The crowd of students who had attended the elemental class for the special demonstration, never imagined that they would have witnessed an actual skill being used, and against another student at that.
However, what was quite surprising, was while Axel[Chuck]y had only gotten second hand aftershock from touching Mill[Sil], he was down on one knee. As for Mill[Sil], he had remained standing.
'Doesn't hurt my arse!' Axel[Chuck]y thought. 'I feel like my whole insides have been fried.' His immediate reaction after receiving an attack like this one, was to pay back the person that had dealt it.
Maybe there were some that would be frightened, but Axel[Chuck]y's natural response was to fight. However, he knew who Robin Meshack[Graylash] was. One of the strongest members of the Meshack[Graylash] family, who's name had spread quite far and wide.
If he was to do anything, it would be pointless. Which was why, based on his own feelings, he couldn't imagine what Mill[Sil] was feeling or would do. He was a person who was a little unstable.
Looking at Mill[Sil], it seemed like the worst was coming true, as Mill[Sil] raised his hand towards Robin, with an open palm and looked at him. The students weren't stupid. If anyone did this it only meant one thing, Mill[Sil] was planning an attack.
'He can't be thinking of attacking a head general?' Shiro thought, watching from the side.
Although, he didn't know Mill[Sil]. Mill[Sil] had saved him that day, and he had seen some of his strength. However, he couldn't imagine Mill[Sil] beating a head general, and one of the strongest members of the Meshack[Graylash] family who had the strongest skill[ability] in existence.
Axel[Chuck]y, who was by Mill[Sil]'s side, was having the same thoughts as well. He tried to get up, but his legs didn't seem to listen. When trying to move his leg, it was as if the muscles in his arm would activate instead.
'Is this the general's skill, then how is Mill[Sil] able to move?' Axel[Chuck]y thought.
The truth was, it was the same for Mill[Sil], but with years of training different types of skill[ability], he had quickly worked out which muscles had switched to which parts. If moving his leg moved his right arm in a certain way, then he would just do that.
"Mill[Sil], think of Archer[Quinn], we can't cause a scene." Axel[Chuck]y desperately said, thinking it was the only words that would calm him down. For some reason, there was one person that Mill[Sil] always responded to, which was why he thought this might work, and a few seconds later, Mill[Sil] was seen placing his hand down.
Through the whole ordeal, Robin had a smile on his face. He wasn't frightened when the student raised his hand.
"Good, now if you want to stay I hope there won't be any more distractions, " Robin said and continued on with his show.
Axel[Chuck]y decided to move him and Mill[Sil] to the back to check if he was okay. His body could now work as it seemed like the effect of the lightning was only a temporary effect. The students were now also staying clear of them, afraid Robin might just lash out at them again.
Which meant that Mill[Sil] could no longer touch the other students.
'Maybe we will get another chance, another way.' Chunky thought.
Surprisingly, there was one person from the crowd that did approach them, and that was Shiro.
"Is he okay?" Shiro asked.
"I'm fine, like he said it didn't hurt, but it was annoying." Mill[Sil] replied, folding his arms. Even if it didn't hurt he was clearly frustrated.
The speech continued from Robin and his demonstration was about to finish, so he decided to end the show off with a Big Bang, and started to show many different spectacles and skills, moving himself at the speed of lightning, creating thunderbolts to hit certain cards that he threw in the air. It was more similar to a magic show but it had done its job and the students were impressed including Shiro.
'I see, now I understand why the Head General agreed to do a demonstration even though this is the Cursed house elemental class.' Axel[Chuck]y thought. 'He wants to win over the students so when they choose to select a group to join, they will chose the Meshack[Graylash] family. Smart move.'
The demonstration was finally complete and Robin had a few last words.
"Now remember, although I said imagination is the most important thing, there will be things that I have shown that are just not possible without the Meshack[Graylash] family skill[ability]. After all, that is why our skill[ability] is the strongest skill[ability] in the world."
The students were ready to give a round of applause until they were interrupted once again.
