One of the main reasons, why Aran selected sword fighting as the main subject was because he wanted to join the swordsmen's club as soon as possible.
Out of all the clubs in the Phoenix academy, Aran desperately wanted to join the swordsmen's club at any cost. But To join a club, the students had to have a minimum cultivation of the first tier of the profound stage and they also needed to have a minimum of five hundred points to become eligible of becoming a member of a club.
Usually, most first-year students used to join different clubs after their mid-term martial mission. Since they would have got a big number of points after the mission and they also would have gotten familiar with the academy, it was when most of the students used to join clubs. But aran wanted to join the club before that because he needed to achieve his next goal.
When Aran successfully managed to copy the martial techniques and secured a way for copying the rest of the books, he decided to move on with his next plan. Since aran had a lot of things that he had to achieve, he didn't want to waste any time.
Even though aran wanted to join the swordsmen's club, he was still at the seventh tier of the intermediate stage, therefore he wanted to break through to the profound stage in less than a month.
He knew that cultivation gets extremely difficult after getting to the profound stage so, he thought about breaking through to the profound stage and then focusing on the other things he wanted to do.
Since the heavenly cultivators have to fight an extreme battle to break through to a major stage, Aran decided to fight Jason Wilford. Because out of all his cousins, Jason was the one who always used to bully him whenever he got the chance and even in the academy, he was the one who looks down on him the most. So he thought that it might be perfect for aran to fight him and break through at the same time.
After deciding to fight Jason, aran looked for a better fourth-ranked wind technique because he didn't want to use his sword techniques or the soul technique against Jason. Aran wanted to fight him, by only using his physical and elemental techniques since that was the easiest way to break through in a battle.
After looking at all the techniques arrax had copied from the library, Aran finally learned a wind technique. Since arrax had written all the details in the book, it was easy for aran to learn it by simply transferring it to his mind. After learning the technique, Aran started his training.
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When Aran was spending most of his time training professor Fedric was keeping an eye on him and he was really surprised to see aran training a technique that takes months for others to learn. He was hoping for aran to become as strong as Fenris.
While aran was busy with his training, the Wilford twins were also doing their training and getting stronger like every other student, So aran knew that he will have to do more than what was necessary to win against Jason.
Arrax was also copying the books at a rapid speed. After copying many books and getting the pills from aran for four weeks, he has broken through to the mid-tier of the fourth stage.
After using many cultivation blasting pills and training for almost a month Aran had finally broken through to the peak of the intermediate stage. And he had completely mastered the wind technique. Since he knew that he will have to fight this battle one way or another, he just went with it.
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On a Sunday morning, after getting ready, Aran looked for Jason in the academy and found him immediately using his divine vision and started to walk towards where he was.
When he got the place, he saw that both of the Wilford siblings were together, and it was also what aran wanted. When they saw aran walking towards them, both of them started to wonder what could it be and Jason started to get more infuriated, and as aran arrived in front of them, he turned toward Jason and said
" Jason Wilford, I challenge for a duel !"
As Jason heard it he started to wonder if Aran was actually joking. Because even though he hated aran, he knew aran is not an idiot, so he didn't understand why he is challenging him with weak cultivation.
Jason realised that he can't just ignore aran Since many others were watching them so he also took some steps toward aran.
" Do you think you are strong enough to challenge me; trash?" He asked.
Hearing that aran got enraged because it had been a long since someone called him trash but he controlled his anger and just went with the words.
" Are you going to avoid the fight by saying these things? Why don't just say that you are afraid ?" Aran asked. He knew it will make Jason mad.
" Who are you calling afraid, do you think I am afraid of trash like you?" Jason started to yell at aran with anger.
" Then why don't you accept the challenge ?"
" Is that what you want? Fine then; I, Jason Wilford of the Wilford family, accept your challenge!" Jason said and came forward.
Since both of them belonged to the same great Wilford family, the students of the academy who were there started to stand around them to see the fight. And just like that, the battle between two young masters of the Wilford family began.
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As Jason came forward he created a small water blast and threw it at aran. Even though he was angry at him, he didn't think of aran as an equal opponent and he just wanted to play with him.
As Jason threw a water ball, Aran just dodged it without even moving his leg.
" If you are going to continue this childsplay, then I am giving up this duel. Just take the win and keep it as a gift from me!" Aran said.
He wanted to make Jason angry so that Jason would fight without holding back. Because aran was more interested in fighting a fierce battle and having his breakthrough.
Listening to aran, Jason started to get angry, he realised that he won't be able to just play with him. So he decided to get a little serious. So he started to create more water out of the thin air using both of his wind-water attributes and started to shoot at aran with them as he moved towards him.
But aran still wanted more than that so he immediately activated the rapid blood-flowing technique to increase his strength and speed and charged towards Jason, dodging all his attacks, he moved with his full speed and strength and in a blink, aran was in front of Jason with a fist.
Before Jason could see through aran's attack and block it, Aran used all of his strength and punched Jason in the face as hard as he can! As Jason got punched, he stumbled back and fell almost twenty feet away from aran.
When everyone around them saw Jason getting punched, they started to wonder what just happened because aran was faster than a usual intermediate-stage cultivator. After that, they got more interested in seeing what happens next.
Aran knew that he won't be able to beat Jason by just that but he also knew, it will make Jason furious, and as he was expecting Jason was furious.
He immediately got up and as he touched his nose and saw his hands, he saw that his nose was bleeding. It not only made him angry but also made him realise that he will have to get serious and go all out if he wants to win.