89 INSIGHTS

It's been 200 years since the arrival of Shisui, Itachi and Kin at the capital city Eden. During these 200 years, they spent most of their time cultivating in Time chamber. Every week, they would have sparring sessions with Ichika, who used all kinds of weapons on them.

Everytime she limited her strength to their own level. First few decades, she used to spar with them using a spherical mace. When they got used to her mace attacks, she shifted her weapon to Tomahawks. Whenever they got used to her fighting style, she would come at them with new fighting styles, patterns and weapons. What's strange is , she kept using non compatible weapon techniques. She used Sword techniques with Epsilon axes, halberd techniques with a mace and spear techniques with sword.

Initially they were easily able to adapt to her weird fighting attacks, but as time went on, she started to perfectly merge the non compatible weapon techniques and even came up with her own techniques.

But she showed exponential growth in wielding Battle axes, Swords and Bow and arrow. The reason behind her growth is, merging her will with the 3 Avatars.

Gundahar was the first Avatar she tried to control. But the first time, she tried to take over Gundahar, she was completely swept up by his raging berserk power. It's like the body is completely filled up with explosive power and strength, enough to smash anyone to dust with just a punch.

She spent more than 20 years to gain full control over the berserk and violent thoughts in Gundahar mind. When she succeeding in gaining control over his body, she started to go through his memories and fights.

His story is the same as what her teacher told her, a slave turned into a hero. His life is full of pain, anguish and struggling. But he overcame these thoughts by completely merging his emotions with his fighting techniques.

His weapons are the twin double sided axes called Shahur, which means smasher of thousands. As long as he has those axes in his hands, there is no one he can't kill or no world he could not destroy. It is with these 2 axes he slaughtered 23 sovereign rulers in the past.

Even though he is a berserk type fighter, his skill in wielding Shahur is second to none. Normally battle axes and axe techniques are more suited to aggressive fighting style of attacking enemies head on or taking them by surprise. But Gundahar was able to wield Shahur for both aggressive and defensive fighting styles, leaving no openings to his enemies.

Ichika studied all of the axe techniques in his memories and practiced them a lot in the time chamber. But she was only able to bring out 50% of its potential with her body. But when she used the same techniques and Shahur through Gundahar Avatar, she was able to bring out close to 120% of the potential. It is only then she understood her teacher's words even more, that she has to develop her own fighting style that is perfectly suited to her.

The second avatar she took control over is Emperor Manu. Compared to Gundahar violent thoughts, Manu's thoughts were like silent fury. He is someone who believed anger and other emotions will always bring out immense potential and energy from a individual. So instead of wasting this energy on his enemies pointlessly, he would always use anger as a fuel to drive his determination. Throughout his life, he had complete control over his emotions and never made a false move. But whenever he made a move, it would always be decisive and destructive towards his enemies. As he always maintained a calm exterior appearance, he was called Cold Hearted Emperor by his enemies.

It took Ichika close to 70 years to control Manu's avatar. Compared to Gundahar who was a loner for most of life, Manu's memories were almost endless. But his life was also similarly filled with endless war against the evil cultivators. Ichika gained a lot of strategic, political and economical knowledge from his memories. She also learned to have a lot more control over her emotions. She still remembered, how her emotions ran berserk at the thought of her teacher's injury and almost reduced the restricted area to a barren land.

Just like Ichika, Manu's main weapon was Sword. His sword is named Aura. Aura is a pitch black metallic long sword forged from Chrone metal, which is the toughest metal in existence. Manu's sword style was simple but deadly, there are no extravagant or elegant moves in his fighting style. His sword style is solely based on the 72 basic sword moves. He spent his entire life working hard on the basic moves and only using different combinations of these basic moves to overpower his enemies. At his peak, none of his enemies were able to survive more than 3 moves.

Ichika's True Asura Sword style only has 54 basic moves. So she completely memorized the 72 basic sword moves of Emperor Manu and started to practice them. What Shocked Ichika is, most of these basic moves are also compatible with other weapons. This also helped her to make rapid improvements in her fighting abilities.

