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.

installed, hiding what I was doing

only lament the fact that I didn't have my own personal

the ground as

bitterly, 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]

to the next level. User will find it

--> Martial Manual :

style] - Minor realm

the sword art becomes so fast that before an opponent could even think about their next move,

--> Skills :

[[G] Monarch's indifference]

skill that enables users to erase all emotions, and act as a supreme monarch that only

stats, my brows involuntarily twitched due to

side, I had finally managed to reach

of weeks to a month before getting promoted to rank, but it seems

contributed to my sudden rise

her, the quality was probably on the higher end of the spectrum compared to

now proudly say that I was at least within

was still not in the top ranks, I was slowly catching up

I needed

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

help but notice that my swordsmanship

the sword increased,

profession level, the higher the understanding you had of the profession. Moreover, the more your profession level

to find the

[Keiki style] was, I

at my previous fights, I remembered always finding myself in a pickle

how to attack but

too much time

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, completely removing

from my experience, I found that in between the time that

Something that bought me time so that I could regain

skill, but considering how expensive and rare they were I could only discard

next thought was whether I should buy an

bought an artifact that created a shield around me after every attack, it could easily solve my problem...but in

million U with me, it was not nearly enough to purchase

I was left

Learn another sword art.

method. There was more than one reason as to why this was 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 of the

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

since I had parents, my every action had to also consider them in

was no

far, I knew that I had to mask my real sword art...and what better way to

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

defense-orientated sword art and if I could use it alongside the [Keiki style], my

was simply

to do was find the

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

I currently had zero.