" Young master! Are you ready for the training schedule? " said Leon with an evil smile on his smug face.
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" I am, let's get this over with. "
" Excellent, let's have a light spar first. I heard you recently went to the skill manual hall, mind sharing what you've learned? " Leon asked.
" Alright, I have been itching to test this sword technique I've learned. Please do give me feedback on it. " I said with a grin.
I saw Leon pull out the practice sword, so I pulled out mine as well. I gripped it tight, knowing a small bit of Leon's strength from the spar to that measured my baseline.
" Come! " Leon shouted.
I gritted my teeth and placed all the strength I have onto my foot, then springing towards Leon like a bullet that has been shot.
HUP!
I swung my sword from above. As Leon went for a block with his sword, the sword technique shined through with its glory. The downward slash quickly maneuvered into a right swing.
" Hmm.. that's an interesting technique you got there. " said Leon looking as if he was trying to comprehend what I did.
SHING!
Leon countered, sliding my sword right off his side as if it was nothing.
" Nice try, but a sword technique isn't everything. " said Leon.
I concentrated as hard as I could and mustered every single neuron in my brain to execute the Myriad Illusion Sword Dance Technique.
My body turned loose and relaxed as it is a fundamental requirement to use the technique.
I let out a quick burst of mana through my opened mana veins and reinforced my muscles and bones with mana.
Afterward, Leon dashed to me and tried to go for a thrust, which was quickly avoided by me as the sword technique comes with defensive styles as well.
Both of us let out a barrage of attacks, I was holding off pretty well with the new sword technique. Each strike of mine consistently turned into multiple slashes as the technique uses faints to confuse the anime. Which made Leon constantly have to calculate where my sword will be coming from.
Alas, no matter how strong the technique is, I still lost to Leon despite him barely going all out.
The fight lasted around 4 minutes more than the last time I fought him at least. I really have to polish this sword technique even further. I haven't even achieved the Novice proficiency stage with it yet.
" Good fight Adel, you've gotten stronger. You also have quite the skill you got there, it was the perfect counter for the technique I was using. " said Leon.
" Thank you..?? "
" Haha.. don't sound so confused. I'm using the Savage berserker sword technique, I can't tell you what grade it is but this technique focuses mainly on raw, non-calculated attacks. Regardless of how dumb it sounds, this technique is quite strong when it comes to defensive capabilities, as you have seen in our spar. " said Leon, expectant to what I will reply with.
" I see.. the technique I'm using is the Myriad Illusion Sword Dance Technique. You can probably already understand how the technique works already from our fight. "
" Haha.. I managed to understand a little bit of it, based on the name it focuses on faints and unpredictable attacks patterns am I right? " asked Leon.
" Pretty much.. "
For now, I guess the technique is still easy to fight against but the more proficient I become in it, the power of the technique will soar to the sky.
" Okay, moving on. Let's start with your physical training plan, the foundation of all knights will be their strength. You'll be carrying these weights that will be attached to your body while exercising. " Leon said as he gave me the weights.