"That's not the strongest skill[ability] in the world." A voice shouted.
When they turned around to see who spoke, they saw that it was none other than the student who had been attacked.
"Oh, I see it was the boy who had interrupted me before. Well, if you think it isn't true then do you mind giving me an example?" Robin asked.
At this point, Axel[Chuck]y didn't know what to do, but at least he thought a fight wouldn't break out this way, or he hoped.
"Of course." Mill[Sil] replied. "The earth skill[ability] is well known to be a weakness of the lightning skill[ability]. If an earth user and a lightning user were of the same strength, most of the time the earth user would win."
The students also knew about this as well. They had seen this happen at the inter-base tournament last year. At the finals it was an Earth user against one of the strongest Meshack[Graylash] students and the earth skill[ability] user had one. They turned their heads waiting for an answer from the teacher.
"I'll give you half a point for that answer. Although what you say is correct, when it comes to cultivating the Meshack[Graylash] family is more advanced and has many skills. To put it simply, for every great earth user out here, there are about ten Meshack[Graylash] family members that could match them in strength. On top of that, the cap for the earth skill[ability] is far lower than what one can do with the lightning skill[ability], no earth user, even the Supreme commander Drake[Oscar] has been able to match up to our Leader Christopher[Owen]." Robin replied. "This is why I say lightning is the strongest skill[ability] there is."
The students then turned their heads, as they waited for Mill[Sil] to reply next.
"There are still other abilities that are stronger, what about the Shadow skill[ability]?" Mill[Sil] asked.
Hearing these words, the students started to gossip. Currently in the world the humans only know of one person with the shadow skill[ability], and that was the Cursed leader, Archer[Quinn] Geman[Talen]. The students started to debate, but the problem was, no one knew the full power of the shadow skill[ability].
They turned their heads once more expecting a comeback from Robin. But instead he just started clapping.
"Bravo, although I will not admit that the lightning skill[ability] is weaker than the shadow, I can not also say that it is stronger because I simply know nothing about it. It is a case that can't be proven." Robin replied
The students were quite surprised by the answer Robin gave, he thought he would have been smug or big headed but he gave an honest answer and because of that, they respected him.
"Ryo[Eno]ugh arguments, let's get this lesson started." Robin said.
The students spread out, and started to practice their abilities, while the teachers and assistants would go around giving pointers. Some students were even able to do a light spar with each other, as there was a doctor on standby in the class in case anything happened.
During this, Mill[Sil] wanted to attempt to ask some of the students for a light spar so he could use their skill[ability], however, as soon as he moved a certain someone had approached them, and it was none other than Robin.
When he approached Mill[Sil], he held out his hand as if waiting for a handshake.
"I would like to apologise to you, I had hit you with my skill out of anger but I should have known to hold back. You are only students, of course you will talk and misbehave. This is why I'm not suited to be a teacher." Robin nervously chuckled to himself.
'Hey what about me? Is he not going to apologise to me?' Axel[Chuck]y thought. 'Well, at least this guy seems to be quite nice. I guess not all generals are bad people.'
Taking his hand, Mill[Sil] decided to give it a shake.
"On top of this, I would like to give you a little personal lesson." Using his fingers to blow a whistle, in an instant a student appeared by the side of him.
"This is one of my best pupils, Lin. He studied at the Meshack[Graylash] household before we sent him here to the military base. To be honest looking over him is one of the reasons why I decided to join and become a head general here. It was impressive how you didn't fall from my strike earlier, I think you have some skill. Why don't you two have a little sparring match and then after I can give you some pointers. What do you say?" Robin asked.
Axel[Chuck]y was about to say no for him. But was interrupted before he could. Mill[Sil] had already said. "Okay."
Both Mill[Sil] and Lin were about to get ready in position, but before he did, Mill[Sil] turned around and looked at Robin.
"I didn't finish answering your question before. I said that there were abilities stronger than the Meshack[Graylash] family, and one of them is mine."
To be continued....
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