Kaiser of the New World (Ch 200+)

Swordsmanship (246)

Kai grunted as he deflected an attack aimed at his head using the body of Esurient.

By now, he had gotten slightly more accustomed to wielding the Ruby blade.

After going through multiple battles, Kai had gotten a little better at sword fighting.

Even though he no longer had a proper teacher, he was at least developing his skills.

And that was evident in this fight.

Especially since he wasn't using Soul Inferno, he was fighting this particular Forgotten Husk using only his sword and the occasional burst of strength using Mana Surge.

After deflecting that blow, Kai retaliated by twisting his body and slicing Esurient at the invisible beast's left side.

Unluckily, since he wasn't able to make out where the Husk's actual body was, Kai ended up missing.

It didn't make a difference though as he managed to execute nice grip switch and end up bringing his trusty blade back down on the beast.

This time, he actually managed to hit it.

Another bloodcurdling scream infiltrated his ears, threatening to make him lose his focus, but he had been listening to those cries practically non-stop for the last day so they hardly affected him anymore.

Finally, after fighting this Forgotten Husk for a little over three minutes, Kai managed to finish it off by thrusting his shadow blade through the soul of the beast.

The next thing he knew, he was back in the cave, embraced by the chilling cold once more.

Kai shivered slightly.

He glanced around the cave, looking at all the markings he had left.

Due to the fact that he couldn't actually see the corpses of the Forgotten Husks, he had been smart by leaving a little mark beside the ones he already used Soul Memorial on, meaning he wouldn't accidently stumble upon the same corpse.

But now it was getting harder and to find new bodies, meaning the explosion he had created had been a little stronger than he expected and ended up incineration more bodies than he had hoped.

Of course, its not like the Husks were that physically strong, they mainly specialised in their invisibility and sneak attacks.

That didn't mean they were actually weak though, they still managed to do a number on him.

Kai sighed and turned back to the tent.

It was nearly time to move out, they had spent a little over twenty hours here.

In that time, Kai had managed to fully repair his soul and get over the backlash of using Ignition. He had also found eighteen invisible corpses, excluding the two he first fought going all out, the other sixteen he fought trying to only use shadow Esurient.

And because he of all those fights, he managed to gain another 216 Strength and 126 Constitution.

A nice amount of stats, which would also just be Statshifted into any stat he wanted if he just put some time into it, but Kai was fine with his current stat allocation for now.

What he was a little less fine with was the fact that after that final fight, a new notification rang in his mind.

[Lesser Sword Master (Common)] -> [Minor Sword Mastery (Uncommon)]

Kai grinned.

He had gotten that skill less than a day ago and it had already upgraded.

Why couldn't every skill just be like that?