In the forest of the inner area. There was a man moving with high speed through complex terrain and dense forest, climb and jump across the obstruction like wooden trunks with ease.
The man stopped when he saw a bug-creature which look like two-meter mantis in the way, hesitate for a moment before gripped his two-handed sword, and dashed like a bullet to the giant bug.
The mantis let out a high-pitch scream and swung its front legs that resembled a scythe, intended to cut this human into pieces. At that time, the man's speed increased dramatically. He turned in to a shadow and move like a flash, dodged the attack then slice the mantis's front legs into a piece, then slice it head in the middle.
The giant mantis didn't die in an instant. Since it was an insect it could live for a while although the head was destroyed. Seeing the dying mantis, the man doesn't interested in fighting it anymore so he just left it dying and continue his training.
"Do you see that?! I just kill that mantis like it is nothing!" Hoshi asked Saturn excitedly while running through the forest.
[It is really nothing, a holder like you can massacre the whole pack like it was nothing. But consider the fact that you just training for two weeks, yes, it is very impressive.]
It has been almost two weeks since he arrived the inner area. The first thing he trained wasn't how to use a sword, but how to properly use his body by running in the jungle and get through every obstacle. At first, it felt like hell, all of his muscles screamed in pain. But after he absorbs pure mana his body was getting stronger in an instantly made his training progressed rapidly. Then, after three days of running like a mad man, Saturn let him study sword art and time magic.
The sword he uses war a double-edged two-handed sword with about a one-meter blade. It could use by one hand or two hands according to the situation. The blades were made from high-quality steel by a renowned blacksmith. Since swords were one of the main weapons nowadays, the swordplays doesn't decline but on its peak. Even it made from normal materials, it could cut a creature's skin with ease.
As for the time magic, he doesn't have to put much effort into it so much, since Saturn already manage the power for him. He divided the time power into four types which are time wall, time rewind, time jump, and time froze.
Now, Hoshi can use only a time wall which makes him faster or makes the target slower, as for the other skills, he needs to improve his mana to a certain extent before unlocked other skills.
He felt that Saturn wants to make things hard for him at first for letting him use just one skill instead of all, but after Saturn let him know what the true time magic was, he becomes grateful. The raw power of time wasn't different from water in the ocean. Gigantic, wild, chaos. He can't even imagine how he could control such a great power so using a small amount of it prepared by Saturn before slowly practice the real power will be the best choice.
[Now it's almost two weeks, we already gather pure mana enough for two months. We should head back to your home and prepare for the entrance exam.] Saturn spoke. Even HUA mainly focused on fighting ability, it still had a writing test like other universities.
Then, they going back to Guizhou and told Mr. and Mrs. Amanogawa that he wants to enroll at the HUA exam. They were startled at first before the turn to join. Finally, their boys become a real man! They knew Hoshi's potential and they have been very concerned about his lack of ambition for a very long time! The MAA? Just forget it! Hoshi can learn by himself!
Seeing his parent's glee, Hoshi felt a little bit sad...did he was that bad in the past?
[Yeah, considering the fact you are genius bud didn't want to fight with the dragon...even girls are more manly than you]
'Shut up.'
.....
After that, two weeks passed quickly. Hoshi traveled to Qinghai to enroll in the examination and look at a giant steel gate with excitement. HUA has five major buildings contained tens of thousands of students from all over China, an arena with the half size of Colosseum, and three training grounds that imitate mountain, jungle, and desert terrain. One of these three was bigger than Hoshi's Japan's community, it could be imagined how big this university was.
Standing at the front gate, he looked around and saw innumerable peoples at the same age as him, many of them had their personal weapon and radiate the dangerous aura.
"But it's just two weeks left. Do you think I can do it?" Seeing this, Hoshi asked nervously. After all, he had been training just two weeks...no eleven days to be precise, so he felt confident when compared to the others that trained for many years to be the hunter.
[Don't worry, you're not inferior compared to them, having me is like having a cheat-system itself. Moreover, you are a genius. A true genius must believe they are genius]
'But I'm not!'
[You are, or else you couldn't finish training within ten days. But as you know, there are many examinees that still stronger than you] Saturn adds when he saw Hoshi's doubtfulness. [Relax, just do your best and you will eventually pass. Had I ever lied to you?]
"A couple of times."
[You...]
But before they started the quarrel, the voice rang through the loudspeaker, told them to go to the room according to the number before start the writing test. This writing test was easier than he thought, at least much more than MAA's.
It was already in the evening when they finish the writing test. The examinees must come I'm the next days to take the practice exam, which was the next two days for Hoshi.
[Alright, kiddo, prepare yourself.] Saturn said to him after he finished the test. [The next two days will be the first steps of the legend, your legend.]
"Hump, legend, huh?" Hoshi sighed. Looking at the sky "Who said I want that king of thing?"