Mars flew across the cave and was once again embedded into the wall, but he quickly dug himself out and gave a sigh before he spoke

"ouch... mother you really don't know how to hold back do you?"

"hmm..? did you say something Mars?"

"...no"

"oh it's just I thought I heard a dog whine, must be my age"

Mars' face cramped slightly this new mother of his really didn't know how to hold back

"well if you're tired, let's go on to the next part come here Mars"

Mars walked over slightly on guard, who knew what the so called next part was and what kind of 'training' was part of it?

"I'm ready"

"good, then hit me"

"....sure"

Mars took a stance and raised his arms with his feet slightly apart and his left foot slightly behind the right one, or in other words a traditional boxer stance before he sent out a jab targeting his mother's chin with lightning speed

*BANG*

"what...?"

what had looked like normal skin had transformed into bright red scales, but that was not what surprised Mars, the force of his punch had completely dispersed, but before he had a chance to figure out anything his mother spoke

"good now it's your turn"

"wait a moment please mother, can't you at least tell me what you did first?"

Mars' mother gave a sigh before she spoke

"I simply activated the scales... so far your scales have been inactive, now you have to activate them so they become shock absorbent"

"...and how do I do that?"

"I don't know"

"..."

"don't look at me like that... I really don't, n.o.body taught me this"

"so how am I supposed to figure it out?"

"...well you'll just have to figure it out by feeling I guess?"

"then I need to punch you again, you know just to better figure it out"

"...fine"

Mars gave a sigh and once again took a stance and punched out, this time all his feeling was on his knuckles and as they made contact with his mother's jaw he faintly felt something and quickly pulled his hand back as he fell into deep thought before he looked up at his mother and gave a nod

"try to punch me now"

"sure"

*BANG*

Mars was once again sent flying but when he dug himself out of the wall he had a smile on his face

"I figured it out mother"

"oh really?"

"yeah its vibrations that's the key"

"vibrations?"

"yeah by vibrating the scales in a specific way you eliminate the incoming force"

his mother gave a nod

"I see then why didn't you do it before?"

"I did, look I was not knocked very deeply into the wall this time"

"oh... well I expected nothing less from my Mars"

Mars looked at his mother gloating and gave a sigh before he walked over and stood in front of her again

"one more time mother"

"okay here we go"

*BANG*

time pa.s.sed in this way and soon about a day pa.s.sed, Mars stood in front of his mother that punched him again and again, but let alone being sent flying Mars didn't even take a step back as he took the punches

"I think we can move on to the next thing now mother"

"yeah I'm getting tired of punching you... I mean it was kind of fun when you went flying every time but now it's just boring..."

Mars' face once again cramped slightly this mother of his really was...

'well whatever...'

Mars gave a sigh while his mother was in deep thought and mumbled

"hmm... then let's go with your claws next..."

"my claws?"

"yes, try to use them"

"okay...?"

Mars transformed his hands and quickly his claws grew out to about 15 centimeters in length

"good, now watch closely..."

his mother also grew out her claws which also was about 15 centimeters in length, suddenly they began glowing slightly and Mars felt an immense amount of heat being given off from his mother's claws, but was a little confused about what good having slightly hot claws could do

"....that looks neat?"

his mother gave a wry smile and shook her head and said

"this is merely the first level, try it for yourself"

"sure..."

Mars closed his eyes and focused on his claws and soon his claws also began glowing slightly while they heated up quickly

"good Mars, this is the first level known as ember, now you need to light the 'fire' with those embers in order to reach the next level"

"light... the fire?"

"you should be able to feel it"

"..."

Mars focused on his claws but even after a long time he was unable to feel the so called 'fire' his mother was talking about, at this moment it looked like his mother suddenly remembered something and quickly said

"while the embers is in your claws the real fire is lit within you bones"

"within my.... bones?"

"yes try to feel it"

Mars felt quiet as he tried to light the so called fire for sometime it was not until he was about to give up that he suddenly felt something

'is this... my marrow?'

Mars then tired to transfer some of the heat from his claws to his bone marrow and suddenly it was like a fire was lit in his bones as his heartbeat suddenly speed up and the surrounding seemed to slow down by a lot before suddenly he felt a bone spitting pain as the world around him returned to normal, just as he was about to ask his mother if this was it she spoke before he could

"you lasted 6 seconds.... that's pretty bad, again"

Mars gave a sigh and tried to ignite his bone marrow again, and thus time pa.s.sed bit by bit as the time Mars could stay 'alight' gradually increased over time...

A whole week later Mars laid on the cave floor and slept, suddenly he opened his eyes and sat up and looked around right in front of him where the lesser fire dragon that had its head down on the cave floor while it looked at him with interest

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"...what is it?"

the lesser fire dragon rolled around so it lay on its back while it still stared at Mars, it also plopped out its split tongue at the side of its mouth

'....are you a dog or are you a mighty dragon?'

Mars walked over and patted the lesser fire dragon on its nose while he asked his mother

"why is he here anyway?"

"well because hes my child"

"so he's my little brother?"

"you could say that... anyways he's only 600 years old so he isn't very mature yet"

"...I see"

"well anyways, come here Mars"

"yes mother"

Mars walked over and stood in front of his mother and waited for her command

"ignite your bones"

"yes mother"

Mars did as he was asked and ignited his bone marrow and about 2 minutes later he felt the rebound and was forced to stop

"2 minutes.... that's good enough for now"

"so are we moving on to the next part?"

"yes... you have 1 day to bring me 3 magic beasts cores from magic beasts over cla.s.s 10"

"....sure"

"and you are only allowed to use your claws to hunt them"

"...seriously?"

"yes so leave your swords behind"

"...yes mother, by the way what happens if I fail?"

"then you don't have to come back"

"...I see"

Mars gave a sigh, this mother of his really was spartan, his mother then tilted her head to the side and asked

"what are you waiting for Mars time's ticking"

"...right then I'll be right back mother"

"see you Mars"

Mars turned and left the cave and breathed in the fresh jungle air before he narrowed his eyes and looked around for a bit before he kicked off the ground and began running into the jungle, then he began thinking while the jungle sipped by

'still to hunt 3 magic beasts over cla.s.s 10 in less than 24 hours should be doable... the only thing is I don't have Victoria with me so I can't rely on her superior senses...let's just hope I don't run into another scale boar...'

Mars then activated his energy sense and began hunting, but alas, out of the 14 magic beast he found during the first 4 hours none of them were over cla.s.s 10, with the closet being cla.s.s 9 like Victoria, Mars gave a sigh as he absorbed the energy from the last core and looked around

'this isn't working... but I don't know what else to do...'

Mars had kept himself to the center of the island and circled almost half his mothers territory looking for high cla.s.s magic beasts, just as Mars was about to give up hope he felt something watching him and quickly transformed his hands and struck out with his claws

*CLANG*

Mars just managed to repel the sneak attack as a smile formed on his face

"bingo!"

then Mars activated [Instant movement] and appeared in front of a random tree before he struck out with his claws and when he did the feeling of tearing flesh transferred up his arm as a steel chameleon suddenly became visible as it let out its dying breath and fell down the tree

"that's one down, two to go!"