The Essentials of Combat. [Elyss/Magnolia/Open]

While Magnolia wasn’t brilliant when it came to deducing things about others, her intrinsic knowledge on body refinement, and conditioning was definitely top notch, something that had of course come from decades of self exploration, and discovery. Due to this aformentioned fact, it wasn’t particularly hard for magnolia to utilize that knowledge to watch for the minute tells an individual would typically have when they were nearing the limit of their physical capabilities; a faint grimace, persistent muscles twitches, perspiration. These things let Magnolia glean a feasible “range” of which the training would actually be effective. In this cause though, she decided to stop once Elyss started to exhibit these signs merely holding the pressure as it was.

”Magpie, aren’t you being a tad too spartan on the girl? You just beat her up, and now you’re straining her bruised and battered muscles further.”

Like always, her partner in crime, Raijin, weighed in. His rich and deep timbre rumbling in the forefront of her mindscape as she was slowly counting in her head backwards from one hundred. Each number spanned approximately two seconds, and she made sure to maintain the exact same amount of force during the entirety of the ordeal.

“ I set my expectations based on the amount of drive to improve I see. This girl wants to become strong, so why should I coddle her when there are more efficient avenues for her to gain reliable power? “

Magnolia responded dryly to Raijin, her eyes twinkling faintly as she exhaled slowly, allowing her strength to slowly abate, lowering it bit by bit rather than all at once so that elyss’s muscles wouldn’t lurch unexpectedly when the titanic force bearing down upon them just randomly vanished. As the strength pressing down on her lessened Magnolia’s words echoed softly right next to her ear, her tonation purely instructional.

”This is called horse stance. It will help you immensely with strengthening your core, your sense of balance, and your legs. We just did it for three-hundred breaths of time. I would recommend doing this stance each day with weights for this particular period of time. “

Magnolia then removed her hands from elyss’s shoulders. Her eyes studying the woman slowly before she asked in a soft tone.

”How are you feeling? Are you ready to do some stretches, or do you want to go into learning hakuda forms? “

Magnolia left it up to elyss if she wished to continue their training or leave it for another day. For now she waited for her students' answer.

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