The Final Day 1/2

All 6 of Jason's trainers for the last day looked at him with a solemn gaze, well except for Lyle he was busy looking at the red mansion and no paying attention to what was going on.

Charlie nodded to Jason and then turned to the rest of the group.

They didn't say a single word to Jason while they were doing it. Jason stood there confused, they were supposed to teach him the 7th form right? what the heck were they doing?

Jason opened his mouth to ask what was going on, but he suddenly felt somebody move behind him with a sword pulled back to swing at him.

Jason ducked and turned around while taking a wide swing to give himself space. He looked up to see the assailant standing there in his simple adventurer garb. Ethan smilled and ran towards Jason without saying a word.

Jason had no idea what was going on, but after a week of fighting against most of the trainers and dealing with their antics, he could tell that it had to do with him fighting them, one last time.

Ethan's approach was fast and direct, but when Jason tried to counter-attack, he would block it and place Jason in a position where it was disadvantageous to pull his sword back into a defensive position.

Jason had been using regular swordsmanship as he still hadn't gotten the rose knight swordsmanship skill even though he was drilling in all of the forms.

Ethan would always push heavily, every time Jason tried to get into a defensive posture, Ethan would just intensify his attacks, like he was trying to get Jason to do something else. It took all that Jason had to stop himself from falling deeper into being passive and defensive. Instead, he started to go on the offensive, and Ethan started to retreat under Jason's intense offensive.

Jason's form had started to subconsciously switch to the 1st form. Instead of the normal swings and thrust that the regular swordsmanship skill had. It changed into reckless fast thrusts and swings that placed all of Jason's power into them. There was no defensive stance of position in the 1st form, and that was because there was no need for it.

Jason was like a wolf recklessly hunting his prey, giving the opponent no chance to counter-attack because the moment he spotted Jason, Jason was already attacking.

Jason kept on slashing and stabbing with his sword trying to hit Ethan at least once, he was just like an elusive animal sometimes dodging the swings and thrusts with just inches, other times he would completely disappear.

Out of desperation Jason took some of the mana that was flowing through his body and injected it quickly into his iron sword. He had done it so many times on the first night, that he could do it in 2 seconds.

Jason saw the notification that came up whenever he imbued mana

[you have injected mana into your iron sword]

[you iron sword's attack power has increased]

The mana imbued sword zipped through the air like it was cutting through it, and cut straight towards Ethan. Ethan didn't see the mana imbued sword until it was too late, and the sword successfully sliced through some of his clothes.

Jason felt like he was on the top of the world as the piece of cloth on his shirt fluttered down. Jason heard Ethan laugh but when he looked back up, he was already gone, all that was left was the red cloth that he had cut sitting on the ground.

But Jason didn't have time to celebrate as a wooden sword hit his back with a force that sent him flying. He landed on his feet and looked at whoever had struck him. He swore a bit to himself because it was two people standing there. One was an armoured tank and the other one was an elegant blond swordsman with a dark blue sword.

Colby went to the front of Charlie with his huge shield and placed it on the ground. Charlie drew his sword and Jason saw a bright green glow surround his sword.

Jason saw no way he could attack the two of them with the 1st forms offensive style when Colby stood there in all of his defensive glory, The only thing he could think off, was to hit weak points, if they even had any.

Jason's agility was high, but no too high, he had the Shunpo skill but he had never used it since he was told it would basically make him collapse instantly afterwards.

Jason dug his feet into the ground and pushed hard. With his extra agility he turned into a blur, he had trained his sprints and sudden acceleration with Lyle. He ran to the side of Colby making sure that he went around him in a wide semi-circle in case something happened.

Jason tried to look hard at the armour that Colby was wearing. His focus though was wavering a bit and he had already started to get tired. Boops quickly came in to help Jason though

"jay the left leg has a small joint around the ankle that I think you can exploit"

Jason nodded even though Boops couldn't see it, and circled around Colby looking for an opening. Boops responded by saying he would keep an eye out for Charlie if he decided to move. Surprisingly Charlie wasn't moving, he was like a tree standing there doing nothing.

