Eye System

Chapter 88: Continuous Blade Training

After 1000 downwards vertical slashes then taking a short break and circulating his energy, Lex got back up and began to slash upwards

Lex's determination and mental strength had reached an extremely high level and despite the pain, that he felt in his body by training and pushing his body to its limits, he also felt the satisfaction of gaining strength and his body becoming more proficient in the use of blades.

The cycle repeated over and over again as he slashed his sword 1000 times horizontally in both directions and diagonally in all directions, only stopping to take a short break and circulate his energy.

"ARGH" roars Lex straining himself to complete his exercise then dropping his blade and collapsing backwards.

"I finally finished" he stated while panting, as he closed his eyes and calmed his body, allowing it to relax and recover.

Lex felt as though his arms were paralysed and couldn't move them in the slightest after pushing his body to its limits.

[I only just completed the warm-up for a beginner swordsman and yet am struggling to move] thought Lex to himself realising how pathetic his power was and wondering just how strong that mysterious old lady was in her prime.

In the first tenth of the book of the mysterious old lady's blade experiences and knowledge it had all the basics of using many types of weapons and she wrote the warm-up routine that she would do every day before she would even begin training, but after only just being able to complete the warm-up Lex was knackered.

"I must work harder to become the strongest" he screams in encouragement for himself.

Using his core to sit up, unable to use his arms, he began to semi-cultivate and stream energy in his body.

Extreme training and battles help a cultivator to loosen the limits on their body and allow them to absorb energy faster and store more energy, as Lex was finally feeling fulfilled with his own progress without relying on his Eye Powers and the Eye Demon.

With his talent, affinity with energy and having trained, Lex streamed large amounts of energy into his body from his surroundings as he felt his body and his energy power level rise.

After an hour Lex felt his body had mostly recovered and had even strengthened.

"What amazing recovery speed" he exclaimed in awe of his own body as he jumped up and lifted up the blade once again.

Lex withdrew from the inventory a spear, a halberd, a sabre, katana, bow and arrow, two daggers, two short swords and a few throwing knives.

These were the weapons that the old lady used to mainly use and from the detailed guide she had written, Lex couldn't help but imagine how powerful she would have been in her prime, being proficient in so many weapons and reaching such a high cultivation that she was still alive over hundreds of years.

In her younger days, the mysterious old lady was known as the red flash as she would always be wearing a red clock and was extremely quick, not only that but the last thing her victims would see was a red flash of blood.

Her skills in the use of weaponry were unrivalled throughout the continent and her name bought fear into anybody that heard it.

However, her skills and ruthlessness were a product of the situation she was in, that drove her to chase after extreme power and over tens of years of training and hundreds of years of experience, she reached a level that was undoubtedly the highest on the continent.

She was the most feared and revered assassin and it was said that she was able to kill anybody no matter who or where they were and all that would be seen was a red flash fleeing the scene.

She was around killing for hundreds of years to the point that she became a legend that was spread throughout the continent until she suddenly disappeared.

It was unknown where she went or why she went, but as the Voltiac Guild spread more and more, they suppressed the knowledge about her and wiped it from history and with generations passing for those that didn't have the longer lifespan like levellers or cultivation, her legacy was forgotten.

The reason she had to disappear and why the Voltiac Guild suppressed the information about her was unknown, but little did Lex know he was ignorantly in the middle of something much larger than he thought as the torch-carrier of the red flash and part of the Voltiac Guild.

Lex had the advantage of having Eye Powers, the Eye System and the inventory feature over her, that allowed him to be better suited to her own skills than herself and made his potential limitless and all it required was for the young boy to break out of his shell and become the man hidden at trapped within him.

With the wide array of weapons that lay on the ground before him, Lex realised just how much work he had cut out for him, but to increase his strength and not be reliant on his Eye Powers, Lex was willing to work hard.

With so many different exercise and stretching routines to follow for each weapon so his body is trained and familiar with the movement, Lex would be extremely busy and decided he would split his time between them.

He had nine weapons that he would be training in that were within the Beginner Blade Training, so decided he would spend a day training his body for each weapon and would take short breaks that would also take up time from the tenth day.

Lex had also already completed the 10 F-Rank Missions successfully that he needed to complete to become an E-Rank Voltac and all he needed was to become LVL 50 in the next 10 days before the 14 days he was given was over.

[This is perfect, in these 10 days, that fit perfectly with my plan, I will train extremely hard and will not only reach LVL 50, but will also master the first 10 percent of the Beginner Blade Training Guide that I understood from the book that the Mysterious Old Lady gave me] he declared.