Rey De-Heavens (English)

7.4

The master raised his fist in the air and left his thumb up.

"You passed this test, my disciple. We can move on to the next level. Don't take this the wrong way, but I really want to knock you unconscious, only then I can rest easy and know that I really did my best as your master. See that tree?" As soon as Rey nodded, Heroclades continued." We will fight until you fall unconscious or touch the trunk. It is not superfluous to tell you that by touching the trunk you will pass my training.

The master put up his fighting stance and waited for Rey to do the same.

Rey with a gesture of his gaze gave the little fellow to understand that he could leave, and then reevaluated the situation before his master. "The grass around his feet is acting weird. It's not like it's moving in the wind like the other one is either." On the ground around Heroclades, nothing was moving. "He's waiting for me to make my move. Considering Hero is at least 'God' rank, the barrier around him is indestructible. He plans to fight with his strongest moves, yet he's also giving me an immense advantage by giving me a chance to win the test just by touching the tree... Hmmm! I remember he said that as long as there is someone inside his perimeter, or he moves from place to place, he can't use the barrier. The best thing to do is to pretend I don't know anything and attack to buy time....".

Rey crouched down, opened his hands as if they were claws and jumped as hard as he could against his master to hit the barrier that his master had created and protected him.

Heroclades, bringing his hand to his face, expressed:

"I was always left in doubt as to whether you would go after me first or the tree. Now it is clear to me that you will try to distract or incapacitate me before going to where your exit is," he said as he looked into the eyes of his disciple, who was stopped by the barrier.

Making an expression of someone who was noticing, he decided to take advantage of the moment to make an educational point.

"Your movements make it clear that you adopted the style with which the beasts fight, just as you had adopted the murderous intentions of them. You move as if you have claws, though you do not have them nor do you know how to transform them at all. But that's not the problem, the problem is that your body is badly programmed. It's not a good idea that every time you are attacked you defend yourself, or attack every time your enemy defends himself...."

Rey as soon as he returned to the ground, he threw another claw with which he shattered his nails, but since he could already control his perception of pain, he pretended nothing had happened. "He's a sorcerer, so the only way to defeat him is to force him to use his weak point. If I can move him from place, he will no longer be able to use his barrier, he will have to block my blows even if he doesn't know that I have knowledge in martial arts. That is my chance. With just one second to make him move I will have enough time to beat him and touch the tree."

Heroclades, seeing how concentrated his disciple was, continued speaking:

"In the night you repeated those moves countless times, didn't you?" Rey looked at him and continued attacking. "Let me tell you that you cannot afford to let any enemy have control over your moves. The opponents around you can act a certain way and the question is how are you going to respond?"

The master dropped the barrier. Rey stopped dead in his tracks and with speed ran sideways with the intention of approaching the tree, while still facing the tanned-skinned subject. Heroclades, meanwhile, opened the book to a specific page and added:

"See, now that I'm going to attack, you think about defending yourself. It's not good for you to be programmed because you become predictable. Sometimes the best defense is offense and the best offense is defense. We can agree that what they do is problematic and inconvenient, but in the future make sure you don't get the reaction your enemy wants from you. If you let yourself be controlled by emotions, they will basically have you on their hands...."