The Ultimate Fire Master of Avatar

Chapter 224 Cora Wants to Become Stronger

"Ha ha--!"

Cora rested her hands on her knees, panting heavily, completely exhausted.

After calming down a bit, she said to Kahn incredulously:

"How can you be so good at dodging?!"

Although it was supposed to be a friendly exchange, for some reason, Kahn became increasingly perfunctory as the match progressed, even showing signs of distraction and being quite absent-minded.

This was an absolute insult to Cora, who was fighting him, so she attacked even more fiercely, hoping to take this opportunity to teach Kahn a lesson.

However, it was of no use.

Even when he was absent-minded and daydreaming, Kahn was still able to dodge all her attacks with ease. No matter what kind of magic she used or what kind of attack she made, she couldn't even touch the hem of his clothes.

After a round of intense attacks, Kahn still looked deep in thought, while she herself was exhausted.

Is this even human?!

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However, Kahn did not answer Cora's question, because, as Cora could see, he was indeed lost in thought.

Most of the time, unless it's a particularly critical situation, he has a smile on his face.

But this time, during his sparring session with Cora, his smile gradually disappeared, and he eventually even began to doubt himself.

Was he too strong, or was Cora too weak?

Although he never thought that Cora could rival him now, he also never thought that Cora's strength would be so weak.

He then fell into deep thought:

Why is Cora so weak?

First, let's talk about the art of control.

Aside from the Qi Manipulation Technique, which she hasn't mastered yet, Cora has been practicing the other three techniques since childhood, so theoretically she should have a good grasp of them.

But the truth is quite the opposite. At least judging from the level that Cora displayed in this exchange, by his standards, not a single one of his opponents was presentable.

As for his standards?

Of course, it's at the level of a grandmaster.

Don't think this is making things difficult for him. In fact, given Avatar's talent, having been exposed to and practicing flying magic since he was three or four years old, he would have had enough time to reach the level of a master in flying magic by the age of sixteen.

However, if you learn three techniques simultaneously.

Judging from Cora's case, even Avatar would find it difficult to master all three of the Avatar techniques simultaneously, and would instead be more likely to become mediocre at everything.

Moreover, unlike An Ang's fighting style, which relies on Qi manipulation as the main technique and supplemented by other Qi manipulation techniques, Cora's three Qi manipulation techniques do not have a primary or secondary distinction. She likes to use the three Qi manipulation techniques in rotation, just like playing with permutations and combinations.

Of course, he didn't think Cora's fighting style was bad, but rather that Cora hadn't used it well.

If Kora's fighting style is used well, it involves the superposition of the advantages and the complementarity of the disadvantages of various defensive techniques, making her attacks and defenses unpredictable and difficult to deal with, achieving an effect of 1+1>2.

The Avatar in its Supernatural Mode is the pinnacle of this fighting style.

However, if used improperly, the advantages will cancel each other out, the disadvantages will accumulate, and there will be many loopholes in both attack and defense, resulting in a tragedy where 1+1<1.

Unfortunately, Cora was the latter.

To put it bluntly, given Cora's current skill level, if she were to face An Ang, who also possesses three types of magic control, she would likely be utterly crushed by him.

Interestingly, although Cora used all three spells in rotation, Kahn still keenly noticed that among the three spells, fire spell was the one Cora used most frequently.

Is it possible that a water-type being's incarnation ability is most fond of using fire manipulation techniques?

There's a touch of humor in it.

Getting back to the main point, Kahn believed that the cause of this tragedy was Cora's poor mastery of the three magic arts.

For Cora's fighting style to truly unleash its power, she would need to have a master-level understanding of each of her defensive techniques.

But before that, Cora was just a pitifully weak little chicken.

In Kahn's view, if Avatar wants to maximize its normal combat power, the best choice should be to specialize in one control technique in the early stage, use one control technique as the main technique and others as supplementary techniques in the mid-stage, and then use four control techniques freely like Korra does now in the late stage.

From a high emotional intelligence perspective, Korra's understanding of combat has surpassed the current version;

In terms of low emotional intelligence, Cora is all talk and no action; she took too big a step and ended up hurting herself.

He had already promised Cora to help her improve her strength, so naturally he wouldn't break his promise. Now that the reason why Cora's strength was so weak had been found, the next thing to think about was how to solve it.

The answer to this is actually quite obvious.

After a long period of contemplation, Kahn finally spoke:

"Kora, let me ask you first, what's your favorite magic control technique?"

"Favorite"

Cora pondered for a moment. Of the three types of manipulation techniques she possessed, water manipulation was the one she considered to be the most proficient in, but if she had to choose her favorite, she would say...

"It's probably fire control magic?"

Cora answered somewhat uncertainly.

"Perfect, then let's use the fire control technique."

However, Kahn stood by her and laughed, saying:

"I have some ideas on how to improve your skills, but it requires you to make some changes. Are you willing?"

"no problem!"

Cora replied without hesitation that as long as she could improve her strength as quickly as possible, everything else was secondary to her.

"Alright then."

Kahn nodded and smiled:

"From now on, I will begin teaching you fire manipulation techniques, and during this period, you can only use fire manipulation techniques in combat. Can you accept that?"

"what?"

Cora was somewhat dumbfounded, wondering why Kahn would make such a request. Then, she weakly said:

"But my position in the Fire Sable team is Water Master, so..."

Kahn then remembered this matter and could only change his words:

"So, aside from matches, you can only use fire manipulation in combat? Is that alright?"

"Okay, I agree!"

Cora gritted her teeth and agreed, then asked curiously:

"But why do it this way?"

Kahn glanced at her indifferently and said:

"Because your current skill level in magic control is too low, the only way to improve your strength is to first raise the level of one of your magic control techniques."

"I!"

Cora instinctively wanted to retort, but when she thought of the scene of sparring with Kahn just now, she reluctantly shut her mouth.

They've been abused like that, what else is there to say?

Seeing this, Kahn said again:

"It's alright, just say so if you have any questions. I'm different from Tenzin. If we have any disagreements, we can decide whose opinion to follow in a fair manner."

"What fair way?"

Kahn grinned and said:

"duel."

Cora rolled her eyes at him, exasperated.

What a fair argument!

But there was nothing she could do; she needed their help now, so even with such a heartless teacher, she had no choice but to accept it.

I'll teach you a lesson once I've mastered my skills.

Cora thought optimistically.

On the other side, Kahn gradually realized something was wrong. How did he become Avatar's teacher again?

Banyan tree, is this your purpose?

Do you really think I'm some kind of genius like Kahn?!

(End of this chapter)