Following the brief meeting with Commander Sable, the group decided to follow his advice and focus more on training and getting stronger.

In the following days, Mako shifted his entire focus onto training and studying. He tooka deep interest in subjects like World History which taught him a lot more about the history of humans during his great-grandfather’s era.

Mako was also a quick learner when it came to learning new fighting techniques. The various related classes taught a multitude of different forms and techniques and Mako wanted to master all of them.

In the regular Power Weapons class, Teacher Magnus called all the students to gather on one side of the giant Power Weapons hall.

With a flick of Magnus’s wrist, the wall in front of the cadets began to shift and move around as it repositioned itself. Some portions of the wall rotated, each revealing a power weapon on the other side which was placed on special display.

Within seconds, the entire wall had been covered with tens of different and unique power weapons.

Magnus told the students to survey the entire wall carefully and pick out a weapon that spoke to them. He told them that the weapon that they chose would become the main weapon that they would master in their first semester so to pick wisely.

The students all scoured through the various rows of weapons, trying out many different weapons before making their decision.

Many of the rich students who already possessed strong power weapons and had prior training picked the weapons that they were already accustomed giving them a massive edge over the other regular students.

Although Mako wasn’t from a rich background, he did possess the Storm Caller staff which was a strong power weapon itself but one that Mako had very little knowledge of how to use.

Since Mako had only awakened his powers at the beginning of the year, he didn’t have the years of training that other students had under their belt and so the only fighting style that Mako was comfortable with at the moment was close combat which didn’t pair well with a staff.

He really enjoyed using his stone sword skill which allowed him to fight in close quarters but have adequate attacking and defensive capabilities.

Looking over the dozens of different sword power weapons that were on display; modeled after the weapons of the many different cultures of humanity’s past, the Japanese Katana- style power weapon really caught Mako’s eye.

It was one of the more popular weapons and one of Mako’s personal favorites.

All of the power weapons on display were High-tier and possessed no active or passive abilities.

Mako still inspected the katana to learn its stats.

Inspect

High Tier Silver Fang Wolf Katana =

A strong katana forged from the crystal and fangs of a Silver Fang Wolf found in (Unknown). A decent quality weapon forged by (Unknown)

Strength 10

Fortitude 5

Agility 15

Attack: 60

It was a beautiful ashen-colored katana that Mako really liked the feel of in his hands. He did try a few other weapons as well but in the end, he decided to go along with the katana as his main weapon to master for the semester.

Teacher Magnus acknowledged all of the cadets picked and gave them instructions on the basics of how to use their weapons which they began to practice in the coming days. Magnus also informed them that they were now the owners of the power weapon they had selected and so they had to take care of their weapons as well with many opportunities of being able to upgrade them in the near future; however, he didn’t elaborate much on how exactly they would be able to upgrade them.

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During the Regular Power Weapons Class, Mako would learn and practice the basics of using the katana, and during the Special Power Weapons class that he took at night, he would get personally trained by Magnus as he taught Mako more advanced and special moves.

*Ding!*

The User has created their very own skill set

The Close Combat Katana Skill Set is now available

As the user learns more and refines their existing moves with the katana, it will be stored inside the Close Combat Katana Skill Set

Mako was delighted to see that he didn’t have to be fully reliant on the system as now not everything in his fighting arsenal was given to him by his system and that the system would recognize the skills and techniques that he had learned on his own.

He checked out the current skills that he had learned and was amazed at just how many had been computed into the system already.

Analyze

(New!) (E-Tier) Intermediate Close Combat Katana Skill Set

– (E-Tier) Vertical Slash (LEVEL 1)

Attack: 35

Requirements: 40 Strength, 35 Stamina

Cost: 0 Energy

– (E-Tier) Horizontal Slash = (LEVEL 1)

Attack: 35

Requirements: 40 Strength, 35 Stamina

Cost: 0 Energy)

– (E-Tier) Thrust (LEVEL 1)

Attack: 45

Requirements: 40 Strength, 35 Stamina

Cost: 0 Energy

– (E-Tier) Parry (LEVEL 1)

Defense: 40

Requirements: 40 Fortitude, 35 Stamina

Cost: 0 Energy

– (E-Tier) Air Slash = (LEVEL 1)

Attack: 35

Requirements: 40 Strength, 35 Stamina

Cost: o Energy

– (D-Tier) Continuous Rolling Slashes (LEVEL 1)

By performing the initial horizontal stash, the user activates Continuous Rolling Slashes by allowing the body to move forward with the motion of the blade without stopping, adding more power to the blade with each swing as the entire weight of the body is added to the force of the blade along with the increasing momentum of the attack.

Attack: 80

Requirements: 65 Strength, 50 Stamina

Cost: o Energy

All of the basic moves that Mako had learned so far were neatly displayed in front of his eyes along with some useful stats as well as the one special move that he had mastered while training directly under Magnus; the Continuous Rolling Slashes.

The great thing about all of these moves was that they were purely physical meaning that there was no energy or mana requirement and it was purely dependent on Mako’s Stamina which would indicate for how long he could keep using these moves without stopping.

He still had several more moves that had to master before moving on to the next set of training where he would then learn to infuse his abilities into his weapon and create brand new skills that could be utilized using his weapon that would be a lot stronger and more

accurate.

During their special training sessions, Magnus went on and explained a bit about Power Weapons and how they worked, stuff that Mako already knew thanks to his system; however, Magnus didn’t stop there as he dropped brand new and important information that Mako was

fascinated to learn.

Magnus explained that other types of classes represented power weapons alongside the regular tiers that a power weapon could possess.

Power Weapons could also be classified by the type of weapon, for example, a bladed, blunt,

or ranged weapon.

These classes could then be further broken down into more specific types by classifying their traits such as the weapon’s weight, range, attack power, etc.

For example, Power Weapons that would be classified as lightweight, close-range, bladed weapons are daggers, dueling knives, rapiers, switchblades, swords, etc.

Another example would be Power Weapons which would be classified as Medium-weight, close-range, blunt weapons such as clubs, maces, war hammers, staves, flails, etc. Magnus then went on to explain how many different weapons could have special features such as chained weapons which granted a level of flexibility and unpredictability with their attacks at the cost of attack power.

He explained their differences as well as their pros and cons. He taught Mako that every single

weapon in existence had a weakness whether it is its range is limited or its weight is too light to cause significant damage.

No matter the weapon, it would always foster a weakness and strength and it was up to the

wielder of the weapon to capitalize the weapon’s strength to its greatest ability and reduce the weapon’s weakness to the absolute minimum.

While Mako trained to master the Katana, he also asked Magnus for advice on how to use the

Storm Caller most efficiently in battle.

Magnus gave Mako various useful tips on how he could keep the staff as a secondary weapon that he could use in the specific situations where it was required and the basics of how to fight efficiently with a medium-range, medium-weight blunt weapon.

Mako absorbed every ounce of information that Magnus provided him and used it to practice with the staff in his personal time which he often used to just train his body and complete

daily quests.

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In addition to rigorously training to master the katana as his primary weapon, Mako was also impressing Rose with how quickly he grasped concepts during her special Mana training

lessons.

His understanding and control of Mana deepened at a rate much faster than any of the other students in the class with him on the cusp of grasping the very basic aspects of Mana Manipulation.