Chapter 7: Training - start

As he smiled with his mad laugh, he conjured a strange red vial. I can’t figure it out. From where did it come from? I look at the strange while in his right hand and I see a black ring. When I focus on it, I can feel something from it. Is it a dimensional ring? The most coveted treasure for anyone?

I should explain. Normal pouches just diminish weight and increase holding capacity, but dimensional rings are different. The transport all items to a different dimension, so no weight is transmitted to the user. Space in dimensional ring is much greater than for a pouch but it depends on the quality of the ring, but even the worst ones are still better than pouches. The last big advantage is……….there’s no flow of time in the dimension so everything stays fresh. For merchants, that’s godly treasure and here he has it.

From where I know it? I read it in a book. This type of knowledge isn’t forbidden, because you can’t try creating one anyway and storage items are common. At least when it comes to pouches. I think the book was called Dimensions from Arthur Blake. Good read. Who would have thought that there are countless planes of existence all around us? Really a good read.

Wait a minute. Didn’t he say that Arthur Blake created status magic too? Could it be the same Arthur Blake? Could it be that mine greatest childhood hero I always wanted to meet is the same person? Then he could still be alive! I must know.

“Before you will continue with pouring that strange liquid down my throat, could you answer me a certain question?”

He looked at me puzzled, probably thinking why am I not scared. Why should I? It’s not like he will kil me, so it’s pointless.

He sighed and said

“Speak.”

“You said that Arthur Blake created status magic. Is it the same Arthur Blake that wrote Dimension and Mysteries of the World?”

He looked at me, shocked. Did I say something strange?

“How do you know those books?”

“I read them.”

“Huuuuuuuuuh. You read them? You’re just 10. How could you possibly understand them?”

“It was easy.”

“No no no. Even some well known people couldn’t understand them fully and you’re telling me you understood it?”

“Yep.”

“If you really did, then you are a monster.”

“Maybe I am. One never knows.”

“Ha ha ha. Kid, I really like you.”

“You’re not half bad yourself.”

“Ha ha ha.”

“Ha ha ha.”

And we both laughed.

“Well, to answer your question, yes, it is the same Arthur Blake. Why did you ask anyway?”

“He is my hero and I always wanted to meet him so I just had to ask.”

“I see. From what I know, he should be still alive but his whereabouts are unknown so it will be hard for you. You should just focus on your studies for now.”

“Yeah, I think so too.”

“But don’t think I forget about your late coming.”

Oh boy.

“Weeeeeeell then, let’s let you drink this fiiiiiiiiiine potion.”

It definitely isn’t some fine potion. Well, no matter. Let’s just gulp it down.

And so I took it from his hand and gulped it down at once. His mouth was on the floor. Did I do something?

“You stupid kid. It is meant to be sipped and not drank whole. Oh boy.”

I did not feel anything strange, until it started. I just felt a little stinging throughout my body and the it stopped. If this is all then it’s alright. How I was mistaken. After that, intense pain surged throughout my body. It was like I was ripped about piece by piece. It was insanely painful, but I endured without screaming even once. I had to hold it down, no matter what. I was lying on the ground and he came to me.

“Don’t worry, it won’t hurt you. In fact, because you drank all of it, it will even help you. This potion is called Awel. It helps to increase your mana flow for newly awakened so that you can access your status immediately, but it hurts when it happens because your body isn’t adapted to increased mana flow so your mana veins are stretched beyond their limit. Normally, students only sip it and there’s no pain just stinging, but their veins aren’t stretched so much thanks to that. Because you drank it all, your mana veins will be stretched beyond even above average. This will help you in all kinds of activities. But as you can feel that immense pain, no one does it. You really are lucky or maybe unlucky. Ha ha ha.”

As he was laughing I was gritting my teeth. I could feel it. My veins stretching, my bones screeching and my body breaking. It was far worse then he said, but I endured. Pain started to fade away and after a while, I felt nothing at all. I did not feel any stronger or such. I just felt like before I took it.

“Does every student take it?”

I had to ask?

“Ha ha ha. Nice joke. Do you know how expensive it is? No one would use it for students. Only those highly talented get the chance. I wanted to pay you for coming late by letting you take 3 sips but you drank it all. So much money, gone to waste. Oh well, what happened, happened. Now, let’s take a look at your status.”

Take a look? We? What the?

“What do you mean we? Only I should be able to take a look at it, right?”

“No. You can show it to others, if you want. By saying you approve of that person, mana will transmit it to me and I will be able to see it. How does that work is beyond me though.”

