"Keep the sword level with your body, don't think about your movements, we are a race that is guided by instinct. Our senses are sharper than those of the beast race, so be guided by what your body tells you, let it react on its own, you just have to focus on how you should defeat your opponent, your instincts will take care of moving," Fa told his son, while they fought with wooden swords, in a practice training while Kian watched a few meters away. They had left at five in the morning that day to the forest that was a few kilometers from the town, training in a clearing.
With accelerated breathing, a serious look and the wooden sword in hand, Ru was in front of his mother, it had been 7 hours since they began training, they had only had a small break to have breakfast and drink water.
His mother had been teaching him the basics of weapon handling, although at first it was difficult for him to adapt to the speed of her sword, little by little he is getting better at receiving her blows.
"Come Ru with everything you have, we should be done soon, try to land a hit on me darling" Fa said to his son as he took a defensive stance, he had a smile on his face, he was happy with his son's progress on his first day.
Hearing her words Ru prepared to attack, he was going to put all his strength into the last movements, looking at his mother's posture he knew that she was waiting for him to attack, bending his knees a little, he launched himself towards his mother, the sword in his right hand swung diagonally towards her, Fa with the sword in his right hand, received the attack, deflecting it to the right while throwing a blow with his left towards her abdomen, Ru anticipating this, let the sword follow its course, since he was smaller than his mother, she had to crouch down to hit him at that height, taking advantage of that opening and the momentum provided by the force of the deflection of her sword she let herself go, dodging the blow, her sword hitting the floor and her hand resting on it, she threw a kick towards her abdomen, Fa quickly moved her left hand to grab Ru's leg, swinging her sword towards his head again. Being caught, his vision could only see how his mother's sword approached his head, having no other way but to use the leg he was holding as support and the hand that was on the floor pushed himself to the left, narrowly dodging the sword that passed by his nose, quickly turning his sword, where it was pointing towards the hand that was grazing his leg, launching an attack in the form of a thrust. Fa, avoiding the attack decided to let go making Ru quickly step back to get up and attacking again, moving the sword towards her abdomen where she quickly moved her sword to block his attack, when she was about to deflect Ru's sword, she felt that her attack had no force causing her to apply more than necessary, causing her sword to make an arc upwards in an uncontrolled way throwing Ru's sword, where he taking advantage of his mother's slight bewilderment towards the abandonment of her sword, launched a blow with his left hand towards her abdomen hitting target.
"I won!" Ru said happily, his mother with an ironic smile could only shake her head at her son's careless strategy.
"Honey, I'm glad you were able to hit me, but remember, before you get your soul weapon you can't do such reckless things, being unprotected in a real battle will get you killed" Fu said, as he knelt down to hug his little boy who was happy to have passed his test.
"HA HA HA, well done, you managed to hit your mother Ru, but remember to heed her words, we don't want anything to happen to you" Kian said approaching them.
"I know mom, dad, I let go because it was one of the ways to be able to hit mom, I won't do such reckless things in a real fight" Ru moving his head back to where his father was coming from, taking her from his mother's chest, spoke happily while hugging her.
"Fu fu fu, I'm glad you understand Ru, then this would be all as far as my training is concerned, you must not only learn about swordplay, hand-to-hand combat will also serve you for moments like the one before if you were to not have any weapons in your hands. And that type of training will be given to you by your father, in the mornings I will train you in the handling of weapons and in the afternoons he will take you hunting training you along the way" Fu spoke in a soft voice, while with her hand she turned Ru's head so that he would look at her.
"That's right Ru, come let's eat and then we'll go deeper into the forest" Kian spoke standing behind them.
With Ru nodding at his words and his mother releasing him from the hug standing up, they headed under a tree to have lunch.
While they were eating, Kian, who was to Ru's left with Fa to his right, spoke, "As you know, son, from today you will begin to leave the village patrolling it alongside me, and knowing how things are in the other kingdoms serves to always be prepared to defend our territories from any unforeseen event, for that we need information, which is gathered by men like your uncle Yu, your mother has taught you the location of our territory, I want you to repeat what you remember."
"Our race having inherited the power of our ancient lords, the Soul Weapon and Blood Transformation, is located in the "Free Country" it inherited the weapon of an ancient lord, the Nouchs Bow. To the south is the "Beast Territory", it is surrounding the entire continent, they did not inherit anything from their former lords but their corpses serving as a channel to transmit their power, to our north is the "Neutral Country" inheriting the Book of Ruong, an ancient lord, he is also an intermediary in trade with the "Elven Country" all its English: territory is built on the Tree of Life inheritance left by the ancient lords of nature, located to the north separated by a great river. The "Dilmun Country" like us has the Blood Transformation also adding that its former lord strengthened his blood through an explosion of essence that covered his entire country before dying, located west of the "Elven Country" and the "Dwarf Country" is located in the middle of these two, inheriting the Creative Forge where all the ancient weapons were created. To the west separated by a river from our country is the "Country of the Sun" inheriting the Spear of Truan, followed by "The Great Human Alliance" with the Sword of Vryon, followed by the "Country of Demons" inherited from its former lord the Edrefe Magic" Ru responded while stopping eating.
Nodding Kian spoke, "That's right, but you only know their geographical location and their ancient heritage, your mother did not teach you their political status because you did not need to know it yet, but it is time, this is the latest information that came to us, our country is making an alliance with the "Country of the Sun" that will be realized with the marriage of the youngest children of the kings, it is said that "The Great Human Alliance" and the "Country of Demons" are collaborating, but they are only rumors that spread years ago and there have been no movements that give them away, but even so we must be attentive to any small action of these two, it is very well known that they hate the rest of the races. Apart from "The Great Human Alliance" also hates the other human countries for opening the doors to the other races to their territory. But the hatred of "The Great Human Alliance" does not lie only in this, when the continents were separated, and the ancient lords of each race were at war to take territories, the entire human race "It was united, but there was a dispute of interests between their former lords, causing them to separate, hence their deep hatred towards other humans, calling them traitors. As for the "Elven Country", "Dilmun Country" and the "Neutral Country" we have a cordial relationship, in the past, our lords fought together, so they maintain a good relationship with their former allies, the one we have the best relationship with is the "Dwarf Country", our lords were very good friends, hence they will accept the request of your weapon Ru. That would be all you should know in broad strokes for the moment, remember as much as possible, okay? ".
"It's okay dad!", answered Ru with a firm voice, Kian happy with his answer moved his hand to caress his head in the process ruffling his hair, making him and Fa laugh as they watched their son grumble while fixing his hair.
After a while, they finished eating and left deeper into the forest.