Damien and Michael walked towards the outdoor Training Grounds and on the way there they found Scarlet, Beth, and Helen.

"Where are you two guys going?" As usual, Helen was the first to ask a question or talk at all. Hearing the question, Damien looked towards Helen and answered.

"Michael and I were just gonna go visit the Training Grounds to go test out our new weapons and martial arts, you guys wanna tag along?" He said this while mainly looking at Scarlet and her blue saber, he wanted to know how she was gonna fight with it.

The feeling seemed to be mutual as she looked at Damien and his Bisento.

"Uhh yeah, I'll come, what about you two?" Helen quickly agreed and then looked questioningly at Beth and Scarlet who both silently nodded their assent.

After the 3 girls agreed to come, the group of 5 carried on walking towards the training grounds. Damien and Michael were talking about how to sort out Damien's clothing problem because of his recent "growth spurt". As she overheard Damien and Michael talking about it, Beth hurriedly tugged on Damien's sleeve and pointed at herself.

"Do you mean you can sort out my clothes? How?" Damien looked at her curiously as he asked her this question. Before long, Helen caught on to the conversation and explained in place of her quiet twin.

"You're having problems with clothes, right? Then yeah, Beth can help you, she does sewing and tailoring as a hobby. And while she's not at the point where she can make clothes from scratch, she can easily lengthen your uniform's trousers and sleeves," to what Helen just said, Damien was surprised and looked at Beth, only to see her bashfully nod her head.

"Well then Beth, I'll be having to trouble you. Probably more than a few times when we're at this academy...haha..." As Damien said this he helplessly smiled and let out a nervous laugh.

Looking at their curious faces, Damien decided to explain to them the "mysterious" growth spurts he's been having since he was a kid as a way to pass the time as they walked to the outdoor training grounds. As he was explaining, they all simply nodded their heads and Helen and Michael even muttered "Hmm seems like Damien's a monster at everything, even growing..." and "Wow, I wonder how tall Damien's gonna be when he's fully grown?" respectively.

'I'm right here you know? Can you try not to speak about me like I'm some monstrous myth or something?'

He lamented mentally about how his friends seem to think he's talented in everything.

As Michael and Helen stopped talking about how abnormal Damien is and the person they were talking about had stopped lamenting about his freakish growth rates, they arrived at the outdoor training grounds.

It was similar to the underground training ground they'd been to before but it was also very different. For one it was definitely bigger. It was probably because the whole academy's student populace could come and train here and there were metal dummies spaced evenly about on the training ground and they seemed like they couldn't be removed, unlike the underground training ground ones.

Shrugging off the sight as quickly as he could, Damien ran up to one of the steel dummies and put his bisento down next to it, he then started practicing his fist art.

As he started blasting the dummy with the offensive forms, he found out very quickly that the dummy started to hit back. Shocked but also excited that the dummy could do this, he started switching between the offensive forms when he saw an opening and the defensive forms when the dummy started attacking him.

As the other 4 had only just got used to the sight of the massive training ground filled with dummies, they heard successive bangs and thuds, like metal hitting metal. As they looked over to the origin of the sound, they saw Damien throwing simple, but precise and ruthless punches one after another and blocking or dodging the punches the dummy was throwing back with ease.

Even from where they were standing they could feel the power radiating from both Damien's and the dummy's punches, it caused all four of them, even the battle maniac Scarlet to gulp down whatever they had in their mouths out of awe and a tiny bit of fear.

But they quickly stopped what they were doing and thought about how they already knew Damien was a monster, why were they surprised now? And so, thinking this Scarlet went three dummies to the left of Damien and started slashing at the dummy and performing cuttining motions whenever the dummy showed an opening.

Surprisingly a sword came out of the dummy's body and it started to block and parry the thrusts and sweeps Scarlet performed with her saber.

While she was doing this Michael walked three dummies to the right of Damien and nocked an arrow and shot it at the dummy, it hit, but only the dummy's arm and it quickly bounced off.

Again, the dummy had a weapon come out of its body but this time it was a bow, and it soon grabbed it and started shooting arrows at Michael. Luckily they were blunt but they still hurt like hell, as Michael was hit by one and was soon yelling out that he felt like it broke his rib. But although he did this, he continued shooting at the dummy.

Looking at his shooting, Damien thought that he must have some really good talent for archery as he was getting better at each shot and had adapted to moving and shooting.

As Damien thought this, he shook his head to get rid of useless thoughts so he could focus on the fight between him and the dummy. As he was using this as an opportunity to further his insights on the fist variant of the martial art, he wanted to see if he could integrate the offense and defensive forms into 1 perfectly balanced form of both attack and defense.

