New Skill

When they came around to the training grounds, Adrian could see that all the other soldier was still there. They were training this time, in a orderly fashion, with something like an instructor leading them all.

The instructor didn't say anything at the moment, he just looked at all the soldiers swinging their swords, in a beautiful pattern, that looked quite deadly if used correctly.

Suddenly he sees that the instructor gets on one knee, and looks towards Gus. Right after the instructor see falls to his knee, all the other soldiers looked at Gus, and followed suit.

"Welcome back, master Gus!" They all yelled in unison, Adrian could feel the hairs on his arms stand up. This was an amazing sight, over a 100 soldiers, on their knees, with only reverence and respect in their eyes. The others beside Adrian just smiled like this was a normal thing.

"Wow Gus, as popular as ever, huh?" Sandro looked at Gus with a small smile, if one looked closely, you could actually see jealousy for a second in his eyes. It just disappeared as fast as it came.

The only answer Gus gave was a small smile and very confident smile. When he looked at the soldiers again, he was quite satisfied with their response to him coming. You can not expect to not be a tad bit Arrogant, as he has a family that owns a small town, he has fought many battles, and his level was quite high for this place of the kingdom.

"Rise" He yelled out, his voice was filled with authority. "Drake! Can you make some room, this youngster here has to get his battle powers assessed by Sandro!" Gus continued as he was looking at the instructor.

"Certainly Gus!" He couldn't really go against Gus' words. He looked at the soldiers, and without even saying a word, all the soldiers opened up a small space in the middle of the training grounds.

"Sandro, now there is space, go an asses the boy!" Gus was getting excited, he really wanted to see what Sandro would say when he fought Adrian.

"HAHA, finally!" Sandro was fired up, he knew he was going against a weakling, but he knew this weakling was probably a talent, since Gus had asked him to train the weakling. He started walking towards the open space, his battle intent flaring. He had a small grin, that showed he would have a lot of fun.

Adrian got shivers when he saw the grin, but he could not hold back his battle intent either. He first walked over to the racks to get a spear, and then he walked to the open space too. He stood ready, in front of Sandro, when he noticed something.

"Are you not going to use a weapon?" He saw that Sandro stood there with bare hands, no weapons.

"HAHAHA, why would I use a weapon against you?" All he got for the answer was distain, it was pure distain. He was trying to provoke Adrian.

Adrian didn't like this. He became angry, and his battle intent started to fuse with something else. It started to fuse with a little killing intent. The provocative comment from Sandro, was a little too effective against Adrian.

Adrian didn't have a lot of killing intent, since you only get it from killing other beings. Adrian had killed two wind wolves, and they were both higher level than him. Since he thought with his life on the line that day, the killing intent was a little thicker than normal, but it was still barely noticeable.

Both Sandro and Gus could feel it, and they looked at each other. Sandro looked at Gus with surprise, while Gus looked at Sandro with a knowing look. Gus knew that Adrian had killed the wolves, so he knew he had killing intent. He just didn't know it was already strong enough to show in battle.

Sandro looked into looked into Adrian's eyes and saw a battle hungry look "You don't know, do you kid?" As soon as Adrian heart this, he looked quite confused.

'He doesn't even know what he did' He laughed loudly from the laugh. A 15 year old with killing intent was quite rare. It was not unheard of, but the ones that have done it before, has grown up to be great warriors.

Adrian was getting impatient as he looked at Sandro thinking while laughing. So he started the fight with a dash, straight towards Sandro while he was distracted by his thoughts. He thrusted straight towards the heart.

As he started to thrust, Sandro disappeared from his view. He was very confused of what happened, when he suddenly hears a small whisper in his ear "To slow kid!" As he heard the whisper, he made a 180 turn, with a swing of the spear. The spear only hit air, there was no one. Adrian was shocked, he was getting annoyed.

What Adrian didn't know was, that Sandro was actually quite surprised, most people would not be able to react that fast. People usually has to think about what happened before they react, but Adrian reacted as soon as he heard the voice.

Adrian turned around to see that Sandro was standing 4 meters behind him, with a thoughtful look. As he was getting annoyed with Sandros acting, he chose to attack again. He thrusted the spear towards Sandro again, and the same time happened.

This time he was ready to when Sandro came close to him again, as soon as Sandro appeared and was about to knock Adrian out. Adrian felt his presence and attacked towards where Sandro was.

new ability learned: instinct lvl 1

Sandro was almost taken by surprise, but he was an absolute expert at fighting, and he had been fighting for many years, but still.

Sandro was absolutely shocked. 'how did he sense me?'. He was thinking hard, trying to find an answer. 'No, he didn't feel me, it was something else!" He could not think of an answer, so he looked at Adrian.

Sandro appeared behind Adrian, and released a bit of killing intent. The second he released it, Adrian felt something behind him, and turned around straight away. '

"I see, so that it how it is" Sandro was looking at Adrian with an excited smile "Let's end the fight here!"

Adrian was still looking at Sandro with a battle hungry gaze, but he had to respect his teacher, so he went to the racks, and put down the spear.