Training ||

PAH!

I hit the floor for the for the seventh time after attacking. We were in the martial arts phase of the training. I just couldn't land one hit on my mom as all of them were blocked.

As I decided to attack, I used [future sight].

[The future]

I ran towards my mother and I tried a kick to her knees her stomach but it was easily deflected and she put me to the floor again.

[Future sight end]

I noticed something that I could take chance of now. It was the fact that mother had given me an opening for two seconds but I didn't notice.

I ran towards her like in the vision and landed a kick to her stomach. It was deflected and I used my two second chance to try and get a kick in but just like before I got thrown to the floor.

"Nice try" said my mother. "You notice me the two second chance that I gave you. This is a lesson Kevin. Look at your enemies with keen eyes and exploit their weakness.

Rrrrring

The bell rung for the ending of the martial arts segment. It was finally time for the part of the training that I had expected the most.

A table that was covered with a cloth was carried in by servants. As the servants left, my mother told me to choose a weapon. "Remember the weapon you choose shall be the weapon you be with forever. For example, you choose a sword, the sword breaks but you can still make another sword.

I looked at the weapons on the table and to be honest, I had a pretty had time picking between two weapons. A sword and a scythe. Seeing me having trouble picking weapons, mother spoke. Just say 'analyse'. "I answered and as I said those words, a new notification appeared.

[WOULD YOU LIKE TO ANALYSE]

<YES> <NO>

I selected the yes option and immediately two system screens appeared in top of the weapon I was inspecting.

[Blood scythe]

[ A scythe made from the bones of a vampire dragon with a little crystal essence]

+3 strength, -3 agility

[Abilities - (1) Resilient - Recover 5% HP from each hit on your opponent that draws blood.

(2) Ruthless - 5% chance of critical hit when head is attacked. (Only works on system holders)

(3) Blood affinity - Allows user to use a little blood affinity to make blood bullets]

*Warning* Using this weapon gives -3 agility because it is heavy for you.

[Ignatius rapier]

[A sword made from the bones and crystal essence of a lava dragon]

+5 agility, +1 strength.

[Abilities - (1) Mark of disgrace - give your enemy fourth degree burns that will haunt them for life.

(2) Boom - place explosion runes on the body of your enemies without them noticing and explodes when you want to.

(3) Fire affinity - gives you ability to cast fast rotating fireball that shreds and explodes on contact.

*warning* Skills in this sword are only based on your rank and true potential can only be brought out at rank 8.

'Hmm. The prons of the sword outweighed it's cons and shadowed the scythe with the skills.' Unhesitatingly I picked up sword and gave it a few swings. It was very light.

Mother gave me a training dummy that had been enhanced by magic. The dummy had flesh that had the same texture as the human skin and the same went for the bones.

I swung my sword and it sliced through the dummy like hot knife through butter. I couldn't help but gape in surprise at the power of the sword. "Now now, I didn't tell you to do anything. Now we're one dummy short. You haven't even bound yourself to the sword.

"Huh, bound, you mean there's more!" I shouted in excitement. "Yes, yes. Now put a your blood on the sword. I was scared of feeling a little prick in my hand because I never felt pain in my past life except from receiving injections.

I was looking for an easier way to do it but when I looked up, I saw my mother with a needle. My instinct took over as I ran towards the door and I saw another mom coming from the entrance with a needle. There were four entrances on the North, East, west and the south.

I ran to the other three doors only to achieve the same result. I was surrounded. "Continuation of lesson" my mom spoke " Survive for fifteen minutes. The person who gets pricked or cut is the loser". I gulped as I tried giving myself some pet talk. "It's prick or be pricked, it's cut or be cut. You can do this Kevin."

In the end I was the one on the floor of the training hall with a prick from the needle on my forearm. The blood was dripped on my sword and it was bound to me successfuly. I even received an new skill.

[Cometh forth - bring your weapon into your hand from wherever it it after saying ' cometh forth ']

Another training dummy was brought to me and the moment it reached the dummy, it felt like I had cut through the air itself and then I activated the [Boom] skill.

BOOOOM!!!!!

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/// A/N - Guys, I made some illustrations of characters in the chapter one of the book and the Ignatius rapier. Feel free to check them out and tell me if you like them.///