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.

hiding

lament the fact that I didn't have

slumped back on the ground as fine droplets of sweat dripped from

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]

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

--> Martial Manual :

- Minor realm of

Toshimoto Keiki. A five-star module that focused primarily on reaching the apex of swordsmanship and speed. Upon mastery, the sword art becomes so fast that before an opponent could even think about their next

--> Skills :

[[G] Monarch's indifference]

that enables users to erase all emotions, and act as a

twitched due to one of the attribute's

I had finally managed

a couple of weeks to a month before getting promoted to

contributed to my sudden rise

spectrum compared to what was sold on the market. This probably contributed to

proudly say that I was at least within

in the top ranks, I was slowly catching up to the

all I needed to know was

overcome any challenges I faced. I didn't want to be helpless again like the time I was in

my status window, I couldn't help but

my understanding of the sword increased,

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

instantly able to find the flaws of my current fighting

was, I was

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

knew how to

too much time

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

the time that I was switching

style]. Something that bought me time so that

but considering how expensive and rare they were

thought was whether I should buy

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

was not nearly enough to purchase an artifact that met my

was

Learn another sword art.

probably the easiest method and most appropriate 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

reasons, if news were to spread that I was in possession of a five star manual, I could kiss my daily life goodbye as I would be hounded by greedy bastards left and

since I had

no longer

my real sword art...and what better way to hide that fact than by practicing another

everyone's sight even better. The fewer

a defense-orientated sword art and if I could use it alongside the [Keiki

simply

had to do was find the appropriate

into my head, but they were either too hard to get or were too expensive. The academy also provided them, but you had to have a certain amount of merits in order

I currently had zero.