Chapter 2 - Training grounds

"We are here, sir"

Said the servant, in a calm tone.

A wide space with lots of weapons around, it seemed to be a place destined for

high ranking people to train. Looks like the merits of the owner of this body

werent low, as even after being labeled as a sinner a still recieve such

a treatment.

But whats more important right now is finding a way to live, i will have

a martial arts duel tomorrow and i have never even fought before.

"Tell me about the one i will be fightning tomorrow"

I asked.

"You will have three duels sir, and the onlu way of being forgiven is winning

the three of them."

"First you will fight Divine Lightning Step, the fastes martial artist in the

world, then you will fight Divine Sword Emperor, the strongest martial artist

and then you will fight Divine Heavenly Schemer, the smartest martial artist.

They together ar known as the Three Divine Pillars of the empire."

"It doesnt seem like the emperor plans on letting me live huh..."

I say in a serious tone, while staring at Yi-joon.

"Given the crimes you supposedly commited, this is a light punishment that

takes into account all your previous contributions to the empire"

"I guess"

Such an information doesnt help me at all.

"Enough with shitchat, we shall spar"

I say in with a firm voice. My only way of surving right now is depend on this

body muscle memory.

Yi-joon gets in position, while i try to imitate his form.

"Won't you need a sword, Sir?"

"Right, give me de dagger"

I say while i take the ornamented dagger.

"Are you sure you will be able to use it, sir?"

"It looks fine"

I answer while swinging the dagger around clumslisy.

"That's not it sir, while you may be able to swing it, you can't use it as

a weapon, try attaking me with it."

I follow his instructions with a curious expression.

As soon as i swing the dagger in his direction, to my surprise, the dagger

stops in the air, unmovable, as if ignoring all laws of phisycs.

"Interresting."

I mumble inwardly.

"Yes sir, thats the reason no one was able to utilize it properly since the

first patriarch"

"I will try again, prepare to block, it will work now."

"Okay sir"

Yi-joon doenst look convinced at all.

Then i trying swinging it one more time, and for Yi-joon surprise, it works.

As soon as my blade touches Yi-joon blade, hes thown a couple yards back with

extreme force, the power is insane.

"I did't even put strenth into it"

I mumble to myself.

"It seems this mysterious dagger uses the same atribute that makes it stops in

the air to generate a tremendous amount of force"

i think while aproaching the now completely broken Yi-joon. 

"Are you okay?"

"How did you do it sir?"

He seemed more curious than hurt, lookes like i pulled something impressive in

this world standards.

"Its simple, all you gotta do is to attack without attaking"

"I dont understand, sir"

"The Dagger knows when you are attacking by your intention, all you have to do

is attack without the intention to attack, like swinging the sword mindlessly"

"S-sir, how can someone how has trained martial arts since birth do that? Its

agains all the principles of everything learned in martial arts, is the same as

forgeting everthing we know. How could you do that on your second try sir?!

Your

trully an genius among genius!"

Genius among genius, thats a funny way to put things, i guess i can do it

because ive never swinged a sword before.

I think to myself.

"Enough with praises, lets fight for real now."

"Yes sir!"

Yi-joon says while getting up, and getting into position.

"You shall take the first move"

I shoud test my reaction speedfirst.

"Thank you, sir"

As soon as Yi-joon says that he jumps at me in an speed thats faster than any

jet on earth could get.

Surprisingly i can see him. The owner of this body was truly a Genius.

At that speed, i can dodge.

I think to myself.

Yet, as soon as he got closer i start to panic, my body doenst listen to me.

The he hits me in full and i got laind back a couple yards, rolling like an

beaten animal.

"S-sir! What happended?! You've never taken an hit from me before!"

It seems i wont be able to do much without a proper footwork techniche.

"Now i did."

I say to him while trying to ignore the pain and not lose the composture.

"B-but why, sir?"

Hes shocked. 

"The truth is Yi-joon, in order to be strong, you first have to realize what

being weak truly means"

I say in a convincing tone. Ive always been good at making spot-on bullshit.

"Such a deep words!"

My ass!

Yet it seems like my words truly touched Yi-joon, as he sits down ans starts to

meditate.

I guess thats what they call an enlightment, this martial world sure is funny,

some random worlds are enough to enlight a martial master, i guess the power of

words truly relies on the listener.

Lookes like i lost my sparing partner for the night.

I think to myself while sitting down and thinking of a plan of actually surving

tomorrow.