Beast Evolution

"Are you the one" a voice spoke and Ray turned around, it was a female but he couldn't see her face clearly.

"Yes ma'am" Ray quickly answered.

"Hi," the lady said.

"Hello ma'am, nice to meet you, I'm Ray"

"Okay, we are starting now, follow me" the lady said and turn around.

"Huh! we are starting now, but I..." Ray thought of an excuse but came up with nothing, he had no choice but to follow the lady.

The lady was in front and he was behind so he still couldn't see her face, both of them walked for a while before reaching a building at the far end of the academy.

The lady opened the door to the building and they walked in, it was similar to the training ground in Avalon but this one was much smaller.

Sand filled the ground and there were wooden weapon at the end of the building, the building was slightly dark because the crystal at the top weren't working, the little light that came from the windows was what they used to see.

The lady raised her hands up and the three crystal at the top lit immediately making the dark room brightly than ever.

"Okay we're starting..." the lady said and turn around.

She looked just like any other mage would, she was beautiful but Ray and seen women more pretty than her, she tied her long black hair in a ponytail giving her a business look.

"What are we starting with?" Ray asked.

"I don't know...where should we start from" the lady looked around and ponder.

'Is she asking me, she seems weird...'

"You should know, I'm Selena..." the lady said making Ray to cough loudly.

"Y-You are Selena... ma'am if you are joking please stop," Ray said jokingly.

"Stop calling me ma'am, I don't like it" Selena said.

'What...wait I don't understand this, how can she be Selena, they don't look alike at all'

"Sorry ma'am...oh sorry, I don't understand, how is this possible?" Ray asked with a puzzled look on his face.

"Cloning and Transformation, quite amazing right," Selena said with a smile.

"So you are not the real Selena...you are just a clone?"

"Yes, but still I have half my powers because this is my only clone for now"

"Wow... do the knights know about this?"

"No...and I trust you wouldn't tell them, because if you do, I would crush your balls," Selena said with bloodshot eyes.

Ray took a step back and covered both of his balls with his hands, he knew she was joking but still he was still afraid.

"We're starting, today is a bit...I don't know, but we are going to battle, just show me how good you are with magic, then we can know where to start from"

"Okay, so I should attack right?"

"Yes, and don't try what you did before, it won't work, try a different thing," Selena said.

"Okay ma'am, sorry... I'm really sorry" Ray said.

"You have completed basic training I'm the knight academy right?"

"Yes," Ray said.

"So you can take some hit right"

"Y-Yes...but why are you asking"

"I just want to know, but my clone power is halved so you probably don't have anything to worry about" Selena laughed.

"O-Okay..." Ray said and took a battle stance.

"Feel free to start, I'm ready when you're ready"

[Ice spear]

Before Selena could finish her sentence Ray stretched his hands and fired off two ice spears. Selena had no problem dodging them, she moved sideways and little and dodged both of them.

Selena raised her hand upward and a shadow of darkness was cast around the whole training ground, everything became dark but Ray could still see Selena.

"You can see me right?"

"Yes, is it strange, was I not supposed to see you," Ray asked.

"This is called an Elemental domain, only a few mages can cast a spell like this so you probably haven't seen it before"

"Elemental domain, is this another spatial magic?"

"No this is quite different, if it was another mage here he wouldn't be able to see me, but you can see me because you also possess darkness attribute"

"Ohh...so that's why you were asking, so it blinds the enemy"

"That is just for the darkness attribute, this spell is not exclusive, all genius mages can cast this with enough time and training" Selena spoke.

"There are different attributes so each Elemental domain is different from the other, once a mage cast this spell, he gains the ultimate boost in everything..."

Ray didn't make a move, he stood still listening to what Selena was saying, most mage probably haven't heard of this so he wasn't going to play with it.

"If a mage has water attribute, the Mage's Elemental domain would be a pool of water, and the mage would be able to cast any spell without worrying about his/her Mana"

"Inside an Elemental domain, the Mage's Mana pool is infinite as long at the domain is active, but keeping the domain active is the problem, well learning the spell is the first problem, so we should face that first"

"Wait...you want me to learn this?"

"Yes"

"But you just said only high level Mage can learn this, how do you expect me to learn this now, shouldn't we start from something small" Ray said in worry.

"So you don't want to learn the greatest spell, okay we'll start small"

"Wait...wait...do I have a chance at learning this"

"You're not that smart are you, learning the spell is hard but you already have someone who can personally teach you about the spell and you're complaining"

'Ohh... she's right, both of us are darkness element users so it won't be that hard for me' Ray said inwardly.

"I'm sorry, please teach me the spell," Ray said.

"Okay..." Selena said.

"What would I do?" Ray asked.

Selena laughed a little before speaking, "You aren't ready yet, we should start small"

"But you said... never mind" Ray mumbled.

"We should start with a powerful attack spell, hmmm...a combination would be nice" Selena muttered.

"A combination of what..."

The darkness began to clear away and slowly light enveloped the whole room and the darkness cleared away.

"Is the battle still on?" Ray asked as he saw Selena walking towards him, he didn't want to be surprised so he had to ask.

"No I want to show you a spell, a very important spell," Selena said.

As she came close to Ray a shadow enveloped Selena and Ray immediately knew the spell. Ray saw the spell when he obtained the darkness attribute [Dark cloak], he saw the spell but he didn't have enough skill points to learn the spell.

"This spell is called [Dark cloak]"

"Is this the important spell?" Ray asked.

"No the important spell is [Darkness manipulation], that's the first spell we're starting with"

"[Darkness manipulation] that's the ability to manipulate darkness right"

"Yes, look at this for example" Selena said and stepped back a little.

Dark binds sprouted from the ground but instead of trapping Ray, the binds held his feet and raised him. The binds kept raising him upward till he could touch the ceiling then he was brought down.

Selena raised her hands again and the binds moved away from Ray and turned into sharp spikes, Selena raised her hands and turn them into a shield.

"Fire some of your ice and see"

[Ice spear]

Ray did as Selena told him and fired a series of ice spears but the shield blocked all the attacks completely.

"This spell is on a completely different level, that's why I want you to learn it, because it would be your trump card if you cast an Elemental domain"

"Okay... I'm ready" Ray said.

Selena raised her right hand and a circle formed on her hands, slowly some lines start to form and after some seconds the circle was complete.

"This is a magic circle"

"Yeah, aren't you a mage why do you sound surprised, study the magic circle and learn to draw it," Selena told him.

"How will this help me, isn't a magic circle used for teleportation" Ray said immediately.

"What are you saying, wait...draw the magic circle for your Ice spear," Selena said in a serious tone.

"I can't draw magic circles"