After Ace puts his new gear away he heads to the rest of the house to recover from his long journey.
After waking in the morning Ace heads over to Sebastian's place, Sebastian drags him to the previous training area.
Ace investigates the entire area, seeing the giant amount of earth elements being absorbed by the giant walls surrounding the place.
Sebastian yells "Get ready for a dual!"
Ace quickly summons his shield and draws his sword. Ace decides to activate Lightning Haste and within an instant Ace lands multiple strikes against Sebastian leaving small craters where he stepped before, Sebastian manages to summon various rock elements to defend himself leading to him taking no damage due to his incredible defences.
Sebastian looks at Ace with awe in his eyes at the immense progress Ace had made. Sebastian constructed a sword and shield out of earth elements and charged at Ace. Simultaneously making spikes come out to attack Ace and changing the terrain around Ace.
Ace uses his incredible speed to effortlessly dodge Sebastian and the various terrain effects. Ace strikes Sebastian a few more times, leaving barely a mark. He decides to activate Forest guardian, Rock Wrecker and Stat Boost. Aces aura skyrockets as a bright green light covers Ace, Ace launches another set of attacks managing to dodge around Sebastian's constant attacks from all directions and land a few strikes on Sebastian. Ace takes a breath and looks at Sebastian only to find that he didn't even leave a scratch or mark on Sebastian. Ace shocked wondered how high is Sebastian's defence stat.
As Ace stands there recovering Sebastian summons a giant sphere out of rock and dense earth elements and traps Ace inside. Slowly walking over to Ace Sebastian yells "Guess your not that fast" Sebastian Laughs.
Ace stands there listening to Sebastian and puts his sword and shield away and summons his new Spear, quickly he activates Dragonification and Steel guardian as he in a blink of an eye shatters the sphere into dust as he charges at Sebastian.
Sebastian reacting in surprise seeing a new weapon and an even stronger aura, he uses every bit of speed in him to dodge the first attack but was unaware that Ace had planned a two hit strike. The second strike landing right on Sebastian's arm leaving a shallow cut that healed within a second or two.
The fight continues as they dance around the battlefield with immense power as the shear force of the fight send shockwaves that leave deep groves in the large trees surrounding the area and holes into the ground like canyons. The walls that Sebastian made completely crumbling.
Sebastian Activates all of his available skills and blessing and finally Ace runs out of stamina before the real victor could be decided.
Sebastian helps Ace recover and they head back to the village.
"I'm impressed but your reliance on Blessings and not having the stamina to keep it up is apparent. Your attacks are too weak, although catching opponents off guard leads you to dealing critical hits which allowed you to actually break through my armour." Sebastian says as he points out a few notes he took from the fight.
Ace takes in the feedback and heads back home after running drills of weapon strikes, martial arts and now Combo strike attacks. Sebastian thought that due to his immense speed he should learn how to deliver Combo strikes for increased damage.
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When Ace gets home he meditates and rests, soon pulling out his 10 support blessing shards to upgrade his healing light.
"Ding... Healing light's power level has reached 6."
He then pulls out his Element blessing shards and upgrades his Forest Guardian blessing.
"Ding Forest guardian's power level has reached 7."
A option appears in front of Ace "Would you like to connect the Forest guardian blessing to the Death Forest to increase its power?" Ace selects yes and a surge of power seams to flow through Ace.
Ace then uses his 10 Enhancement blessing shards to grant him a new blessing.
"Ding… new Enhancement Blessing received. Randomising power level… done (7), randomising stat to be enhanced…. Done (HP and Defence)"
"Ding… blessing Metal's Tempering received"
Metal's Tempering
Power Level 7
Class: Enhancement and element (Metal)
Description: The user uses metal elements to enhance their HP by 700 points and their Defence by 3.2 times (To the nearest 25)
Ace removes Rock Wrecker so this blessing could be added. As the blessing takes hold Ace feels his power surge as his power level grows significantly.
Ace rest for the night planning to head to the death forest in search of the fourth floor.