"Is that why it felt weird to hold?" Bell asked shocked.
"No that's because the sword is too big for your sy body. Sure you could use it as it is but you doly strike me as the sort to use a sword that size. How about I turn it into a shortsword and a dagger and you try it out then?" I suggested and he looked fused but nodded.
Grabbing the sword I covered it in cursed energy "Hells fe!" I activated my cursed teique. Under bells awestruck eyes the sword began to thin as metal flowed like it was alive away from the bde and into my left hand and then into the shape of a ka-bar dagger. The work was shoddy though siraded precision feneral shape transformation. It was an easy fix though as I downed a potion and waited till I refilled my energy to sharpen and pretty up the bdes. I didn't like how they didn't look the same though and ged the sword inter longer version of the ka-bar knife. For extra effect I darkened both bdes and the final result was two dull grey bdes with a thick spine and single sharp edge.-
"Try them out." I said tossing the bdes to Bell who wisely chose to avoid them rather than catch them.
He tentatively picked up the dagger with his left hand and then the sword with his right hand and took a few swings with both of them. His form was dreadful though as his grip was way too tight and his wrist was bent. Not to mention that his stance was ent and he had no power behind his swings as a result.
"I take it you like them then. Those are yours now sihey were wasted in my hands anyways and you'll need a on. Before that though I'm going to beat you into shape so you don't waste my work and die early." I said with a grin.
Bell just tilted his head in fusion but I didn't expin since he would find out tomorrow. Oh I was going to go all sorts of drill instructor on the poor fellow. I'm talking ps, pushups, ches, shadow boxing and maybe even light sparring to get him used to hostile tact. And thanks to the rge amount of potions i grabbed he'll have a nice obstacle course as well.
"That was magic right?" Bell asked once I finished making a figurihat was ahis time in robes with feathered wings.
"ly, that was my cursed teique "hell's fe". I actually 't use magic due to my skill and instead I have cursed energy and this is my ieique. Lets me refiransform and shape anything that came from a living sourcluding something still alive. I am quite happy with it so far as it has many uses both in and out of bat but right now my greatest use for it is that I craft wonderful things with it like this figurine. Did you know that these things sell for thousands of valis each? Quite the demand for them from what i'm told." I expined proudly.
" I learn how to do that too?" Bell asked eagerly.
"Afraid not, this isn't the sort of thing that be taught. More likely than not you'll just get a spell of some sort in time." I said holy.
Bell looked sad about it but got over it quiough ao messing with his neons. Hestia got home and we all ate befoing to bed again though there was a funny versation where she got all embarrassed about sleeping in the same bed as me like she didn't wake up everyday using me as a body pillardless of our previous sleeping arras. The m Hestia left for her food stall but Bell and I stayed behind. I used a few potions to turn some nearby broken furniture pieces into obstacles around the churd then I made Bell run the course until he dropped.-
I let him rest for a while to catch his breath before making him give me pushups until he couldn't anymore. Then for the final touch I had him do ches till it hurt to breath.
"Fantastic effort Bell , now pick yourself up and take a stance so ar." I said with a smile that must have made me seem like the devil in the boys eyes.
"But I hurt all over and my hands are shaking!" he pined but I was having none of that as I popped the cork of a healing potion and stuffed it in his mouth f him to down it.
"Problem solved now get up and take a stance." I said still smiling.
Hours ter Hestia came home again only to find Bell passed out and me w on my new bracers that were strapped to my arm with kobold hide.
"What happened!?" she excimed in horror as she went to go che Bell.
"Nothing to worry about, I just trained him a bit. On a reted note you might want to update him since his endurance likely grew by a lot." I said casually while using my teique to smooth out my bracers and remove the rough edges.
The two bracers were simple long dark colored pieaterial that covered my forearms and were held tightly ih the reshaped and refined kobold hide I brought from the dungeoerday. Getting the rough shape was not all that expe w out the unfortable h parts took much more energy. I fihem up about the same time Hestia finished updating Bell and just smiled at the dirty look she gave me after she saw the jump in the enduraat he got, all the way to fifty seven in one day.
Okay so admittedly I might have gone a little too hard on the kid but in my defe was for his own good. To be hohough Bell had a knack for quick learning as he absorbed what little I could show him like a sponge. Like I had mentioned previously I did try and learn how to use a sword properly ba earth and though I failed that didn't mean I didn't retain some of that knowledge. It was just the basics though such as grip and footwork but for a total amateur like Bell it erfect.-
Still i had already told the boy what his training pattern until he raised his physical stats to G rank would be and he begrudgingly agreed. It retty much just a scaled down version of what I put him through today with the sparriween us in the evenings when I get back from the dungeon. I was even going to be so kind as to grab some killer ant carapaces and kobold hides to make into armor for him so he would be better prepared when he finally got into the dungeon.
