For the following five days, Nero maintained his routine of fighting, eating, and resting, steadily refining his physical strength and his system's abilities, which improved greatly.
Draven also solved the issue of his rough footwork by giving him the Swift Step technique, a simple yet effective footwork technique focused on rapid bursts of movement and evasion.
While Nero was still a novice at grasping the core aspect, he quickly improved and felt a week of training would allow him to enter the second mystery stage.
Nero also tried looking further into the Blood Sword marauders and any new cases of murder, but there were no new findings on the recent event or his targets.
After the past few days of work, all his attributes also grew past the thirteen hundred mark, and with improved techniques, dealing with second-rank creatures was becoming less and less challenging.