Chapter 37 - An Explanation From Sirius

Sudden orders from Sirius greatly surprised Asil. Sirius clearly wanted him to lose and do so without attacking as he wanted. If he did not use his profound energy to attack as he said, he might have a small chance of winning, like the fight between him and the steel-horned bull. But it was a big problem that he could not attack where he wanted to. After all, if he found an opening in the middle of the fight and the opening, he found was not in the area that Sirius said he would not be able to use it. When that happens, he would have a very good chance of being defeated. Asil did not care much now whether or not to win. Because whatever the outcome, he was going to get experience somehow, and that was more valuable to him than winning. But if he did what Sirius said, his defeat would not have been painless.

Asil asked immediately to find out why his master Sirius wanted them: "Master, is there a purpose for me to do these things? If I am not going to use my profound energy to attack, how am I going to use it? And if I am not going to use my profound energy, what is the point of me working so hard to guide it? It does not matter if I win or lose, but why attack where you want? If I do these, I might sustain a lot of unnecessary damage."

After the orders that Sirius gave, he expected these questions from his student Asil. So, he asked Asil a question before wasting no time explaining his reasons for issuing these orders.:

"Brat, let us get this straight first. Are you my Master or am I your Master? Am I more experienced than you, or are you more experienced than me?"

Asil felt ashamed in his heart at this question. After all, these orders were those of his new master, and his master was certainly more experienced than him. So, there must have been a perfectly reasonable explanation for what he said. Asil regretted asking his master the reasons for these, replied: "Master, I apologize for disrespecting you by asking them. Of course, you are my master, and you have more experience than I do. There is definitely a logical explanation for doing these things. I beg your pardon for doubting you."

Sirius laughed after the Asil's remorseful words and then spoke: "Hahaha, well-done brat you finally started behaving properly. I am going to answer your unnecessary questions for behaving this way, so listen to me carefully and make sure you do not miss anything. Let us start with the question about your profound energy. You will not use your profound energy to attack in fights, but that does not mean you will not use it at all. You will only use your profound energy to defend yourself. Thus, both your profound energy defense will strengthen, and your profound energy control will improve. Once you are sufficiently advanced to control the profound energy, it will be much easier and more effective to use your energy to attack. Besides, you are a man who just entered the first level of the elementary profound realm and you have even learned how to guide profound energy. So, using your profound energy, which you cannot control properly when you're both attacking and defending in a fight, will tire you unnecessarily and reduce the efficiency of your energy control training. So, you're not allowed to use your profound energy to attack when you're fighting unless I tell you otherwise."

"Secondly, let us talk about the defeat. You are in a place where slaves fight, and there are fights that many people watch. Some of these people may have low financial status while others may have very high. Although rich people are not very interested in ordinary, low-level fights involving weak people like you, there may be a few people who are interested in such fights that are financially stable. When someone wins a fight in a place like this, it certainly attracts attention. This naturally attracts rich people. If that happens, they will definitely take you away as their personal slave, and when that happens, you will have to leave here, stay where they say, and do what they say. In that case, you cannot stay in a place that is so suitable for your training any longer, and a great opportunity to improve yourself is gone. That is why you are going to try to keep a low profile and stop people with good finances from taking you. At least until I'm convinced that you're ready, you're not allowed to try to get attention by doing something to get out of here and win any fights you're going to get into."

"Finally, let us get to the point of attacking the places I said. Kid listen to me. If someone does the same thing all the time, his body gets used to it after a while. Although these physical habits often work, they can cause great harm when necessary. If you attack wherever you want and are constantly trying to find an opening, you will always withhold yourself in the future fights you are going to get into. And if one day you meet an opponent who doesn't let their guard down easily and who is very good at controlling their opponent's movements, you will definitely be defeated, and you may lose your life as a result. So, you are just going to attack where I say you are, and you're going to observe how your opponent's reaction to those attacks. By doing this, you will be able to see openings that you would not normally see in a future fight, and you will be able to put pressure on your opponent much more easily. That will increase your fighting capacity. In your first battle, you can suffer a lot of pain by taking a lot of blows when you do that, but you have to endure it and attack where I say. When I think you have observed enough, I will tell you to attack wherever you want, and I will examine your decisions. I'm not going to tell you anything after the fight if the decisions you make are good, but if you're in a situation where you can make a better move than you did, I'm going to tell you after the fight and let you know there are better moves in the future that can be made in the same situation. The bottom line is, I will do everything I can for your progress. And as my student, you must do everything in your power to be a good student for me, and you must not disappoint me. If there is no other problem, hurry up and pick your weapon and go to your fight. Let us see what your first opponent looks like."

Sirius had answered all of Asil's questions neatly, and these answers had caused Asil to have more respect for him. His character was not proper to Asil, and when he first saw him, he thought he was a manslayer who had no regard for human life. However, after Asil became his student, although he did not like his character, he understood very clearly how talented he was as a master. He was clearly thinking many things about Asil's development, and all the things he asked from Asil to do were for a reason. He was guiding Asil through his experiences so that Asil would not falter in the future and be truly strong, and he did so painstakingly by explaining logically what he had done.

All of which caused a feeling of warmth in Asil's heart. That feeling of warmth was the kind he had never felt before. It was not the warmth that his father, who was the only one who loved him, gave him, but it was proof that Sirius had taken a place in his heart. Asil regretted accepting him as his master at first, but this regret was completely gone, and it was replaced by a sense of admiration against his master that he had never experienced before.

After Sirius's words, Asil thanked him for answering and apologized again for asking these questions. He then examined the weapons more closely and decided to choose twin swords as before. The reason he chose the twin swords again was that the twin swords had a very high attack capacity and were more likely to use them to attack the places his master Sirius had said.

After choosing his weapon, Asil reported this to the middle-aged man and then proceeded to the doorway to the sandy field where the fighting took place in the arena. Through the door, he looked into the arena and for a while checking over the crowd of spectators and the people in the special section.. Then he took a deep breath and strengthened his calmness, waiting for time to pass and the door to open.