8 Hellish training Part 2/2

In a white space, you could see the blurry afterimages of 2 figures moving at a speed that surpasses the human eye, and the sound of metal colliding could be occasionally heard, coming from the 2 figures.

*Cling!*

*Clang!*

*Ting!*

*Clank!*

One of the 2 figures was pushed back by the other one and a deep sword mark appeared on his chest.

The one that was pushed back, was of course our mc.

—Clade Pov—

It's been a year since I started training here. During the past year, my powers has improved immensely. Whether it is my devil fruit, haki, swordsmanship or my hollow abilities .

For my devil fruit, I can now teleport within a range of 100 meters.

My observation haki has developed to the point where I can now see 50 meters around me without looking. I can sometimes use prediction, but only once every few times.

For my armament haki, it has become darker, and I can now use it to coat my entire body and zanpakutō without exhausting too much of my spiritual energy. I'm also close to being able to use emissions.

Speaking of my zanpakutō, While I was fighting William, I started to feel a connection to it.

This made me exited because if I can feel a connection with my zanpakutō then maybe I can talk to it and gain my shikai and then my bankai.

But I know that being able to use my bankai will take me some time, but it shouldn't be too long since I have fast comprehension, probably 2 days to 1 month, from what I know it depends on your zanpakutō spirit if they want you to use their shikai and bankai form or not.

The only thing that is preventing me from trying to talk to my zanpakutō is William.

He wouldn't give me a chance to do it, and I also don't need to take a break since the system is supplying me with energy.

When I said asked him why he wouldn't allow me to try to talk to my zanpakutō. He said "It'll take too much time."

My hollow powers, or more precisely, my sonído, have developed to the point where I can use them for high-speed movements while maintaining a steady pace.

My instincts have also improved, which has prevented me from receiving injuries on numerous occasions, but my pain tolerance has also increased to a terrifying extent; now, even if I lose an arm, I won't even flinch.

As for sword intent, I was able to understand it, but only the basics.

I thought that understanding sword intent would be easy like those protagonists in Wuxia novels. I was wrong.

They have plot armor that gives them opportunities to understand sword intent like drinking water.

Back to the present time. After getting pushed back, I got up and used sonído to go to William, holding my zanpakutō I coated it in armament haki making it stronger.

Arriving in front of him, I raised my sword up high and strongly swung it downwards. He blocked it and kicked towards my stomach.

I jumped backwards, but he followed me and stabbed at my right chest, I used my blade to redirect his attack towards the air and reversed my grip on my zanpakutō, aiming it towards his head, I tried to pierce his head.

He retreated, but I used sword splitting mountain to send 5 large wind blades towards him.

While he was busy defending himself from my attack, I used sonído to appear behind him and swung my sword horizontally, intending to split him in half.

However, he just vanished and reappeared next to me. His blade was approaching my neck, intending to pierce it.

I parried it and we both started to move at high speed while exchanging sword strikes.

*Ding!*

*Cling!*

*Swoosh*

We continued our exchange, until I got hit back by a sword strike to my chest.

"Not bad your almost close to mastering your swordsmanship you only need more time and experience." He said to me while looking satisfied with my progress.

"If I'm close to mastering my swordsmanship then why am I still losing to you?" I asked him as I got up.

"That's because I have sword intent and numerous battle experiences."

"Speaking of sword intent, why would you not teach me about it?"

"Every person has their own unique sword intent, just like your zanpakutō."

"I can only help you comprehend some basic understanding of your sword intent; the rest is up to you." He answered me.

Everyone has their own sword intent, huh? I thought.

"Well this wraps up our training session, you only need more time and experience to master your swordsmanship, for your sword intent you don't need to rush learning it, some people won't even learn a strand of sword intent much less learn the basics in one year."

"You have fast comprehension, so you will eventually learn it in the future. Goodbye."

"Wait!!! What do you mean by I need more experi-"

I wasn't able to finish my words before my surroundings changed.

Looking around, I saw that I was in the place where I previously was.

"Damn, what did he mean by more experience? Do I need to experience real life and death situations or do I need more experience in using my zanpakutō." I said confusedly because he didn't specify what exactly do I need to experience more.

"Hah, oh well, I'll know it when the time comes. Since I'm here, then I might as well practice." I said while walking towards the nearest boulder to me. It was a boulder that looked like it was 8 meters tall and 6 meters wide.

I want to test my armament haki first before my swordsmanship. Arriving in front of the boulder, I coated my right arm in armament haki and punched it.

BOOOOOOOOOM!!!!

The boulder instantly exploded, looking at the damage, I was surprised.

I had no idea how much damage I would cause, because I didn't hold back when I was using my armament haki against William, but he would just overpower me anyway.

So I don't really have a grasp of how strong I am right now.

"Looks like I need to learn how to control my powers." I decided that I would train to control my powers after this.

Now that I was done with armament haki, I then moved onto testing my swordsmanship.

Going to another boulder, I summoned my zanpakutō and did a normal swing, as a result it completely got cut in half. This time I wasn't surprised, even though I wasn't able to injure William, I still have a basic understanding of how strong I am when it comes to using a sword.

Going over to the trees, I then used sword splitting mountain and all the trees 50 meters in front of me were sent flying into the air before falling to the ground.

I didn't do my best because I would kill some hollows later and I'd test my full power at that time.

Next, I tested my devil fruit using void stride. I teleported from my original position to one of the mountain ranges peaks.

Void stride is the name I gave to my teleportation ability.

A/N: If you guys have idea for this skills name, you can comment it here and I'll see if it's better than void stride because I suck at naming things.

I returned to my previous position and used space detonation on a tree and another explosion was heard.

Boooooom!

There was a crater of 2 meters in diameter where the tree used to be. Next, I used space deletion on my environment, and my surroundings suddenly started becoming ash.

I stopped using space deletion, I didn't use space confinement since there is nothing here to immobilize.

Then I continued practicing to control my powers.