Eye System

Chapter 86: The Scarlet Flash

"Absolutely not" answers the old lady.

"I am just an old lady looking after an orphanage in the last moments of her life and will not be training a deluded child like you" she states, strongly declining Lex's request to be trained by her.

"Just give me a skill or anything to train with" pleads Lex hoping to gain anything from her to increase his strength.

Her expression didn't change in the slightest and she didn't seem to care about his pleading.

"Well at least repay me with a skill for providing for your orphanage," said Lex, and while saying it had an insuppressible guilty expression that was obvious to her.

Lex didn't want to exploit her situation and was doing it out of the kindness of his heart and would still continue to provide for the orphanage if she declined, but was using it as his last resort.

Seeing his desperation for power and coming from such a poor place as an orphan made the old lady feel sorry for him. However, his mysteriousness and weird method that only the royal families had made her unsure if he really was a poor orphan in the slums.

"Okay wait here while I bring something to you," she said after deciding that it would only go to waste if it wasn't used by somebody else before her death and if it was to somebody who had the kindness to provide for an orphanage that Lex had, she wouldn't feel guilty.

The old woman in her long white gown with her walking stick to support herself, walked over to the door at the back of the orphanage that only she had access to and walked inside.

A few minutes later she came out with quite a thin book that was all dusty and walked back over to Lex.

Lex's eyes had a glint of greed and desire which anybody would have in his situation seeing the potential gold mine in that room if it had more skills that was unguarded, as he held his hands out to accept the book from her.

Just as she was about to place the book in his hands she suddenly pulls back her hand.

"Before I give this to you I need to make a few things clear.

First of all, this book is not to be shared or given to anybody else without my permission.

Second of all, don't even think about trying to enter that room as it is impossible and there is nothing in there for you to take.

And last, of all, this skill should be trained in secret and should only be used against beasts or enemies you are willing to kill" she states to him with a serious expression as she glares deep into his eyes.

Lex wasn't a bad person, but was willing to do anything to acquire what he needs knowing what the world was like and temporarily agreed to her conditions.

However, deep down he had already decided that if he had no other options in a desperate future event, he would steal what was inside that room in the same way he stole from Max Ford's armoury.

His resolve had reached a level where he was willing to do almost anything that won't have an extreme effect on others in order to achieve his aims.

Seeing the acceptance in his eyes she placed the book in his hands.

"This is the ruthless skill that I was known for in my prime when I formed the Voltiac Guild with others and with my main class being an assassin I needed a lethal killing skill that would only require one strike.

I spent tens of years making and mastering this skill and it became my secret weapon that had never failed me once. The Scarlet Flash." she said with a reminiscent expression.

"The Scarlet Flash" he repeated in awe.

"The Scarlet Flash is a skill that uses the blade as an extension of the user's body and is a blade drawing skill that uses the movement of withdrawing any blade and slashing at the opponents or targets vital spots, killing them in one move.

Hence the name The Scarlet Slash as in one swift movement that is as fast as a flash, blood is drawn from the opponent" she explains.

Just as Lex was about to turn to leave, excited and looking forward to learning and trying out his new skill, the old lady grabs him.

"Before you begin your training of the skill, I need to warn you that if the skill is not done properly it can cause serious injuries in your arms and energy trails. The skill uses energy, so before you are proficient in it and your body is used to the movement and skill and you completely understand the concept of this killing move, you shouldn't stream energy with the skill.

The book I gave you has all my notes and observations of the skill and even images to show you how to train it. But you mustn't rush and get ahead of yourself and it took me many years of merely drawing my blade before I began to train the skill" she warned seriously.

Realising the boy before her, despite his mysteriousness and weird skills and abilities, was only 14 and probably didn't train with a blade and even if he did, to wouldn't have been enough with his young age, she went back into the room and brought back another book that was much thicker.

"In the past, I spent hundreds of years training with all kinds of weapons and blades, and this is all the knowledge and experience I have obtained over the years and I am leaving it to you as a successor of my blade," she said as she passed him the book and had a longing expression.

Lex was imagining a young girl running through a city with a blade in hand striking down anything in her path and was wondering just what level of cultivation you would need to reach to be able to live hundreds of years.

It was obvious to Lex that she still had many past regrets and must have had many tough experiences in her hundreds of years of life and the longing in her eyes as she passed on her skills was understandable.

As he saw her struggling to walk and comparing it to what he assumed and heard of her in her younger days being able to accomplish any feat.

"I appreciate this and won't let you down as the successor of your blade," he says respectfully as he gave her a grateful bow.

She had a fulfilled smile and only just noticed how much she needed for herself to pass on her legacy to die knowing that somebody out there could carry on her torch.

Leaving Ashura with her and giving her 500 sprit coins, Lex with no time to waste left the orphanage in search for a place to train.

He was grateful for the skills she gave him and made her as another person he would look after and care for as a senior figure and as somebody who provided him skills, experience, wisdom and looked after the children in the orphanage, but for the time being, was desperate to begin his training.

After a while of thought, he finally figured out a place for him to train.

[I can train in the open empty sewers that nobody would go near to anyway, and it will increase my senses' resistance with the extreme environment that there are there] decides Lex ignoring everything apart from gaining strength.