Ascender's Path: ORDEAL OF THE GODS

Chapter 11.

--------Nine hundred years after the start of the trial.

My sword danced in the air, drawing smooth curves like flowing water. Now, I could use the stick as if it were one of my limb.

The secret technique I acquired <Essence Of The Sword Art Formless Style> had already broken through the intermediate rank and reached the master rank.

I tried to use appraisal on the technique and found out that it raised my stats whenever I fought with a sword. However, what I was doing was just virtual mock combat. So I didn't feel any particular change in my body at all.

But well, with this experience, I understood that swordcraft or martial arts isn't about skills or physical abilities.

I went from being a person with physical abilities equal to that of a toddler to winning against my class instructor, the sword emperor William Ledger, without a hitch.

Instructor, William Ledger, was a first generation of ascender who had fought against the first wave of monsters along with the other powerful figure like him in the past. His real abilities were guaranteed. In the virtual mock combat against him, I found out that physical abilities were nothing more than a superficial advantage.

That's right. The way of swordcraft, otherwise known as swordsmanship, is a skill that transcends something like brute strength.

"Well, Instructor William isn't in his golden age. There are still countless powerful people all around the world that stronger than him."

Before I got trapped in this place, during the class Intructor William had said that there is so many more powerful person than him.

One of them was the famous sword king's, Aiden Smith, who was said to be able to combine sword and magic to his swordsmanship.

Additionally, the seven supreme sword emperor who was already known to reached the power of a god-like being. They also the one who ruled over the government.

They're name was not well-known nor the limit of their powers but Intructor William said that they were really a powerful that even him couldn't even leave a single scratched on their body.

They individually using a different style of swordsmanship and type of sword-like weapons.

Knowing that the world still had plenty more strong men.

Hence, I embarked on a sword journey with delight.

--------Two thousand years after the start of the trial.

Many more years have passed. After beating Instructor William  in his golden age including Aiden Smith the sword king's, I constructed in my mind the image of every single swordsman I had heard of and ever seen.

Currently, I was trying to recreate the image of the seven supreme sword emperor, a group of individuals recognized as the strongest ascender and swordman in history.

Naturally, I had never met the so-called 'seven supreme sword emperor' since they are a group of individuals that can be treated as a big shot. In the end, they're nothing more than a product of my imagination. However, all of their strength was the real deal.

The moment I won against the seven known supreme sword emperor, I arrived at art-like perfection.

--------Four thousand years after the start of the trial.

After defeating the seven supreme sword emperor, I decided to move on to the most formidable training partner that I had already decided on when I began this training. It was the supreme martial artist at the pinnacle of swordsmanship.