Human Deity: Rise of the Arthur

Chapter 13: Upcoming War

"NOW RAISE YOU SWORD AND FIGHT ME! YOU CANNOT USE YOUR TECHNIQUES! THAT IS ALL! NOW FIGHT!"

Arthur was stunned for a moment but nonetheless, he unsheathed his sword and attacked Joseph. Without techniques to rely on, although his attacks were powerful it was worse than a trained soldier so Joseph easily evaded his attack without much effort. Upon dodging, Arthur fell down on the ground getting dust all over his clothes.

Arthur got up and once again struck Joseph but the latter once again easily evaded the attack. Then, again and again, Arthur kept on attacking Joseph but falling right after.

"You put too much on strength in your strikes. Now you need to limit how much strength you put in each of your strikes. For practice, cut this piece of paper in half while it is falling down." Joseph took out a piece of paper and threw it in the air. Arthur smiled thinking it was an extremely easy task but when his sword touched the piece of paper it wasn't cut but was instead it went along with his strike.

Arthur realized at this time it wouldn't be such a simple task to do. "I'll leave you to this Arthur, once you have completed this only then we would be able to do basic training. You only have a week " Basic training? Then this task would only be the tip of the iceberg.

This week wouldn't be easy for Arthur as he came from the modern world without holding a sword in his entire life before coming to this world. Day in and day out, he kept on swiping and swiping his sword until he couldn't feel hands anymore from all his strikes.

Within this week while Arthur was trying to cut the paper in half, Rob's research was coming through as he would be finished at the end of the week exactly the deadline of Arthur's task. With all these things happening this week one could say that things have been pretty busy.

The deadline was nearing and Arthur still hasn't progressed much since day one. Tomorrow has Joseph's deadline and Arthur has extremely conflicted knowing that he had no progress since Joseph had given him that task.

Arthur laid on the grassy landscape looking at the bright clear sky with his heads resting on his arms, "Just what am I missing? I've been swinging non-stop these couple of days but what am I missing exactly?" Arthur sighed as he looked at his sword wondering on what he should do.

One of the girls advised Arthur, "Although I may not be knowledgeable in this matter might I suggest using a certain amount of strength? A strike which is not too strong or too weak and a strike which saw neither too fast nor too slow." Since Arthur had nothing else to do he followed one of the girls' advice.

This time he struck the falling paper with a weaker strike than before but that strength was converted to speed. Upon the sword hitting the piece of paper in midair it was sliced in half. "So, just power isn't needed but also speed, huh? I should've had known this since I used speed while I was in the tournament."

Joseph walked out of nowhere using Wisp Movement to appear there. "You finally got it, albeit it took you a week! Now once people understand this they still have to refine their usage of power into speed which would take a few months just to completely grasp the concept but you already did it in an instant the moment you heard her advice. This just shows how peerless you are!"

Arthur felt that all his efforts up to this point were futile as all he did was strike recklessly at the piece of paper as it fell down. Joseph put his hand on Arthur's shoulder, "Hey don't look so down, all your efforts this week wasn't all in vain as it also improved your stamina and familiarity with your own sword." Arthur realized that every word Joseph spoke were all completely true.

"As proof, here are your new stats and honestly this is extremely heaven shattering development"

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