Ok, that’s nice a piece of information.

“If you can do this, then can you change what others see?”

“Yes. In fact, many do that to hide their strength. Only parts you are forbidden to change is your name. In every city, it is verified, so don’t change your name.”

Great, one trouble taken care of. Now, let’s look at it.

StatusNameRisielAge10Level1RaceHumanAffinityVoidAttributeChaos and OrderHealth50Mana200TitleDifferent oneStrength4Agility3[/tr]Vitality2Dexterity12Inteligence100Wisdom100Endurance1Luck±10ResistancesFire0%Water0%Earth0%Wind 0%Void5%Poison40%

Ok, so it looks like I am really physically weak, but mine INT and WIS is high. That ± in luck I can understand. My luck and bad luck is really something afterall. Resistances are nice to know. That poison resistance I probably got from my hobby, alchemy. Now that I look once again, there is level and race. Why did it not shown before? Let’s just ask.

“I have 2 new information. It’s race and level. What does it mean?”

“Level already? I’m impresses. Well, race is shown only after complete penetration of mana through your body. Level shows your experience throughout life. It does not show at first due to everyone being level 0 so it’s pointless. Only after reaching level 1 will it show itself. All experiences through your life are shown there, but most give minuscule amount needed to get a level. That’s why I am so impressed. It means you did many things. Now, show me your status.”

That’s nice to know. Now, to show him my status. Let’s just change my attribute to dark and allow him to see it.

He started to look before him, so it probably worked. After a few minutes he stopped reading and looked at me.

“You are seriously physically weak. You should do something about that. Your INT and WIS are insanely high so no wonder you got level, but it’s still not much. Masters have around 2000-3000 in both of them. Now, to have understanding in Void just after awakening is impressive but if you really read Dimensions so I can understand it, even though it shouldn’t give you so much. Your title is, well, it suits you perfectly. Your mana is quite high too. Most people after awakening have between 10-60 but with your intelligence and wisdom, no wonder either.”

“Now, let me explain what you will learn from me. Basic course takes 2 years. The same goes with all your classes. The will change after 2 years. In these 2 years, you will be learning about magic in general and only a few things about Void magic. It’s so that you won’t destroy whole school due to your mistakes. Void magic is much harder than other magic, because Void cannot be seen in physical form in nature itself like other elements. So study hard. I will give you a few books after we end here and a pouch to store them and that’s pretty much it. Don’t worry, I will explain few more things.”

“Amount of mana is hard to increase. You can try to absorb mana in the world, but it takes long time and is really hard and quite miniscule. Mana will increase with your every lvl up, because every lvl up means your soul got stronger and mana comes from soul. Soul can be strengthen through knowledge so it is tied to INT and WIS too. Because it is quite hard to get more mana, we purify our own mana, increasing its effectiveness and decreasing amount needed to cast spells through meditation. You will learn meditation techniques.”

I know meditation techniques but let’s not tell him that. So if I think about it, inner technique should purify my mana and outer should allow me to absorb mana. This should be immensely useful.

“Understanding is simple. It shows your connection to the element and how it says understanding. It can be said that it means you know how Void works, is used, contains etc. Understanding is profound meaning of the element and with it, you will understand it’s secrets and power it holds. As I said, Void is hard to understand, so it will take a long time for you to reach high amount of understanding. Even I am only on 16% and it took me 25 years.”

“Now, I think it’s all for this class. Here is your pouch with books. Study properly.”

“I have one more question.”

“Oh, what can I answer you?”

“What is your name?”

We looked at each other, baffled. From the start, he never introduced himself. He probably didn’t even think about it.

“Ha ha. I completely forgot. I never expected to get a student so I did not even introduced at awakening ceremony. Anyway, my name is Riley. Nice to meet you, Risiel.”

I shook his hand and said.

“Nice to meet you, Riley.”

And this is how my first class ended. Next on the program is math.

What can I say about it? Normal math. There were 30 of us and we had some old goat as a teach. I did not even bother remembering his name.

Etiquette was fun in it’s own way. Learning proper manners, types of walking, dancing, speech and all kinds of knives and forks. That’s what is waiting for me and more. We have some old lady for that class, but she looks nice.

