Martial Art Training (II)

In the life of a cultivator, a weapon is akin to another limb. A person without a weapon is like having a handicap. But it does not mean anyone can handle any weapon.

Because like the cultivators' Elemental affinity, the weapons had them too. And if you use a weapon with fire affinity while having Earth, the weapon cannot unleash its optimum power.

Although this was the problem for general people, not for Ryu.

After taking the weapon from Roland, a smile could be seen on his face. As soon as he got the weapon in the hand, he removed the cloth. Ryu was silent. He could not utter a single word.

This was the first time in his whole life that he had seen this type of weapon.

Seeing the child in a daze, Roland spoke, "This is a battle axe which has Four elemental affinity!"

It wasn't Ryu who was shocked by this, although a little. The one who was shocked the most was John. He knew what the price of such an extravagant weapon might be.

It was a weapon of a warrior, a weapon of defining strength. The aura it was radiating was nothing to scoff at.

Ryu held it in his hands and could feel a little weight in his hands.

Ryu was still looking at the axe as if it mesmerized him. It was not because the axe was some bewitching type of weapon, but the axe itself showed how beautiful it can be.

While having brownish wood as the base for handle, it was as if the earth was drenched in the wood for years, while one could see some fine white lines among it.

It connected the part of the tip with round bluish crystal, which was giving the axe an unearthly look.

While the crystal was not only at the center of the tip and handle, but there were also two faces to the axe.

One being shorter than the other while the other making a half arc while having a bright red head. The shorter part was just around 25cm long while the bigger part of the head being 60cm long.

The axe was like an artwork which has manifested itself. As he saw the weapon, John's eyes went wide.

While still being baffled, he asked, "Is... is that an aq... aqua dragon pearl?"

"Yes, it is!" Roland responded while looking towards Ryu.

As knowing this, John wanted to say many things, but just as he was about to ask many questions, Roland spoke again,

"Its handle is formed from the millennium blowing wood, which has good elemental affinity for Earth and Wind!"

As getting a sudden weakness in his head. It was John now who was feeling a little dizzy and was about to fall. Roland spoke again.

"While the tip of the handle is created from mixing the burning sun root in the two-hundred-year-old iron."

As darkness swept over the light and all the controls of the body vanished, John was about to fall to the ground. Amilia held him standing and said,

"Ryu, you get to know about the weapon more, while I take your father inside. He still has some weakness left!"

Roland turned towards the couple and just gave a sly smile, but at that moment, Amilia had already turned and started to take John to their room. She did not see the smile on Roland's face.

On the other hand, Roland exactly knew what had happened to John. He knew John's nature very well. Might be better than Amilia, too.

John was a simple man who had lived a life of the poor. He had the things he could sell if he wanted to, but he refused.

Which things?

Yes, the things left in the memory chest were available to him too. If he wanted, he could sell some of it and live a rich life somewhere, too.

As there were two options in front of John, he directly chose the poor one. It was a matter of heritage over an easy life, and he chose heritage without batting an eye.

This is also the reason Roland has been proud of him.

As turning his eyes to Ryu, who was still looking at the axe, Roland said,

"It is your weapon, so you can admire it later if you want. As for now, just listen to me!"

Ryu's body jerked a little as coming out of daze as he turned towards his grandpa.

the grandpa understood that the child is now full attention towards him so he asked, "Which are the elements you can control as of now?"

It was a little odd question for Ryu, who has all elemental affinity, but the reason he asked was simple.

Ryu had all elemental affinity, but the technique required to control the element was different.

As of now Ryu had only learned to control the elements in the nature to help his cultivation, 'then what about controlling actual element?'

"I dont know any technique to control an element as of now!" Ryu said as he looked down with a slightly dejected face.

"Hmm? If you dont know any technique, how did you attack the Lentor?" It puzzled Roland.

"That... what I used was not the fire element but normal spiritual Qi while attacking the Lentor!" Ryu spoke while stuttering a little.

It was not a lie, it was just that he never told him about what he did. At first he wanted to tell him, but now when his grandpa was asking him directly, he was not ready to lie on his face.

"What? you used the spiritual Qi and not the fire elemental one!" Roland was shocked beyond the norm.

And it was not because the answer Ryu gave was outside the scope of regular thinking, but because it was very hard to do.

"Yes, that's what I did!" Ryu answered as he pulled his head upward and looking at Roland's face. But seeing his face, he asked,

"What happened, grandpa?"

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