Clank! Clank!
As two wooden swords collided rapidly, the echoes of their clash scattered across a dense forest, splinters flying high in the air along with them.
"Again!!"
Roared a man wearing a sleeveless top, his callous-filled hands clenching tightly to the hilt of a wooden sword in his grasp.
"Argh! Are you trying to kill me?!"
Shouted a boy who didn't look to even be above the age of ten, his body completely drenched in sweat and his palms bleeding due to the friction tearing his callouses.
"Stop complaining! I told you to lower your posture, pivot your ankles and twist your hip! We won't stop until you get it right!"
The man shouted and lunged at the boy once more.
Clank! Clank! Clank!
The boy parried his relentless onslaught, his tiny forearms stinging in a searing pain, as though two colonies of wasps were waging war beneath his skin.