Lol just figured out how to use my inbox derp feel so dumb. also does someone know how I can let there be more moderators for my thread? Would be helpful to give that to proofreaders so they can read and correct my work without handing out the releases early to them.
I got up early, seeing how I wasn't tired, I got dressed in my second worst pair of clothing (the one with a whole in the chest) and then went out to the front of the school to wait for the headmaster. When I got their I waited for about 20 minutes and then the old man showed up.
“ah you seem on your toes, you sleep well last night?”
“like a baby couldn't have been longer”
“ah, so I signed you up for swordsmanship you need your own sword and armour however. Also since there isn't a beast tamer program you will only be attending swordsmanship unless you can use magic?”
I had codex completely drained of all my mana on the way here so if you sensed me I would seem like I have no mana (or magic) capabilities.
“nope can't use magic never been good at it”
“sounds good let me guide you to your new teacher.”
As he guides me he doesn't talk unlike last time, where he didn't shut up. He leads me to a door and just as he is about to leave
“old man that was a dirty trick with the hidden fees”
“oh you catch on quick although I think I am still spending more then 25 gold a month feeding them. Are they ever full?”
“Never, they are my pets after all”
I enter the room and take a seat. A couple of minutes later the room starts to fill up with other students. None of them sit near me. I overhear a couple comments.
“hey is that the new kid who is skipping year one?”
“ya I heard he beat the crap out of the garrison commander”
“uh that's it? Everyone here can do that”
Just then a well built man walks in and looks around the classroom. Everyone is sitting in a seat including myself. He looks down at me as I’m right by the door.
“so why you sitting by the door? Want to get out already?”
“nope just took a seat”
“okay so where is your sword?”
From the viewpoint of the teacher and all the kids behind me it looked like it just appeared in my hand. I put it on the desk and the teacher looks at it.
“ha low quality isn't it?”
“I wouldn't call it that since it can repair itself”
“ha a self repairing sword my ass. Anyways class today is training day, get your armour on and meet me by the front door.”
I follow the teacher out of the classroom and my take my armour out of my storage ring. From the looks of the kids around me they were bewildered. The armour when taken out practically jumped to my skin attaching itself and forming to my size. So it seemed that the armour was coming out of my hand and wrapping itself around me. When the teacher turned around at the front door he looked quite surprised. I was already completely covered in armour head to toe and had a large sword and shield. When the rest of the kids arrive I notice that for the most part that they are wearing light armour and a large bastard swords, unlike my short sword. The teacher leads us to an arena and we all fallow after him.
“Now, we will be fighting two on one until one side losses today, since Mark and Anthony won the single contests yesterday, so they get to pick who will be their opponent for the 2 on one match.”
The two kids Mark and Anthony are tall well built and have thin armour on that covers just their junk and chests. Nothing for their arms or legs. They walk down the line of all the other kids. Out of all the kids their I am the smallest and it looks like I am wearing to much armour. I am at the end of the line and then Mark turns toward the teacher and says
“we will take the new kid teach.”
then the other one says to me.
“no hard feelings k? A fellow fauna fighting another fauna instead of having your bones broken by the noble brats.”
I smile and reply “just don't cry when you lose ok?”
he must think it was a joking because he chuckles. All the other kids pair by based on their supposed positions and then the teacher calls out.
“group one your up”
the rules require us to hand in our rings in so I comply. I move forward to the ring and Mark and Anthony are already ready on their spot.
“wow you had 8 rings what were they all for?” (mark)
“oh just some baubles nothing important”
“you ready” (teacher)
“yes sir” (all three)
“then start”
The two of them rush to either side of me, trying to take advantage of my limit vision. Then they charge simultaneously. I roll forward to edge of the ring jam my shield right into the ground and stand over top of it. This leaves them no room to go around me and several kids start booing from the sidelines.
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“hey I like the use of tactics kid most of the kids here are to stupid to use their surroundings to their advantage” (teach)
“thanks”
This gets most of the kids to shut up. The two take a more cautious approach, considering that I had just jumped and rolled quite a fair distance, they most likely figured I was pretty strong. They eventually made their move and started attacking my open upper body behind the shield. I kept parrying never getting a chance to counter attack. They just kept attacking and hammering after about ten minutes the teacher called out
“stop this is getting nowhere. From now on you can go anywhere in the arena. Start again now.”
This was obviously in their favour as I picked up my shield quickly and retreated back. The two came forward again from the sides. This time however they approached slowly until they were about 5 meters away from me. That's when the next thing they did surprised me. They both used magic. One was fire and the other water. Since Codex had no where to but my mana while we were fighting I had some saved up again and created two rock walls on either side of me. And then I was out of mana again. Shit. I jumped forward and turned around. It seemed that the two of them hadn't expected that at all. While they were busy I started pulling mana out of the air.
“wow where the hell did he go?”
They circled the earth pillars and then one one of them saw me while they were circling it
“dammit Mark he's behind you!”
Mark turns around and sees me standing there as if nothing happened. The teacher and the other kids hadn't seen me jump, either, so they were quite surprised to see me there.
“looks like we got a quick one” (teach)
To be honest, this was great practise so far, I had improved my parrying by a lot and learned how to use my shield. It also seemed a lot less awkward for me to carry it in this form. I then rushed the two of them throwing my shield at Mark hitting him in the face. I then continued running to Anthony and launched a bunch of uncoordinated attacks. He seemed to have a hard time dodging and parrying as my attacks were wild and random, simply whatever came naturally. After about a minute I jumped back to make sure that the two of them couldn't double team me. I looked over to Mark and saw that he was still on the ground with the teacher right above him.
“Mark has been knocked out, Jerry and Jake bring him to the infirmary.”
Anthony was catching his breath so I went over and collected my shield. By collecting I simply went over and put my hand over wear the shield was while standing. The kids watched in awe as it turned into a liquid and then moved up towards my hand while reformed into the shield. I then looked back at Anthony who had caught his breath.
“caught your breath yet?”
While I was also breathing hard from all of my random attacks it seemed he was breathing much harder.
“each one of your attacks shook me to the bone. How the hell are you so strong?”
“practise practise”
“well it seems your swordsmanship could use some practise its just random attacks thrown together.”
after our little chat I again charged forward but couldn't break his defences they were to well put together. So I decided to pull my trump card.
“ready codex im tired of this finish it”
“fine”
it took codex a whole two seconds to disarm him. After Anthony approached me and asked
“what was that ability your eyes changed colours and then you became a master swordsman.”
“secret”
ps. for the grammar nazis. i have had two people offer me to start from chapter 1 and work all the way to where i am now. however i don't know how to make them moderators so that they can simply edit my post and correct my mistakes without me having to go through everything and find the mistakes myself. the part that sucks is that i don't know how to make them moderators. so please tell me anyone if you know how so i can stop those grammar nazis from banging on my door.
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pps. did any of you guys see the half star review got? seems that the chapters are coming out to quickly so he bashes me for having shotty work. sigh some people really know how to rip you a new one no matter what you do
ppps. i feel like since people hate my work so much that i should redo the whole thing starting from chapter 2 with more description and drawing things out more
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