Transcendence Volume 1

To Become Stronger

[Hrozun 34, 0100 A.R., Khyonia]

[Monastery of Storm's Fist, Kingdom of Ousanus]

[Throndrheim]

First and foremost that the Monastery of Storm's Fist was a massive temple complex dedicated to the worship of the Patron of the Foxtails and Throndrheim respectively, Saint Rai Stormbringer. He is best known for being a powerful fighter and mage, there are many legends revolving around the Monastery, among them is that Rai himself designed the Monastery to contain a fragment of the Goetic Emperor to prevent him from returning, another is that at the heart of the temple complex lies the left forearm of the St. Rai before disappearing into history just like the rest of the Saints.

Many come to the Monastery of Storm's Fist either to learn the myths about it, to learn about Rai or simply out of curiosity as it is known for being a popular tourist destination.

Within the halls of the Monastery a group of four Marked Ones in the middle of a sparring session, the eldest was Lichbane Carin Ainehill who had discarded her Ikdasian Officer Coat and just wore a white top as she was currently training the Foxtail triplets that she had rescued three days ago.

The Eldest the platinum-haired one is Shiya, the second one with light brown hair is Riya, and the youngest with dirty blond hair is Miya. The three of them asked Carin herself to train them in the way of the spear as they require it to become better.

Her training was strict and straightforward; the three of them would be armed with their respective spears while she is just armed with a quarterstaff. If one of them is able to land a blow on her then they complete the lesson, but if she lands one blow on all of them before they can they'll have to continue to practice their stances that she spent a day ago teaching them.

Carin grunted as she rolled to the side as Shiya thrust her spear on her right flank.

"You put too much force on your thrusts!" Carin lectured as she swung her staff sending her spear back. "It can easily be countered like that!"

But as she did that it had sent her right into Miya's line of sight as she swung her spear at her causing Carin to block with her staff and countered it and disarmed her with her staff.

"Don't focus on swinging your staff," Carin added as she blocked a combined attack from Shiya and Riya. "You can't make the most of your attacks like that!"

She struck her staff in between Shiya and Riya's spears locking them together and spun them as causing both spears to clatter on the ground.

"Coordinate your attacks," She said as she blocked a slash and thrust attack from Miya. "Know where to strike and make sure it doesn't get in the way of the others."

She spun her staff and sent them all back with a few choice spins. This time all three of them attacked Carin at the same time, this caused her to step back and block a swing from Miya followed by a double attack from both Shiya and Riya this caused the staff to be broke into two causing the three of them to let out a sigh of relief.

But before any of them can let out a shout of relief Carin quickly swing both the broken ends of the staff and swung it at the Shiya and Riya hitting both of them in their chests while slamming both ends on Miya on the stomach.

"Don't think that just because your enemy had lost or broken their weapon that means it's over for them," Carin explained, the three of them let out a groan of disapproval.

"On the bright side of things at least you guys weren't fighting Revan," Carin shrugged. "Cause that man is frighteningly pragmatic."

"What do you mean by 'frightening pragmatic' Onee-sama?" Riya asked.