Combat lessons

[ - Attribute (sword novice) is active ]

A young boy in his early adolescents was swinging a wooden sword at a target dummy, he had jet black hair and brown eyes, he had a rounded face that was yet to grow out of its childhood, he wore a grey a academic tracksuit with white lines running across the sides, he wore a exhausted expression on his face.

'"Ah ha ah"

Catching his breath he thought

'damn how do the others keep this up for so long I'm only 30 swings in and im already exhausted'

Then the instructor called out to all the students, he was the combat instructor for the Aurora school of Academy and Combat .

"That's enough for today next up is shooting practice take a 10 min break and come to the range"

The exhausted boy laid down on the grass to rest his body

'Ah nothing better than laying down'

'System show stats'

As he thought that, strings of invisible energy starts forming around the empty space in front of his eyes. Only the person whom the stats belongs to can view them.

[ -Name: Kei Clover

-Class: dormant (Rank: D)

-Title: none

-Ability: none

-Attributes: (Sword novice), (Bow novice ), (Gun Starter), (Lazy)

-Items: (Wooden Sword), (lucky charm) ]

He focused on (Sword Novice) soon a different set of strings appeared

[ -Attribute: (sword novice)

-Attribute lvl: 3

-Attribute description: You are a Novice at wielding the sword

-Attribute effect: You can wield a small variety of swords at a low level ]

'i still need seven more lvl before the attribute can become sword adept, can i really become a pro hunter at this rate?'

As he was studying history stats a voice called him from behind,

"Kei, you done?"

The voice belonged to a handsome young man around the same age as kei, he had lustrous Silver hair and black eyes, his face was young and had a round shape to it but also had a hint of sharpness, he had a light smile on his lips and also wore the academic tracksuit. His name was Chrome Lionheart

" Hey Chrome"

I replied with barely moving my head as the thought of it was too exhausting

" Ya I'm tired i only got to like 30 swings, how many did you do"

Chrome replied with a slight smirk on his face

"Around hundred something, I stopped counting after a while"

"Damn you and your monstrous stamina" Kei said in a defeated voice.

"Don't worry Kei you'll also get there one day i only have this much stamina because of my attribute" Chrome said in an encouraging tone.

I sighed "We've been here for three months already and barely progressed"

" Kei, you know my dad said the best way to increase your power is to battle abominations, but we can't yet fight them, so we should train and make ourselves stronger"

Chrome made a fist and his eyes was filled with shine as he talked about training.

He was right fighting one real battle was the same as a hundred hours of training, but with our current strength even fighting Beasts of low rank was a death sentence. Not to mention that to fight these abominations they had to find a gate or stray abominations.

Even if a gate opened in the middle of city where his academy was currently situated a Party of Sentinels and high Rank Initiates would deal with it.

"Well anyways next up is shooting practice let's get to the range before the instructor chews us out"

Kei said as he barely managed to stand up to get going.

They left the sword training area and entered the firing range, there all kinds of weapons were laid out from bows to crossbows to guns and rifles.

It looked like the different eras of human history was bought together and laid out in front of them.

Kei was fairly confident of his shooting skills but he was still a novice

The instructor called out to the students

" Today use the bow for practice "

A student standing behind us raised his hand

"What is it"

the instructor said after noticing the hand

The student replied

" Aren't guns better, why are we still using bows"

The teacher picked up a gun from the table all the weapons were kept on and started explaining

" Guns aren't necessarily better sure they have more power than a mundane bow but they are rare to get after the cataclysm, not to mention it's easier to maintain a bow"

" Major sulphur and charcoal mines were abandoned during the cataclysm and what little protected mines we currently have is not enough to provide for ammunition"

"Teacher" a girl in the front row asked "then why do we have guns here if bows are better'

"That's because there are certain abilities a person can get that is suitable with a gun"

"Not to mention sometimes you get items that are similar to gun when you kill abominations, although it's rare it can happen, so better be prepared"

After that lengthy explanation we went to our respective tables where a bow was kept and readied to launch arrows down the field.

" Kei, look"

He was pointing to the most beautiful girl in our class