Next was language class. In this class, I got some young lady that is called language genius. She can speak in more than 30 languages and we, who got her, will need to learn 4 types of languages and will have her for 4 years at least. We got many choices to pick for the 4 languages, not including our mother language so it all comes to 5 languages. For the 4 I took, Elven, Cabalian, Runic and Ancient. Runic and Ancient is found in all types of runes and dungeons so it should be quite useful but from what she said it is extremely hard to learn. Even for her it took quite some time and she is a genius. Looks like I will be with her for some time.

Next on the program was Enchanting. I couldn’t wait for it. I wonder what it is all about. All legendary weapons I read about in books were enchanted weapon that could cut through heavens itself, just to get hands on it is almost impossible so if I will learn enchanting, I should be able to come closer to it. Let’s start this class then.

As I went inside, an old man with a long grey beard was sleeping on his desk. I was the first one there, so I took a look around. There were some see through small balls, pieces of metal, tools I can’t even describe and some kinds of liquids. As I was looking around I heard a laugh.

“Ho ho ho. So young and so curious. Nice to meet you young man, I am teacher of enchanting class, you can call me Beliar.”

Strange man, but why do I fell so afraid of him? It’s like devil was looking at me. Is this killing intent or just pressure he himself gives off. If it is pressure than that guy is wolf no dragon in sheep’s disguise.

I just politely replied.

“Nice to meet you Beliar, my name is Risiel but just call me Ris.”

“Ho ho ho, so young and yet so skillful. Not even showing a hint of fear from my pressure. You truly are interesting young lad.”

So he was testing me? I should have known, but it is lucky in a way. Now I know I must never piss him off.

“I see. So that’s why I felt like being crushed under a weight. What is this skill?”

“Ho ho ho. This isn’t a skill per say. You just send power of your soul outside of your body, but your soul must reach a certain stage for it to work and every pressure is different. It depends on your soul. Some can bewitch you, some can feel like crushing you and some will let you feel like you are in the cold hands of death. Be careful of such pressure because only those who killed many without remorse have such souls.”

Good to know. So if I understood it he must have went through life and death situations to have his soul give off such type of pressure.

“Thank you for your explanation.”

“It’s okay. Young talents need to be nurtured.”

Strange guy but nice too. I think I will like this class.

“When will the class start?”

“In 20 minutes or so. Why do you ask?”

“I can’t wait. I read in books about enchanted weapons and armors and they looked so awesome. I want to be able to do it too and more.”

“Ho ho ho. Young lad, path of enchanting isn’t so easy and most cases in those books are just fiction. You will understand soon.”

We talked for those 20 minutes about what I read about enchanting. He gave me his opinions about it and told me a few names of books I should read about. I just need to find a library and I will spend most of my first year there.

While we were talking, class started to be filled and everyone looked at us. There were many who came to this class. It was completely full. When everyone sat down, Beliar told me to sit before his desk and class started.

“Hello, my name is Beliar and I will be teaching you enchanting. Enchanting is not hard to learn, but it is much harder to use and even harder to master it. You should all be prepared for a lot of hardships. Now, what is enchanting? Enchanting is enhancing items with magical powers through use of runes and glyphs, but it’s not necessary to always use them. Runes channel your own magical power in a certain way, but only in one way. You can use rune to sharpen your blade or made in more durable but one rune cannot do both. Most weapons have a limited amount of runes they can contain. It depends on quality of the item. Because runes are limiting, we use glyphs. Glyphs are next stage of runes. They contain several meanings. So glyphs can be used to make items stronger and sharper at the same time. Glyphs are much harder to use then runes and items are again limited in the amount. You all will learn basic set of runes from me, but glyphs will be your own. Every enchanter needs to create his own glyphs and runes.”

“When you create runes or glyphs, you channel mana into it. Depending on the configurations of the glyphs or runes, your weapon or armor will be enhanced. In this way, items are enchanted for a while, because magic power will slowly disappear. There are ways how to overcome this weakness but it is too hard for you to know now so I won’t be explaining it. Because enchanted weapons can be enhanced by user only, that means you are limited in one affinity only and because magic power slowly disappears, that’s why we use elemental crystals. These crystals have a certain affinity in them. They are filled by magical powers of the magicians and unfilled ones are quite cheap to buy. These crystal are then embedded into weapons and so you don’t need to use your own mana to fill the swords and will have one more affinity to use. Items can be embedded in more than one crystal but again, there is a limit.”

“These are the basics of enchanting and even though it sounds easy, it is not. When creating runes or glyphs you must constantly supply them with magical powers or they are just useless writings.”

“Now then, here are books with basic runes. Everyone take one.”

And so we took one. There were pictures with some runes and meanings of it, but no glyphs.

