Zenon began to consider his future plans.
There are numerous martial arts and many martial arts systems.
Four well known martial schools where control, offense, defense and illusion.
School of control is the most popular school as it's very well balanced and versatile tha any other school.
Path of control is about unity of mind and body.
A grandmaster in control can control even the functioning of each single cell in the body.
School of offense is developing an overwhelming attack power. They can efficiently channel force in every part of body and channel them to every single attack. The force the can bring forth will be tremendous.
School of defense is making the defense impenetrable and immutable. It is not about withstanding blows and endurance. But more about dispersion of force counter attacks.
School of illusion is a bit tricky.
It is mainly about techniques related to after image which is called a phantom.
There are also many moves which takes advantage of human eye's blind spot.
But the problem is school of illusion is fashioned for fighting against humans.
It won't work against other creatures.
To work against other creatures, we need very precise data of every species.
Which is not possible because there are myriad species and mutations and evolution occur in daily basis.
So it's very hard to realise.
So let's not focus on illusions for now.
For mastering a single field requires a lifetime worth of effort.
Even though there were people who dabbled in multiple fields, no one has fully mastered two different field the same time.
Zenon in his previous life has full mastered control school and had a decent mastery in illusions.
Since illusions are out of the list temporarily, his choice was obvious- control.
Though illusion were his favourite for torturing his opponents and best choice to toy with them, he will have to think about it later.
It is not like he is abandoning the field wholly.
Afterall, he was not human anymore. The life span of drake starts from millennia and ends at several millennia.
It was obvious that all the knowledge and experience from his previous life can only pave foundation for his path. It cannot lead him to pinnacle. But Zenon didn't worry. On the contrary he is quite confident and is actually looking forward to creating superior martial arts.
"Alright. It's time to officially start my martial path."
"From all the techniques I know, most of them are unsuitable for drake body. Even most suitable technique will need large makeovers and training."
"All right. It's decided.I will start with the movement techniques."
There are many types of movement techniques which varies in utility. Movement techniques that focuses on maneuvarability and burst speed are what he needed the most.
"Speaking of maneuvarability techniques, I will go with [Slithering steps]. It will work well with my new body. "
" I will focuse more on [Nimble feat] and [Flexible body] along with it. They will compliment each other well."
And so Zenon began to change and adapt the original Slithering steps to match his new lizard body.
He began by running around all over the place erratically, with no apparent purpose. But his mind , with the help of the innate skill transcendental mind, was running at full throttle and rapidly evolving his knowledge to work well with his body.
His movement evolved every passing moment,then they began to flow in seemingly natural rhythm which will remind all the onlookers about Slithering of a deadly venomous snake that is poised to strike at any moment.
With each passing hour, the movement became increasingly precise, reducing all unnecessary motions.
Three days later...
Zenon was facing his favourite training partner, the advanced rank brown drake.
But the scene was very different from what happened previously.
Today, zenon was not attacking. Even when clear chance to land fatal strike shows he didn't bother to exploit them. Instead he was actively taunting his opponent.
He moved effortlessly through relentless onslaught of the brown drake.
The brown drake was faster and stronger than him. And it is trying everything in his arsenal including claws, fangs, horns, tail, breath and today it is also somehow miraculously controlling earth to erupt spikes at his opponent.
But everything was futile. Because it only managed to hit air. Zenon always managed to evade by hair's breadth and his movement where so confusing and disorienting that most of its attack where flying somewhere else for some reason.
Martial art techniques are graded depending on their depth and practical relevance. They are divided into four categories mainly- low,medium,high,supreme.
The original Slithering steps was a supreme grade martial art practiced mainly by assassins and mobile light weight fighters.
It's speciality is the degree of movement freedom it can produce.
More over, it is highly compatible with feints.
Once mastered, this move can substitute for all other movement techniques needed into close quarters.
It is also very confusing for the opponent to defend against.
It is the reason why zenon can evade most of the attacks.
But that's not the only reason.
Slithering steps cannot be this domineering against an opponent who outclassed him every way.
It is the working of school of control and superior fighting experience.
The latter has no need for futher explanation.
The way of control has four realms.
First is flawlessness.
It is about removing all unnecessary movements and efficiently utilising body to maximum amount without breaking the mind lock. Moreover one's movements needs to connect each other, seemingly flowing one move to another without any delay.
It is not easy to reach this realm. There were warriors who couldn't touch upon this realm even after a life time.
The second realm is called foresight.
It is about seeing all of the opponent's movement range and possible attacks and successfully predicting movements.
If one mastered this realm, he will have no possible opening enemy could take advantage of.
Each movement of muscle fibre, tension of sinews, darting pupil,... Everything can be used to predict intension. If utilised properly one can prevail against stronger enemies.
It is what happening to Zenon.
All though the difficulty of reaching the second stage was so hard that majority of people who dedicate their life in pursuit will only end up wasting their time and effort.
But for Zenon?
With a life time accumulation and already reaching reaching the realm before, everything was smooth sailing for him.