Shang only nodded.
The jester put his hammer away and lifted his two hands.
SHING!
Two books appeared in his hands.
First, he looked at his left hand.
"Something that significantly increases the base strength of about 90% of warriors," he said.
Then, he looked at his right hand.
"Something that makes creating your own Path far easier and faster," he said.
Shang hesitated for a bit.
"Am I among those 90%?" he asked.
"No, but your Teacher Mervin is," the jester said with a grin.
Shang took a deep breath.
He felt indebted to Teacher Mervin. After all, he had just spent five years training with Shang.
Shang really wanted to help Teacher Mervin.
However, the lesson Shang had learned came to his mind again, and he remembered why he had cried after Teacher Mervin left.
His future.
Right now, Shang had an opportunity to repay Teacher Mervin, but he also had the opportunity to help himself.
This choice really was cruel.
'I'm already indebted to Teacher Mervin. Am I supposed to throw this opportunity away?'
Shang really didn't feel great about that thought.
It took over two minutes for Shang to make his choice.
"I choose the True Path option."
The jester only grinned and handed the book over to Shang.
"Don't forget to bring this knowledge to the world. You are here to help all the warriors, not only yourself," the jester said.
And then, he vanished.
was alone
Clink!
Shang's finger touched Sword.
'Well, not completely alone.'
the book
ranged attack, the concepts inside the book
would have never even thought of such a method to
he had already fully learned the concepts. Usually, it would have taken him months to apply this knowledge,
down and closed his
and began to chant to himself as he gathered different concepts
this thousands of times before, Shang suddenly saw an image
were two stars in a night
was below, and the
white, differently shaped things that looked
of them were round and thick. Others were thin and
long,
look very crooked and unpleasant. The line would be thicker in some places and would make curves
they would create a
knew what all of this
over. It represents my knowledge, my skill, and my mastery
idea what
looked at the biggest
a gigantic square, nearly as wide as 30% of the
taught me in the last five
think this represents the Path Teacher Mervin is trying to
the square extending towards
powerful, strong, and
and
this cluster of shards, Shang hadn't noticed that the things he had learned from the Dean also fit onto a
was a sine
started at the bottom star, curved to the left, curved to the right, passed the middle,
was a uniform
Teacher Mervin's Path, but
of area, Teacher Mervin's Path
imagined some
A spinning Path.
A zigzagging Path.
A narrowing spear.
one
back at the shards
incongruent, horrible, and unstable. It would
looked at the square that represented Teacher
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