Regina's PoV
After introductions we ate dinner deciding to leave leave the training for tomorrow as its already late. Raina has already put up a barrier along the mountain so we don't need to hold back in fear of endangering it.
Before going to sleep I approached Rias of the training schedule tomorrow of who will train who. To which she nodded in agreement letting me take charge of the schedule.
In the morning after eating breakfast we told each member of Rias' peerage who will train them leaving it to the intructors what kind of training they will do.
"Ok everyone we have already decided who will train each of you.
Rias will be training with Lily.
Akeno and Asia will be trained by my sister Raina.
Kiba will be with me
Koneko will be with Yun Yao
And last but not the least Issei will be trained by Nanashi."
Hearing my words everyone nodded but I noticed Issei slightly shaking he he approached Nanashi. He had an awkward look and was scared of the aura Nanashi was releasing.
Nanashi was the top Assassin even gaining the name of 'Hassan-I-Sabbath' in the organization having killed countless people throughout her whole life.
Although both her and Ilya has a cold face devoid of expression the atmosphere they have of is different. Ilya is described as being in a snowstorm whereas Nanashi gives an aura that sents a chill down your spine. She may be able to control her killing intent however the aura she gives off is something she can't control. Well she can by switching with her countless seal split personalities but she only does that in jobs. Most of the time this is her main personality. The very first one.
Issei looked at me for help but turned towards Raina after seeing my face devoid of expression. Seeing this Raina laughed before patting Issei's back then taking off with Asia and Akeno which the former looked worried at him while Akeno is looking in amusement.
I then took Kiba and went to one of the training places that we prepared early in the morning.
"Overall your ability is pretty decent however compared to the more higher ranked devils it will pale in comparison. Our training will mostly consist of your reaction speed, agility and strength. We will also need to train your sacred gear enough so that it wouldn't break easily." I explained to him. He didn't believe the last part where I can easily break his swords.
He then nodded as I take out a random sword from my treasury.
"Are you ready?" I asked him as countless golden ripples appear in the air.
Seeing this he was slightly startled before turning his focus back on the spar.
"For the first part of your training, I will be launching countless swords in every direction towards you as we clash swords. This training will increase your awareness and reaction speed. I will slowly increase them to test your limit so get ready!"
He then nodded and went into a stance.
Kiba's training only consisted of these aspects. As I didn't want to train him in my way of sword as he already has his own, so instead I will train his sword style and polish it further.
"Lets begin!"
I said as I dashed towards him and swung my sword. Slightly startled by the sudden speed he immediately raised his sword to block knocking him backwards by the force.
As he was sent back countless swords immediately followed him. He blocked some of them which broke his swords while dodging some and getting scratched by others.
Seeing this I immediately followed up and dashed once more.
Clang!
The sounds of swords continued to rang out as we clashed blow for blow. With me sending out countless swords while clashing blades with him. As time progresses more and more swords were broken with hin gritting his teeth.
The training continued for countless hours before he finally fell down exhausted as I stopped attacking him.
"Damn so you were holding back during our sword matches. Even if we just fought with swords I would have been outclassed." He said trying to catch his breath.
Seeing this I gave him some water and a towel to watch his sweat. I also used healing magic to heal his wounds. Although not as power as Raina and the other mages Im still proficient in using basic spells.
"Gotta say I am impressed that held on this long." I told him. During the match I tried to increase the intensity little by little till it reached a hundred swords being fired in succession.
This training reminded me of my training with Ilya a couple of years ago.
Her fighting style is slighty similar to Kiba. She can create countless swords and even copy a near perfect replica of them. A perfect counter to my Gate of Babylon.
Ilya's ability came from the divine protection given to her by the God Svarog. Svarog imparted a power derived from his authority as a God of Forging and Creation. This lead to the creation of a unique magic ability Ilya refers to as [Divine Forge].
This ability is similar to sacred gears [Sword Birth] and [Blade Blacksmith] as [Divine Forge] allows Ilya to create any kind of weapon be it from imagination or copying an existing weapon.
