Start of training

Adrian threw the thought of the merchant into the back of his mind. He was excited to start 'training' with Henrick.

"Let us get some afternoon training in!" Adrian wanted to get started right away, since he didn't get to finish his morning training. "But let me see your stats, so I can see how best to train you!"

Henrick was have a thoughtful gaze, in the end he chose to show everything to Adrian.

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Name: Hendrick Jax

Age: 20

Class: Novice Martial Artist

Subclass: Merchant

Title: None

lvl: 15

Health: 60/60

Mana: 12/12

Strength: 13

Agility: 14

intelligence: 4

stamina: 12

Vitality: 12

Bravery: 2

Charm: 6

undistributed points: 0

Combat Skills:

Cobras martial arts: lvl 1

Description: This is a special form of martial arts, it is about avoiding your enemies as much as possible, and to only hit ones at a vital area.

Active Skills:

Sprint: lvl 2

Description: it is an ability that will make the user run faster and for a longer period of time.

Passive Skills:

Evader: lvl 4

Description: Given to someone well trained in evading their enemies.

Coward: lvl 1

Description: It is a skill given to someone who does not dare to fight. It gives the user a buff in his evading skills, stamina and agility, so he can get away from danger.

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Adrian was very surprised as he read through his stats. He was actually decently strong, he was just a coward, as the passive skill set. He was not really surprised by the fighting style he had. He probably chose this martial art, so he would have an easier time getting away from danger.

His evading skills was very high, and that might be because of the buff the Coward skill had given him. That was a big surprise for Adrian, the 'Coward' skill, gave him good buffs. It was a good skill in the sense that he got buffs, but bad, as it showed that he was a coward.

"I must admit, you are strong! too bad you are a coward!" Adrian said with a grin, that was growing wider and wider 'Let us get rid of his cowardness!' he thought.

Henrick didn't know what to say, but he did get scared when he saw the grin forming on Adrian face. He got even more scared when he saw that Adrians spear was heading for his shoulder. He quickly evaded it and looked at Adrian.

"What the hell!?! I could have gotten hurt!" He was really shocked, why did he do it?

"I know!" Adrians grin grew wider "But I have to train you not to be a coward, so fight me! I am weaker that you" Adrians battle intent soared this time, he really wanted to fight him, especially since he was stronger that Adrian.

"NO! I don't want to fight!" Henrick exclaimed. It was already too late though, since Adrian was attacking already.

Adrian didn't use any skills though, he was just using some basic spear attacks. The skill thrust was a basic attack turned into a skill, since it was practiced to perfection. So Adrian was just using the none skill version.

He kept thrusting the spear, but Henrick kept evading. He was evading so perfectly, that every time Adrian thrusted, the spear was 2 cm away from hitting Henrick.

Brotus was quite amazed looking at this. He didn't know his son had this kind of skill. Brotus didn't know that Adrian was holding back, so looking at the situation amazed him more than it should.

"I didn't know you had these kind of skills my son" He could not stop himself from praising his son. As a father, you could never hold something like that back "Please show me that you are not to much of a coward, and fight a little!! It is only a battle for fun!" Brotus tried to encourage his son into fighting a little.

"O-okay father! I will give it a try!" As he heard his father praising him, he felt that it was not too bad. So as he heard his fathers encouragement, he had to try fighting back a little.

A few more minutes went by, where Adrian was the only one attacking, at he was getting quite annoyed with it. So he chose to try something else like using swing and get him on the floor to end the battle.

What he didn't know though, was that he made a small pause. Henrick saw this, as his martial art focused on hitting at the right time, and only ones. So Henrick went in for the attack, with a jab heading straight for Adrians throat.

Adrian was taken by surprise, they had been fighting for 5 minutes, and this was his first strike. Adrian did not have time top react, so he was hit. He fell backwards, and he coughed for a bit.

Henrick was nervous now, this might make Adrian happy, and he might fight him seriously. He knew all along, that Adrian was going easy on him. To his surprise though, he heard a laugh.

"HAHAHA, that is it, why did it take you so long?!" Adrian was excited, he was excited to get hit by someone around his age. "Let us fight some more, I will be serious this time!" He was smiling a lot, and his battle intent soared to new heights.

For the first time ever, Henrick was also feeling a little excited for battle. He had never fought anyone before, he had always evaded the hits, and run away when he could. This was his first time hitting someone else, and it felt ... good.

Unbeknownst to Henrick though, a small notification popped up in his head [bravery leveled up by 4]. He did not see this, since he was focused on getting into a battle with Adrian.

Henricks battle intent satarted to show, and Brotus saw this. He looked towards Adrian with a grateful look, he had never been so happy.

Henrick didn't move, since his martial art style was not about initiating, it was about finishing in one move.

Adrian knew he had to make the first move, so he did. He used dash to get close to Henrick, and then he used swing, to get Henrick to the ground. Henrick evaded this, with a jump, that turned in to a backflip, as he landed 5 meters away from Adrian.

Adrian looked at Henrick, He could see a very excited look in Henricks eyes. This made Adrian more fired up, he had a sparring partner now, a strong sparring partner. He made a wide grin, and dashed towards Henrick again.

He used 'Perforate' as soon as he got up to Henrick, but what surprised Adrian was that only his last strike didn't miss completely, it scratched his shoulder, and made a small wound. He evaded the other to completely though.

Henrick grabbed this chance, as he saw Adrian was a little stunned. He gave a small jab towards the throat like he did last time, but this time, Adrian reacted to it in time. He dashed backwards to get out of range.

They kept going back and forward like this for around and hour, before Henrick got tired, lost focus and got hit by adrians spear, knocking him down. Adrian had been fighting for longer, so his energy lasted a little longer.

Even though Adrian still had energy though, he was drenched in sweat like Henrick. It didn't matter to them though, as they looked at each other with an amused look.

"That was so fun, I never knew fighting was this fun!!" Henrick got up, and said this out loud, almost yelling. "Let us do this everyday as training!"

"HAHA sure, but it is not all the training we will do!" Adrian was really excited too. Doing this everyday, would really make his skills be polished.

"What do you mean 'not all the training'? It has blown me out completely!" Henrick was shocked to know it wasn't all the training.

"Didn't you see the training I did this morning?" Adrian looked at Henrick with an amused look.

"Yeah, I did?" Henrick was getting a bad feeling by now.

"That was just a small part of all the training we will do everyday, like sparring was" Adrian started saying all the different styles of training they will have to do every day.

Henricks previously excited face had disappeared. Instead what you saw now, was a pale white dejected face. He was far from excited about these news.

As Brotus' daughter saw this, she couldn't help but laugh a little. Seein Henrick like this, was really fun to her.

"Alice sweetheart, You are usually using your brother to spar with! Don't you think he will beat you if this goes on?" Brotus looked at his daughter with a sly look. This might also motivate his daughter to get stronger too.

As he thought, her face turned ashen. What surprised him though, was that she started walking towards her brother and Adrian.

"U-uhm, sir Adrian, might I join you guys in the training as well?" She asked, as she arrived by their side.