“Now then, before you, you can see a piece of metal. Choose a rune and try to write it on it. Don’t forget to fill your tools with mana.”

Is he serious? We never even tried to move mana into something. Let’s just try it.

As I took a toll into my hand, I could feel it tried to leech on my mana. With just a small push my mana started to flow into it, but the flow wasn’t constant. While others started to slowly do the same and some even started to write runes, I tried to make my flow constant without any variation. In 5 minutes I was able to do it pretty well. Even though it wasn’t perfect and far from it, it was good enough. I started to write a rune to make the piece of metal stronger, constantly watching my mana flow. It was slow process but I did it.

“When you’ll be finished, come with it to me.”

Many went to him and it started.

Some had smug looks on them because it was so easy for them and so it started.

“Ok then, use your mana to activate the rune.”

The first guy with biggest smug on his face used his mana and it blew in his face. Beliar just said.

“Failed, next.”

And so it continued. Noone was able to create working rune. Some had their plates broken in half, some just had it broken on few places but not even one rune passed. Then it came my turn. I was the last one in class who did not try. When I came before him Beliar just smiled and said

“Go go, don’t keep me waiting.”

And so I started. I used my mana to let it flow into that metal. Everyone was grinning, expecting it will brake for me too. When my mana reached the plate, rune started to shine in bright light and that piece of metal had it luster renewed and it looked much stronger.

“Ho ho ho. You passed and with magnificence too. To create such a strong rune on your first try, not even this old man was capable of that. You have some talent for enchanting.”

I was happy. I could enchant and in the future, maybe even create gear for myself that would become a legend. Who knows?

“Ok then, those of you who failed will need to try again until you succeed. You Ris can go to your next class. See you soon.”

“See you next time Beliar.”

And so I went to my next class, Survival.

When I came to a plane behind school, close to the forest, teach was there and with him 5 students. When I came to them, teach said.

“Now that everyone is here, let’s start.”

Just 6 people? It really isn’t popular.

“I won’t bother with explanations. I want to see what’s in you. Look at this flower. It is called Melisin and it grows in this forest. I want you to find it in 30 minutes. Now go.”

That was nice explanation. This flower has red petals and yellow stem.

“Oh and everyone must go alone. Don’t worry, there aren’t any dangerous animals.”

And so we all went inside. I was walking around and looking for it. After 20 minutes, I did not find anything.

Fuck, only 10 minutes left. Think, think. It has red petals and yellow stem, what does it say? Now that I think about it, it was wet so he had to plug it out recently and so it means it must grow close to water. Its petals are dark red so it shouldn’t be growing on direct sun and yellow stem means it should grow in place with yellow soil or in this case yellow muddy place.

With this information, I closed my eyes and tried to hear and feel where some wet place is. I could hear a river so I went there. I found nothing at all. Dammit. Think about it once more. I got it!

And so I went with flow of the river until I found a pond filled with yellow mud and inside it, those flowers were growing. I took one and quickly ran out of the forest. When I finally got out of the forest I could hear.

“End.”

“Did I come too late?”

“You exited forest before the end so do you have it?”

I took the flower and showed it to him. He raised his eyebrow and did nothing else.

When I looked around, I could see 2 guys with the flower too and 2 who did not get it. One was missing. We waited for him and after 10 minutes, he finally came out all cowered in mud.

“You’re late.”

“I’m sorry.”

“Do you have flower?”

“N-no.”

“Those who did not get flower will need to study about this flower and next time will tell me about it and try to find it again. Rest of you, take these books and study them. You’re dismissed.”

Nice class. Without anything being thrown inside the forest. What more you would need? Let’s continue.

Next is Beast Taming. Should be nice.

When I came there, there were so many people. I think around 200 hundred. It’s just like aunty said.

I just stood there and waited for the start of the class. While I waited I heard some say

“Ris?”

I turned around and I saw

“Lili? You chose this class too?”

“Yeah. As a wind mage I need a pet for protection and what about you?”

“I want to travel most of the time alone so I thought that pet would be a nice companion to have with me. Do you know what you want as a companion?”

“Not really. When the time comes, I will know.”

“Good. The same goes with me.”

Now that I look around, everyone starts at us and murmurs. While I look around someone calls

“Princess”

And a girl comes to Lili. She is the same age as us but already developed in upper parts. She will have big assets in the future, not really my tastes but not something to not stare at. I’m still a guy, you know.

“Princess, here you are. Don’t run away from me again.”