Originally the ability was supposed to be metal creation and transmutation. A useful ability for forging blades an ability not meant for battle. It was a kind of magic for forging blades. However Ilya pushed it further, what was supposed to be an ability for production became an ability that can be used for battle. Ilya using her knowledge of armament forging as well as Alchemy trained herself to be able to create any kind of weapon. Resulting in the ability [Divine Forge].
She trained the ability till it became second nature to her. [Divine Forge] is a Human magic and Magic used by humans needed calculations instead of imaginations unlike those of Devils so from this ability alone you can see how absurd the calculation speeds needed for each creation.
Ilya was trained to be a [Magic Swordsman]. A swordsmans capable of using magic. That was her fighting style before she joined Regulus Dominion.
[Divine Forge] is technically magic.
With Ilya's knowledge of forging, alchemy and magic along with her photographic memory she created this absurd impractical magic that would only work for her.
As said before [Divine Forge is impractical, so Ilya devised a training where I would launch countless random blades from my sacred gear and she would fire the same ones back.
Of course at the start she often failed as her creations kept breaking.
However as the time passed she was able to keep up with the release from my treasury as I slowly increased the number of gates and after 2 years she perfected her [Divine Forge].
She also used her photographic memory to essentially create a library of weapons separated from her knowledge inside her mind. The library stores every weapon she saw and created creating an armory within her mind.
Later we did change up the training into something similar to what me and Kiba are doing right now. Over time I became proficient in using my sacred gear alongside my sword.
Ilya is truly a lunatic for coming up with the idea for [Divine Forge] however I do have to admit, it became something stupidly broken. A magic that exceeds sacred gears. An absurd fighting style using magic that even Raina who is Solomon's inheritor cannot copy.
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Notes :
[Divine Forge]
- A unique Magic belonging to Ilyaelia Muromets-Romanov. It lets Ilya create countless weapons just using magic. The perfect counter to the sacred gear [Gate of Babylon] achieved through a young girl's crazy idea only possible with her alone.
A more indept explaination :
[Divine Forge] is a unique magic derived from the magic [Metal Creation] given to her by Svarog and [Transmutation] under alchemy. Giving her the ability to create weapons through transmutation alchemy taken in the the highest peak.
Svarog's divine protection lets Ilya gain the highest class of metal [Transmutation] which she further improved by studying alchemy.
Divine forge is technically a part of alchemy under transmutation, the art manipulating of the elements to create. However unlike magic, transmutation needs existing materials to be used.
Alchemists frequently use this ability to create items and create new metals and alloys through combining different materials.
[Metal Creation] on the other hand basically changes the properties of an existing metal and adding new effects to it.
The Magic used in [Divine Forge] comes from creating the metals needed, similar to how magicians create fire in their spells.
Metal is still an element and Ilya took inspiration from her knowledge of spells to alter the ability [Metal Creation]. The ability originally used to create something new from existing metal was further upgraded and now didnt need any existing materials. However the created items wont last long and disperse as time passes.
Using her knowledge of forging, Ilya essentially creates the parts needed using magic even recreate the history behind it and using transmutation she creates the weapons. Ilya also reinforces the weapon using magic reinforcement achieving a near perfect replica of the weapon.
Ilya can see through a weapon's history through the [Mystics eye of the Viy] she has from her contract with the Viy that guards the Romanov Family. Through that and with [Divine Forge] she can recreate any existing weapon as long as she has enough mana.
Of course there are limitations as well. One of which is she cannot replicate something that she does not have enough mana for.
The created weapon still functions like the original so [Divine Forge] loses to the [Gate of Babylon] in consumption as [Divine Forge] needs mana if the user wants to activate the weapon's ability on top of creating the desired weapon unlike in the [Gate of Babylon] Regina just opens the gate and doesn't take as much mana.
Ilya can also change the weapon she creates, creating something that can exceed the original. She does it through an ability under the [Divine Forge] that she calls as [Reforge].
Through this ability she creates arrows that she fires while loading it with as mana as possible resulting in unstable creation that detonates on first impact.