A Magical Tale: The Peerless Summoner

Chapter 64: Helena's copying ability

When Jennifer said this, Twinia and the other girls in the room gave smiles.

They really hated Helena and wanted her to be squashed like she were a bug.

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Next day...

At the training ground, Helena who had appeared before Deylina said "Ma'am, could you please teach me some defense-type combat methods? Yesterday, I could have beaten a particular girl, but because of I couldn't dodge her punch or block it, I was struck by it and this literally knocked me out. So, I want to learn a few blocking methods or some evasive methods"

Deylina looked at Helena and said "I heard about the battle you had yesterday with Jennifer's faction members. That was really bold of you. But you did well."

Then she said further "Alright. I would teach you some blocking methods, before you would accuse me of losing next next time if you lost again in a physical hand-to-hand battle."

When Helena heard this, her eyes glowed with happiness.

"Thank you ma'am" She said excitedly.

Deylina nodded her head.

"When do we start?" Helena asked.

"Let's do that in the evening." Deylina said.

"You still have to train your body. That's very important." Deylina said.

"Alright ma'am" Helena replied.

Then she asked "How many squats?"

"Give me sixty" Deylina said.

Helena nodded her head.

Then she began to squat.

When she got to three hundred squats which Deylina counted as 'fifty', her legs began to tremble.

She wanted to stop when she recalled what she told the Spirit of Chaos, Might and Reborn.

"Ugh!" She uttered.

Then she forced herself to continue the squats.

As she did so, she experienced an intense burning sensation in her legs. But she endured this pain and continued with what she was doing.

Not long, her legs gave up and she fell to the ground with her knees.

"I am tired, ma'am. Could you please give me some time to rest. My legs feel extremely weak and need to recover." Helena said with hope that Deylina would listen to her.

Deylina looked at Helena who was on the ground with her knees and saw to her amazement that she wasn't taken over by that spirit they knew as the Spirit of Universal Conquest.

"Alright, Helena. You can have your rest. Besides, you really tried. That's fifty squats you gave me with my counting method." Deylina said in an impressed tone.

Helena heard this and eyes shone with happiness.

"Thank you ma'am" She said delightedly.

Then she collapsed unto the ground with her back to relax.

Deylina then left Helena's presence to go do other things.

After she was done relaxing and felt that her legs had recovered, she stood back to her feet to continue her squats. Then using Deylina's counting method, she completed her squats.

When she was done, she sat on the ground and began to look at the others who were training.

She saw how they fought and wanted to study them so she could have an understanding of how to do basic blocks and other basic attacking moves before she would be really trained by Deylina in the evening on them.

But unknowing to her as she studied them, the basic moves that others executed as they fought each other began to quickly store in her head. It was like information on how to do the block and attack moves that they carried out were being transmitted to her memory.

After many minutes of looking at them with the intention of studying them so she could have a small understanding of their basic blocking and attacking moves, Deylina suddenly appeared before her.

"Done resting?" She asked immediately she arrived before Helena.

"Yes ma'am. Also, I have completed the squats that you asked me to do." Helena replied.

"Hmm. Alright" Deylina replied.

"I think it's time to take things up a notch." Deylina said.

"Alright ma'am" Helena replied.

"Now, give me twenty push-ups" Deylina said.

"Okay. But how do I do that?" Helena asked in a curious tone.

Of course she wouldn't have an idea on how to do that.

"Alright. Just copy the position I would go into in the next moment" Deylina said.

Deylina then dropped to the ground and positioned herself in a way that her arms and legs were fully stretched out to be at shoulder length on the ground.

Then she bent her arms so her body which was in the air since they were supported by her fully erect arms would be lowered to the ground.

When her body was lowered to the ground with her chin touching the earth, she then pushed her body back into the air with her bent arms straightened up again. Then she repeated her actions again so Helena could see how the press-up was done.

After doing it for about eight times, she stopped and stood back to her feet.

"Now, do what I did" Deylina ordered.

