Chapter 11: Information, New Move and Training

Chapter 11: Information, New Move and Training

Ken smiled as he walked, his long blade already sheathed and on his back.

Behind him could be seen a headless corpse, a bit further away from 8 other corpses and another pile of burnt corpses.

The cleanup crew wasn't going to be having much fun, that much was for sure.

It wasn't like Ken felt good killing the soldiers, but to him, none of them was all that innocent anyway.

Ken also knew that he needed to kill them in order to keep his identity a secret. There wasn't much else to it.

The men had come into his home and destroyed it, and he killed them all in return.

The ease with which he had done it was a bit strange. But Ken knew that it was just because he was already extremely used to killing others.

He had told himself that he would be different in his new life, that he wouldn't give in to his vices so easily.

It wasn't difficult for him to control himself when his family took care of him, but it seemed that he was bound to slip into some of his old habits without them.

Ken was well aware of that. But this time things were a bit different.

Unlike before, when he killed people without a care in the world, now his mind seemed to wander in different directions...

'These men... Each and every one of them could've had families... I may have been technically defending myself, but I still willingly tore away someone precious to someone else...'

It wasn't like Ken was going to stop killing people, not as long as the group called the 'Seven Swordsmen of the Mist' were still alive.

But now he knew by experience what effects loss could have on humans.

He used to laugh at the people that came after him for revenge at some point in his life, for he simply found it difficult to sympathize with them.

It was rather ironic that he was now also out seeking revenge for the lives of his family.

So Ken decided to make a promise, a vow. To the corpses of his family before he finally left the mountain range before he ventured into the wide world...

'If one day, I find my hands sullied with innocent blood once more... I will plunge my blade into my stomach and gut myself on the spot.'

Ken knew that not killing others was going to be difficult in the world he had been sent into, but he now vowed to only kill in order to survive, to only kill those that truly deserved to die.

Unlike in his past life, where he killed for pleasure and gratification, this time he was doing it with purpose... It didn't matter that he slightly enjoyed it still, as long as he didn't harm anyone other than his enemies.

After that vow, Ken proceeded to walk down the mountain.

Thanks to the interrogation from the warrior he had decapitated, he now knew the identity of his targets, where they came from, he knew where he would find them.

But finding them wasn't going to be the difficult part. The 7 of them seemed to always move as a squad. So in order to chase after them and slaughter them, Ken needed to grow a lot stronger.

Eventually, during the weeks he spent in the forest training, Ken managed to create a move that depleted his chakra rather efficiently.

He had been aiming to find a method to increase his chakra depletion rate, he figured creating a new technique wouldn't hurt.

Copying the Hatamoto he had assassinated, he coated his blade in a thick coat of lighting, with wind flowing all around it.

Slowly but surely, he poured more and more chakra into the blade, making it sparkle with light as the wind bent around it violently.

Ken then proceeded to add Nature Energy into the mix, which seemed to strengthen the technique even more.

Then, with both of his hands on the oversized blade, he spun around, arms firmly holding the blade as he released a powerful slash all around him.

The forest around him trembled, as trees were blown away, Ken himself was glad he didn't have eyes, as he was sure they would've been filled with dust...

The technique name? 'Dragon Twister'

It was simple, and it had everything to do with the state of the forest around him when he performed that attack for the first time.

Everything around him was torn apart as if a tornado had gone through. The attack ruined everything around him in a 10 to 20 meter radius.

The dragon part in the name came from the fact that he remembered Daisuke reading him legends about mythical animals and such, and he remembered clearly that it was his favourite mythical beast.

Ken was satisfied with its strength... But he didn't quite like how slow it was.

It had taken him an entire minute to flow chakra into his blade and mix in his Nature energy. It wasn't a short process, and it required a lot of concentration.

In an actual battle, such a move simply wasn't usable.

In terms of depleting chakra, it sure did its job though! It took around half of Ken's reserves to perform it once.

So, Ken decided that he would at the very least perfect the technique before heading out into the world.

This would in turn only make him stronger, both in body and chakra reserves. Ken was prepared to camp for a while in that place.

Good thing he even had a waterfall nearby, underneath which was a large lake, which went rather deep.

Ken instantly decided on a training method, submerging himself in the deepest point of the lake, and performing that technique twice, before climbing back up and trying to split open the waterfall with a flying slash.

And so, the training began.

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