Chapter 910: How to Slash; And the Woman of Ice

Chapter 910: How to Slash; And the Woman of Ice



As the hot arid wind blew through the rocky desert, Arad stood on a large boulder staring at Kayden who was standing in the distance. He had already learned how to accelerate and how to teleport mid-acceleration for greater movement efficiency.

This day was the third in his training, and Arad didn't have a clue about what was awaiting him. He looked at Kayden, wondering what kind of lesson was awaiting him.

Kayden unsheathed his katana and looked at Arad, "Today we'll try cutting things." As He slowly lifted his katana, Arad could hear the blade screaming as it contacted the air, ripping it apart. It rumbled like a chainsaw, and the ground beneath Kayden's feet started shaking.

The katana suddenly went silent and a massive demon appeared before Kayden. The giant monster stood almost three meters tall, muscular with dark purple skin, two horns on its forehead, and a long black and leathery tail.

Arad gasped, with just a single look he could tell how powerful that demon was, he wasn't an ordinary existence.

The demon extended his arm forward and Kayden put his katana on it. "If I push down directly, my sword won't cut his skin." After a good push, Kayden lifted his sword to reveal that the demon didn't have a single mark on his skin.

"Slashing is achieved by moving your blade across something to slice it." He once more laid his katana on the demon's arm and with a slashing motion, he managed to get a cut in. Arad knew that, so it wasn't something new.

Kayden wasn't done explaining, and what he had in store was bound to shock Arad. "But look at this." Kayden repeated the same motion and the demon didn't get cut. "There is a common method to resist such slashes. That is what makes ordinary slashes useless against the most powerful beings. So, you'll need a new way of cutting."

Kayden once again lifted his katana and it roared, "You're a void dragon so this should be easier for you to achieve than normal people." He showed Arad the katana, "The edge has two sides, a left side, and a right side, you can see both of them taper down. Listen carefully, as I'll explain what you must do."

Kayden approached Arad and pointed at the blade, "I want you to control the space around each side of the edge separately. Deform it forward by a tiny bit toward the tip of the blade, drip it down a bit, and then pull it back. Like using a saw. Do it for each side separately and make sure that when one side is getting deformed forward, the one is deformed backward."

As Arad looked closely at the katana, Kayden took it back toward the demon and dropped it on his arm without any force. The katana fell right through the arm like it was made of air, cutting it. "As you can see, it can cut with ease. It's like having two powerful saws moving beside each other."

Kayden opened his palm and his katana flew into his hand and disappeared, "Do it right, and you'll increase your cutting capacity, do it wrong and your blade will shatter." Kayden put his hands together as the demon behind him healed. Countless swords fell from the sky and grew from the ground, for several kilometers, all that Arad could see were swords growing from the ground like grass.

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Isdis walked through the hallway, barely able to drag her legs. Each time she moved a step forth, her hips felt as if they were about to crack. There is escaping it, she has to rest tonight. She had tried, but sadly she couldn't handle Arad alone for two days straight, and the potion she had from Hati had worked against her.

She must find a way to get stronger, even Mira had become a demi-goddess and her stamina and durability are slowly rising with time. With each passing day, she felt more desperate, she couldn't shake the feeling that she was getting left behind out of her heart.

CLACK! CLACK! CLACK! As Isdis was drowning in her sorrow, she heard the sound of armor clacking. She slowly lifted her head, and her eyes fell on a strange figure. For a second, she thought she was looking into the mirror, but she wasn't wearing any armor, and the woman before her looked more mature.

With long flowing hair and burning blue eyes, the woman wearing a set of silver armor stood at the end of the hallway, staring at Isdis. Isdis noticed the words written on the woman's chest plate [Absolute Zero]

The woman slowly lifted her hand and Ice longsword appeared in her hand. Isdis immediately formed an ice sword to use as the woman charged forth with a thrust and blocked her attack,

"Who are you?"

The woman didn't respond and swung her sword several times, but Isdis managed to deflect all of them. The woman's attacks seemed strange, but familiar as well, even if she was too fast for Isdis to actively defend against, she was able to predict them.

Alice took a step back, staring at the woman who looked a lot like her with a confused face, "Ruris's Royal Swordsmanship? And the old-school art at that? Who are you?"

The woman finally spoke, her voice gentle and soothing like cold ice on a painful and swollen wound, "So you aren't completely incompetent. My name doesn't matter, but if you want to know... Isbert Silver Ruris..."

"The..." The moment Isdis gasped, she found herself standing in the middle of an ice storm, buried to her waist in snow. Her skin started to freeze and die as she looked at Isbert standing

before her.

"Control the cold, you've got my blood. Find peace in the cold, beneath layers of ice."