training

Asber, lying in bed, remembering and still not understanding the events of the previous night.

Getting up, he bathes, puts on his academy uniform, leaves the room, walks down the white stairs and takes a seat at the large table full of food, very different from the table in the old cabin.

Finishing eating the exquisite food Sofia prepared, he gets up with Sofia and leaves the house for the academy.

Walking through the streets of the capital, she observes how thousands of people arrange their businesses and food stalls as if there was going to be a festival.

"will there be something important these days?" asks asber with curiosity, "in a few days there will be a meeting between the four kingdoms" says Sofia, while asber remembers the law that forbids the entrance of demons in the whole kingdom "isn't the entrance of demons forbidden?", Sofia gives a soft tap on asber's shoulder answers "that's why they are important that day, after hundreds of years finally the four kingdoms will meet".

Asber, sighing and thinking about the small conflict he had with the Cruss family, without giving it so much importance, takes Sofia's hand and runs so as not to be late to the academy.

Arriving at the academy that no matter how many times you see it always impresses you, Asber and Sofia go through the iron door with gold pieces, while an old man sitting in a wooden chair sees them pass and without giving them much importance holds the door and closes it.

Arriving at the classroom and taking a seat, they see Professor Cler sitting in the center of the room holding a book.

Looking around, he sees everyone but Alexa, sitting in the chair sighing as she tries to forget about that night.

Cler, stands up and speaks loudly for everyone to hear "today's class is about weapons, in a battle the most important thing is the weapon we use and knowing how to use them, so today you will choose your own weapons and practice with them".

All the students walk down a starry hallway until they reach a large room, the floor full of sands, and its walls have shelves full of weapons hanging on them.

Standing in the arena, looking at the whole room full of weapons as if there was a war going on "choose the weapon you like and practice with a student" shouts cler as he walks out of the room.

Taking a few steps, he reaches the bookshelf and looks at hundreds of weapons such as iron mallets, swords, shields, bows, spears, axes and katanas.

Behind all the weapons, stands a black katana as if it had never been used, noting the perfect edge of it and how beautiful it looks. Grabbing it, he stares at it while throwing a few slashes in the air.

After a while of using it, his whole body sweats, feeling tired as if he had practiced for days, throwing the katana to the ground, he rests for a few minutes sitting on the sand.

After a while, he tries to lift the katana from the ground, but the instant he touches it everything in sight turns black, as if he were in the dark, from the katana comes out a kind of smoke that enters little by little to the mouth of asber, unable to move he observes how his body becomes dark, his veins swell almost exploding.

It is as if his body merges with the darkness itself. Coming back to reality, he looks at how his body is healthy, thinking that everything he felt was a nightmare, from behind, a hand touches him.

"are you ok asber" says rober "you stared at the katana for several seconds as if you were passed out", asber looking at rober who is wearing full armor, with mace and shield "are you going to war or something".

Looking at the katana still on the ground, but now he sees it in a different way, he sees it as if it was part of his body, picking it up he looks at how it feels so light, on the other side he watches as Sofia holding a spear gives andrew a beating.

"shall we train?" says rober "sure, why not" comments asber, holding the katana.

The two young men in combat stance ready to attack, asber watches as rober holding his mace, and throws himself towards asber, but asber dodges him easily.

Dodging for a moment the blows of the sledgehammer, "don't attack madly, think and make a strategy" says asber when he sees how rober attacks senselessly, suddenly, he sees how rober throws the shield blocking asber's sight for a few seconds.

Throwing a slash and splitting the shield, he looks to where rober is, but can't find him.

Asber, sensing rober's presence behind his back, turns and looks at the iron mace approaching his chest "ghost cut" in an instant the katana in his hand casts a shadow that cuts rober's helmet.

Rober, falling to the ground looks at asber with a demented presence "are you ok?" speaks asber, as he gives rober his hand to get up, as he gets up, rober's helmet falls off and asber can look at rober's face, the face is completely swollen.

rober quickly tries to cover his face, but asber's hand stops him "who did that to you" says asber looking at him.

"Let's sit down and I'll explain", already sitting on some old chairs they found, rober tells him everything that happened "why the fuck did you get into street fights?" comments asber, wanting a clear answer "you won't understand me, my father died a few years ago and I have to fight to earn some coins and help my family" with teary eyes says rober.

After class, Asber speaks to Sofia "tell Hernan that I will be gone for a while, don't worry about me" Sofia responds sadly "okay, take care of yourself".

The two young people walk through the streets of the capital that are now completely decorated, "will you come to the festival?" says Asber "of course, we must all attend".after a while they arrive at the portal, soldiers surround and guard the portal, the two young people enter the portal without any problem, suddenly, a blue light consumes them, and they are instantly teleported, Asber opens his eyes and is impressed with the sight "is this the kingdom of the dwarves?".