The Author's POV

"Fuuuuuuu...."

Inside of a dimly lit bedroom, a young boy let out a long breath as he sat crossed-legged. A white glow pulsated around his body. Increasing and decreasing constantly.

Focusing my mind, I tried to feel the mana around me.

After having listened to Gilbert's lecture I managed to grasp the missing key to my roadblock.

Mana control.

I needed to have better control of my mana. More precisely, I needed to have better control of wind psyons.

Since the [Keiki style] required me to harness wind psyons, in a way that it coated around my sword so that it could propel it forward, I needed to have a better understanding and control of them.

By having better control of wind psyons, not only would I become more efficient, but I would also be able to increase the speed of my sword movement.

Evening my breathing, I focused entirely on my surroundings.

I slowly felt the mana circulating around me. The more I focused the more I felt like I was underneath the sea, surrounded by water. It felt boundless.

"fuuuuuu...."

Sucking in my breath, I channeled the mana around me into my body.

Slowly the white glow around me increased, extending out from my body.

Closing my eyes, I focused on grasping the concepts of wind.

What was wind?

Wind referred to the movement of gases from high pressure to low-pressure areas.

High pressure

Low pressure

Slowly the white glow around me brightened.

-Shuam!

After a couple of minutes, abruptly opening my eyes, I reached for the sword that sat next to me.

Standing up, I positioned myself into my sword stance and focused entirely on what was ahead of me.

The world around me disappeared and all that was left was an empty white world with me in the middle.

The second movement of the [Keiki style] : Horizon splitting slash

-Shuuuua!

Like a lightning bolt, a bright white light enveloped the room. It left as fast as it came. Instantaneous.

Opening my eyes, a satisfied smiled appeared on my face...though it didn't last long as a long horizontal scar appeared on the wall.

"...crap!"

Hurrying over to the wall that I had just slashed with my sword, I traced my finger along the long horizontal scar that I left on the wall. Feeling how deep it was I couldn't help but curse out loud.

There went a couple of thousand U.

Damm it.

Originally, I was supposed to go to the training grounds to practice, but because I needed to hide the fact that I practice a five star module, I was left with the only option of practicing in my room.

The commotion of my breakthrough would've just been too big.

cameras installed, hiding what I was

could only lament the fact

slumped back on the ground as fine

I looked at my

===Status===

Name : Ren Dover

Rank : F

Strength : F

Agility : F

Stamina : F

Intelligence : F -

Mana capacity : F

Luck : E

Charm : G

--> Profession :

[Swordsmanship lvl.2]

has evolved to the next level. User will find it easier to understand concepts that were

--> Martial Manual :

style] - Minor realm of

that focused primarily on reaching the apex of swordsmanship and speed. Upon mastery, the sword art becomes so fast that before an

--> Skills :

[[G] Monarch's indifference]

and act as a

twitched due to one of the attribute's refusal

side, I had finally managed to

I still needed a couple of weeks to a month before getting promoted to rank, but it seems

that contributed to my sudden rise

by her, the quality was probably on the higher end of the spectrum compared to what was sold on the market. This probably contributed to my sudden

could now proudly say that I was at least within the top 150 if not

still not in the top ranks, I was slowly catching

how long it took, all I needed to know was that I was slowly

would slowly but surely become strong enough to overcome any challenges I faced. I didn't want to be helpless

but notice that

the sword increased,

higher the understanding you had of the profession. Moreover, the more your profession level increased, the easier it was to understand previously daunting problems. It

I was instantly able to find the flaws of my current fighting

I

back at my previous fights, I remembered always finding myself in a pickle after not being able to finish my opponent on

to attack but not

too much time trying to regain my

I was still a newbie with the [Keiki style], I wasted too much time transitioning from one stance to the other...this in turn allowed the enemy to regain their bearing,

my experience, I found that in between the time that I was switching stanced I was basically

the [Keiki style]. Something that bought me time so

but considering how expensive and rare they were I

next thought was whether I should buy an

an artifact that created a shield around me after every attack, it could easily solve my problem...but in the end, similarly to skills, I couldn't afford

that I had 6 million U with me, it was not nearly enough to

I was left

Learn another sword art.

the most appropriate choice, but the biggest of them all was that I was in urgent need of a sword art that I could use in the absence

news were to spread that I was in possession of a five star manual, I could kiss my daily life goodbye as I

were just targeting me, but since I had parents, my every

no

mask my real sword art...and what better way to hide

way, I could hide my strength from everyone's sight even better. The

I chose a defense-orientated sword art and if I could use it alongside the [Keiki style], my strength would see another

simply a

had to do was find

into my head, but they were either too hard to get or were too expensive. The

I currently had zero.