain does not even have time before...
The tornado sweeps him away. Cain tries to get out by trying to lunge his wooden sword into the ground, but he can't reach the ground.
He tries to think of something. "Should I use Fire Dash? No, if I do that, the fire might fuse with the tornado."
"Ahhhhh!" Cain tries his hardest to get to the ground, but with no luck.
Then suddenly, the tornado dissipates.
Cain, seeing this, realizes he is falling. Cain prepares to use {Water Drop} to cushion the fall, but then he is caught by Meyra.
"It's over. I win."
As they safely glide to the ground, Meyra tells Cain, "You did good, sweetie, but it's going to take you a long time before you can beat me."
"How long?"
"Ahhhhh... I am not sure, but I believe that you will reach it at some point."
Meyra and Cain land back on the ground. Meyra says, "Today is enough. You should go practice more with your spells."
"I will go get dinner ready," she says, all with a warm smile.
"Mom?"
"Yes, sweetie!"
"Why don't you send me to school like all the other kids?"
Meyra pauses while looking toward the horizon. But then she says, "We will."
"When?"
"When you are ready."
"And how long is that exactly?"
"Hmmm, let me think." She puts her hand to her chin.
"Maybe when you are 15."
"That's literally six years from now!"
"Good. This means you will have time to train."
"Train for what?"
"Train so that you will be ready to go to Hemlock Academy."
"Hemlock Academy!!"
The Academy of Hemlock is a prestigious academy for talented mages; it's primarily a school for talented young mages.
"Um... how am I supposed to get into Hemlock Academy, Mom?"
"You will"
"Not everything that you believe in si true mom"
"It's not believe cain,it's faith"
"If theres faith, there hope and if there hope there a will"
"Okayyy" says Cain as he gets up.
As they go back home.Cains thinks to himself with a annoyed tone "faith.... ridiculous"
"Wait this might be a great time to ask this,I mean she is here"
Cain asked Meyra "Mom!"
"Yes" Meyra asked while looking at Cain.
"Where does dad go,what does he even do"
"Am your father has some very important business in the capital,so he has to go on some work trips"
"Ok,but that's till does not answer the question "
"Why do you ask?"
"I.....am just curious,that's all"
"Really " Meyra looks at him intently.
Cain just puts on a big smiles hoping that she does not suspect anything.
From what Cain knows he will be back tomorrow.Maybe,it would be better to ask him.We will just have to wait and see