Burning Soul

After walking for a while, Lumiere stopped and looked back at both Theo and Aeneas.

They both were a bit confused as he just asked them out of nowhere to come, take a walk with him

“Well, well didn’t I tell you that I’d train him

I have a responsibility to stay true to my word.

It’s not that I wasn’t training him or anything of that sort.

I was merely just testing and building his attributes. You were right, just doing random stuff and running will get him nowhere, it’s time I go on to plan B”

As Lumiere said so Aeneas replied almost instantaneously, “What do you mean Plan B?

You had been working on how to train him all this time or did you just come up with one?”

Hearing his question Lumiere was about to lose his temper but held back and replied to him,

“What do you take me for, I did plan this.” Then he turned to Theo with a serious look,

“I can’t teach you all of my skills, but I’ll teach a few, starting with one of the basic skills needed for handling these two heavy swords.

Let me tell you something, it is never advised to use two swords in war as you need a shield to defend well and a long sword to attack fast and farther is what everyone says!

But here I am, not to mention this drunken Ace!”

This agitated Aeneas a bit, but he decided not to give it much thought.

“Just like any other sword style, balance is important, and focus as well.

Use the momentum of the swords to accelerate the attacking speed!

Also do not forget to pour in some Mana in them while you go, that’ll make the attack a bit more effective.”

Theo was listening to all his explanations carefully, it wasn’t that he was a bad learner, but he was a rather quick learner!

“Always work on your footwork, you stall, you die.

Keep moving, mislead the enemy and charge, show your opponent the wrong direction, and then slams!

Oh!

One final thing, here take these!”

Saying this he pulled two swords, to everyone’s surprise, they weren’t shining new or anything spectacular, but rather extremely old and ragged.

So, brittle looking that they’d just crumble after a few hits!

“What!

You are handing these old, ragged swords, how the hell is this going to help him?” Aeneas got irritated at what he was doing.

“My, My, will you keep shut!

This is just for training

The shining, holy, artifacts aren’t the real weapons!

It’s how you use what’s at your disposal.

Well, enough of the chatter, now I’ll show you one skill and you’re to learn it, no rush but at least try to do it next to two days okay!”

Saying so he walked a few steps and moved the bushes a bit to show what was next to him.

There was a small camp of a bit strange looking creatures.

“What are those?

What are they doing here?” Aeneas asked, being impatient.

Also, it was rather interesting as even after being there for almost a month he had never seen them before!

“They are…

…

Whatever…

Who cares!

They are here for your training, there are many such camps if you keep moving further!

Your task is to beat them all up with the swords.

And only using the skill I’m about to show you.”

Hearing this Theo was a bit curious to know what his skill really was and why was he so fixated on using such methods as well.

Lumiere took a step and drew an identical pair of swords to that of Theo,

“This skill is actually a skillset consisting of multiple skills, but if you use them in straight, it’s a deadly combination!

Shadow Step: While standing on any shadow cast by any other object than the user's one can swiftly enter the shadow realm and emerge from another shadow.

Saying this he almost vanished in the shadows right next to them

Overdrive Pounce: Upon using this skill user can jump onto the target causing boosted physical damage

A little further he appeared right above the enemy

Striking Lance: Upon using this skill the weapon hit rate increases

“With this he landed on the ground with a heavy blow and slicing up two of total 4 enemies, shocking other two “

Lateral Collision: A slash using twin blades causing double hit rate

After this he moved his swords a bit high up in the opposite direction making his balance firm while he worked on his footwork, then he swung them in a circular motion and took two steps making him roll around in a circle while slicing the other two shocked enemies.

It was so quick and overkill that all four of them wiped in no more than a split second.

“This is one of many skills. Practice this on the dummies I’ve placed a bit further.

Do note, don’t be impatient and move on to the next camp right away as with each camp the level of these creatures will increase and not to mention the amount of them as well.”

His performance and explanation got both Aeneas and Theo’s jaws dropped.

They both stood in shock a bit.

“Also, you can’t return home, rather there is none anymore

Pack your stuff and get here

You are to spend the next month or two here training.

I will keep an eye on you.

I repeat you are to not use any other skill or any offensive magic.

You do so and I’ll shock you!

Also, no other weapon! You are to master these only!

Aeneas will not be participating, we both won’t physically be with you, we'll just observe!

Now off you go, we’ll meet at the other end of the forest!

Keep this with you!” Saying so he handed him an arm-guard with a suspicious-looking gem on it

“With this, I can always know what you are doing and also if you are doing it as how you are supposed to or not!”

Saying this he turned to Aeneas,

“Let’s get moving.

We have to get there quickly!”

Lumiere was rather pushy on this so Aeneas had to speak something,

“You showed him your skill just once and want him to copy you!

Just like that!”

Theo was also a bit confused as he was the one to practically pull these impossible feet!

“Yeah, the skills are actually basic so there’s nothing to teach!

Just keep practising!

Let’s go now, he has a lot to work on!”