The last months quickly went by and before I knew it November was already knocking on the door. Weather changed over the course of the months and these days it is the opposite of summer. The temperatures reach far below zero degrees, and it snows every now and then. Even the chasm wasn’t know as boring to look it, snow lay in all tiny cracks and on all little cliffs, making some nice white accents in the so boring grey.

Since back then, where I was punished for sneaking outside, I did it only one other time, which is know a few weeks ago. As was outside I couldn’t see the normally dark forest or the green plains; the trees were all naked, and a big layer of snow covered the world. In the distance, the mountains were completely white, without even one little grey spot.

In the last few months, many things have happened. My mother and my little brother celebrated their birthdays. These were both beautiful and merry days, but also annoying to organize as I helped my father with it, and needed to get a present. They both got a little sculpture of themselves, which I carved. My carving skills have improved a lot over the time.

I was also not lazy with my old project and finished my Iwàrt trophy, which now sits on my bedside table. It took me a few tries to get it perfect without destroying it, but this gave me much experience. So I decided to begin an even more difficult project to learn even more. This carving may take years to complete and is on a completely different level of difficulty—It will be a carving of the entire chasm with Aldorem at its heart.

But before I began with this carving, I carved a sturdy handle for my sword. The hilt is made of spruce wood, 10cm long, and carved with a nice pattern. After I finished it, I gave it a final polish and painted it. Then my parents gave me some kind of liquid to treat the wood with. This treatment made the wood less sensitive to corrosion.

For the blade of the knife, I took the teeth of the iwàrt and sharpened one edge even more than it already was. Then I ground down the teeth to get the shape I wanted. In the end, the teeth on one side looked rather flat and boring, while the sharpened side looked menacing. It was extremely sharp and had some indentations, making it look like a saw.

When I had all the parts ready, I assembled them together and used a home-made string to hold them together. Yesterday, the weapon was finally finished, and I was able to test it. I used some simple targets to see how sharp it was, and to my surprise, it was really sharp. It was able to split a piece of paper in mid-air and could easily slash through flesh and bones. Afterwards, I did some air sparing just to find out how perfect the knife felt in my hand, but it was hard to test much more than that. But overall its performance was excelling.

This knife will for sure would have been useful in my fight against the Iwàrt back then, which speaking off, made me realize how weak I am. And due to this realization, I decided to work out every day and learn how to fight from my dad. The training made me much stronger; I would now definitely win a 1v1 against another Iwàrt without getting hurt, but I don’t plan to stop here. I want to get stronger and stronger and even stronger. I want to stand a top of the world, I want to be the mightiest, I want to be able to protect all my friend and famille and I will eradicate all monster—beginning with the Iwàrts.

Today is the day I have been looking forward to since my birthday—my first day at school.

Due to my excitement, I awoke pretty early this morning and couldn’t sleep any more, so I decided to do a little workout and wash myself. When I was done with it, my parents had already awoken and prepared breakfast for the family.

After our breakfast, I went to the school with my parents, where already many of my friends were standing in front of the huge building. All of us waited there until the time came for the headmaster's speech to begin. To be exact, my parents waited, I and some kids I know played around all the time. The principal was standing still and imposing between the mass of people and the huge building. As more time went by, the place filled itself even more, and I could see many more of my friends.

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Then, after about 15 minutes of waiting, the principle started his speech. The moment he started, everyone fell silent and looked at the rather tall, gray-haired person.

In his speech, he talked about the school system, the most important rules like „don’t fight, under any circumstances, against classmates in the school; be nice; listen to your teachers,“and finally, where we can find all the facilities and rooms.

Then he told us kids in which class we were and where we could find them. In my class, there are three of my friends, but there are also two guys I hate because they are known for bullying. But all in all, the class isn’t too bad, and I guess all classes have some problem child's.

After the headmaster's speech ended, we all ran exited to our new class, where our teacher was waiting for us already. My teacher was a guy with black hair who looked untidy and lazy. He told us to sit where we wanted, so I sat myself in the third row next to my friends. The little classroom was located in the second floor, the walls were plainly white and we had four windows. The room was all in all boring, really boring and seemingly pretty old already.

After we were all seated, the teacher played "get to know you games” with us, which was of little help to me because I am bad with names. At the end of the lesson, the teacher gave us our timetable and told us what materials we needed to buy for the lessons.

Then we had a 10 minute break, before the next lesson began, in I talked to some of the people unknown to me. The new guys were all pretty nice and open excluding two or three, who were shy, really shy. The break was sadly fast over, and the second lesson started, which was math. The teacher was an old but nice woman who took her job quite seriously. Some of my classmates had problems with the basics of math and didn’t understand it properly, so the teacher needed to explain everything more than once. This really annoyed me, because I had no problems and learned fast.

As it was the first day for us at school, we only had three lessons, and so the last lesson for this day arrived after another short, but nice, break. It was a practical lesson at the training Center, located in the outbuilding. Our fighting teacher came to our classroom and led the whole class there.

Arriving there, he showed us around and told us we were able to spar with each other here and watch the older students fight and train. Another thing we can do here is train our bodies with the training machines all over the place in our free time, but not during lessons.

The teacher then went with us to a fighting stage and showed us some basic skills with a variety of weapons. Then he let us decide on one weapon we wanted to learn today. I decided fast and took two wooden short-swords from the weapon stand—because I always wanted to try double-wielding. While the others took swords, shields, and broadswords, there were even some exotic weapons picked, like bows, throwing stars, and whips. But all weapons had one thing in common: they weren’t deadly and were only for training purposes.

After we all decided on a weapon, he let us train for ourselves and only gave us now and then some pointers, which were of immense help. Thanks to his help I could improve my technic quite a bit.

Then, at the end of class, he let us all spar with each other to see how good we were. I had two spars, which I both won easily. The first was against one of my friends, who picked a shield and sword. He just charged in and thought his shield would block all my attacks while he could easily defeat me with his sword. But I just blocked his dash with one of my swords, which broke his balance, and then used the opening to win.

The second spar was with a girl who wielded a katana; she was one of the girls in my class that I didn't know. I won against her too, with only two moves. Firstly, I deflected a slash coming from the right with my left sword and then used the other sword to attack her, which made her give up as I only stopped my wooden sword half a centimetre before her face.

Then, after some other exciting spars from my classmates, the period was over and we were allowed to go. And so we all did, even though I would have liked to stay and use the training machines, but my parents were waiting outside.

I went outside, and saw them standing right in front of the entrance, they hugged me on sight, and then we went home. On the way, they asked many questions, and I answered them.

Arriving home, we ate, and I asked them if it was alright if I used the training facilities after school. They said „for sure,“which made me quite happy, but they also said that I should do a break at least one day every week.

The rest of the day, I spent outside and played with my friends before finally going to bed late in the evening.