Chapter 126 – Training with Vasco

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The church training ground.

It was located underground and it was vast.

The size of the training ground was as big as a football stadium.

There were a lot of different types of equipment and weapons. However, there was no one here.

"The exorcists from the main church usually trained in this place. But, they only have morning and afternoon training while they went hunting the stray and patrolling at night."

Vasco explained the reason why the training ground was empty and walked through the location where wooden swords were placed.

It was on the side of the training ground, and there were various sizes of wooden swords.

Starting from a normal short sword until a greatsword that matched Vasco's size.

Without a single hesitation, Vasco took the biggest wooden sword and held it with his right hand before swinging it lightly.

The greatsword looked like a normal sword when Vasco held it, that was ridiculous.

"Feel free to pick one, you can take your time." Vasco looked at me, patted me on my shoulder before he made his way to the center of the training ground, leaving me in front of the piles of wooden swords.

I looked at the piles of wooden swords and held the wooden swords one by one, trying to find the one similar to Gram.

The reason why I wanted to learn the double-edged sword was to held Gram, nothing was wrong with increasing my strength.

In this world, I had nothing like a bullshit power up like Issei or Vali. I had something similar, but Telos Karma was not that good to be used for an offensive.

At most, I could destroy their armor or weapons with probability. However, Longinus like True Longinus and the Scale Mail of Ddraig and Albion were hard to destroy.

Nenekirimaru was proven to not be able to cut through scale mail, but it can cut it if I hit the scale mail at the same place two or three times.

My enemies in Khaos Brigade had Dragon that rivaled Dragon Kings amongst them, there was a strong Evil Dragon called Crom Cruach.

Gram had Dragon Slayer properties, so it would be the best sword to be used when fighting against the Dragons.

Finally, I found a wooden sword that was similar to Gram in size amongst the piles of wooden swords.

I took it and tried to swing it lightly, it was perfect.

The blade was rested on my shoulder and I turned to Vasco who stood in the middle of the training ground.

"Oh, finally found one?"

"Yeah, this one is perfect."

I made my way towards the center of the training ground and faced Vasco. When he held the greatsword, he looked big and intimidating.

For a human or even humanoid that I met, he was the most who gushed out intimidation with his body alone.

"Are you ready, Vasco? Can you correct my stance if I do something wrong?"

"Sure, as I thought, you wanted to practice. You are not trying to win the spar but stole my technique, right?"

"Hahahaha, something like that. But, that's not a problem for you, right?"

"Oh, nothing."

Vasco began to strip his robe, showing his bare body that was bulging with muscles. White aura began to come out of his body. It felt similar to holy energy that most exorcists used, but it was more potent.

"I won't hold back though, be careful."

If I remembered correctly, he was able to beat Kokabiel in the second world war. So I will face him a bit serious right off the bat.

The white aura surrounded my body and enhanced my whole physical strength. I used Touki, and I was now confident that my physical strength now was at the same level as Vasco.

I purposely limited my Touki so I won't be stronger than Vasco, this was practice after all. If I was stronger than Vasco, it would not be counted as a practice.

"Then, here I go."

I shouted and kicked the ground, creating a crack on the ground that I kicked. I held the wooden sword in my right hand.

My blade was aimed at Vasco's upper body, but he blocked it with his sword easily. However, his hand was now trembling, I bet it went numb after our exchange.

My hand was a bit numb too, so I used my left hand to support my right hand and the wooden sword danced again, sending a barrage of slashes and thrusts towards Vasco's body at various points.

The slashes were awkward because I used Katana's swordsmanship as my basic stance. Vasco looked at my slashes while deflecting most of them.

He either dodged, blocked, or deflected the slashes and thrusts.

"You have good power, but the double-edged sword is not for thrusting! Focus on slashing and crushing the opponent with the weight of the sword."

In the middle of the slashes, Vasco gave me a tip.

Right, I was thrusting too much because I was too used to Katana.

Following his advice, I stopped thrusting and began to put my weight into my sword.

Now, my slashes were heavier than before, and I could see the effect of it immediately.

Vasco frowned while blocking my slashes, and now he focused on either deflecting or dodging my slashes.

"Oi, this is too much! And you are still holding back?!"

Vasco had a difficult expression and held his swords with both of his hands.

I smirked at Vasco and raised the wooden sword high above my head.

"Of course!"

I brought my sword down and Vasco blocked it with his wooden sword. When the wooden swords made contact with each other, they broke because the force was too much for a wooden sword to bear.

Both of us held only the handle of our sword and looked at it.

"It broke, huh."

Vasco said with a happy tone in his voice.

"Yeah, it broke. Well, it seems that double-edged sword focused on slashing and crushing. I learned a lot."

I grinned at Vasco and he scoffed.

"You learned a lot? I just give you one tip and you just went and changed your style immediately. Are you sure this is your first time holding a double-edged sword?"

I threw the broken handle to the ground and shrugged my shoulder.

"I used Katana all this time. You see how often I thrust, right?"

"I thought you are faking it. But, well, you are good with a sword. Maybe you are blessed with talent in handling the sword."

"Let's leave it like that. Thanks for sparring with me though."

"No problem, shall we head back? You are satisfied, right?"

"Yeah, let's go back."

Vasco took his robe and wore it again. We then went back to the church hall.