Because of the incident last night Syden couldn't get enough sleep after arriving at the house, now he had dark circles near his eyes. Opposite to him, Alex was in his optimal condition because of being a tier 4 swordsman.
"Hey, kid, I haven't asked this before but what did you want to become?" said Alex
"warrior mage" replied while practicing his posture
"Hmm, you are good at sword but I don't know about your magical training."
"What type of spells can you do now?" Alex asked while thinking about Syden path of choice
"I can only do magic barrier, mana shot, and psychical enhancement"
"That's some good news"
"Teacher, I want to ask a question.."
"ho, first time hearing that from you. Tell me what do you want to know?"
"I...If I became a spatial mage what will you do then?"
At this question, Alex tried to laugh as such questions concerned many children, but after seeing the look in his eyes. Alex also got serious.
"Hmm, it will become to teach you..."
Syden was about to say that he couldn't receive Alex's teachings but a voice cut through his thoughts.
"And it will be difficult to advance but I will not abandon you only because of that reason."
Syden who has never felt such kindness from another person just smiled at his teacher's words.
"Then, don't be surprised," said Syden
From his mana core came out the domain which filled the area within a certain space with a purple tint.
Alex couldn't hide his astonishment after seeing a domain but he more so because of the color of the domain.
It took some time for him clear his mind and after seeing Syden's worried face he started laughing.
"Brat, you never cease to surprise me"
"Don't know if I die from old age or not but I will surely die from your surprises" while laughing he added
"It is good that you have a domain and even know how to control it."
"How do you know that I know how to control?"
"Cause you were able to take it in and out of your body"
"don't think your teacher is a fool" said Alex while flicking his head
After telling a general amount of information about his domain, Syden started to train again with his sword. Every day he did sword and body training while doing the mana training at the time of medicinal baths to save time. His progress was good as he used his domain to gather mana instead of using mana stone to advance. It was advised to use natural mana to break through from a tier as it made a solid foundation for the person and only collected pure mana. In the case of mana stones, they had many impurities which also got absorbed in the body.
'I wonder what will teacher teach me tomorrow'
Alex had told Syden to keep doing physical training for acquiring a well-trained body to learn the sword art. Even in his previous life, Syden didn't hear about sword arts that could train your body past human limits with only exposure to mana while practicing it. Syden was excited and nervous at the same time as he hadn't seen a training method like that and didn't know if he could do it. It's been 3 months since then and now Syden had a good body while his mana core was at the late novice stage.
While arriving inside the training center and greeting his teacher. Alex instructed him to stand 3 meters away from him and to see every moment carefully. Alex stood a meter away from a human dummy made of iron. Alex put his left leg horizontally and created a gap of an arm's length between his feet while stomping his feet. As soon as his feet touched the ground, the thumb of his left hand pushed the blade from its sheath, and pulling his right hand with the hilt of the sword, his front body was bent towards the ground. After Alex took a deep breath, a sharp noise was heard and a diagonal cut was made in the dummy. The astonishing thing was that Syden couldn't see the blade moving and only heard the sound made by it. Even after applying mana on his eyes, Syden couldn't see his teacher's movement.
With smug on his face Alex asked, "So, how was it?"
"What do you mean 'how was it, I couldn't even see the movements. Couldn't you have done it in slow motion?" said Syden.
"Ah, sorry, my bad"
"But do you know that I didn't apply mana onto my sword"
"That was solely my psychical strength," said Alex while again making a smug face
"So, now I will introduce you to the Sword art known as ' '"
"What you saw now was the first move of this sword art. Explosive Quickdraw "
"In this move, you take the same posture as me and concentrate your mana on the tip of the sword. This makes a pushing force inside the sheath and gives immense power but it puts immense tension on your both arms"
"To start training this you first you have to stand in the same way every day to the limits while using the breathing technique and after doing this for a week I will train you how to pour mana into the blade and concentrate it in a fixed place"
"Now let's start with the training!" Alex said in a happy voice while hiding his laugh
After standing in the same posture and using the breathing technique his teacher gave without moving an inch, Syden now understood how difficult and painful it is to train these moves. Every muscle of his body was in pain after standing in that same position. After standing for 10 more minutes, Syden couldn't take it anymore and fell to the ground. Walking towards him, Alex was surprised to see Syden holding out for so long. While giving him some support and placing him on a chair, Alex sighed as he grasped the situation that Syden was holding on to that stance only because of his willpower.
Admiring and being proud of his student a new flame lit deep in his heart. Now, Alex also wanted to give his best to raise his student and to not lag behind and be a role model for him.