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.
Shang was
Clink!
Shang's finger touched Sword.
'Well, not completely alone.'
up and opened the book
attack, the concepts inside the book were not incredibly
even thought of such a method
had already fully learned the concepts. Usually, it would have taken him months to apply this knowledge, but these books
and closed
and began to chant to himself
he had done this thousands of times before, Shang suddenly saw an
two stars
was below, and
shaped things that looked like
of them were round and thick. Others were thin
way, it looked like a long,
look very crooked and unpleasant. The line would be thicker in
would create
what all of
something I have full control over. It represents my knowledge, my skill, and my mastery
that would look at this image for the first time would have no idea what shard represented what, but the book had made Shang into a master
at the
a gigantic square, nearly as wide as 30% of the
Teacher Mervin has taught me in
represents the Path Teacher Mervin
the square extending towards
be a powerful, strong,
smaller shards and focused on the ones related to
hadn't noticed that the things he had
was a
curved to the left, curved to the right, passed the middle, went further right, curved to the left, and
was a
Teacher Mervin's Path, but it wouldn't be
terms of area, Teacher Mervin's Path was probably thrice
some
A spinning Path.
A zigzagging Path.
A narrowing spear.
innumerable ways one
the shards he was able
create a Path with them, but the path would be incongruent, horrible, and unstable. It would
the square that represented
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