Being able to switch between them to become the perfect martial arts form seemed like the goal of the fist form. Thinking of doing this he started to enter a state, a state where he didn't think about anything other than perfecting the integration between the 2 forms. Integrating the 2 forms would allow him to go from the Initial Success Level to the Minor Success Level which would improve the fighting power of how Damien could use the Martial Art, making his battle prowess even more frightening.

As he kept fighting, he kept looking for the small gaps in both the offensive forms and defensive forms and started filling the gaps in with the opposing form. And it worked. Just like that he had increased his level up to the Minor Success Level and those watching him could instantly tell.

"Woah, look at Damien! He's fighting the dummy with such ease, it's like he's fighting a child!" Helen excitedly kept yelling as she watched Damien, it may have sounded exaggerated.

But she was right.

Damien was switching between the forms and easily blocking or dodging whatever attacks the dummy threw at him and then countering with extremely brutal punches and then without giving the dummy any time to throw any more punches, Damien would go into a combo of punching the dummy with deadly and relentless combos.

Soon after he stopped because the dummy wasn't pushing him any further.

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'I wonder if they have stronger dummies? Well, not if, more like where do they keep the stronger dummies?'

As he thought this he picked up his bisento and got into the combat stance required by the Blood Angel Style and then he suddenly leaped up into the air and spun mid-air and when he was coming down towards the dummy he kept spinning like a spinning top and spun the bisento in his hands like a saw blade and slashed down at the dummy.

He surprisingly left a long white gash on from the dummy's right shoulder down to the opposite side on its waist.

This surprised both Scarlet and Michael who looked at the dummy Damien was fighting because they both full well knew how hard to scatch these dummies were, it was like hitting a mountain.

Ignoring their surprised gazes, Damien watched as the dummy drew a sword out of its body and immediately slashed at him as soon as it had fully drawn the sword.

As its sword came towards Damien's neck, he slid under it with surprising ease and although his body looked like a pole bent at an odd angle, the stretching barely put any strain on his body.

This was a benefit of the BMS alignment, it gave him not just more strength and durability but amazing control, coordination, and flexibility. Making dodging like what Damien was doing now, incredibly easy.

As he slid under the dummy's slash, Damien spun once more like a spinning top and sliced at the dummy's stomach area. The speed of Damien's bisento was just stunning, it was like a blur in the eyes of those watching.

And as soon as it hit, it caused another white gash to appear on the dummy. As he couldn't use his bisento in the position it was in currently, he used the residue centrifugal force from the previous slash and torqued his right leg round and lashed a kick at the side of the dummy's head. When it hit, the dummy's head bent sideways from the 11.5 tons of force it had just taken, but it soon recovered.

Damien, on the other hand, leaped back away from the dummy.

Once it saw Damien had backed away, the dummy charged at him with its sword ready for a thrust and attacked him.

In response to this, Damien deflected the thrust with the pole of the bisento and then slashed at the neck of the dummy and after it hit, he spun his bisento round and round and kept slashing the metallic opponent in smooth flowing motions.

The Bisento-variant of the Blood Angel Style had the same number of moves and variant moves as the fist-variant forms; with 9 basics moves, 9 variations of each move and 2 forms. And Damien was currently going through each and every move.

With his progress in the fist-variation, his progress in the bisento-variation was going smoothly.

As the others looked at Damien in shock as they thought about how the dummy didn't even have a chance against a battle freak like him. It couldn't even counter-attack because Damien was so relentless in breaking down the dummy with his countless slashes.

He slashed at the neck, it's arms, it's stomach, it's legs and then he'd quickly get behind it and start cutting at it's back. If it was a real person, it would have been sliced into bits by now.

But the most peculiar thing abotu Damien's attacks was that wherever Damien attacked, there was a weakness, whether it was on the neck where he cut the dummy or when he attacked the back, he aimed at the muscles used to properly stand up straight and when he attacked the shoulders he attacked the muscles that held the arms up.

He was incredibly brutal in his attacks and the 4 others watching him felt lucky to call him their friend and not an enemy. As Damien was cutting up the dummy, he suddenly stopped and sat down with his Bisento on his lap and he immediately started meditating.

This caused no little amount of confusion until Scarlet spoke.

"He's gotten an insight into the Martial Art he's practicing and he's meditating on it to get the maximum amount of gains from it as he can," she spoke in her usual indifferent voice but this time she spoke with a little awe in her voice, as Damien had truly shown her what a martial genius was. She then continued speaking "We should move a few more dummies away so we don't disturb him," as she said this, everyone in their little group nodded and moved away while Damien was comprehending his insights on his martial art.

