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Her brother had also joined but looked coldly at Sodain sitting at the feet of the bird. "Okay so this place has a few thing that need done before use to safeguard them. In events of getting carried away in combat, or accidental harm." Sodain said as his hands engulfed in a golden fire placing them on the head of the bird the chest part opened and a pillar rose up with a few crystals. "Okay so this is a safeguard against death and dismemberment there are several compartments on this pillar to house special crystals. These crystals will hold your blood and all you need to do is hold it in both hands then speak your name onto the crystal in a whisper.

it will pull painlessly some blood from you to fill it. This is used to limit who will not die inside this place. Wouldn't want to be fighting an army of intruders and not having them die or to spring back up once you take them out. Just fill a crystal with your blood and name and it will store it to your voice, energy pattern and blood. Now there are some illnesses that can alter a person's blood. If this happens you will need to make a new crystal. There are 3 pillars 25 per pillar can be stored for a total currently of 75 people to have safeguard crystals. And more pillars can be added later if needed. Right now there are no stored crystals.

So please if you wish to use this training hall grab one and whisper your name onto it. Then place it in any of the crystal slots. However once you leave this building this safeguard stops working until you enter the building again." Sodain explained sounding quite wise for his age. "Once this step is done And I put the pillar back in place and close the area by next sun rise you will have the safeguard activated.when you walk in." Sodain added this information as well.

Silvia's brother grabbed holding the crystal whispering his name on it then watched it fill from clear to blood red. Blinking at it he watched the crystal then placed it into a slot and the crystal seemed to glow like it was holding a flame inside it as well. "Hmm a slight tingle but no pain and no wounds. It is indeed interesting." He said watching Silvia and his other sister.

Sodain nodded smiling using his powers and the pillar sank into the figure the gold rippled like liquid as the panels closed turning Solid and the fire around Sodain's hands flickered out turning his hands back to human looking hands. "Okay now you all will be set come sun up to use this place. Fully without having to hold back." the flame started pulsing as it was working imbuing the magic upon the blood in the crystals. Sodain nodded more getting up.

"While you wait for the blood pact on this training hall to fully activate the safeguards you still can use it if you wish. But don't do too much alright now If any of you want I can escort you all back to the castle unless you want to try training a few moves more. "Oh there are also baths and a small kitchen.to eat, in the kitchen is a vaccume tube where you can pick what you would like to eat and a meal will be delivered once it was ready.

Also there is a first aid station if needed. like if you get a ill feeling from too much energy poured into you too quickly. Or you seem to get aches the healing stones can't fix you can request a bottle of medicine or medical aid through the vacuum tube there. Also there will be a guard on standby If an intruder or anyone tries attacking you the guard will send a call for help through his vacuum tube and jump into action to guard you until backup arrives. As it was this used to be just a empty unused guard house didn't even have furniture here and was not being used so it was easy to convert to a training hall. Also if you get too tired from training there are beds here you can rest on." Sodain said after he had looked around to see these places still was there.

He watched Silvia and smiled. "So just let me know if you rather go rest in your room. after a nice soak in the bath or if you rather want to test out this place first. I will warn ya with me being part dragon there might be times in sparring I may get excited and get carried away. Though I do my best not to let that happen unless I got a good sparring partner that can keep up." He said this smiling more acting innocently. Silvia's brother had found a few pop up dummy's and started working on his fighting style. "Though I notice a fe things have not been added yet. And seen at the guard station they are pending delivering and installment. Being the balance poles of various heights. So some other things may become available later." Sodain pointed out.

Sodain vanished from sight and reappeared behind Silvia tickling her a little and jumped back. "For starters that was for trying that sneak attack. But I do not mind." He said standing there straight facing her holding a hand out one hand behind his back. "Proper sparing etiquette is done once both partners are ready. Getting in surprize attacks are harder fitting more a challenge that way. But still able to be done." He said a strong look and eye lock on her Sodain had tracking every movement she made.

As she would use energy she would be filled with what she expended to keep her able to go longer. "I bet you will not be able to hit me in a contact means other then what I block your attacks. You can go all out I will just block and defend. That way there will be no real strong harm coming to you. I will only counter once the safeguards are active on you." Sodain said ready for her to make a move.

Sodain smirked a bit blocking easily as he stepped backwards gradually moving in a circle. "Good form." He said softly watching every move she made blocking them and even blocked with his feet. "I call this the one hand waltz. Dunno if it has an actual name. But this is a good form to warm up to test your sparing partners capabilities." Once and a while Sodain moved and turned towards the other direction after turning in enough of a circle one way as he backed up gradually. That once it seemed predictable he would keep that direction up he changed to see how Silvia would react to it and if she followed him or would have turned the way he had been moving.

This was a reaction in combat test to see how quick someone was able to recalculate and follow once a repetitive movement began. After a few backing up blocking movements in the other direction. "Okay how bout we go a little faster now? You can change speeds as your comfortable and I can keep up. Infact if you can move faster you might be able to touch me. But I am sure I can match your top speed easily and keep you from touching me. But believing you can hit me and actually hitting me are two different things. You need to know you can hit me. But you can only know you can if you do it." Sodain said knowing she likely could not pass up a challenge like that.

