Burning Soul

…

In the next three days, loud clangs were audible in the fairly deeper region of the forest as if someone was fighting, though Theo was merely practising his new skill.

…

“Again!

Didn’t I tell you, use the momentum caused by the swinging motion of the swords to increase damage, otherwise it’d be a weak attack!”

The voice of Lumiere yelled at him from the arm pad.

“I’m trying!

It’s a little too heavy for me to master!” Theo complained, which was fairly valid as the swords were pretty heavy, and there were two!

“Pour in more Mana in them, let it flow in them.

Kid, only when you feel them as your own body parts, then you’ll be able to master them.

Now let’s do it again before we call it a day.”

Lumiere was finally being a strict teacher, something that Theo wanted him always to be. Although the training was a bit rough on him, it was a necessary step as going in blindly relying on a newly acquired skill was a rather open invitation to death.

After taking a deep breath, “I’m ready!”

Theo was again ready to take on the next wave of dummies.

This time also, he followed in his skill set perfectly, though the damage was still lower than he expected.

“Hmm!

Let’s call it a day for now!

We shall do this again tomorrow.”

Saying this he cut off.

‘Phew!

This is gonna take a while it seems.’ Theo sighed to himself.

…

After resting a bit, he stood up and started to train on his own, he had been doing so every day. Not because he thought Lumiere would be impressed by this but only to improve his skills.

He still hadn’t told Lumiere that he had been secretly wiping out enemy camps in the night-time.

Tonight, he was going for the fourth, although Lumiere said his strength wasn’t enough to even take on the first one, he had successfully defeated the first three, which was a bit of news as these enemies were far weaker than he thought, but he had noticed a slight change in their strength.

If what Lumiere said was true, the next one was just as difficult as taking head-on with a dark elf’s camp, which was surely not impossible but tough!

Even after knowing the potential danger, he was determined to go on a hunt, being trained as an assassin before was coming in handy for him.

…

Once the fire went out, Theo strapped his swords on and began walking to the next camp he had already scouted last night.

This camp comprised of 6 total monsters, Lumiere hadn’t given them any name so he was calling them Goblins for the time being as they kind of resemble similar to that of the references of these mythical creatures from the stories he had heard over the years.

Small feature with greenish skin colour hosting large sideways looking eyes and hands similar to that of frogs. If not for the little clothing they had and bipedal features, they’d really have looked like any other creature.

After carefully approaching the region he checked his equipment for the last time before making any move.

‘Yeah!

With this much preparation, I can do this, it seems they are already asleep now!’ he assured himself that Lumiere and Aeneas were no longer looking onto him.

‘Well, now.

It’s time I did this.’ He looked at the camp.

There were 6 of them of which 2 were resting while others were patrolling the area.

This bunch looked more coordinated than others, they were carrying decent weapons as well. It was just as Lumiere had mentioned.

As he defeats more of them, the next wave will be more difficult to handle as their number, level, and intelligence will gradually increase.

The only thing that was stopping him for a while from attacking was that there was a strange-looking camp, he had not seen anyone exiting or entering thus he thought that would just be storage, but something about it gave off an awry feeling to him telling him to be cautious every time he neared the camp.

‘Can’t keep this up, let’s just do it!’