Moon's lie

Sword Invincible

"This will really be the last time I help you," Alon said to himself as he let out a heavy sigh.

He was talking to himself as though he had done himself a huge favor by saving his own life. Had he finally gone crazy?

The black sphere from the top of his hand vanished and in its place, a crystal appeared on his palm.

"Should I write down the instructions? Nope, he will guess that I came. I should just leave a voice transmission." Just as he was about to leave a voice transmission he stopped with furrowed brows.

"I can't leave a message in my voice, just what am I thinking." He said while looking in the direction his 'teacher' had escaped in.

A smile reaching his eyes could be seen on his face, as he disappeared from where he stood.

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"Just what the hell was that? How can he be so strong? Was he really just messing with me from the beginning?" There were literally a thousand questions in his mind, to which he could not even begin to imagine an answer.

He was still running frantically, drenched in sweat.

"What am I even doing? Have I really gone dumb from fear?." The man had finally calmed down and released his Law of Space. Space began to break apart and a tunnel formed out of thin air.

The man looked at the tunnel and heaved a sigh of relief.

"T-e-a-c-h-e-r"

Just as he was about to enter the space tunnel,  a sinister voice called out to him, in a sinister tone.

His body went stiff. The solid tunnel was shrinking and distorting. He was losing control of it.

He turned his head around with difficulty and found Alon looking down on him from above.

"I need your help for a bit, t-e-a-c-h-e-r."

Alon said playfully.

The man now had moist eyes, his legs were wobbling, he was frightened beyond his life.

"Let's get to it then," Alon added while smiling brightly.

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"Ugh! My head," Alon complained as soon as he woke up. He rubbed his eyes a bit and opened them.

He looked around and found himself alone. He remembered that he was inside the sphere of flames till the sphere was completely white, but he did not remember anything after that.

He checked his body for any burn marks, but his body didn't even have a scratch on it. And contrary to feeling exhausted, he felt his energy reserve capacity increasing exponentially and that his energy was purer than before.

"I should try to increase my reserves further since they are already expanding." Alon closed his eyes and began to gather more and more energy from his surroundings.

Inside his body, in his energy center, an orb-shaped vessel was there, it was his energy reserve's shape. it was his first time sensing it.

It was convulsing and expanding violently. Every time the orb convulsed and expanded, it would be larger than before.

Alon forcefully induced it with more energy whenever it would expand.

And every time he did so, his whole body would convulse in pain. But he still kept his posture straight and continued.

This contraction and 'forceful' expansion continued for the whole two hours.

Finally, Alon opened his eyes, he was exhausted but he wore an expression of thrill. His energy orb was now incomparable to what it was before. Not only was it exponentially larger than before, but the energy inside was also much more potent.

He tried to channel his energy throughout his body; the flow was also much smoother than before.

"The more dangerous the road is the better the rewards," Alon said while smiling.   

But he closed his eyes soon afterward. He had depleted most of his energy; he had to replenish it before he found himself in a dangerous situation.

While he was replenishing his energy he found that his senses had also grown sharper. He could sense everything within a hundred meters radius from himself. But it was only when he focused solely on that.

But his feat was amazing. He was thoroughly impressed by his achievement.

'And this was only the first day of training. 'Teacher' is better than I thought.' Alon thought to himself.

He kept his eyes closed for the whole night in meditation.

And just like that, the sun rose.

Alon was still sitting in the lotus position, but now his eyes were open.

"Why hasn't the teacher returned yet?" Alon said while looking at the rising sun, "He couldn't have forgotten about my training, right?"

Alon waited some more in the same position while continuously channeling energy.

Hours went by, but his teacher did not return.

Finally, Alon could no longer be patient and jumped up and stood on his feet. He still looked at the sky, but the sky was now orange again, the sun was about to set.

"Is he really not coming?" Alon asked himself in a bit dejected tone.

Just as he was about to leave, his eyes fell on a set of clothes with a sword and a crystal on top of it. He took a step towards the goods and went on his knees.

Showing his respect to his teacher?

"Damn, my legs fell asleep," Alon shouted in annoyance.

His legs had fallen asleep after all that sitting.

He waited in place till his legs had enough blood circulating through them.

He walked up to the clothes and picked up the crystal.

"I have to leave because something urgent came up. I have left you some clothes; you should change into them so as to avoid standing out. The sword is of the best quality, so you can use it for practice as you like without worrying about breaking it."

Just as he picked up the crystal a clear voice entered his mind. It was the voice of his teacher.

"Now break the crystal, I've left you a sword art for practice. Only leave the forest after mastering it."

The message finally ended.

"So he really did leave, it must have been really urgent," Alon said to himself.

Alon looked into the distance with resolute eyes and broke the crystal and two words popped in his head.

'Sword Invincible.'