"You must be Mei Mahau, first and last warning. Never show up late again." Balthazar commands, glaring at Mei then focuses his attention on the group once more.
"I'm going to pair you guys up, Dark, Kyo and Jade will be training partners, this will benefit you three very well, that lazy kid Kyo isn't here today, so make sure you tell him about this later on Dark.
Dark gives a nod understanding his instructions and looks over at Jade.
"Ashlynn and Aphrodite will be partners, then finally Mei and Jacob."
"You will train your hardest with your partner, get to know their strengths, weaknesses, their personalities. I paired you up cause you each have a flaw that the other one covers up, from your elementals in black magic, to how you use your telekinesis and telepathy, now then I'll give you each your training assignments."
Several hours have passed as the group practiced training, Dark and Jade were assigned only concentrating on using their dark magic for the first hour, then one would go on the offensive and the other on the defense. Reinforcing their barriers, and creating more options they can use with dark magic. The training seem to go pretty well, until they had to use their fire and water elements against one another. It seemed to be a stalemate at first, until Balthazar explained that they are missing the point of the training, that they are only using one stage of their magic, if they want a stronger attack they'll need to form than just a wave of water or a stream of fire, but to increase the pressure if they want to pierce through objects. There will be times where their dark magic will be ineffective and they can't always rely on it, he pointed that out when Ivy got defeated by Bastet, or when Dark's attack in the warehouse had no effect to Ozymandias, Realizing what they did wrong, they try again and nail it. Jade's water magic piercing through the wall of the gym, and Dark melting through the other side with his fire magic.
Aphrodite and Ashlynn were assigned to use their telepathy to sharpen their senses, and realize their surrounding. To do this, they were blindfolded, and for reinforcement masked with dark magic.They were sent outside in the Gardens to find one another, and to see if they can figure out if anyone else is around them without bumping into them.
"Damn it, where is she?"
Mei and Jacob were assigned white magic training, Mei explained that she hardly uses it, and Balthazar responding with "No shit." explained that it's important to use all style of magic you were inherited with, regardless of it not being your primary, and for Jacob's case he needs to show a better a defense with his magic, he's in the military and he only hid his magic, instead of using it cleverly to help reflect the bullets that came at his squad, and make it seem like divine intervention happen among them, if he had thought about that, he would still have both legs.
"Never be ashamed of who you are, even if their is a point of hiding it, you loss more than they did. You got a purple heart and discharged, where is the honor in hiding and trying to be one of them? The way I see it, they covered their asses for allowing a wanderer in their unit. This isn't the first time something like has happened, talk with Mortar in the Slums he has many war stories."
With that, Balthazar brought in students from the hospital wing that injured themselves in black mage classes.
"Focus on healing them in a large group, Jacob, Mei, go to the other group and heal them one by one. Focus on speed and precision."