"Huh, I guess I am completely exhausted, aren't I?"
I had to catch a few breathes and tried to regulate my breath to calm my body down. I trained for a little more than 10 minutes without taking any breaks in between, which really exhausted me.
"Well I guess that's to be expected, after all I only came to this world yesterday, I guess I should be able to see if my body really changed after training a lot more."
I didn't magically get super strong, nor did I just grasp how to fight in these 10 minutes, but that wasn't necessarily bad at all, nor did I really expect it.
Well, I guess I did do a bit better than I would've done in my previous world. And that's just because I now have a goal. Because now I really have the ability to get stronger.
Although I don't know for sure if it really is possible to get stronger just by training a lot I would still be able to progress, because at least I now had a goal.
I didn't really focus on trying to get strong in my past world. I was just too young and my body couldn't keep up, even if I wanted to, so I decided to just take my time to learn things and also wasted a lot of time, which thinking about it right now was really not too smart.
I could've taken my time to learn martial arts, or learn about the different kinds of weapons, which had been used throughout history, but well at least I didn't completely waste my time and through reading novel I learned a few things, which could now really benefit me.
But still I wasted a lot of time I could've used to get stronger of get more knowledgeable.
"But now!"
Now even if I'm going to have to go through extreme pain to get stronger, I would still do it.
I don't really care as long as I could get stronger, I mean I know it has to be possible after all how could a peaceful village like the one I found exists if there are beasts like dragons, who are easily able to burn down a village like that.
There has to be a way, or else humans would probably go extinct, with way stronger predators around. So it only makes sense to believe that it's in fact possible to get strong, even as a human.
Now that my body was slowly returning back to it's normal state I started to walk around for a bit and then I saw a hill next to the path I had been travelling on.
"Hmm, why don't I just explore the forest a bit let's see the view from on top."
I climbed up the hill, which wasn't too difficult and when I got to the top I sat down and looked down, which caused me to once again get reminded that this is a completely different world.
"This is really nothing like my previous world... So beautiful."
The view from on top was incredible, the sun was shining through the leaves of the trees above me and I could look at untouched nature, so beautiful I unwillingly began to smile at the sight of it.
I could see a few shadows of animals rush through the wilderness a few hundred meters away.
I could hear the birds around me chirping as they were happily flying around the forest singing their beautiful songs.
The leaves that were all around me, at the branches of the trees surrounding me or lying on the ground all had a pleasant green like they themselves were at peace with their life and wouldn't be able to be happier.
I sat there for a few minutes looking at the beautiful nature all around, which I never really had the chance to experience and when I stood up my body was completely rested.
I felt a bit hungry and thirsty, but I still had enough time, so I began to make my way down to the path I came from and once again started to train myself in the art of the sword.
After every swing with my branch I noticed that I could swing it differently to perfect it, or change my angle slightly while swinging to block a strike or confuse the enemy. My swings lacked speed strength and experience.
But that didn't really demotivated me, but rather the opposite, it was actually really nice.
Why?
Because I felt that everytime I noticed a flaw in my "Swordsmanship" I could concentrate myself on that one thing making it more effective than before. Adjusting the speed, the placement of my feet, the flow, the weaknesses. I felt like I could improve so much, it was incredible.
"But now that's a problem."
Sweat was running down my whole body as I was standing in front of an obstacle I didn't really now a definite way to solve.
Normally I can correct a flaw if I just try to adjust my speed, my movement or a lot of other tiny things, but those things were essential if I wanted to win against opponents at my level or an even higher level.
But, when trying to slash from the bottom to the top to block an opponents attack from behind I noticed that however fast I tried to move in my head I would always be dead, because I was too slow. Something disregarding raw technique something like speed or strength is a huge problem.
It should be fairly obvious that it's not easy to get faster than before or get stronger in a short amount of time. Against one opponent, maybe even a bit stronger and older than me I think I could win after training my body and technique for a few more days or weeks.
But what do I do against multiple opponents who actually take me on for real. Of course it depends on the exact situation, but if we have the same equipment, then even if they are a lot weaker than me, I would probably still lose.
And the cause of this is almost for sure not being able to have any real defensive techniques, but I don't want to focus on defense all that much. Why?
"Just defending is really boring."
When I came to this world I wanted to get strong, I wanted to win against my opponent by using my skill, my body and my smarts to overpower the opponent and win. But you don't necessarily need defense, there's another way.
Defense is not bad at all as long as you implement it into your swordsmanship, giving you the opportunity to counterattack using your defense and turning it into offense.
But there's another way, which you can win a fight almost certainly without even really needing to make use of defense.
"Speed!"
If I were faster than the opponent than the chance of winning is automatically substantially higher than If I were for example just physically stronger than my opponent.
In my opinion speed is the most important thing in fight. Well it depends on how much faster than your opponent you actually are, but as long as you are for example 2 times as fast as your opponent it's almost certainly a loss, but you can still get around that difference in speed if you're an experienced fighter.
It's because you don't necessarily need to swing your blade at the fastest speed possible, you need to swing it at the exact right speed for the current situation. But what if you are two, three, four or even one hundred times faster than your opponent.
He couldn't even see your movements at a certain point and with an exceptionally good weapon, which boosts your attack power it would be almost impossible to win against you, even if you are extremely weak physically.
"But that's exactly the problem."
I need a method to train my body to be faster to actually be able to make use of that advantage.
And that exactly was my biggest problem with my previous world. It was that there was a limit to your strength, a barrier you couldn't overcome no matter how hard you tried, but in this world it seems like something like a barrier is either a lot higher set or just not there at all.
"I never even tried to really get stronger previously. All because of this limit I had placed onto me..."
"But now-"
"I may not have this limit anymore."