Runemaster in the Last Days

Samuel looked at his younger sister and shook his head. "You have good talent for practicing, but you're too lazy."

"Who in their right mind would start practicing when they're about to turn 22 years old?" Amelia looked at her older brother in annoyance.

She's a few months younger than Riya who was already 22 years old a few months ago. 

"Focus on gathering your aura and swung your sword. I'll be supervising your practice."

"But…"

"Your dormitory is a good place to practice. If you practice here, you will be able to reach Magic Rank 1 in a week's time with the meditation." Samuel looked at his younger sister helplessly.

Even if she was too lazy to keep up with the physical strength training, can't she keep up with the meditation? It was much more easier for his soft sister. 

"I tried but I always fall asleep in half an hour." Amelia pouted.

Meditation is very boring.

Without enough perseverance, it was impossible for them to finish the practice properly. As a proper generation who had extremely short attention time due to various interruption around her, Amelia couldn't meditate normally.

She would either feel sleepy or tempted to go and checked her phone for messages from her friends.

Asking her to stay calm for two hours and meditate?

It was extremely difficult.

Samuel looked at his younger sister and had the urge to beat her up. "Go and practice or you will only eat rice and salt later."

Amelia looked at her brother in disbelief. "Brother!"

"Start."

"Ugh…"

…

From the room, Riya could faintly hear their conversation. A magician's sense was heightened and the walls in this room was not exactly thick.

She was almost reaching Magic Rank 2 after being holed up in this room and practicing for a long period of time. The fact that the mana around had increased due to the mist also helped a lot.

'So their first stage is also gather the aura and mana into the body, huh?'

Riya listened and shook her head.

Magic Warrior had to practice the sword's movement or other weapons of their selection and be able to understand it. Those with good talent would be able to see through the essence of a move within 12 hours' time. Even if they couldn't see through it, they would have some ideas at the very least.

While Riya was able to follow the sword's movement, she had no idea at all about what the swords' movement represent. For her, it was nothing more than dull movements of cutting, which was quite similar with the other martial arts.

That was when she found out that she had no talents at all for swords and some other weapons.

In fact, she was not suitable for most of the aura meditating ways because of her unique way of understanding.

It took her a while before she could find a suitable method of magic meditation.

The earlier stage was quite similar with the others, but Riya's focus was not how to use the mana in a battle.

Instead, she used the mana to strengthen her body and to create various tools useful for her.

In a way, it was quite similar to how warrior would use aura to strengthen their body.

But she was using mana.

In the beginning, she didn't know the difference between these two energies if not for the teachers back then to explain her until she felt her ear was about to fall out. The aura is more like their own accumulation of energy while mana is the energy from nature.

It was the short version based on her understanding. 

The real one has extremely long explanation that Riya didn't fully understand either.