“It’s okay Sani. I was just talking with Ris.”¨

Sani looked at me at with a disdain looked at me and stood before Lily.

“What do you want from the princess? I remember you, you peasant. Don’t come near the princess.”

I looked at her with a bothersome look and paying any attention to her.

“Sorry Ris, she does not mean it that way.”

“No problem, it just shows she really likes you.”

And I smiled. Sani looked embarrassed and was saying something under her nose.

“W-what do you mean by that! I just want to protect princess, nothing more!”

“Ok ok. But that just shows you are close to her and so you like her. I did not mean anything else with it.”

I just smiled with a soothing smile.

“I-I see.”

“Anyway, let’s go princess.”

She took Lili’s hand and went somewhere. Before that though, I called to them.

“Lili, in the future I wouldn’t mind going on a quest together. I can’t let you get hurt or else Sani would kill me.”

They both blushed and just went away. And I just smiled innerly with my evil smile.

While this concluded, teacher came. It was young lady with a scar on her face from a claw or something. She looked bothered by the amount of us but just started.

“Beast taming can be divided to 2 parts. Contracting or enslavement. Contract can be achieved by mutual agreement of contractor and pet but pet may not do your every command. That why trust and loyalty is important. In case of enslavement, pet or person is branded by a mark and he must obey every command or will suffer intense pain. Because enslavement is much more secure, most choose this type but in contract, when both parties belief in each other, they can reach a higher stage of contract called blood contract. In this case each other’s blood will flow through both of them and their abilities will be mutually enhanced. If your pet would evolve, even your own power would be strengthened. I will teach you how to create contracts and enslavement seals, tactics used, how to take care of your pet, different types of animals and monsters that can become your pet and all requirements for that.”

She talked for a while longer and then just let us go. Good to know but nothing interesting.

Next is Control. I wonder what it is.

When I came there, only 12 of us were there. Not many choose something, they don’t know of, it seems.

Teacher there looked stern with a hateful expression. It will be fun with him.

“You scum. Finally all of you are assembled. Took you long enough. In my class I don’t want to hear anything like my affinity is better than yours, fire magic is awesome and such other shits. Are we clear?”

Everyone looked at him with incomprehensible expression.

“I fucking said, ARE WE CLEAR?!”

“YES!”

Everyone responded. His shout could make even dead shudder.

“Good. Now then, control is class, where you learn how to use raw mana. Now, I have a question for you. What is the strongest force in the world?”

Everyone started to ponder about it. I had my answer already but I did not say anything. One of the guys said

“Magic.”

And everyone was nodding except me.

“You FOOLS! You there, you were the only one who did not nod. What do you think is the strongest power?”

“Mana itself.”

He looked happy, but with his frightening face it wasn’t any better.

“And why do you think so?”

“Magic is power to create miracles but without mana, it is nothing. Mana is first block of anything. Without it, we couldn’t live so long, use magic and world itself wouldn’t exist as we now it.”

“Good good. At least someone isn’t maggot.”

“And that’s exactly it. All of you should remember it and this is what I will teach you. How to use mana in the most efficient and powerful way. I will make a men from you and when I will be done with you, you will be good enough to make others shudder before you.”

“Now, to be able to use mana in such way, you must be able to control your own flow of mana. Everyone, try it.”

Control my own flow? Isn’t it the same as I did during my meditation? Then it should be simple.

I closed my eyes and imagined my body with my mana veins. I could see a difference. They were much larger than before. Was it because of that vial like he said? I can feel much more mana flowing through me but it isn’t so dense as before. It looks like I don’t have enough mana for my body to use properly. I will fix that in the future, now, let’s try to change my flow.

It sounds simple, but it isn’t. You mana flows on its own, just like your blood. To make it flow faster or slower isn’t simple. I tried to make mana flow to my arm but it wasn’t enough. Yes, it flew there but my whole flow did not change so it is wrong way to do it. If it can’t be did like that, then I need to use ma mana core. It should be as my heart and I should be able to control it. Let’s hope it will work.

I started to concentrate on my mana core and I could feel much denser mana in it. I tried to will mana in it to flow outside into my body. With a few tries I succeeded and more mana started to flow and my whole flow became much more rapid. I started to feel pain in my mana core and quickly stopped to will more mana from it. Pain started to subside, but my flow was still the same. I tried to will mana in my body back to my mana core and I succeeded much more easily and my flow slowed down. It looks like I succeeded. I opened my eyes and everyone was looking at me.

“You you, what did you do?”