'So the main focus of the Blood Angel Style, Bisento Variant, is to be heavy, powerful and precise and to incapacitate or kill the opponent with crushing amounts of power and momentum. Hmmmm. It seems that what I've gained from this time of practicing is a good foundation for the martial art but it's not at the Initial Success Level yet. Oh well, it's nearly there, so I'll gain it eventually if I practice enough. So all I've got to do and remember is to be heavy, powerful and precise and then I'll get better at this martial art. Easy enough.'

As he finished comprehending his insight he stood up and walked over to his friends who had politely moved away to avoid distracting him from his meditating. He smiled gratefully at them and said his thanks when he got over to them.

When he was doing this, Damien and Co heard a bell go off and then suddenly a massive influx of students wearing white uniforms or black body suits started walking in corridors and started heading outside towards the training grounds.

As they saw this, the group had different reactions, Helen was excited, Beth just looked as calm as she usually did, Scarlet looked indifferently, as usual, and Michael was fidgeting about with his hands and his eyes kept darting about, so as usual, he was nervous. While Damien was focused on looking curiously at someone near the front because they looked familiar to him

'...Wait...Light green hair..pink eyes...Isn't that...what was her name again...Selena?'

As if she felt someone gazing at her, she looked in Damien's direction and met eyes with him, she seemed to jump in shock but quickly gathered her composure and walked over to him. When she arrived she smiled and looked up at Damien and said

"Damien, is that you?" she said this a bit curiously because Damien had grown since the last time they'd met and he'd grown A LOT, so she was quite frankly unsure whether it was him or not.

"Yep, it's me. Hey, Selena, how've you been?" as Damien replied he put on a handsome smile which caused Selena to blush a small amount and she quickly replied.

"Oh y-you know, I've been g-great. Sooo, anyway, you're coming to Divine Titan Academy? Well, that makes me you Senior, so you better listen to me~" as she playfully talked to Damien, all the others in the group were shocked that Damien knew such a beautiful upperclassman.

As puberty started when you were 9 if you were a girl, she was 2 years into puberty and she was already a budding beauty. Her skin was a white as snow and had absolutely no blemishes, her light green hair flowed beautifully down and past her shoulders and looked like a torrent of nature and her pink eyes seemed to exude youth and beauty and could draw any boy into them.

Damien, not seeming to be affected by her beauty, casually replied playfully "Well I'll only acknowledge you as my senior if you beat me in a fight~" as he replied he winked at her as a joke but she seemed to think he meant other things by that wink and she went bright red from blushing.

But she soon calmed down and when she was about to ask Damien another question, an annoying voice came out of nowhere

"Ohohoh is that our Goddess Selena? Hm? Is that a boy talking to her?"

As an annoying voice noticed Damien, it shouted in disdain and shock "Who do you think you are to talk to our Goddess Selena?!"

As Damien looked around he finally found the speaker of the annoying voice. It was an incredibly effeminate man who had long blue hair and soft brown eyes, he was quite good looking but more beautiful than handsome.

He wasn't short but he wasn't exactly tall either, so as Damien looked down at him, he towered over the blue-haired boy. While Damien was doing this, Selena's face darkened and said in a chilly voice seemingly embarrassed by the feminine boy's creepiness.

"Who's your Goddess Selena, hm? Because if you're speaking about me, I'm definitely not yours in any way, Ronan," as she spat this out venomously, she looked at the blue-haired boy, Ronan and if looks could kill, Ronan would have died many times over.

"Haha, you always play so hard to get Goddess Selena! Well, no matter, I'm patient--" but before he could speak, Damien cut him off.

"Please piss off. I was trying to talk to my friend who I haven't seen in a while and quite frankly, your voice is possibly the most annoying thing I've ever heard and I can't concentrate because of it. If you want to spout bullshit, do it in your own time and preferably away from me and my friends," Damien spoke in an incredibly cold and rude voice and it shocked all those around him but only one person was surprised but still started laughing and giggling anyway; It was Selena.

"I second what he said, Ronan, please go away...Pffft..." she said this in between laughing but she still sounded incredibly cold even though before she said it, she was laughing joyfully.

"You!" Ronan shouted this but because of his naturally shrill voice, it came off as more of a scream but what shocked people more was that he flew at Damien and tried to punch him. This shocked Selena as she didn't think Ronan would do something this drastic, the only reason she was worried was that Ronan was ranked 10th out of the entire 1st year in strength.

She tried to stop him but she couldn't, she could only watch as he flew at Damien as a Holy glow was covering his entire body.