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"Hero...he\'s the hero party leader." The small voice of the mage spoke up. This caused the two brothers to freeze. 

"Ding ding, right you are. My name\'s Walker. Thanks for the match." He was smiling like a fool since he had just hidden his system for so long. He felt that as long as he did not show too many skills and wear the travel medals he could make himself seem like any other kid. Without Midnight with him he might be able to travel completely incognito about the kingdom at even the busiest time of day. 

"No way, why are you here? Shouldn\'t you be off like saving someone or out in the plains with the other silver tier adventurers?" The awe that Walker thought the brothers would feel were replaced with a little anger. They were here because they were too weak yet someone who had been labeled as strong was still here too?

"It\'s not that we don\'t want to be but my party actually had a lot of difficulty with the massive hoards. Plus we have another quest that is much more important and we need to prepare for it or we could lose a lot." Walker used his most serious tone for this to show that he was not taking the situation in the plains lightly. 

"But why train with us.." The mage spoke up again asking a question that the trio was thinking. 

"Experience, I have only trained with my party or in battles with monsters. If I ever encounter something unexpected then I would be at a loss. The best place to get used to that feeling? Right here at the guild." His words were purely logical and there was no fault in them.

That is exactly what we were told by the party leader. If we wanted to join the party we needed to stay here and train until we could react to anything without fail." The older of the swordsman brothers said this still sounding a little disappointed. 

"Well I can help with that if you want?" Walker was thinking about his flame doll skill and how he could make three of them to match the trio. If he put them against themselves then they could learn about their own weaknesses. It was not perfect but could really show them where their faults lie. 

"We are definitely not sparring with you anymore. I heard you can use a ton of magic that could throw us out of the training fields." 

"Yeah and what happens if your dragon friend shows up and decides to use our bones as toothpicks?" 

"Are rumors like that really floating around? Huh…" Walker was surprised to hear this especially after the time spent healing at the cathedral. "Well anyways just bring over a ton of straw from that barn over there. I will pay for it later so don\'t worry. I will make something for you two to fight." 

The two brothers were very confused but decided to oblige him anyways. The mage took this chance to take as much information from Walker as possible. It was rare to bump in to others with the same elemental affinity, let alone multiple. "Can you show me what you can do with wind? I have been stuck on that wall skill for a while. I can use it to push people back but it can\'t stop arrows or sharp projectiles." 

This was not an uncommon problem from what Walker had read about. There was a lot of force needed to stop a blade in general and dispersing the force from a pointed object was tougher than a large object. "Well how much do you understand wind? Are you just trying to make a solid tough wall? Or you imagining the currents the wind moves in that would deflect the arrows? I don\'t think wind could just stop an arrow completely but I do know it could change its direction and send it back where it came from." 

This little idea was enough for the mage. She had not spent a ton of time meditating on the movements of wind and instead just imagined what the wind would do. This had been the same premise with the ball of wind she had made. She wanted it to take that shape to use the wind ball skill and that was it nothing more. 

"I see, so I need to not only shape it but think about what direction all the small bits of air elemental mana move in to make that shape." She was easily catching on since she had scratched the surface of this realization herself. The only reason she hadn\'t found it herself was that she had been too focused on leveling up lately to be strong enough to give good support. 

"By the way, that skill you used to help you dodge me, what is it called? It seems very useful." Walker already had the rarely used multi buff skill but he thought that taking the time to learn a few more buff skills could be worthwhile in the long run. 

"It\'s called lighten. It lets the air around you split away from your body and let you move more easily. It only boosts my agility by three points but it is really good for a mage. I can\'t handle attacks very well." This was a little more of a boost than Walker expected but it was really nice.

"That could definitely save you in a tense situation. I can\'t imagine how much tougher it would have been if you boosted your party members while we were sparing." The difficulty would have been upped a little helping Walker have a longer battle. 

"They hate it when I boost them during training, they want to get stronger first then have boosts. They always say that they need to get there with their own power first." She said this with a bit of annoyance since it seemed like she really wanted to help them out. 

The two brother swordsman came over with a pull cart full of straw. \'Alright so what are you going to make? A training dummy?" They had been talking about what Walker could possibly make with the straw and could only imagine that he was going  to make some form of training dummy. This was more confusing since they could just use one that was already in the training field. 

"You could say that." Walker lit a small pile of the straw on fire and began shaping the flames with his skills. The three watched a familiar shape was created in front of them. The flame doll skill had mimicked their mage, it lacked some details but it still looked rather perfect. 

"Yo are to use the same techniques as this wind mage and try to show her her weak points. Try not to hurt her but don\'t go easy on her." Walker said this and the flame doll turned to the mage and started to move menacingly. "This is your training partner, just make sure you are away from it if you destroy it. It will go out with a bang." Walker gave this shout as the wind mage started to run away from her sudden opponent. 

"Um...will we have to fight ourselves too…" The older brother looked at Walker a little afraid. They did nit want to tell the leader of the most popular party no, but they did not feel confident in training this way. Especially seeing their third member running away from her fire doll copy. 

"Well of course, how else will you be able to find your own weaknesses?" The next flame doll started to take shape and quickly after that the third took shape as well. Now there were three flame dolls using the pile of straw as fuel while they battled the party Walker had just spared with. 

Now that he had had a few matches and gained some new skills he had a base to practice on. This left Su who should still be fighting the group that she had seen in the beginning. When Walker found them on the large training fields Su was only battling against two who looked very tired. They were sweating profusely and had plenty of bruises already starting to show. It looked like Su\'s defenses had proven too much for them to break. 

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