“What do you mean?”

“You whole body started to show your mana veins and we could see it flowing through you!”

Interesting.

“We could not even make it budge and you do something like this.”

“Bo ha ha. For you to be able to do this in such a short amount of time. Who knows, maybe you will become grandmaster in mana control.”

“Grandmaster?”

“Oh right, all skills have ranks and grandmaster is pinnacle in all of them. You could count grandmaster that appeared in thousand years on one hand.”

“Now then, all of you must try to will your mana so next time, you will be able to do it too. And you keep practicing. You are dismissed.”

Nice. It was fun in it’s own way.

Last class, martial arts.

When I came there, there were 50 of us and one of them was Irel. When he saw me he came to me.

“Oh, looks like even a commoner wants to learn martial arts. Get lost, only nobles like us are worthy for it.”

“Nice to see you too, Irel.”

“Hm.”

“Oh, don’t be like that. We are classmates here. Let’s both of us work hard.”

“Hm, I will show you whose better, commoner.”

“I can’t wait for that.”

And he went away.

Now that I took proper look around I could see 3 guys standing before us. One was in full plate armor, other in light armor and the last one in black trousers with no shirt and he looked like a beggar.

“All of you, listen. There are 3 instructors. You all can choose, which one of us will become your instructor. Think about it carefully. There’s no turning back.”

Many chose full plate guy because he looked like a paladin in expensive armor. The guy in while light armor got rest.

Irel chose full plated guy and I still could not decide. I looked at both of them once more but not one caught my eye. I looked at that guy who looked like a beggar and not even one student chose him but for me, he caught my eye and so I knew I want him to teach me.

So I went to him and he just said

“Kid, just pick one of those, I can’t be bothered with teaching talentless guys.”

“And how can you know I am talentless?”

“Just look how scrawny you are. No muscles and stamina. You would die with my training.”

“Oh, so you do hellish training? That should be interesting.”

I looked into his eyes and batting an eyelid even once.

“Fine, but don’t complain to me. Come with me.”

And so we left others behind and I followed him.

We went through a forest and after good half an hour of walking we reached a training place full of dummies and track field and what not.

“This is your training place. Here will be your lessons held. Come here whenever you want.”

“Ok.”

It’s nice to have a training ground opened 24/7.

“Now then, I will train you in Phantom style. This style is strongest in the world and from 1000 of those who wish to learn it 999 will die and only 1 will become able to learn it. Let’s see if you will survive or die, but first, we need to fix your body. I will teach you Phantom style training program and you will diligently do everything it states. You will probably die from it but it was your choice.”

“The reason why Phantom style is the strongest is because we, who train in it, are as strong as warriors, nimble as rogues, silent as assassins, precise as archers and combine our arts with magic. We learn how to wield all kinds of weapons to a certain level at least and you will learn close quarter combat too.”

“Now, about levels. It goes from weakest to strongest. Basic, novice, apprentice, intermediate, skillful, savant, advanced, expert, master, grandmaster. Don’t even think about reaching grandmaster rank. Only one person was capable of that. Most of us who learn Phantom style are stuck at intermediate and rest of us are skillful or savant. And by rest I mean geniuses. It is very hard to learn this style.”

“Phantom style is evolving style. To use any type of skills from Phantom style, you need to learn basic skill sets. To use Phantom movement, you need to learn skills as, sprint, one with breath, silent step, presence manipulation and those are just basics. This style evolves by using other skills that will help with Phantom skills. In my case I use skill called charge in my Phantom movement. I won’t tell you others I use. So you need to train your body in all ways, learn basics of different sub skills and only then learn Phantom style skills and train in it. All sub skills must be at least at apprentice stage for you to learn Phantom skills. Hope you are ready.”

Phantom style sounds OP, but from 1000 only one will survive and even if you survive, you will be stuck at skillful stage because it is so hard to advance in it. It will be fun.

“I await your guidance.”

And so, my training began, wait! What is my teacher’s name?

“What is your name? My name is Ris by the way.”

“Just call me master.”

“Ok master.”

Let’s fun begin.

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This chapter is more than 2 times as long as normal. Take it as me saying sorry for late release. It’s quite possible I made few mistakes in explanation because I had tons of ideas and wasn’t able to write them due to my trip. So poll said 2 year time skip after this so it will happen. You can say that it will be a new arc. I’m not sure how I will do it but I know what it will contain. It will be possibly smaller than this one but there will be action and fights. Once more, sorry for the late release.

Hope you enjoyed.