Training Against Zack
1140 Words
[Lunarstella Imperial Palace]
BAM!
The hall trembled as Linus Lunarstella stomped the ground.
His face was contorted in anger and dense mana leaked out of his body.
The Lunarstella nobles in the hall were shivering from fear.
Their earlier arrogance about cancelling the truce was not there anymore.
"Linus…"
The Empress grabbed Linus's to calm him.
Though she tried to calm him, she was not calm either.
She was afraid and very worried about her children.
"Sigh…"
Seeing his wife's condition, Linus took a deep breath and calmed down. He stopped his mana from leaking and sat back on his throne.
The nobles sighed in relief seeing that.
"Continue"
Linus said, and the shivering messenger nodded.
"W-we were ambushed by assassins on our way and most of our unity has been killed by them…"
The messenger cried as he remembered his dead friends.
They told him to run away to inform the Emperor for help.
He felt pathetic, but it was his duty.
Maybe now they could save their princess and prince.
"When I fled, there were only six, including the princess, the prince and the Lord commander…"
The messenger finished and collapsed on the spot. He was gravely injured when he arrived but still wanted to finish his report.
"Bring him to a healer"
The Empress said and the messenger was taken away from the hall.
"Alden."
The Emperor called out and a red-eyed man in his late twenties came.
The nobles made a way for him immediately.
He had a strong presence and there was no doubt that he was very strong.
"Take how many knights you want but bring them back here."
"As you wish, Emperor."
"We count on you, Alden."
The Empress said with a nervous expression.
Alden looked up and smiled.
"As the Vice-Commander of the great Lunarstella Imperial Army, it is my duty."
Putting his right fist on his chest, he bowed nobly before leaving.
"Will it be okay ?"
The Empress asked, as she was still worried.
"Don't worry. Zack is with them, remember."
The empress' face relaxed, remembering that.
Zack was her elder brother and one of the three strongest of the Lunarstella Empire.
She had absolute trust in him, he treated her children like his after all.
Truthfully, if not for Zack's presence, Helio and Diana would have already left the empire to search for their children.
***
Boom!
A shockwave ripped apart several trees in a radius of ten meters.
Crash!
"Cough!"
Aita crashed on a tree and blood flowed out from his mouth.
Wiping away the blood dripping from his mouth, he smiled at Zack before him.
"Stop attacking like a mindless beast."
Zack sighed in exasperation.
It had been two days since Aita joined their group and the group kept nearing the end of the large forest at their own pace.
It would have been faster with a carriage, but unfortunately it was destroyed by the assassins, d'urine the ambush.
To not waste time, Zack proposed to train Aita. The latter first refused because of his pride, but relented when Zack brought up Valhalla.
'You will not be worthy of Valhalla if you are scared of an old man.'
As soon as these words escaped Zack's mouth, Aita launched at Zack.
Little did he know that Zack himself was not aware of what he was saying about Valhalla.
He just thought that by saying that Aita would accept and he was right on the spot.
Now they have already fought several times, but Aita didn't win a single time.
Zack was now in a recovered state compared to the first time.
He was extremely strong, it was a certainty for Aita now.
"What mindless beast ?"
Aita frowned.
"You are attacking without thinking, that's a problem."
"Why do you have to think during a fight ? Doesn't that come naturally ?"
Aita was a little lost as the only fighting experience he had was from Soren's life.
Orion didn't really have experience of fighting and Aita's memories were blurred.
Thus, the only one remaining was Soren and his fighting style was very peculiar…
He really fought like a Viking, all his movements were improvised during the fight.
He didn't really step back to rest a little or analyze his opponent either. He fought every second until he was tired out and couldn't move his body anymore.
Seeing the clueless expression of Aita, Zack sighed again.
"If you continue to fight like that, you will not get stronger."
"What…?"
"Your fighting style could work on people as strong as you or weaker than you, but what about stronger people ? They will easily deal with you just by reading your pattern."
"!"
"I'm not saying to stop being aggressive, but at least don't rush without thinking a minimum."
"..."
Aita listened quietly to the advice.
He didn't want to lose anymore.
If he had fought perfectly, maybe he could have beaten Alfred and Ubbe without dying.
'Runa also would have been alive…'
"You are not stupid, I know. That's why if you use your brain in a fight, you will progress at astounding speed."
Swooooosh!
Dark green wind swirled fiercely around Aita as his eyes turned dark green.
Zack smiled seeing that.
He could tell by Aita's gaze that he really took his advice.
He didn't waste time either, as he was ready to pounce on him.
Whooosh!
Aita propelled himself in a gust of wind toward Zack.
Zack thought that it was the same pattern until Aita suddenly punched the ground.
Bam!
The ground shook and sand flew everywhere, blocking Zack's vision.
'Oh interesting…'
Zack smiled at the unexpected action from Aita.
'But not enough!'
Channeling mana, a strong pressure spread in the surroundings and the sand fell on the ground.
"!"
But the moment he was recovering his vision, a tree was flying toward him at great speed.
Whooosh! Whooosh! Whooosh!
Soon several other trees were thrown at him from all his sides.
"Gravity Claws!"
Zack swung his spear fast around him and deflected all the trees.
Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!
But as he was about to slice off the last tree, something was falling from the sky at tremendous speed.
Looking up, he saw Aita falling from the sky toward him in the center of a mini-tornado.
Aita smirked and extended his left hand.
"Njord Wind…"
Zack didn't have enough time to counter properly, so he covered his spear with an immense amount of mana and prepared to receive the attack before him.
He saw with eyes open wide the fantastic scene happening.
The clearing blue sky was lightly tinted in a beautiful dark green color and the small green tornado covering as protection around Aita.
Aita's tattoo and eyes shone in a dark green color as half of his black hair turned golden.
"...Tornado."
BOOOM!
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