A bottleneck.

A black Mercedes Benz S-class parked outside of Arrow tech HQ office building.

"Uncle Belford, you can take the day off. You have been working hard for the past couple of days, please take rest!" Erisviel said as she stepped outside of the car.

"Little princess, I don't mind driving you kids around. It's also part of my job, you don't have to worry about me." Belford said smiling to Erisviel.

"But your job is not that of a driver. It's to lead a team of elite guards!" Erisviel retorted.

"Still part of the job as your security, little princess!" The old man Belford heartily replied laughing.

Erisviel sighed, giving up on convincing Belford to take the day off.

"Then see you later, uncle Belford!" Erisviel waving toward Belford turned around and walked into the office building.

Just as she entered, everyone at the reception floor stopped like the time suddenly froze up.

Erisviel inwardly sighed seeing the scene.

It happens every time she comes to the building.

Everyone gets nervous and freeze's up like statues until she leaves.

Erisviel doesn't know why her employee's fears her.

But unknown to Erisviel, the employee's does not fear her but have mad respect for her.

It's just her monotone voice and her non-emotional neutral face along with her icy demeanour that makes her unapproachable and a bit scary is the reason others are tense around Erisviel.

A young woman in her mid-20s approached Erisviel.

The young woman is Erisviel's P.A, Xiao Meiyin.

"Good morning, Ma'am." Meiyin greeted Erisviel.

"Morning, Meiyin." Erisviel nodding to Meiyin greeted back.

"Give me a brief of today's schedule, Meiyin." As they walked towards the private elevator, Erisviel asked for her schedule.

Nodding to Erisviel, Meiyin told her about her schedule.

"There's a meeting, ma'am has at 10:30. One meeting at 12:30 and two in the evening, ma'am."

"The Prince Industries and the Zwei Heilige Corporation requested a meeting. Both meetings overlap with the schedule they have requested."

"What should we do about their request, ma'am?" Meiyin asked Erisviel.

"What is their agenda for their meeting, Meiyin?" Erisviel inquired furrowing her brows in thought.

The two giants are tied to her friends, Nyx and Sabastian.

She needs to talk to them first before agreeing on anything related to the two corporations.

"The Prince Industries are interested in having a partnership with us, it's about a bionic prosthetic project-"

Erisviel listened to Meiyin as she made her way to her office.

~~~

At Erisviel's office.

Erisviel took out her phone and sent a message in the misfit gang Discordia server tagging both Nyx and Sabastian.

[Chaos - @Goddess of Night @Foolish wise WeebKing I got two of your families asking for a meeting.]

"What about the Zwei Heilige Corp?" Erisviel asked as Meiyin finished talking about the Prince Industries.

"As for the Zwei Heilige Corp, the Zwei Heilige medical centre in Frankfurt is undergoing a redevelopment project. They want us to convert their existing powerplant to an Aether station to support the growth of the medical centre. So they can increase the ability of the electrical and heating system, also support the future power needs of the medical centre. They want to have a long-term contract with us, to supply them with Aether energy cores."

"!!!" Erisviel was surprised by the proposal of Zwei Heilige Corp.

If Arrow tech takes the contract, this will be the first major contract of their company.

Zwei Heilige Corp's contract proposal is much better than the partnership offered by Prince Industries.

The Prince Industries offered a 3-year partnership for their new bionic prosthetic project.

Whereas Zwei Heilige Corp's contract is a semi-permanent contract.

Arrow Tech is the only company in the world that has control of the Aether energy.

So Zwei Heilige Corp will have to buy Aether cores from Arrow tech to have the Aether station running.

Erisviel's phone suddenly vibrated.

Checking her phone, Erisviel saw messages from Nyx and Sabastian.

[Goddess of Night - Don't accept anything from Prince Industries. It's probably Lyle, if he gets Aether core it will stabilize his standing in the Prince Industries. Which is a fu**over for me! Dammit, that ba**ard!!!

Foolish wise WeebKing - I just checked it, it's very beneficial to Arrow tech. So you should consider taking it, it's my older brother who proposed this to my parents. He is the one in charge of it, he is an honest and sincere person. You won't regret it.]

Smiling, Erisviel replied to them.

[Chaos - @Goddess of Night Okay. I'll 'politely' decline. @Foolish wise WeebKing Okay.]

"Arrange a meeting with the Zwei Heilige Corp tomorrow afternoon. As for Prince Industries, 'politely' decline them." Erisviel said to Meiyin before taking her seat at her desk.

She has a meeting soon so she needs to prepare for the meeting.