Jason didn't really have time to worry about what Charlie was doing and dived towards Colby the moment he saw him shift his feet to turn around.

He stretched out his sword like a pointer, his eyes didn't blink afraid that he might miss the tiny sliver of a chance he was given.

But it seems luck was on his side, as Colby turned his back to him, thinking that he was on the other side.

Jason's sword dug into Colby's armour, it went in Jason could see that, but his sword suddenly stopped and Jason landed on the ground without hitting Colby.

Colby turned around to look at Jason, one of his eyebrows was raised in surprise which was the most expressive Jason had ever seen him. Colby shook Jason's sword off of his armour with a simple shake and walked off with Jason wondering what happened.

What Jason didn't know was that he had reached Colby's skin, its just that his sword couldn't price Colby's skin.

Lyle walked up to Jason while he was on the ground half expecting Charlie to do something.

Lyle was muttering to himself while he was walking up

"looks like we are going a bit out of order"

That was probably the only thing Jason had heard any of his trainers say, besides Charlies original shout. It made his question what Lyle meant, but Lyle disappeared and reappeared ont he left of Jason with his sword sheathed and his fist pulled back to punch.

Jason quickly reacted by moving the hand that held his sword back so that Lyle wouldn't hit his body but instead the hilt of his iron sword.

Lyle's fist connected with what Jason had wanted it to connect with, he just didn't expect himself to get blasted away a few feet from the impact of the punch. Jason landed on his two feet, even more, wary now.

And he was right to be wary, Lyle had placed his hands on the ground and was chanting in a mysterious language.

I ᓵᔑꖎꖎ ⚍!¡𝙹リ ||𝙹⚍, 𝙹⍑ ⎓╎∷ᒷ, !¡ꖎᒷᔑᓭᒷ, ʖᒷᓭℸ ̣ 𝙹∴ ||𝙹⚍∷ !¡𝙹∴ᒷ∷ 𝙹リℸ ̣ 𝙹 ℸ ̣ ⍑╎ᓭ ꖎᔑリ↸ ᔑリ↸ ∷���╎ᓭᒷ ᔑ ∴ᔑꖎꖎ 𝙹⎓ ⎓╎∷ᒷ ℸ ̣ 𝙹 ↸ᒷᓭℸ ̣ ∷𝙹|| ᔑリ↸ ᓵ𝙹リᑑ⚍ᒷ∷ ᒲ|| ᒷリᒷᒲ||.

A wall of fire, burst from the ground scorching hot and almost burning of Jason's clothes. He had barely managed to roll away using his skill.

Jason immediately went into the passive stance of the 6th form. He also could have done the 4th from since they were very similar but the 4th form was for large creatures and the 6th form was for more human-like figures. At least that was what Mark had said before chucking him into a den of giant monsters, so he wasn't sure about that claim.

Lyle grinned when he saw Jason in the 6th form. He shouted to Jason

"Finally you're in the right form, now lets actually fight"

Lyle reappeared in front of Jason with his sword already raised to strike down, Jason blocked with his sword in a downward angle so that Lyle's sword would slide down. Jason saw the sword his and burn away the ground when it fell down.

Jason jumped back and looked at Lyle who just grinned an even more chaotic smile.

"This is only the beginning Arch"

Jason got kinda annoyed at Lyle's grin and used his skill (precise strike) making his sword suddenly glow and Jason stabbed at Lyle. Lyle tried to dodge but he was taken by surprise. He used Shunpo and disappeared to the edge of the field. But Jason could see him holding his arm and looking at the small cut that Jason had given him.

Lyle stamped the ground and complained

"common I was in the middle of a fricking speech whats with this bull&**%(*(& and I had so much more planned argh"

Now it was Jason's turn to give Lyle an evil and smug grin.