E'Lara was the last and longest Avatar, she took time to control. It took her close to 100 years to completely gain control over E'Lara's Avatar. E'Lara was the most versatile of all the Avatars. She is a master of many arts and styles. She has incredible knowledge in herbs, medicine, runes and formations. She is also proficient in Archery, staff, Dagger mastery and hand to hand combat.

From the start Ichika had some kind of prejudice towards Archers, as she thought they are only good at long range fighting and backing up their allies. But after going through E'Lara memories, she has complete respect towards archers and she even feels, they are the most destructive allround fighters.

E'Lara bow is called Starlight. It is made from the branch of the world tree Yggdrasil. E'Lara placed various kinds of damage reduction and auto repair runes on it. She also modified the bow a lot, from the traditional one. The main parts of traditional bow are grip, limbs and string. But she added metallic blades on the back of the starlight bow limbs.

When she is far, she would just fire arrows at a rapid pace towards her enemies, but when she is surrounded by a mob of enemies, she would simply use the bow as a staff to fend them off. Since the limbs of the starlight are bladed, they would deal critical damage than a normal staff. She would also compliment her staff skills with her hand to hand combat and dagger skills.

She survived hundreds of wars fighting enemies both at close range and long range. Only after observing E'lara memories, did she understood that Bow is not a simple platform to launch arrows, but can also be used as a deadly weapon in close combat. Ichika decided to fully explore the fighting style of E'Lara and spent even more time in the virtual simulation center.

After observing the memories of all the 3 Avatars, Ichika understood one thing. various fighting and weapon styles are only invented to take down particular group of enemies in a fast and efficient manner, but they are completely useless if she comes across someone who is familiar with her fighting styles.

So she decided to completely focus only on the basic moves of the weapons and use various combinations of these basic moves depending on her enemies. In this way, she will not be restricted while fighting but will also have more options to get rid of her enemies.

Royal Palace, Ichika's office

After completing her daily training, she was having a meeting with Shisui, Itachi, Zetsu and Kin in her office. During the last 200 years all of them showed good progress in cultivation and battle strength under Ichika's training(torture).

Similarly they also suffered under the hands of Sylvia Rose, their etiquette teacher. Because of her teachings, the aura around them is no longer wild, but it is refined to complete elegance and charm. Sylvia is the only person after Ichika, they are afraid of the most.

Sylvia is a free lance teacher from Elven race and is also a high paragon cultivator. In her eyes, Itachi, Shisui and Kin are just another group of students, but with higher pay. So she went completely all out during her classes leaving some deep scars in their minds. There were even few occasions when she wanted to offer free advices to Ichika, as she felt Ichika is also lacking in some of her manners. But whenever she brings up the topic, Ichika would always vanish from the scene like a ghost.

"Mother, what is with this sudden meeting?"- Kin

"Good news. Mother, father and the rest are just a day away from this world. So I am thinking on what to do next?"- Itachi

All 4 of them showed joyous expression at this news as they started to feel a bit lonely in this massive palace. With new members joining them, the palace will be lot more lively from now on.

"Sister, what is it, that you are thinking about?"- Itachi

Itachi was more curious to know what's in Ichika mind at the moment, because whenever Ichika spends time thinking, there will be something big happening.

"I am thinking on how to give a strong impression regarding our so called ancestors and parents to our Empire's citizens and this world inhabitants. You know, they always say first impression is the best impression. So I want to use this opportunity to leave a strong impression of our family strength in the hearts of both friends and enemies.

So do you have any ideas to help me out?"- Ichika

All 4 of them became completely clueless at Ichika's strange problem, but they had to agree with Ichika's thoughts. So they also started to brainstorm for better ideas. But only after 10 minutes, Ichika came to a conclusion.

"Let's go with a grand entrance and presentation"- Ichika

"Huh?"- all 4 of them

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Author's Name: Hello all. I want to change the title of this story. So help me out as usual by suggesting a good title for the story. There will a P.O.V chapter regarding Sylvia Rose in the next few chapters.