Three months passed since the ship crossed the barrier isolating the continent.
Since that day, Yale used his Spiritual Sense to scan the water hoping to find some clues, but at most he detected some marine monsters that fortunately were weaker than him, so they didn’t try to attack the ship.
Of course, Yale only used the Spiritual Sense passively and didn’t spend the three months sat without doing anything.
Due to the fact that a conflict seemed unavoidable, Yale spent time training himself and his disciples.
Aizu wasn’t bad at classic water magic, in terms of long spells she was almost the best of the ship, but when it came to turning magic into a Combined Skill, she was far worse than Mercer who was very motivated to imitate Yale’s Frost Claw.
Seeing that a kid who she considered like her little brother was better than herself, Aizu was a little frustrated, but also started to train seriously and stopped distracting herself while training due to Yale’s presence.
Although both of them had great improvement from the point of view of a normal person, of the two only Mercer could be considered to be learning at an average pace compared with the rest of people in the ship. Of course, all the people in the ship had been considered rare talents, so be average among them was extremely good.
Of course, even those rare talents could only look in awe to Yale’s monstrous talent. Advancing two levels in a day was something that the others though as having a good stroke of luck or enlightenment, but his training after that continued at an abnormal speed.
In those three months, Yale’s Swordsmanship, Archery, and Martial Arts had reached the ninth level of the grandmaster stage, only a turning point away of the sage stage.
Doing that in three months was already a lot even if he had trained with Swordmad, Aiwai, and Lar, which produced excellent results. However, his improvements weren’t limited to that.
Yale also trained like crazy the spells Water Healing, Freeze, and Thunderbolt.
Those three were extremely useful in the midst of the ocean. The environment was perfect to use Water Healing, using Thunderbolt against any marine monster was devastating due to the water of the ocean, and with Freeze, it wasn’t difficult for Yale to freeze the upper layer of the ocean making it difficult for anything to emerge until the ice melted or was broken through.
Of course, the weather wasn’t extremely cold, so the best method to deal with the ice was just waiting as those monsters wouldn0t die by just that level of cold, but as a delaying technique was perfect in their current situation.
The part of Water Healing was quite normal as Aizu and Serka did the same since the environment was suited for it, but no one knew what to say when Yale started to throw thunderbolts and froze the ocean at the sides of the ship.
However, despite all the other improvements, the greatest one was the last Yale accomplished after training for those three months, which had also been his main objective since his problems fulfilling his previous quest.
The reason was simply that it was a new skill that Yale felt that was vital for him, more exactly a new Law Skill based on the Water Law.
“Water Control: Allows the user to manipulate the water on the nature at will. Water Law. Can be used by controlling the Water Law. The deficiency of control of the law could be substituted with Origin Points. Each second without relying upon any power of the Water Law would require 1000 Origin Points. With the current understanding of the Law, the cost would be 600 Origin Points per second.”
Yale really wanted to laugh at the moment he finally created that skill because that was a true cheat despite the cost being higher than his other skills.
While Water Control was active, any water on the nature could be controlled freely by Yale. Thus, in the ocean, his battle prowess was frightening enough that without someone else having better control than himself about the Water Law, the chances being harmed inside the water were almost inexistent since all the water would become his shield as long as the skill was active.
Moreover, activating that skill didn’t show any sign on the outside, so it can be active without anyone else noticing about it.
Of course, Yale had yet to reach the first threshold on the Water Law despite having obtained some insight while creating that Law Skill but controlling the water on the nature wasn’t difficult compared to control water created by an opponent using a magic spell or a Combined Skill.
“I thought that my progress was very good, but every time I think about master’s improvement, I can avoid feeling a bit depressed…”
Almost everyone was on the deck of the ship looking at Yale while he was testing Water Control after creating it.
“Mercer, for your own good, don’t try to compare yourself with Yale, he is an exception to common sense. Compared with anyone else on our continent all of us are great talents, but we seem ordinary compared with him.”
George was used to Yale being unpredictable, so although he was shocked each time Yale did something unexpected, he didn’t try to compare himself to Yale in Yale’s strong points because that was meaningless. Instead, he preferred to focus on his own strong points like crafting golems, which was something that Yale hadn’t even try unless it was temporary golems made with magic.
Of course, George hoped that Yale would never try it in case that he was also talented in that area because that would be a blow to George that George himself didn’t know if he would be able to resist.
“Listen to George. Try to compare yourself with me as we are both Yale’s disciples. It isn’t wise trying to compare yourself with our master.”
Aizu said that patting Mercer’s head; Aizu was competitive against Yale when they met for the first time, but at that moment she only admired him, and all traces of competition disappeared because their difference was far too big.
“Although there is someone who never seems to stop challenging Yale.”
George said that because some launched and sneak attack towards Yale, an attack that was blocked by a huge wall of water.
“That hurts!”
Lar was the one who attacked, and it was a physical attack, so she clashed directly towards the water wall; it was just water, but the act of clashing against water still hurt.
“Lar, if you want to battle just tell me, I almost turned the water into ice by instinct. Trying to use sneak attacks towards me isn’t good.”
Yale was always alert in case of someone attacked him since he knew about the existence of marine monsters, so he reacted by instinct each time he felt a sneak attack that almost always was Lar, but with Water Control his defense was even better than before.
“I couldn’t resist my urge of testing this new skill of yours. This had been really painful. Continue, I am not defeated by something like that.”
Yale smiled after hearing that.
“As you wish.”
A lot of water swords were shot towards Law who blocked them with the sword, the swords were only in their liquid state, but they moved at high speeds, so it was perfectly possible for them to pierce through a body.
While Water Control was active, Yale didn’t have a limit of Water Swords as long as there was enough water. They were in the midst of the ocean, so Yale could create as many swords as he wanted.
After some minutes defending with all her strength of Yale attacks, Lar fell to the ground exhausted, and Yale stopped attacking.
“Too strong. This new skill of yours is too powerful in our current situation, although I am sure that in a desert it would be useless. As expected of the man I love, creating the best skills for the situation.”
Lar had no shame in saying things like that, and everyone was already used to hear her. Moreover, Yale’s skill was worthy of praise, and it would be of great help for the security of all the ship.
Yale didn’t create that skill without reason, he wanted a skill like that and put all his effort in developing it; he remembered that he hadn’t dared to leave the ship previously due to his lack of defense against unexpected sneak attacks. However, with that skill, the water would defend his body automatically, so he didn’t need to have that fear if he left the ship for a bit.
The only problem was that with that consumption rate, he couldn’t use it indefinitely, but for short expeditions, Yale considered that it was enough.
“Now, I am ready. When I detect any trace of the Sea Race, I can go to meet them without worries.”
After thinking that, yale stopped to use Water Control as there wasn’t any reason to waste Origin Points at that moment. After all, the consumption was far higher than the recovery rate.
