"Before start to working, we must know in advance how far your ability is," Nero spoke casually without looking at him at all, "follow me.""Ho? I thought my job would be more like cleaning horse dung or wiping the b.u.t.t of the official staff," Lie spoke in a satirical tone.
Facing Lie"s behavior that didn"t improve at all, Nero glanced with a cynical smile, "yes. It"s also one of the duties of a servant, it"s your job for later anyway. Now, follow me."
Want to provoke Nero, but he is the one getting burned. Lie squeaked his tongue in annoyance at Nero"s reactions and answers.
The two men walked past a place familiar to them. That place that was an arena yesterday, now transformed as an army training camp. Some people from his shirt can be identified as the official staff with some servants are swinging weapons. While a coach, it turned out that Daniele, Riku"s partner while helping our main character against Agrya, gave a signal to them to swing the weapon.
Daniele looked at Nero.
"Oi Nero!"
"Daniele. I need your help. Please do a Power Level check on this child," said Nero while pointing to the new member.
"Hmmm ..." Daniele folded his hands as he watched Lie with the eyes that looked like a line. "What weapons can you use?"
"Knife, machete, spear ..." Lie replied while counting with his finger, "Ah, actually ... there is one more weapon but it doesn"t seem too familiar here ..."
Daniele threw a spear at Lie.
"Here, try swinging the spear."
Lie smiled a little. The spear is one of the weapons he has mastered enough. Although only three basic movements he had learned from the Baji Quan Kungfu. The movement is gouging up, twisting and stabbing. The movement is based on the history he had read about Li Shu Wen"s--the master of Kungfu on Earth, who defeat many people only from basic movements. Because actually the main foundation of martial arts secret can be found on the basic movement.
He had seen several people who practiced using spears just now. Their movements are not good enough because there is something lacking. Not everyone knows the secrets that are usually obtained from repeating basic movements.
Lie demonstrated the first movement, namely prying up. Then he continued with a small circular motion of the base of the spear, making the spear tip spinning with bigger movement. The last is piercing attack.
"The movement is just like that? Look at the others. They use a more deadly variation movement than you," Nero protested.
Daniele thought for a moment holding his chin using his finger.
"Lie, try stabbing the sandbag there," Daniele ordered.
Lie immediately approached the sack then stabbed it. His spear can break through the sack easily.
"Then try to lift the pot filled with soup on the side with the spearhead," Daniele, once again ordered.
The saucepan containing the soup has a wire that is attached to the end of the pan to the other end, which is useful if the pan wants to be moved to another place.
Lie without difficulty moving the pot with the tip of the spear.
"This child will be very useful for troops in the front row," Daniele muttered.
"I don"t understand, is it really good to stab a sandbag with a spear and lift the pan?" asked Nero.
"I"ll show you. Hey you ..." Daniele pointed to one of the servants who was practicing.
"Yes, sir."
"Try to pierce that intact sack with your spear."
"Yes, sir!"
The servant stabbed another sandbag with full force. As a result, only the tip of the spear made it into the sack. Unlike Lie"s attack which was able to make almost half of his spear penetrate the sack.
"Look. Poking a spear into a sack until it penetrates is not an easy thing," Daniel gave enlightenment. "Then, Tony, try to lift the pot that containing the soup with the tip of your spear," he continued.
Tony, the servant tried to lift the pot but it didn"t seem strong enough.
"Look? The pan contains about 5 liters of soup. Lifting it with a long spear is almost impossible if you don"t use very large power. However, Lie"s body structure doesn"t look muscular ... it"s quite interesting," Daniele explained.
"Then, Nero. You hold this spear strongly," Daniele said while throwing another spear at Nero. "Tony, try to strip Nero"s spear with your spear."
"Ready sir. Sorry, Mr. Nero," Tony asked for permission while hitting Nero"s spear with his spear. But the attack only able to do a little shift of Nero"s tip of the spear.
"Now, I am the one who must do it, right?" Lie precedes the command while smiling.
This time Lie used the spear"s twisting motion. The tip of his spear was able to shift the tip of Nero"s spear with a curved direction then in an instant, as he did a pulled up movement, the spear that Nero was holding tightly separated from the grip.
Daniele clapped.
"Hahaha ... cool!"
Nero seemed unhappy because his words seemed to be countered.
Then Daniele took out a familiar bag.
"Ah! Flashbang Pouch!" Lie said.
"Stop using those tacky words. What"s Flashbang anyway?" Nero responded spontaneously.
"Try to imagine your energy flowing into this bag and say, Leatha!" Daniele said while chanting a spell.
The bag he held glowed brightly, shocking everyone in there including Nero and Lie.
"Argh! Again! My eyes!" Lie shouted.
"Daniele, tell me if you want to use a magic!" Nero"s protest.
"Ahhhh! My eyes!"
"What"s this? Suddenly all white!"
"Ouch!"
The voice of some people whose training is interrupted due to the spell.
"d.a.m.n! My eyes got hit too!" Daniele joined in cursing.
For a while the practice place became quiet. They waited until their eyes recovered.
"Now, try doing it," Daniele continued while throwing the pouch in Lie"s direction.
Lie does as he is told. He closed his eyes while concentrating, imagining his energy flowing into his pocket, then shouting incantations, "Leatha!"
Some people were shocked, some closed their eyes, Daniele whose eyes looked like a line, now glared until his eyes were now visible enough.
"Nothing happened," Nero explained what was happening.
Lie opened his eyes and saw for himself that no magic was active at all.
"Er ... maybe ... it takes time to study it? Usually in novel stories, the main character takes time to master a new power right?" Lie tried to explain with a doubt.
"No. That"s not it. This spell is magic that can be used by anyone who has an affinity with Mana. Even for people who have never practiced enough. That means ... this is very strange. Lie, you don"t have the slightest ability to use magic ... "Daniele said.
"That"s mean, his Power Level?" Nero asked.
"If only relying on its self-defense ability it can actually be considered more reliable than most of the staff here. However, his weaknesses are the terms of using magic ... that sole reason really dropped his level at the lowest one..."
"But, but if so. I could have won against Nero by relying on my skills and a little strategy right?" Lie tried to defend himself.
Nero looked anxious with Lie"s behavior.
"Lie ... the problem is, any magic will increase your chances of winning because it will be useful as a trick, diversion, or even ..."
Nero took his bow and pulled his arrow.
"Bliza!"
In an instant, the arrow seemed to fly like lightning, stuck in one of the sandbags, then spat out an electric spark which then burned the sack away.
"There are also those who use it as a major power like me. In the case against Agrya yesterday, I was running out of Mana because I used it in training."
Lie was stunned by the magic ability that Nero had just released. If he fights him right now, it"s certain that he will die. Despair returned to haunt his heart. If the average human here can have abilities like Nero.
So what will he become on the future, if he can"t use any magic?