Even when he increased the strength of the shield until mid rank 6 it was destroyed upon contact like a fragile piece of gla.s.s. He guessed that this attack would leave a prepared peak rank 6 injured heavily, and if he was unprepared then only death would greet him.He didn"t see any reason as to why should they continue this fight. But he still wanted a little revenge against Ned for tearing his clothes apart. Therefore he brought out his sword that was sheathed and tied with a cloth preventing it from being unsheathed.
He said "let"s end this fight now okay"
And Ned could swear he felt an evil intent directed at him.
Before he was even able to process a thing he felt his body as heavy as a mountain as the old man was suddenly next to him holding his sword and pointing it at his neck.
And Alaster once again deposited his sword in his s.p.a.ce ring, and tapped his hand on Ned"s shoulder to bring him back from his shock. With that one move he could have killed him as easily as swatting a fly.
Ned once he felt the old man"s touch on his shoulder turned to look at him with a defeated look on his face, at that moment he had felt completely hopeless. He was at the mercy of someone else.
The very thing he hated and begun training to prevent.
Although he already knew that Alaster can beat him, he didn"t think it was this easy. Although he didn"t think of himself as an overly prideful person, he was still a bit confident in his strength.
But todays fight had opened his horizons, and he finally knew the saying that there was a sky beyond a sky, was true. There is always someone stronger than you.
The old man seeing Ned looking down, looked at him strangely as he said "you are a rank four expert, and I"m a rank 8 master, the peak of this world, and your attack still caught me by surprise and teared my clothes apart. But you"re still not satisfied? I have cultivated all my life while you probably didn"t even cultivate for 10 years, and you can still send an attack on par with a rank 6 expert. I feel like my anger isn"t satisfied yet"
Ned once he heard that was at loss before suddenly remembering that he had cultivated for only one year but he was nearing the peak of this world with a fast pace. He finally felt his confidence restore. And heaved a sigh.
"Old man what did you do at the last attack, I couldn"t even move"
The old man gave a nod as he said, "I would explain to you a bit about the difference between swordsmen and rogues, after which I"ll tell you about what you want"
Ned gave a nod. As he brought two chairs from the s.p.a.ce. To which the old man raised a brow at. He wasn"t surprised at where he brought them from. Rather at how crude the chairs looked.
Ned seeing this gave him an annoyed look "I told you before that I spent a year in the forest what are you expecting? I even slept on tree leafs"
Smiling the old man sat on one of the chairs and then said. "getting back to the point, you must have felt the bottleneck in your training right?" and Ned nodded to that as he had indeed felt something was missing.
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"well you should know that, warriors once past rank 3 can finally find out their attribute, then they can choose their paths." and once again Ned said "yes".
"after choosing they would need a certain manual that will help them break the coming ranks. For example a rogue would need a movement technique. Then he would need to train accordingly to it. The manuals for both movement technique and sword skills has many steps one has to take. Ten steps actually, correspondingly to the ten ranks we cultivate. Therefore the more you master the technique the more you advance in ranks." (A/N: this doesn"t apply to our MC, as he can just continue training his body and mind)
Ned was shocked at this, as he had manuals for both body and mind to train with up until the rank 10, he didn"t need to do like them. He wondered if such a technique was lost in the times.
The old man continued " there are many widespread manuals that the humans use, but there are also some that are rare, which can be gifted for those that are unique. Once a rank 3 gets the said manual, he would find that breaking to rank 4 is extremely hard as even though he would feel his body at the limit to reach rank 4, he can"t, not until he master the first 4 steps of the technique. n.o.body is exempted from this, even I was not. So it is safe to say that n.o.body can break past rank 3 without a manual for movement technique or a sword skill" he then looked at Ned and waited for him to absorb the information.