Karl no Tensei: Transmigrated as an Assassin with a Mana Meter Chapter 34: Ch 34: The Girl in the Blue [2]

She turned away from and once again perford a graceful sword dance.

Upon seeing her movents, I knew she was performing the sa sword art she had shown monts ago.

"Why are you doing it once again?" I asked, mildly amused.

"So that this ti rather than looking at my curves, you look at the art."

My eyes darted away from her in embarrassnt. How did she know that as well?!

"Don’t be shy now, rather look at and learn this powerful dance." She slashed vertically, the movent not looking anything special before she continued.

"This sword form is the basic of it. The mont you train in it and understand what you are ant to do....only then can you create an advanced art. Yes, create! Don’t expect soone to teach you sothing like that by placing it on a gold platter."

Confused I inquired of her. "Isn’t that how students learn though? Be it anything...all of it is learnt when they are taught to us."

"Incorrect. You learn not from books and manuals, not exactly. If you really think about it, all knowledge we gain is the filtered out experience of the older people who have accumulated it in their own lifeti."

"In the sa way, this basic sword art...which isn’t that basic..." She murmured the last words and then added, "is just an inspiration for Ice Elentals like you. You need to create your own style after that. That’s the very essence of this sword art."

"Also...as I was saying, the difference between mana and your elent. Look at this at first."

Raising her right palm, a shard of ice appeared.

"How do you think I made this?" She then asked a very simple question.

I frowned over the simplicity but answered, "By using the mana from your internal storage, you created that."

"Wrong." I was taken aback by that.

Isn’t that how I had been creating ice all along?

"Hmm...tell sothing more simple. What else can you use your mana for other than umm you know using it to utilize your elent?"

"Well other than that we can go for the body enhancent and few other skills like basic teleportation, mana bursts...yeah sothing like those."

"And yet you waste your mana in elents." She shook her head in disapproval.

She then explained, "The shard you see in my hands...I didn’t use mana to create it. Only my elent was enough."

My eyebrows shot up at her claims.

The woman ignored my reaction and continued, "In fact, the foolery of people is a sight to see. It should be entombed in a history book eternally! Mana is just a source of energy which you need to use for your other skills, all dependant on mana.

However, your elent is your domain over a supernatural force of this universe. The more you practice is, the more your domain increases."

"Just like this..." Saying that, she thrust her sword into the ground.

Instantly, a super sonic wave spread from the sword as the world was suddenly covered in ice. Nothing was spared, and as I looked towards the sky, I knew LITERALLY nothing was spear from her ice domain.

Even the clouds had stilled in ice casings and lightning crackled within them. They were trapped.

With bewildered eyes, I looked down at the woman across .

She was looking at intensely, her eyes narrowed. "Mastery of your elent ans you need to be aware of the places and conditions where you shall find your elent."

She pointed her porcelian hand at the frozen air around her. "Even air has water vapours. Only when you have established a direct connection with your elent, shall you be able to freeze them all."

"In simple words, our elent grants is the ultimate ability to freeze everything. Including ti..."

Then sighing she said, "Which unfortunately even I can’t do..."

"Did you get al my rantings?"

I nodded to her, my neck stiff against the cold.

Her face instantly lted into a sweet smile as suddenly, all the ice around us lted, bringing back the real nature.

She stepped forward as if approaching . But then stopped as her face suddenly scrunched into an annoyed expression.

Glancing back at the sky, she said. "It seems my ti here is up."

"It was really good to et you." Saying that, she started walking away as I watched her.

Midway through her path, she stopped again. And facepald.

"How did I forget that?" She muttered under her breath, loud enough for to hear it.

She retracted her steps back to . Then waving her hands around, a portal like sothing opened as she took out an ominous looking bracelet.

The mont it ca out of the portal, an oppressive feeling seeped into the surroundings.

Extending her hand towards , she said.

"Take this as a form of soveineur from . Shall be useful to hold back this body’s owner from taking iher this body again. Just for one month but I am sure you shall figure out sothing by then."

My eyes grew wide and fear clogged my throat. But she just smiled and said in a comforting manner, "Did you really think I wouldn’t know that, Karl?"

My eyes almost popped out as she called by my na.

For Henry, I can understand him knowing my na. He practically lived inside my head. Who knows what else he knew about ...

But this unknown lady....how did she know?

Seeing unable to speak through my shock, she placed a maternal hand over my shoulder.

"Karl, I have been watching over you ever since you were born on Earth. I might have even visited you there....but oh well, it’s not so simple.

Just rember you have a friend in this world...."

I finally asked the question that had nagging for quite a long ti.

"Who are you?"

She smiled softly.

"Right now, they call the Monarch of Ice.But then again throughout history, I have been called by different nas. Sotis the Blood Queen, other tis the Herald of Witches.

Huhh...those tis were so fascinating.

But you...you shall call Isolde. It’s not a request, it’s a command. Got it?"

’Her titles make sense...’ I thought as I recalled her display of power.

But I nodded in a friendly manner.

Satisfied, she turned back and walked away.

"Ti to go....for now. And don’t worry we shall et quite sooner than both of us might think.

Goodbye, Traveller of Worlds."