Chapter 414: Apprenticeship

Julius experimented with many things using the new skill. Cain was there to help him as well. The man was more than happy to push the limits of the skill and ensured that Julius was being appropriately challenged.

He also tried using his kinetic energy to fly, which was a fantastic thing just in itself. In contrast to his earlier flight attempts, this time he had much more control. He barely needed his wings to help him either. They were still very useful, but he felt like he could go without them if he really needed to.

But he also didn’t want to sacrifice the maneuverability they gave him, so he had no plans of giving them up anytime soon.

He also tested the limits of how well his immobilization technique worked. This was more difficult to compare because he only had Cain there. The man didn’t even need to try to resist the skill. The sheer power of the man’s advancement had made Julius’s skill practically useless.

The main thing he was able to sense was that he felt like he could get a tighter grip on the kinetic energy. He assumed this would translate to how much strength he could exert on his trapped opponents. But he would need to use it on someone else to confirm it.

He did many other tests with the help of Cain. The man was surprisingly very thorough with his ideas. He made sure that Julius explored various exercises. Ones that Julius would have never thought of if left to his own devices.

However, the final experiment went a little… awry. He didn’t let it bother him too much. After all, it was bound to happen. It actually felt kind of weird when he emerged from a serious training session completely unscathed.

Did that make him weird?

He shook his head. Him? Weird? That is an outrageous proposition. He was very normal, and he suspected that anyone who had a healing skill like he did would take advantage of it similarly.

He grinned as he got back to his feet. He had gotten some very nice notifications during this period and wanted to see how well he did.

He swung his little arm nubs in excitement as he checked his notifications. The nubs were a stark reminder that he had gotten a little overzealous and used too much kinetic energy at once. Predictably, his arms hadn’t been able to handle the massive load and exploded in a big red mess.

However, he had gotten some very nice levels for his effort, so there was that. It also helped that he had been using kinetic energy for a long time, so that was definitely influencing how fast he was gaining levels. Still, it was nice to see a skill leveling up this quickly.

It hadn’t happened since he was in Tier 2, which felt like a lifetime ago.

[Kinetic Energy Control lvl 3 -> lvl 8]

Eight levels in a couple of hours. That was indeed some significant progress.

He glanced over at Cain, who was standing off to the side with a weirdly proud look on his face as he looked at Julius’s little nubs.

“What is it?” Julius asked the large and intimidating man.

“You want to be my disciple?” Cain asked suddenly.

Julius frowned and scrunched his nose. “Sorry?”

“Do you want to be my personal disciple?” Cain asked enthusiastically.

“Where did this come from?” He questioned.

Cain shrugged and came a little closer to Julius, grabbing his arm stump and waving it in the air. Julius hadn’t felt the desire to regenerate them yet, which was why they were still bleeding a little bit. Cain didn’t care about the blood that splattered everywhere, though; instead, he grinned widely. “You are exactly what I am looking for in a disciple.”

Julius pried his arm away from Cain’s grasp. “What does that mean? Don’t you already have a bunch of students who are already training under you? Why do you want someone like me to become a disciple? You and Freya are already teaching me.”

Cain shook his head and backed away, heading over to a chair at the corner of the room to sit. “It is rare to find someone like you. Not many people enjoy fighting as much as you do. Plenty of my students love learning and training their kinetic abilities, but most of them don’t have the passion for true life and death battles.”

“So you’re telling me that you want me as a disciple because I am a maniac?” Julius asked in a deadpan tone, deciphering what Cain meant by that.

“Yes!” Cain said shamelessly.

The honesty startled him, and he took the moment actually to think about the offer. Despite his past relationships with powerful people, he had never been offered an official apprenticeship or discipleship by any one of them.

Dante obviously wasn’t going to. The grouchy old man liked his peace and quiet too much to train Julius personally. Alice was much too busy with her work as a space mage. Elder Han seemed like he was interested, but Julius didn’t know about attaching himself to such a person. Plus, the man was called the Curse Lord, which likely meant he focused on curses and other related magic. Not something that Julius was particularly well-versed in, and thus not someone who could train him as well as someone like Cain, who had a kinetic affinity of his own.

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Even someone like Doren had not seemed interested in teaching Julius. The man was clearly too focused on his own curiosities and hobbies to take on a student. It was why the man had passed Julius to Freya and Cain so quickly. He had done so because he needed Freya’s help.

Therefore, being an official disciple of someone like Cain didn’t seem like a bad idea. As a matter of fact, he believed that most of the people in Auraulos would give up their right hand to have this chance.