83 Reflections about the Future

Tock! Tock! The sound of the clash of wooden swords crossing each other became more common and intense every day in the Strogueher Mansion.

"No, you're hitting it wrong," Luke warned Nathalia. "You're applying too much energy into your fingers when really you should be using it on your wrist." 

Then the half-wolf demonstrated the correct way to strike diagonally. With one violent stroke, he hit the right rib region of the training dummy, which was more than two meters tall. 

The young Elf clapped her hands together several times as her eyes sparkled from seeing the precision of Luke's blow. Clap! Clap! Clap!

"If it was a real opponent, he would have blocked it." Alexis alerted them from the corner of the room. She was at the end of a 1 kg bag of cocoa beans. 

Luke simply pretended she wasn't there. "Now, try again." He asked Nathalia.