Back to Training *sigh*

Jason woke up thanks to Boops banging pots and pans together in his brain space. Jason slid out of bed and groggily walked to the bathroom. He reached the faucet and turned it on to splash some water on his face.

After getting slightly woken up by the water, Jason got ready to go into the capsule.

While he was getting ready he could hear the twins waking up in the room next to him.

He heard a crash and Perseus asking Arjuna if he was okay.

Arjuna responded by saying lazily

"sleep"

Arjuna probably rolled off of the bunk bed.

Jason asked Boops to make sure it wasn't serious and opened his capsule. The capsule had a sleek design with black and dark blue as the color of the outside, and comfortable black resting space for Jason's body while he went into the game world. The top of the capsule was clear, so anyone, in reality, could see the person inside.

Jason stepped into the capsule and laid down in a sleeping position. The capsule lowered in front of Jason until it had completely covered him. And a screen projected instructions to Jason to close his eyes. Which he had already done.

Before long a familiar notification went into Jason's head

[logging into WOW]

[welcome Arch]

Jason opened his eyes in the inn he had logged out of. He looked outside through the window, it was still dark, but according to Boops it was going to be morning soon, so he had to hurry.

Jason quickly checked all of his stuff and hurried out of the inn, giving a quick thankyou to the innkeeper who was still at the front desk of the inn waiting to serve any customers.

Jason, once he reached the streets started to run, it was just a light jog, but he quickly passed by everything, from Matildas Magic Shop to the inn that he and Perseus had met.

Jason reached the gate of the city Herdita quickly showed the guards the rose pin, to which they all backed off in respect and allowed Jason to exit quickly.

Jason's simple job that didn't tire him out in the slightest evolved into a full-blown run. The City of Herdita had an excellent climate and was sunny all season long. But even though the skies were still blue and the sun was still shining, it was fall and the trees were steadily losing leaves.

When Jason passed by and leaf-covered trails he left a virtual whirlwind of tree leaves behind him thanks to his speed.

Jason noticed the effect he was making on the trees, and honestly thought it was one of the coolest things ever. Nevermind the meeting at sunrise. Jason started to deliberately look for trails and placed full of leaves so that he could blow them all into the sky with his speed.

A few minutes later it looked like the sky was pouring down leaves. And in their darkish colors, it became a mesh of brown, maple, some light green here and there and some light yellow. All of them after being flying up into the air, by the wind that Jason had created started to slowly fall. The sun decided to come up at that time, its weak glows shone onto the leaves. Some of the leaves had morning dew on it, so when the sun shone on the leaves, it making them look like mini stars were on each of the leaves.

Jason stood there mesmerized by his own work. Before Jason didn't really like fall, the season was like a prelude to the cold winter. But now gazing at the leaves that softly fell down to the ground, in contrast to the loud rustling sound they made when Jason made them fly up.

[you have witnessed a piece of nature]

[your have gained a slight bonus in stats temporailty]

Jason started to like fall, just a bit.

Anyways he had a meeting and judging from the sunrise, he was late. Jason prayed that the teacher this time wasn't going to be an intense person or he was going to be kinda screwed for being late.

Jason quickly ran across to the trail and countied his run to the training center at breakneck speed.

A few minutes later he reached the mansion. The red mansion with almost everything red, Jason still had bad memories about it.

He quickly went around the field to see a singular figure standing there, waiting for him.

He was dressed in a knights armor, with shining metal all around him except for the face, his helmet was in his hands and a large shield was in his other hand.

Jason looked at the brown-haired tank. The person who never talked but was like a pillar of support for everyone in the group.

Colby turned around to look at Jason. His piercing eyes looking at Jason and his short brown hair reflecting a bit of light. His sharp face was set in an emotionless face as he looked at Jason.

Jason tried his best to imagine how things would play out. He hadn't ever heard Colby speak once. But his actions always spoke more than words. Colby tossed Jason a manual and walked over to a tree and sat down to wait.

Jason looked at the book, it read.

[5th form of the rose knight swordsmanship]

[written by Jontron commander of the red barrack members]

Jason flipped through the book and started to read. Boops kept on saying that he should put it into his inventory for him to scan, but Jason wanted to check it out first.

The book about the 5th form talked about what it was mostly used for. Unlike the 3rd form, it was a defensive form used for defending yourself. And when Jason looked a bit at the diagrams it seemed that mana manipulation was needed as the form asked the user to circulate mana into the arms and legs. It seems that the form could be used by almost any weapon but the most preferred one was the shield, for obvious reasons.

After he looked through it he put it into the inventory for Boops to analyze. Boops confined what Jason thought about the 5th form. But he said that it would be best if it was in Jason's brain again.

Jason knew that it was for the best and held his breath and gritted his teeth. Boops made sure that Jason was okay with it, and started to process.

Jason clenched his fists and his breathing started to get even more labored. His brain felt like somebody was smacking it with a club over and over again. It was much easier than the pain he got from the gaming skill, thanks to his affinity with the form.

It still hurt like heck though and it took quite a bit of will power to not yell or let out a noise. Colby thankful wasn't paying attention to Jason, instead, Colby is seems was dozing off he probably worked so hard that he couldn't help it.

Jason quickly reviewed the form. In short, it was an enforcement technique, it strengthed a certain part of your body with mana and if you had a weapon, it would ether strengthen that part of your body that was supporting it, or the weapon itself.

It was pretty simple, and Jason was kinda confused about why this was a form and not just a basic thing.

Jason called out to Colby who was still sleeping

"Hey Colby, I'm done!"

Colby's eyes snapped open and he stood up and walked to him. Jason started to remember how tall Colby really was. He towered above Jason even from how far away he was.

When Colby reached Jason, he signaled with his hands for Jason show the form he just learned

Jason nodded and took his iron sword and started to channel mana into it. It was similar to the magic swordsman technique that Charlie had taught him. But he then pushed a stream of mana into his arms and then lead it to his feet.

He dug his feet into the ground and readied his arms to endure a blow. The form had lots of different stances. Most of them were shield stances but most of them could be transformed into sword stances too.

Honestly, Jason was a bit proud at learning this form so quickly, compared to the hours he spent on the 1st and 2nd form, this was a breeze.

That was until a huge force slammed into his sword and Jason was promptly sent flying a few meters away.

Jason managed to land on his feet thanks to his high agility. He looked back up at the direction where the force came from and saw Colby standing there with his shield positioned in front of him. His shield was giving off a bit of steam, and its brilliant metal color shone in a menacing light.

Jason's brain stopped thinking about what he should do next, and only thought about how his shield actually gave off steam. Like seriously that was just stupid. How hard did Cobly have to hit so that a bit of steam was made?

Colby lowered his stance and Jason's thoughts immediately shut up. He quickly braced himself.