Blanc’s Combat Prowess

While Helena and her men are exploring the Forest of Echoes, Blanc is preparing for another day of physical training.

A year ago, after the battle against the northern nobles of Terravalle Kingdom, Blanc made a decision to start training the town hall staff and let them manage a part of his workload.

Of course, this includes his secretary, Alenna.

His goal is to lessen his office workload in order to give him more time for physical and swordsmanship training.

This is because he realized that he wouldn't be able to turn the tides of a battle without being strong himself.

This was evident during the past battle as he felt helpless against Iron Tiger. 

Fortunately for him, six months ago, he finally achieved this goal.

From working for ten hours every day in the town hall, he successfully decreased it to four hours a day.

This gave him time to do physical and swordsmanship training for at least eight hours a day.

He still gave himself a bit of time to read books every day though because knowledge is also power and ignorance will cost them dearly.

Unfortunately for the town hall staff members, their workload increased.

However, Blanc compensated them by increasing their salaries so although he knew that it was a bit harsh for the employees, he had to do this for the town.

Today marked his sixth month of continuously training for at least eight hours a day.

'Currently, his physique has reached a terrifying level of tier 5 elite combatant physique.

  He was only one tier away from a master combatant physique. 

The reason for this terrifying improvement rate is that Blanc didn't train using the same classic spartan training method utilized by Helena and her men.

What Blanc did was, he painstakingly studied every muscle in his body. 

Then, he researched every physical exercise and which muscles were improved by those physical exercises.

As a result, he has formulated the most efficient training regimen for his own body.

Not only that, he also made sure to study the proper form of each exercise and took his time to master each form slowly until he reached perfection.

Finally, with a bit of help from the body-strengthening pills and the energy rejuvenation pill which decreases a human's required sleeping time to four hours for five days every week, Blanc's physique improved at a terrifying rate which will probably surprise even Helena.

As for Blanc's swordsmanship training, he improved using the same nerdy method by studying each and every single form of basic, intermediate, and advanced swordsmanship attack patterns and combinations.

In addition to this, he also researched footwork and combat techniques to complement the sword attack patterns and combinations.

Lastly, he made sure to practice everything slowly at the beginning to master the forms before adding speed and power.

As a result, although his improvement was very slow for the first few weeks, after he mastered each form, his rate of growth improved tremendously which resulted in him attaining tier 5 advanced swordsmanship.

He was already only one step away from being a master swordsman.

He did this rigorous training regimen each and every day without fail like he was some kind of machine. 

The average person would have long been mentally exhausted by such a monotonous training regimen.

Blanc wasn't such a person though, he honed his mental fortitude and focus ever since he was young.

He never lost focus even once as he continuously strived to improve his physique and swordsmanship every single day with the same boring monotonous training regimen.

Blanc has researched everything about his own body and he knew that this training regimen is the most efficient training regimen for his body.

Changing his training regimen just for the sake of "a change of pace" is just not worth it for someone like him.

A normal person can never ever do what Blanc is doing.

This kind of training regimen is for him and only him. Even Helena cannot stand such a monotonous training regimen every day.

As for where he was training? He was training in the regular training field along with the trainees.

He wasn't training together with them though since he has his own customized training regimen.

The trainees have gotten used to Blanc's monotonous training regimen by now so they just usually greet him once he arrives at the training grounds and then ignore him once he starts training.

There's still one thing he lacks though and that's combat experience.

Although he has a variety of techniques trained to perfection, he still needs to apply them in real-time combat to determine his actual combat prowess.

That's why Blanc is looking forward to the return of the battalion commanders. He wanted to challenge them to a spar to see where his strength stands currently.

For now, he shall continue to do his customized training regimen and hopefully, once the battalion commanders return, he can give them and Helena a pleasant surprise.