~~~

*tap*

As Aaron tapped the entered button, the lighting on the floor dimmed down.

In front of him stood five metal like obelisks with glowing patterns on them.

"Well, this finishes up upgrading Nameless' technology network to new heights! So no more explosions or over-stressing the servers." Aaron said holding himself. His body is shivering as it's cold down here in the server room.

Quickly leaving the server room, Aaron sent a message to Erisviel informing her not to worry about Nameless' network.

~~~

*thud*

Sabastian fell to the ground after being slammed into the wall by Zulkernyn.

"Argh! That hurt a lot..." Sabastian groaned holding his stomach.

"You have become strong, Zulk!" Sabastian said with a wry smile on his face.

Zulkernyn and Sabastian were sparring, it's Zulkernyn who won against Sabastian.

Zulkernyn was looking at Sabastian in thought.

He was analysing the spar session that he just finished with Sabastian.

After thinking for a while, Zulkernyn spoke to Sabastian.

"It's not that I have become strong. But you, my friend, have become weak. What's going Sabastian, I can see that you were focussed on our spar session but your fighting prowess regressed a lot!"

Sabastian looked down on his hands.

He sighed deeply before replying to Zulkernyn.

"I have reached a bottleneck in my Swordsmanship. The sword art that I practice was originally created by a dear friend of mine. Over the years I practised the sword art but you see, it was kind of incompatible with my own sword art that I used to practice. In my previous life, I only knew to take lives with my sword not to protect lives. I had to completely abandon my previous-self to learn this. As I've mastered the swordsmanship I changed the sword art to suit myself more, I improvised and created this brand new sword art! The essence of the sword art remains the same but I managed to make a new sword art combining my knowledge of 277 sword arts and 1233 sword skills."

"The results as you know is this 'Weiss Rauschen', my sword art. There's no problem with my speed, there's no problem with my swordsmanship but there's a problem with my mentality! Recently, I was able to surpass my limits and go into this bullet-time state. I thought about it hard but I found out it was not a one time fluke. Yes, sure a person might go into a similar state in shock when they experience a near-death event. But that was not luck, it was all me! I subconsciously triggered it but I can't trigger it at my will. I have tried many ways even went far as to shoot myself before Aurora stopped that bullet, haha. It's so close, yet so far! I know I can do it but how? I'm stumped, bro! I've been pondering over this too much that it's starting to affect my swordsmanship." Sabastian said clutching his hair.

Shaking his head, Sabastian smiled to Zulkernyn.

"Don't worry, I'm fine. I will figure something out but I don't think in my current state I will be able to do any fieldwork for Nameless."

Sabastian grabbed the wooden sword beside him before getting up.

"I'm going to do my usual routine, want to join?"

"No, I'm feeling tired after sparring with you for so long. How come you have so much energy on you after such intense sparring sessions?" Zulkernyn said feeling impressed by Sabastian's stamina.

"Haha, actually I'm beat! But I must do this. It's a way to temper myself, my mentality, a way to stay firm and stay true to my path. Watch this!"

(A/N: Sabastian has a daily routine of doing 6000 repetitive sword swings 3 times a day. The opening of chapter 97 was Sabastian swinging his sword 6000 times.)

Sabastian gripped the wooden sword in his hand firmly.

He walked to the centre of the training ground.

"You know there's a saying in this world that I like very much." Sabastian said distancing his legs from each other, the left leg in front and the right leg at the back.

Taking his stance, Sabastian closed his eyes.

"I fear not the man who has practised 10,000 techniques once," His voice resounded in the training ground.

He held the wooden sword in front of him.

The grip on his wooden sword loosened a bit before his gripped tightened.

Inhaling a bit of air, Sabastian swung his sword behind before slashing as fast as he could in front of him.

*swiiiiisshhhhhh*

Zulkernyn watched the scene in front of him with awe in his eyes.

A wind blade was created by Sabastian's slash.

The wind blade slashed through the air with a slight whistling sound landing on a punching bag at the corner of the training ground.

"But I fear the man who has practised one technique 10,000 times."

"But in my case, it's 18,000 times a day." Sabastian said smiling at Zulkernyn.