Time passed, it was already midnight and kranos showed no signs of stopping, i will not stop till i step into the first level od the time condensation realm, kranos' eyes were bloodshot as he continued to persist, unfortunately he was was doomed to be unable to complete the first circle.
"Son, come out for breakfast," kranos was interrupted by his mother's voice, he sighed in disappointment as he looked at the one-ninth completed time orb. It seems i will need another day to complete the first circle. With this thought kranos quickly got up and freshened up, after which he went to the dining to have his breakfast.
When the time was almost 9:00, a knock came from the door, kranos rushed to open it, he could already guess who that was, and just like he predicted, it was his teacher.
"Good morning teacher," kranos greeted seeing the familiar face.
"Hmm, let's head to the training ground, sorry for the delay." donald didn't wait to meet kranos' parent, he could already tell that they werent around. Kranos was already dressed so he didn't need to get anything and just readily followed donald to an open field.
The open field was where the training usually went on, finally i get to practice sword techniques, kranos tried his best to hold his excitement in. luckily he didn't have to wait for long, as soon as they reached the field his teacher began demonstrating the moves.
"The basic sword techniques are the most conventional way to master the way of the sword, there are only about 12 basic moves but each of this move makes the sword seem like a living being, what are these moves? There is stab, chop, flick, swing, tick, slash, slide… etcetera."
As he called out the moves donald demonsatrated alongside, "did you grasp the moves perfectly?" he asked as soon as he was done.
"Kranos expected this so he made sure to pay extra attention to when his teacher was demonstrating the moves. "Yes sir." he answered and began demonstrating the exact moves.
Donald nodded in amazement, he couldn't help but feel pleased with this his student, he never ceased to amaze him.
"Now we would learn to combine two of the moves, the combination of two basic sword moves birth intermediate sword moves. The stab and chop can be combined, the flick and swing, stab and flick, etcetera, it doesnt matter how you combine them, as long as you combine two sword moves you are in the lower grade of the intermediate stage."
Following which donald proceeded to demonstrate the sword moves, he displayed more than twelve different sword techniques and kranos noticed that each and every one of them was the combination of two sword moves.
"You grasped it perfectly right?" donald asked as soon as he was done.
"Yes teacher," kranos answered and began displaying his own set of moves, it was difficult at first since his body wasn't used to the interchanging of musclemovent inbetween swings but he soon got the hang of it. After he was done kranos panted greatly, he felt slightly exhausted.
"Rest for a bit, in the next 30 minutes we will begin the upper intermediate training. Also, during this period of rest formulate the process of combining the rest of the sword moves, this will make it easier for you to learn the next stage of training faster."
"Yes teacher." without any hesitation kranos sat in a lotus position and began meditating to calm his nerves, he did this for 5 minutes before he stood up and began doing the knight's breathing technique to build up the mana within him.
In the blink of an eye thirty minutes was up. Donald stoop up from meditating, without any delay he began talking about the upper intermediate stage of sword techniques.
"In order to perform the upper intermediate stage of the sword techniques you have to combine three different basic sword techniques, this is where the difficulty in displaying sword techniques truly begins."
With a deep sigh donald began demonstrating the sword techniques, similar to the last time, after displaying more than twelve different upper intermediate sword techniques he left the stage for kranos to perform.
Kranos watched and listened attentively but even then he had to close his eyes for a bit to deeply comprehend the sword techniques that his teacher had just seamlessly displayed. He could tell the difficulty of displaying three different basic sword techniques like the one his teacher did as easy as that.
After a few moments kranos opened his eyes as a sharp glint passed through them, without hesitation his wooded sword began to move. Slash! Stab! Flick!
Kranos displayed all three seamlessly causing donald's eyes to lit up in praise.
"Hah…" kranos panted, with just the display of the first upper intermediate sword moved kranos could feel as though he was out of breath.
"Take another thirty minutes break," donald advised to which kranos just nodded and then proceeded to mediate to regain clarity, similar to the previous time kranos waited for five minutes before replenishing his mana reserves.
After he was done he stood up and display the second upper intermediate sword move that his teacher had shown. Time passed and soon the son had almost gone down the horixon. At this moment kranos had finally finished displaying all fourteen upper intermediate sword moves.
"Alright that's enough training for now, i have something to tell you, i will be traveling tommorrow, and will be back in the next month. Within this peroid of time make sure to practice the sword moves i have thought, it would be best if you can display some advanced level sword techniques by the time i am back, although i don't want you to go overboard with your training."
"Yes teacher," kranos answered politely, "i wish you a safe journey teacher." kranos bid farewell, and as soon as he was done his teacher vanished just like the last time. As soon as kranos saw that his teacher was gone he began contemplating on his next step.
Since i am almost done with the first stage of the time condensation realm, why don't i quickly breakthrough here? After coming to this decision kranos quickly sat in a meditation position and began absorbing particles of time from the surroundings.
Time passed and soon it was almost dark, at this moment, inside kranos sea of conciousness kranos could feel something within him changing, his physique was becoming stronger at an alarming rate. He could feel the shackles of a mortal loosening within him.
It seem i have become a cultivator, kranos smiled as he looked at the glowing silvery orb in his sea of conciousness. It feels different, kranos stood, as soon as he took a step forward, the ground slightly caved in.
Intruiging, he thought. At the same time a series of notifications rangout in the system. I better head home before checking them out. Kranos thought as he walked home while humming a tune.
Suddenly kranos felt a tingling sensation, what is this feeling? Kranos abruptly turned around as he felt a chill creaping up on him. As soon as he turned around he saw a masked man, the man was clothed in all black, at the same time he was muttering something under his breath.
"Who.. who are you?" kranos asked shakily as he could feel a wave of fear just by looking at the black-clothed masked man.
"Me?" the man sneered before replying, "i am just someone assigned to kill you." as soon as the man finished speaking he vanished and moved like a ghost, before kranos could react he felt something thick and sharp slip past his throat.
So fast, how can he be so fast, i have no time to react at all, wait, why is my vision turning horizontally? Kranos was shocked for a moment before coming to an understanding as soon as he saw blood spilling from what seemed to be his body.
He laughed bitterly, in the end i died, after all i did to live a long and healthy life in this world to think someone would still come to assasinate me. This is truly laughable. Kranos lamented at his misfortune as his eyes slowly closed, he was slowly sliping into eternal darkness.
As soon as the darkness clouded him kranos thought that was all for him but his eyes widened in shock the next moment as he saw a light coming from a distance.
Is this the so-called light at the end of the tunnel?