28 Sword soul

After looking at his status, found that there is no major change except increase his agility due to breakthrough in soru.

He didn't have much advancement in sword related skill, as he didn't work on it and gave his all time on sword intent.

He went to Z and showed him progress in soru. Z was happy to see that he reached at very high level at soru. And now was the time to learn Geppo.

Z taught him basics of Geppo and thus Alden started training in Geppo and was very excited about walking on the air.

Due to being in very high level in soru, he could practice Geppo very fast and in 4 months he reached minor accomplishment in it. Now he could stay at one place in the air and could also walk in the air at slow speed.

When he walked on the air first time, he was exhilarated. He played in the air that day. He felt like he was a kid who got a new game.

When he reached the age of 11 years, he was very happy. But it was not because he reached minor accomplishment in Geppo, but he could finally manifest sword intent.

It was not at all sharp. You can say it was blunt. But it was first time he could manifest it. His own sword intent.

He happily told this news to Z and asked him to teach sword techniques.

First, Z taught him how to redirect his sword intent to his arms and how to take it out of his arms with waving them. After that he taught him about how to embed his sword intent in his sword and then use it to direct this intent to opponent.

Now his first goal was to redirect sword intent to his arms and then direct it outside. It took him almost a month to do that.

Next he started using sword and tried redirect his sword intent into sword. But when he tried that he felt his sword intent getting stronger. As if some energy mixed with his sword intent making it stronger in power.

When Alden told about this to Z, he asked Alden to show his sword to him. When he touched the sword and tried to force his sword intent in it, he felt a strong rejection from it. He frowned a little but the was shocked as sword itself left his hand and went in to Alden's hands.

After coming over to his shock, he told Alden: " Most probably this sword contains the sword soul. Which is very rare and I only heard about it in the legend. There was a very strong swordsman at the stage of Sword God. He roamed the world and made many friends and enemies. At young age he went and challenged many swordsmen. He came back and settled down when he reached the level of Sword God. But he was betrayed and killed using poison by his close friend. When they went to kill his family too, his sword started shining and showing killing intent and sword intent of sword god and killed all of them saving his family. But that sword flew into the sky and was not found after that. Your sword seems to be similar to that like it has its own soul and choices. It chose you and when I tried to wield it, it rejected me and went back to your arms."

Alden took a bit time to digest the information, but then he remembered the time when he got the sword of Kusanagi. At that time he felt its emotions of being happy. So this sword has its own soul. He traced the sword with his fingers with happiness and sword started to vibrate and shine as it felt its owners happiness and reacted to that.

After that, Alden worked on his sword intent using his sword. He also resumed his training in Fierce Tiger Sword Art.

He kept training in Rokushiki and Haki.

For the next one and half year he trained to reach his goals before his training with Z gets over.

He reached major accomplishment in Geppo 3 months before the deadline and got the reward of Transformation technique. He also reached peak accomplishment in Tekkai and Kami-e at the age of 12. His body had become very strong and flexible. Using tekkai He could take on cannon ball without a scratch. He could also use combination of soru and geppo to gain a very fast speed and dodging ability in the sky. It was similar to the method Kamisori of Rob Lucci of CP9.

He also learned basics of Shigan and Rankyaku. But didn't concentrate much on them.

His haki also had breakthroughs. But he didn't try conqueror's haki in front of Z.

He developed his sword intent to very high level but still couldn't breakthrough to sword master level. Z told him that he needed to challenge many swordsmen in this vast world to gain experience and find his own way to the top of the swordsmanship.

Z asked him to come with him to become Marine, but he doesn't want to join them as he doen't believe in their justice. He also assured Z that he will not become pirate. He has his own understanding of justice. He will stop whoever is defying them. He will not become Marine or Pirate. He will carve his own path in this vast world.