The Making of a Monster - Part 1

"From the doubt in your voice, you know as well as I do that despite your improvements in our Battle games, your strategy will not save you in this fight. You do not yet know how to apply the skill that you have learned on the board to real-life battles. Nor is it something that I can properly teach you. Your Battle training serves as nothing more than the building of potential – the gathering of fuel for a grand fire that may be ignited later in your life," Dominus said.

"Then what do I even do?" Beam shouted, unable to help himself. "I've got nothing then, do I?"

"Well… I suppose you've got a new sword," Dominus said weakly. "That will at least count for something. It seems you're better suited for a sword than you were a knife, so improving your technique with it over the course of today will at least amount to something… but..."