A few days later, at the Rohart mansion...
A few days had passed, and during that time Liora had been sneaking out of the mansion and had been hunting slimes to level up. It would take some convincing for Lisa to assist Liora in escaping, but in the end, she always got what wanted.
Liora was now standing at level 15, and had grown stronger from all the hunting. She had accumulated alot of Beast Points and had uprgraded her [Summon Lesser Beast] and [Golem Summoning] Skills, allowing her to summon twenty beasts now.
As she was hunting and leveling up, it was starting to become difficult to accumulate Exp to level up. Though she quickly found a solution and traded her Beast Points for Stat Points, since a hundred Beast Points equaled to one Stat Point.
Liora stood behind her bedroom window and stared outside into the courtyard below, there she saw her two brothers, Carl and Lance, training diligently with their tutors.
Lisa was also present in the courtyard, but simply observed her brothers train. Carl and Lance were both Wind Magic users of the High-Tier, their impressive swordsmanship and control of magic made them powerful fighters for their age.
While Liora was continuing to watch her brothers train, a sudden knock on her door jolted her back to reality. She quickly straightened herself as she walked over to her door, wondering who could be knocking on her door.
She definetly knew it wasn't her maids, since they would announce themselves right after knocking on her door, and it couldn't be Lisa either as she was with her brothers.
Liora opened the door and her expression turned to that of suprise and shock, infront of her stood a tall woman dressed in a black coat and brown leather pants.
Her short black hair and menacing gaze, was something Liora knew all too well.
it was her sword instructor, and she didn't look pleased to be here. "Why are you still dressed like that?" She asked, her expression turning to that of annoyance.
Liora glanced at herself, she was dressed in her night gown she slept with the night before.
"Go get dressed, i'll see you the courtyard. Be quick." The sword instructor said before leaving, walking down the hall in a confident and boss-like manner.
'Bitch..' Liora thought as she frowned, before Liora had Awakened her system and magic, she was taught swordsmanship by her instructor. It was absolute hell, her instrutcor was very strict and used alot of force behind her attacks as she would teach her.
Her status of nobility didn't matter, because her instructor was given permission by her parents to train her in the way she fit.
Liora sighed as she closed the door and quickly got changed into her training uniform, grabbing her practice sword before leaving the room.
'This stupid tradition of learning swordsmanship is starting to become a pain in my ass, even though we are all mages with our unique magic types, we are still required to learn swordsmanship.'
Liora complained inwardly, shaking her head as she walked down the hall.
'The instructor is going to be brutal with me like always, but this time I'm going to be ready for it. Since Lisa and everybody will be there as well, I won't let myself be humiliated.'
Liora opened her status window, and contemplated the best way to distribute her Stat Points.
[Status Window]
[Name: Liora Rohart] [Race: Human]
[Profession: Grand Beast Master] [Level: 15]
[Talents(S): Nature's Gift, A Master's Blessing]
[Stats]
[HP: 130] [MP: 130]
[Strength: 30] [Defence: 30]
[Agility: 30] [Intelligence: 40]
[Skills]
[Summon Lesser Beast-Lv2] [Tame-Lv1]
[Blood Contract-Lv1] [Golem Summoning-Lv2]
[Misc]
[Beast Points: 0]
[Stat Points: 220]
[Exp:2000/13000]
Liora had about twenty thousand points Beast Points, after upgrading her [Golem Summoning] and [Summon Lesser Beast] Skills, it left her with only twelve thousand points, all of which she had converted to Stat Points.
She had gotten a hundred Stat Points after leveling up five times, and another hundred and twenty for exchaning all her Beast Points, granting her a total of two hundred and twenty Stat Points.
'My stats are still lacking, I'm definetly not going to be able do much with just this. Since I'm going to be practicing swordsmanship, I'm going to need strength, alot of strength. Agility is going to be important too, I need to be fast enough to attack and dodge attacks.'
Liora added a hundred Stat Points to Strength and Agility, and with the remaining twenty she put them into Defense. A small smile appeared onto Liora's face as she gazed at the changes in her stats, a huge sense of confident filling up inside her.
She walked through the doors and outside of the mansion, everybody turned their gaze towards her. Carl and Lance chuckled upon seeing her, remembering the times she would always come out hurt from her training with the instructor.
Lisa kept on her serious expression infront of others, but shone a small smile towards Liora before going back to her usual stone cold expression.
Liora walked up to the instructor who was tapping her foot on the ground in annoyance, her teeth grit and her brows furrowed.
"You're late." The sword instructor said coldly as she withdrew her own practice sword from it's sheath.
"I was only gone for a few minutes.." Liora mumbled to herself as she was starting to get pissed off, taking out her own sword as well and getting into a sword stance. Gripping the sword tightly with both of her hands, her expression determined and ready for battle.
The sword instructor blinked in confusion, something about Liora felt different, but she couldn't figure out what. She eyed her for a few seconds, chalking it up to her imagination and probably overwhelming boredom of having a pathetic student.
"Let's just get this over with." The instructor sighed as they fiercely locked their eyes onto Liora, before dashing towards her in a burst of speed.
'She's trying to make things quick, huh?' Liora thought as she planted her feet to the ground and blocking a stab from the instructor.
Liora grit her teeth as immense pain coarsed through her arms, almost as if a truck had hit her. She skidded back a few feet from the force of the attack, her feet dragging into the ground.
If it were her old self, she would've been blown away by the strength behind the attack. But she wasn't the same weak Liora as before, and she was determined to prove that to them.
"Oh?" The instructor mused with a suprised expression, a sly smile forming onto her lips "I didn't expect you to have been able to block that, it seems that your Awakening had made you quite strong."
Carl and Lance stared at Liora with suprised expressions as well, but Lisa had a proud glint in her eyes, even though her expression remained emotionless.
Liora took a few seconds to recover from the pain she had just felt momentarily, taking a deep breath and steeling herself as she started slowly walking towards the instructor.
"My turn." Liora whispered before rushing towards the Instructor at fast speeds, gripping her sword tightly before crashing her sword down in a straight horizontal slash.