Minutes passed and turned to hours, and Mack kept practicing his sword style.
He had to further evolve the movents that his ancestor taught him, and improve, but was hard to achieve anything without actually fighting with soone else. Because of that, Mack only kept doing the movents until they beco natural for him. He had to create muscle mory.
Muscle mory was important in any kind of martial arts, and in professional fights it normally was the deciding factor that separated the winners from the losers, and the only way to create muscle mory was to practice, thus the saying practice makes perfect.
As he kept practicing, Mack noticed his movents had beco more fluid, as if had already done that in the past but had forgotten about it and was rembering now.
Mack wondered if it was because of essence. Maybe essence made things easier for so unknown reason.
[This is not the essence, it's your genes. We are a fighting race that used swords for an uncountable number of aeons.. It already becos part of what we are, the sa way that humans have recorded in their genes to avoid eating black things because they are usually poisoned or contaminated]
Hearing the old man saying that, Mack stopped the training. He had to take a break; he had being training without stopping for hours already, that's why his mind lost focus just now and irrelevant thoughts popped into his mind.
"The sa work with mages? I an, the spells and etc"
[Yes and No, Mages have a different power structure, but that would be true for the ones born in a mage family, this is what they call as family heritage, so of those families have their own spells, created and passed down for generations, with each generation improving them bit by bit, and so of those families have sothing similar to what we have, but they call it affinity]
"Affinity?"
[Yes, do you rember when the void fla chose you? One of the reasons was because of your fire affinity is high, the sa is true for mages. So have an extraordinarily high affinity with one or more elents of nature]
"I see, so my fire affinity is high?"
[Yes, but not high enough to be considered sothing special, just high, mages that have extraordinarily high affinity with fire for example, they usually are born in a fire, when a baby is born there is this effect in nature, they call it the cry of essence, because is the mont where the child has no gates, and the essence listen to his will, and it usually ends in a disaster]
"You are saying that those babies burn down their own houses when they are born? Thats crazy."
Said Mack, thinking of how troubleso would be for those families every ti soone had a child.
[Yes, and this is how they can quickly identify soone born with exceptionally high affinity with one or more elents, with the cry of essence]
"I see..."
Said Mack, thinking that affinity was a good thing to have. Maybe he would be able to improve his domain control if he had more affinity with other things.
[You don't need to worry too much about that, you have an affinity with two very good elents, fire, and air, that's why you can easily control almost everything when you activate your domain runespell, and air and fire are two elents that complent each other, as ti passes and your knowledge deepen, you will be able to mix them together to create more powerful attacks]
"Indeed, fire and air complent each other very well. Is there a way to increase the affinity after you are born?"
Asked Mack, wondering if he would be able to increase his own affinity with the elents.
[There are several ways of doing this, but the most common ones are to put your body on extre environnts just like you did on the tower, or using serums, so serums have the ability to change part of your genes and increase the affinity with one elent, but they are one of the most expensive drugs in all the worlds, and only the filthy rich families with thousands of years of heritage are able to afford sothing like that]
"And what those serums are made of? I an, if is sothing like a plant, would not those families control the supply for that?"
[HaHaHa funny that you asked that, because one of the ingredients for those serums is your very own blood, Warlock blood. HaHaHa]
Hearing what the old man said and rembering the battle of the 4th gate that Mack participated, things finally clicked in his head. It was obvious to him now why mages would kill every single warlock they found. Those serums could easily change soone's affinity.
In other words, change soone's life.
Mack always felt that creating tools or using their blood as so kind of 'ink' was not that important to justify a war like that, but the serums, that was worth it.
But another thing bugged Mack, and it was his previous question.
"Does that an... they have 'farms' of warlocks?"
[You are indeed a smart kid. Yes, they have breeding labs for warlocks, but those warlocks are not what you would consider 'human'. They are clones grown in tubes with not even a brain in their skull, only machines growing them, in the past, they tried to create planets as breeding camps, but every ti a few warlocks would eventually get too powerful for them to control, so they use those labs now, and as you can guess, they are very expensive and few]
"Dont you feel disgust? You are a warlock, after all."
Said Mack, wondering why this old man let this happen.
[Kid, you are too green, too green. Do you think that I am invincible or sothing?]
"So, you do care about that."
[What do you think of ? I am a warlock, after all, but I'm just one, and old]
"Not anymore."
Said Mack, pointing his index finger to his own chest.
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