10. Practice makes perfect

'When you want the villain to talk, they jump in, and when you want to finish dinner quickly, that's when they do their interview.

When he was about to slice me with his short sword, I took the katana from my hand and put it in front of me and no, it's not that I powerfully hit back as if it were op.

They sent me against the wall, I felt iron in my throat, my lungs ached and my hands hurt, it seems that the guy was kind in his attack or I was underestimated rather and he let me activate the items, but since he only said one sentence and advanced, the items were not ready yet.

Since I fainted in the test, they couldn't do physical tests on me, but I guess I'm Rank D if I'm not mistaken, and they will wonder how I can withstand a blow from class B because as I said, I can't or should I just say no along.

This mask is a B-rank item called the [Mask of the Forgotten] worn by some kind of general from the ancient days of demons, when the general died, years later, in the reign of the demon king in his honor made this mask an artifact, its effect is to use the user's mana to improve their physical stats

The reason why I don't die when using an item that exceeds my rank is that this mask doesn't ask for it or I should thank the katana for another b rank.

[The usurper's katana] This katana, originally absorbed blood from the enemy for his abilities, but was modified by the demon king for his daughter in case of emergency.

It is connected to the mask and one of its main characteristics is that it absorbs mana from the air over time or when cutting and wounding enemies, it removes their mana and stores it for powerful damage.

In order to unite artifacts it is necessary that they are compatible with each other, a perfect example would be Kiriko's armor, 4 pieces of equipment given and blessed by each of the 4 races, and a sword given by the goddess herself.

The mask helps to raise my stats along with the sword, which saves me from being sucked and with all that would make me reach c rank if I'm not mistaken, but it would be difficult to win with someone 1 rank ahead of me, without skills and no sword style.

While the bald man looked at the 2 women with unhidden lust, I searched my memory for my past life sword style.

When I was young, my mother forced me to go practice martial arts, among the many that I practiced was kendo, they took me out of there at 3 months because I did not obey, I did not want to remain like an idiot with my hands up all the time, the sword would tire, brother.

so I made up a new stance, I call it [the lazy stance] don't judge me by my sense of appointment.

After leaving the dojo, out of courage I perfected that style and after 2 years of polishing it, I returned to the dojo and challenged my old teacher who said that kendo is unique and there will never be such a good thing as a lazy stance.

I defeated him and left, never coming back.

Although I did not lose the memories, I would need muscle memory again, it only remains to scratch my nose and get into position.

I got up and in front of the 3 I stood in front of the 2 women and with all the artifacts already activated, I realized that I only have 2 minutes left before the sword's mana runs out and I will be a D and die.

Ren put his right foot supporting his weight and the left one loose and the sword with 2 hands pointing to the ground as if it were going to rest on it, the 3 people who observed this, although they did not know each other, the 3 thought.

'Does he get lazy until he stands up that he uses his weapon as support instead of aiming at the enemy??.

The bald man, being underestimated, did not speak, he only charged forward.

being centimeters away from cutting the opponent's neck, he saw that the free foot wanted to get closer and wanted to give him a Brazilian kick, the bald man thought it would be a good idea to cut him so he began to change the direction of his sword and saw how the sword hit he should be on the ground he was connecting and deflecting his sword, losing his balance in the confusion, the kick connected to his face and hit him square sending him flying.

2 pairs of gaping mouths stood behind Ren and watched the entire short exchange.

each one had a lot to say but they would agree on something if they could talk.

'Is there such a rare art?'.

Ren's art, in the words of that former teacher, would be...

Hateful... that style of a sword could only be described like this, every move made you feel less since it redirected your attacks, to connect blows with the help of gravity, and terrain, among other things, whether you're on top of some liquid slippery, sticky or whatever.

this style will be able to use the terrain to its advantage and although at first glance it is full of holes, it does not have any.

and the bald man experienced it first hand and for more than a minute he could see how his attacks were blocked and redirected by a brat, in this way his anger only grew more and more and the worst thing is that he ran out of time, each cut of the brat's sword after the exchange took away his mana, and although it is not much for each cut, if there were many cuts and if he loses more and enters a state of mana depletion it will be the end of him, he could only grit his teeth and scream.

-[ shadow attack]

Ren could see how the bald man turned black and sank into his shadow, he did not panic and was attentive, attacks began to arrive from his blind spots, and he could only block since when trying to return, the bald man returned to sink into the shadows

The bald man, seeing his 2nd best move blocked and failed, decided to put an end to it and use the best of his arsenal.

- [Jack's cut]

Ren blocked a straight thrust, but the force of the blow left him with both hands raised and his stance broken.

Seeing that the first attack was a clone, and the second was coming at my neck, I thought

' I didn't even go to school for 3 days.

I remembered a curious fact, the brain produces electricity for the nerves and to be able to move the body, and if it used that? I had thought about it before yes, but if I used too much electricity, it could fry my nerves, but at this moment I only have that left so, I used my mana and as if it were some instinct, it helped me guide the mana to my brain and my nerves and I could feel the world slowing down and I said to myself 'this shit is serious'.

The bald man saw how he almost reached the neck and finally finished off the boy, he saw how the boy who should have his arms up began to lower them, very quickly aiming at his neck, only being able to cancel the ability and block the attack, his The attack was canceled but his momentum was not, and he went flying into a concrete wall and hit his neck and passed out, his last thought before losing consciousness was 'the brats are scary these days, I would have been a baker'.

After seeing how the bald man didn't get up, I could only close my eyes and sleep.

(here the rookie author.

I must emphasize that although it seems easy to reach rank D, the truth is not.

The reason why Ren is rank D does not mean that he is a power up, it is because to become heroes humans make children from the age of 10 do basic exercises until they can enter the academy, ren should be rank E in yes, like all normal children except for Kiriko and the heroines, but upon realizing that his attribute is lightning, his body began to instinctively accept it, he began to passively apply mana to enhance his body, and no, it won't be something like that that will go up a rank every 5 chapters or something like that, it's in one go, and it's something like his way of starting out in the world. and that he does not have too many difficulties.

"Are you taking away my sleep time author!?

"Why the hell do you put my body upgrade at one time!?

(For the same reason that I made you lazy, I gave it to you, but if you get used to it, you will not go to training, and the developments that I planned 5 seconds ago will not happen to you.)

"Just because you're the author I let you win this time.)