Spar and pierce

Bruce suppressed the thought of picking up the cane and hitting him, but then remembered the kid was a masochist, beating him would only make things worse than they already were, he shook his head to repress his thoughts and took out the wooden cane.

"Then as usual come at me, with everything you got but only this time try to mix in some mana to your strikes. You should be able to do that much, with three or four strikes of mana before the mana in your body depletes."

The moment Bruce said those words, Ainz immediately launched himself at him, with his lower body crunch so low, that it seemed like he was about to fall to the ground.

When he entered his master range of attack, he suddenly thrust his spear in a straight uppercut and then infused mana according to spear art instruction, this time he wasn't using the mana from his magical best core, since Bruce would detect something was wrong, and might mistake him for a magical beast.

However, it seemed his substitute mana wasn't as strong as the mana from his main man core, so the result was simply coating the tip of the spear, which was easily broken by Bruce's cane horizontally.

"Good, but it's still lacking, kid, again." Bruce said, with a solemn voice.

Hearing those words, Ainz didn't wait anymore, and rushed at him once more, this time he spun the spear before slashing, however, to his surprise the result was the same as before, it wasn't that he wasn't doing it the right way, but it was simply because the amount of mana was lesser than his main mana core.

'If it's less, concentrate! I can do the forms later, since I already know them, but I can't manipulate the substitute mana in my body properly as of yet, synchronizing them isn't enough, since I want to be able to use it freely, rather I need to reinforce and synchronize the mana into my every move and breathing.'

Ainz thought to himself, he knew that the process of trying to synchronize his substitute mana into his every move wasn't as easy as he thought, but still, it didn't mean it was impossible, in fact, it was nothing when compared to all the training he had been doing.

The only thing he was thinking in his mind was to be able to perfect the way he uses the mana, just like Bruce once said if he wanted to survive the treatment of the eight gates of asura, he would need to understand how to use it in his body even in extreme pain.

Even considering how well he had been doing with his training and wyvern regeneration, he still wanted to increase his chances of survival before the treatment.

After thinking for a while, Ainz did not attack or charge at him immediately, instead, he took in a deep breath and closed his eyes to sharpen his mind and understand the flow of his mana, as he did so he activated the eyes of wyvern king, the moment he did his only thought began to see the rhythm of his mana.

[Eyes of Wyvern king deactivated]

When he opened his eyes, his eyes swiftly became green with a vertical slash before they vanished, at this moment he was ready to attack again. As he exhaled, he raised the spear and held it tightly and then charged at Bruce with a thrust.

Bruce mentally nodded when he saw this, and calmly waited to receive his attack, in a moment he thrust the spear at him, a thud sound resonated in the room, and the sound of something falling could be heard, as a piece of wood fell on the ground.

It was the cane Bruce heard in his hands, half of it had broken off and was now lying on the ground, at the same time, a drop of sweat fell off his head, as he stared with astonishment at the spear that was pointing at his throat, intently.

While the spear was pointing at his throat Bruce instead stared at him with surprise, never in his life would he had expected a kid who wasn't properly taught mana, would perform it so perfectly, to the point where even his cane was cut in far before he could properly deflect the attack, to top it all he made such a clean cut with a mere blunt weapon.

'Although it was a bit off, but nothing the less it was a perfect execution, thanks to the eyes of the wyvern king, I was able to cut the cane in half rather than just a simple dent.'

Ainz soon realized the situation he was in and hastily retracted the spear, for a moment the only thought on his mind was to pierce right through Bruce's throat, sweat immediately appeared on his face and back, apparently, he was cautious of what Bruce reaction would be, especially if he hadn't held himself back he would simply have nailed him with the spear.

"Master, I am sorry! I didn't realize I could actually cut through it."

Some sweat was on his head, but Bruce cleared his throat and touched the spot where the spear had pointed at a moment ago.

"Ahem, don't think much about it, kid. Do you think anything could have happened to your master, even if your spear were to pierce me? Your master is not so weak and fragile that a mere weapon could hurt him.

"In case you must have forgotten, I have a rank three body, a poor attack from a rank 2 martial art with mana wouldn't be able to hurt me, even in a thousand ye.."

As he was about to complete his sentence, he suddenly felt something wet run down his throat, when he touched it, he could see it was a drop of blood.

"Fucking kid, you almost killed your master!"

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