A sword and shield(Ateis)

Basch was still in thought, the thoughts of this upcoming battle were swimming through his head. He wasn't sure how much of a difference was he going to make in this. Or rather if he was going to make out out at all, he had already signed himself to this cause. He didn't mind dying, if it was so that at least one person could be safe then he would gladly give his life away. It was what his mindset as a knight was telling him. That as long he protected the people of all worlds then he was doing good.

Then there was Ateis, he wanted to make her happy, so there was another part of him that was torn. He didn't want to die because it would sadden her. That was something that he didn't want to see. He didn't want to see tears on her face. It would just break his heart, he couldn't believe that he got attached already, that his own heart was chained to Ateis, whether the other saw it he didn't know. But he was not regretting this, none of it.

The sound of a whip resonate through his ears as he opened his eyes and pushed himself off  to look at Ateis, She was as beautiful as the come. However, right now was not the time to admire her beauty, right now he was focusing his mind to train. He wanted to be useful to Aties in anyway possible. He can debate later what he wanted to do.

"Have I got your attention~?"

"I believe you did Ateis." Basch nodded we walked towards her, ready to learn whatever she wanted to teach him. "I'm ready to start when you are."

"What would you like to learn? Physical attacks? Healing Spells? Strengthening spells? Take your pick I have all three in my arsenal, though I could do with mastering a few weakening or other elemental spells."

"I think out of the three I should start with healing spells. I am not the most adequate spellcaster to be honest. In fact I know only a couple of spells, so I don't know what I can teach you. There is also my Mist techniques that I should be able to teach you. They are not as hard of a technique to use and with your abilities I'm sure that you wouldn't feel any of the damage that it might cause if used wrong." Basch crossed his arms over his chest. "Though I can teach you the only two elemental spells I know, Fire and Aero. Those were the two that I could learn without backfiring."

Basch was a little embarrassed of his lack of knowledge in spell casting. He supposed he had to do with what he has. Maybe this is was a good idea learning from Ateis, she might be able to teach him a few new tricks, though he wasn't sure what he could teach her. In terms or strength and magic she had more Knowledge. He guessed he will find out soon enough.

Basch wasn't sure what to do if he was completely honest with himself. He really didn't have much to teach the Goddess of Light, at least nothing useful. She had eons of years ahead full of experience and knowledge, he was just a simple human who though strange occurrences became a champion of light. This didn't mean that he was backing out now, in fact he was willing to learn, he might be called experienced back in Dalmasca but here in this new world he had a lot to learn. In the human realm Omphalos, there were machines that he didn't know what they did. He had a lot of catching up to do.

He almost felt like a recruit once again, paying attention on the lesson that he was about to learn from Ateis. Basch's main weakness was the lack of Magical ability, he had none. He wasn't a good spellcaster at all. When he was with Ashe and the rest of the group he left the magicks usage to Penelo and the others because he knew that they were good at it. Give him any weapon and he will get accustomed to it. Tell him to cast a thunder spell and 9 times out of 10 he will hurt himself


"All right, then we'll start with something small. A basic cure spell should suffice then I can see for myself just how well you deal with magic. So."

"Aye," Basch nodded. He understood that he had to do some type of test to measure how much he knew about anything that the goddess of light wanted to know. "I understand we have to start out small. I'm ready when you are." Basch was expecting a few things but he wasn't expecting for Ateis to cut her hand, he watched as her hand started to bleed and how she extended her hand out. He looked between the flesh wound and the goddess.

"When you master this you won't even need to think, you'll be able to just intend it to do it's job and say the words. Now take my hand and slowly imagine the wound closing up."

Basch nodded as he took Ateis' hand as gently as he could.He looked at the wound and just tried to imagine using whatever magic he hand in him to close the wound. The wound was barely closing, he could feel his internal heat flowing into his hand as a pale green light began to glow in his hand. However that light was so pale that if one wasn't looking at it directly and focusing on it, one would think that they were seeing things.

"Keep your mind clear apart from that one image in your head, focus only on this task, your intentions pure. Then, when the time is right or you feel it's right gather your own energy, channel it to that image, channel it to the wound and simply say the words 'Cure'. It may take a few tries to get it but I have faith that you'll get the hang of it."

"Cure..." Basch muttered, his focus was directly at the wound, every other thought in his mind was slowly being faded out. All that there was for him was Ateis' wound and himself. The pale-green light that had been wavering started to get stronger and the wound was starting to close. Basch closed his eyes when he did the light was starting to fade away half way over the cure's effect. 'Need to focus'

The wound was half way of being fully closed when the light faded away and Basch opened his eyes. He lost concentration, just for a second he lost concentration and the spell went away. Basch looked at Ateis with a apologetic look on his face before focusing back to find that focus he had before he lost it that one second. "Cure..." he repeated once again, letting everything go. Anyone who was looking at this would think that he was trying too much for a simple cure spell. The problem was that it had to take him all of his concentration to learn how to use a spell. After he learned the feeling of the spell he could use it more easily but it took him awhile. After a couple of attempts Basch finally closed the wound. "How is it, is it fully closed?"