Taking the Mafia to the Magic World

Chapter 983  Training with Alicia

In Alicia's training room, Vicente removed the item he was using to alter his appearance. Putting his glasses aside—Prisiche—he looked at his combat partner for the day.

"How exactly will our relationship work from now on?"

His obligation to train Alicia wasn't very specific. It only said that, twice a year, he should dedicate part of his time to assisting this woman's growth. But how this would happen, for how long, was not specified.

She finished putting on her combat items, saying as she adjusted her armor, "About that, your mission with me depends on two things. One, my saturation and two, my advancement to the 8th stage."

He frowned, looking at her uncomprehendingly, but without interrupting her words.

"Regarding my advancement to the 8th stage, that obviously won't happen overnight. But the family expects you to accompany me there, helping me with training to spur me on and eventually joining the hunt for my eighth pentagram."

That was the simple but time-consuming part. He understood well what he would have to do, although he didn't like how long he would have to be involved in this mission.

'Looks like I let myself be fooled by a not-so-well-explained term. Tsk! I didn't expect them to be so cheap with their contracts.' Vicente thought to himself, recognizing his mistake but not showing much irritation.

Although he didn't like the situation, something that would force him to do this job for a long time, it wasn't so complicated that he regretted it.

"As for my saturation, well, with each session together, you'll have to stay by my side until I reach my limit. You and I are busy people and we can't be together all the time, so we'll have meetings limited to what I can absorb from each opportunity to learn from you." She finished. Nôv(el)B\\jnn

There was a limit to how much a body could absorb, how much a cultivator could improve with each cultivation, study, or other method of self-improvement. That limit was saturation, the point at which she would know it was time for each of their sessions together to end.

Vicente brought one of his hands up to his face, wondering what this meant. 'I imagine Alicia is one of the most advanced in the family at her level. There probably aren't many capable of providing her with a good sparring partner without impeding individuals who are too well-placed or busy with other matters.'

He understood why he had been chosen to do this job. Apart from having the power and talent, he was not an active member of the family, but rather a sponsored one who had no role that would be disrupted when he was with her.

"All right. I understand our situation now." He murmured, before returning to his usual confident state. "Are you ready?"

She smiled at him, interested in how confident he seemed. As much as his configuration was slightly superior to hers, she had one more pentagram than Vicente. In addition, her soul cultivation was also stronger than his by one level, something that gave her a lot of confidence.

She asked. "I'm ready, but what about you? I don't doubt that you'll be a formidable training partner in a few more years, especially when you have your seventh pentagram. But right now, I still don't see you at my level."

Vicente didn't take her comment the wrong way. All this time, Alicia had been very respectful and helpful to him. Her complaining about his current cultivation and thinking she was stronger than him wasn't strange. In fact, it was fair.

In the cultivation world, strength spoke louder than anything. And now she was facing the man sent to train her, but who, at the moment, was inferior to her in many ways. How could she not doubt him?

However, Vicente was about to show her that things weren't as simple as she thought. "No more dialogues. Let's see your flaws."

With his words, his pentagrams of magnetic magical form formed in an instant showing an aura that, although smaller, was denser and much more terrible than hers.

Alicia responded in the same way, invoking her special power, a plant-type magical form, Dark Twilight Flower, appeared differently, revealing itself with purple petals, matching her cyan and indigo pentagrams.

But amid her display of power, she sensed a change in the air around the training room, feeling a strange heaviness in her body as the surrounding mana seemed to slip from her grasp.

The armor Vicente was wearing shifted, revealing his clothes better, while several metallic creatures formed nearby.

"Show me what you're capable of," he said as he made the creatures fly at her, transforming in the air as they moved terrifyingly fast to her senses.

'Something if off.' She felt strange at the start of the fight, but tried to use her powers to neutralize her opponent.

Making her flower open to its fullest as it glowed, several copies of that small plant sprouted in the surroundings, releasing a dark powder into the air.

A purple barrier formed around him, while the black powder mixed with the air seemed to gain momentum, rushing around Vicente with an obvious interest in surrounding him.

"Biological weapon, I see. You're a killing machine." Vicente recognized her potential in combat, however, he was her weak point. "Someone with a power like yours has as their worst kind of opponent those who can influence their mind."

It went on for five seconds, as she blinked, seeing worlds alternate, for a moment seeing herself in a place surrounded by vampires and then again in the training room with him.

"Opponents who can control your body and mana." He added as he made her feel a different heartbeat, capable of taking the air out of her and making her suffocate.

"Opponents who can break through your barriers and fight you with their fists," he said, appearing a meter in front of her, having overcome her barrier without difficulty.

She overbalanced backwards as she opened her eyes wide, extremely frightened.

"In my case, I can do all three things at once. So, Miss Alicie, you have a lot to improve on," he said as he moved one of his fists slowly, hitting her abdomen, then throwing her against one wall of the room.

With a loud 'pa!' against the wall, Alicia felt her bones ache, her body resist her commands, while her mind seemed uncertain of what was reality and what was an illusion.

"Don't worry, we'll strengthen your methods. Now, please, use everything you've got. I'm looking forward to taking on someone as strong as you seriously," he said, making her see that she could go all out against him.