Chapter 219: The Soul and the Inward Path
Inside the Room of Requirement, Cuthbert and Alex were still going at it with the training dummies.
Nearly a month in, and the results showed.
They could hold out for fifteen minutes now under a coordinated assault. A month ago, three minutes would have put them on their backs.
The cost was that every session ended the same way: flat on the floor, chests heaving, limbs refusing orders. Dead to the world in everything but breathing.
Young wizards bounced back fast, though. Two hours of training each night gave them time to collapse three or four times over.
Collapse, recover, get up, keep going.
Hermes trained on his own across the room. There was no point pairing him with those two. The gap in ability was too wide.
He'd taken Regulus's words from last time to heart. No more chasing the one-hit kill.
High-power dark magic paired with smaller spells. How to chain them. How to layer them. How to leave an opponent no room to breathe.