Helena nodded.

Then she positioned herself exactly on the ground the way Deylina did and began to do her press-up.

After doing only a few of it, she collapsed unto the ground.

"Wow. It's so difficult to do" Helena said and deeply exhaled.

"Haha. What do you expect? You thought you could do many at a go?" Deylina asked.

Then she said further "Rest for sometime. After you have rested a bit, you can continue"

Helena nodded her head.

Then sitting in the cross-legged position on the ground, she began to observe the others as they sent out attacks and blocked them.

She enjoyed what she was watching them do.

"I wonder when I would be able to fight like them" She said.

Then after watching them for some time, she took her focus away from them towards another group who were busy executing brilliant and spectacular acrobatic feats.

She saw a group of people smoothly executing back handsprings, backflips, front flips, gainer front flips and so on and just couldn't help but be impressed.

She was amazed and began to look at them, forgetting that she had press-up to do. She had basically been carried away by the stunning aerial feats that the girls she was looking at with awe in her eyes cleanly executed.

But one couldn't blame her, the wonderful acrobatic feats the girls exhibited were amazing. It was truly a sight to behold.

Then she sighed and wondered when she would be able to do such things too. All she ever did was train her body so it could become strong. Although she agreed with Deylina that she must have a physically strong body as she would be able to overwhelm her opponent if she had a strength advantage over them, she just really wanted to learn a whole lot of other things, like this that the girls were doing at the moment.

But she continued to watch them. And as she did so, images of how to execute the flips that the girls executed began to surface in her head. She was basically acquiring tons of information about the different flips that the girls were doing just by watching them carry out the aerial stunts.

A few minutes later, Deylina appeared before Helena. Then she gazed at what Helena was looking at and said "I see that you were carried away by those brilliant feats the girls are carrying out. Truly a marveling sight to behold, right?"

"Yes ma'am" Helena said with a smile.

"Don't worry, Helena. You are going to learn all these one day. Just focus on training your body." Deylina said.

"Yes ma'am" Helena nodded her head.

Then she went back to her press-up position and began to do the number of press-up that she was asked to do.

After sometime, she got tired.

Then after resting for a few minutes, she went back to her press-up position and continued her press-up. And when she got tired, she would rest again.

Like that, she rested and did her press-up till Deylina said that training for the day was over.

Then she went back to her room with the other girls who their instructors had dismissed.

When she got to her room, she began to think of those things that she saw those girls do.

And to her amazement, she easily remembered every details of the acrobatic flips that the girls executed.

Not long, she stood to her feet from her bed and walked far away from it to try and do the one that she felt was the easiest, and that was the back handspring.

When she felt that she had gotten enough space to do what she had in mind, great fear suddenly surfaced in her heart.

She thought that when she swung her hands to the back to go into a bridge position, and then swung her legs too so she could execute the back handspring move, she could make a mistake with the move and smash her head hard on the floor.

As she thought this, she began to breathe in irregularly out of immense fear.

She decided to not do it in the end. But something in her was spurring her to do it. It told her that she could do it. And this wasn't the Spirit of Chaos, Might and Reborn, it was her mind talking to her.

"Well, if anything goes wrong, I would only smash my head hard on the ground and then use magic to heal up the cracks that would appear in my skull" She said, laughed and then made up her mind to do it.

Since she had now eliminated the fear in her heart with just those words that she uttered, she proceeded to do it.

Then with a soft exhale, she swung her two arms backwards to touch the ground, successfully entering into a bridge position.

Then in that same second, her legs followed by also leaving the ground and swinging backwards to touch the ground at the other side.

So just like that, she re-entered her standing position when her legs which were swung in the backwards direction touched the ground, and her hands which were also on the ground left it at the same time.

When Helena stood firmly to her feet after carrying out the back handspring technique, a brilliant glow of immense shock erupted from her eyes.

"What?? I just did it. I just did it" Helena said repeatedly and excitedly.

Then now slightly confident in herself, she decided to do it again.