Silvia's brother watched her and Sodain Then blinked at this walking over to his other sister. "Hate to break your focus but.... I think you might want to see this." He said insinuating Silvia's and Sodain's sparring match.

Sodain moves with ease and skill blocking her a few time his arm and leg movements vanished from untrained eyes. Sodain just gradually kept the speed secretly increasing until Silvia would have to learn and master the shadow step just to keep up. In a way he also was teaching her how to perform the shadow step by this and focused on not letting her hit him.

Though Sodain did not watch where he was going eventually ending up in the koi pond dripping wet. He laughed and grinned. "Okay I think that is enough for today right now." He said as his stomach grumbled it was hungry again having spent a few hours sparring like that with Silvia. "Oh congratulations on using the shadow step for a solid 65 moves without breaking that state Silvia." Sodain said getting out of the water walking off from anyone closing his eyes fire whirled around him and then when it faded he was fully dry.

"Ahh gotta love to be able to do that." He said grinning watching Silvia look hardly worn out from the sparring match.

Her brother just blinked oddly and scratched his head. "Seems Silvia found a better teacher then you Mara." Not realizing he just might have upset her to get her to chase him.

Sodain bowed gentle and stretched a little. "Ah it's hard for me to find a good sparring partner... But you I think will be the one that fits sparring with me. I am glad you accepted my offer. And you are very welcome you see you was skipping an important step in the use of the shadow step. A desire or focus to keep and match my speed as I just slowly started using it until that was all you and I used. I bet you didn't realize you was using it either until I said something." He smirked a bit. "I gave you a challenge which since you didn't land a hit on a counting part of my body. That challenge will still be in effect but we will continue it tomorrow. Which means the next time I will also be on the offensive as well." He said smirking.

Silvia's brother did run from their older sister a look of dread fear on his face. "No way your a psycho if you get hold of me I will be in the hospital for 5 years.... AGAIN!" He said running as fast as he could to keep out of grasping range of Mara.

Sodain laughed a little watching them "Sadly I don't think they will ever stop that. Your brother seems to like the fact Mara will do that. Though it's not I am a better teacher. I seen your weak spot where you lacked the drive to keep it stable so I gave you that drive by challenging you. But I can say we will have a lot of fun sparring together. I bet there will come a time at top speed of both of us neither can land a hit on the other even if we sparred non stop for like 6 or more days. Though that might not be for a few years down the road." Sodain said grinning. "Of course you never know something might happen and you would get better then me and I be at my total max limitation for speed and strength and you might send me flying. Though since I got wings that would not exactly be a problem." He said laughing a little. "Shall we go raid the kitchen and get some rich super chocolatey chocolate cake?" Sodain asked sneakily.

"By the way Silvia what exactly did the shadows tell you to make you accept my offer as a sparring partner?" He also asked waiting to see if she wanted some sweets.

"huh uh no way no how! I won't stop until those safeguards activate!" He said running more and more.

Sodain rolled his eyes. Holding a hand out there was two barrier domes that popped up around both Mara and Jin. "You both stop it now!" Sodain said calmly walking up looking to the both of them. Putting his hands on his hips looking from one to the other. "He just made a statement as he seen it. I am not a better teacher, Though everyone has a different way to be taught that is different. Mara taught Silvia well, What I did was give her a focusing motivation to focus and be able to use the shadow step better. Silvia lacked focus and belief in her own abilities. Which I simply stirred up her motivation by challenging her. Which seemed like I did a better job teaching Silvia how to master the shadow step." Sodain said huffing.

"I merely challenged her to focus and drive her to use it while focusing on proving me wrong about her being able to land a hit upon me. And the faster I went the faster she went to match me to try getting a hit on me. You can teach anyone new tricks but getting them motivated to use use them is another matter entirely and you two are acting like 10 year olds. Sadly to say Silvia acts more grown up then both of you." Sodain said watching both of them.

Sodain started growling as he spoke casting a distortion illusion to make it look like he rapidly grew taller as the area around him as i shadows gathered around him spreading upward and outward from him making him look t10 feet taller then Mara and Jin. "Enough!" he said his dragon wings flaring out of his back. Showing his dragon blood. It was an intimidation technique all dragons could do.

"Jin may had started it but to him you make it fun for him to upset you to get him to chase you. Because you let the smallest thing he says get to you. And when he runs from you and you chase him your just as guilty. You make it easy for him to play your emotions to get what he sees as a fun reaction from you. Because of this it is easy for him to start things with you and by you saying that 'But he started it' line is the acting out of a 5 year old." sodain snapped then calmed down the distortion effect fading showing Sodain with a pair of wings out still. Even with Silvia's height again.

"Oh crap sis you angered a dragon in human form form." JJin said teasingly and Sodain shot him a look that made Jin jump and go stiff from fright.