After the game had finished the group remained deep in their own thoughts. They didn"t know what to think and had never felt this way after watching a game. All of them had one thought on their mind, "How do we win against that?"Novis had always set his goal at Lucas, when he saw him playing against Arthur at the time, he really didn"t know how special Lucas was. Even to this day he still didn"t but the things that Novis did know about Lucas made him fall in love with the game.
Lucas was the same age as Novis, it felt like Lucas was a goal he could achieve and for the first time, Novis felt true pa.s.sion coming from Lucas about the game. In a way, Novis wanted to feel the same way Lucas felt about the game and it finally felt like he did.
With the match ended, everyone decided to head home. As soon as everyone had left the room Alex immediately got to work.
"I wasn"t there for you last time, But I can help this time." Alex thought.
He started to watch the matches not only between Westgate and Eastwood but even the past matches of Westgate over and over again. He could tell just from the atmosphere in the room that everyone felt hopeless.
Being the captain and team leader, it was Alex"s job to come up with a plan that would bring hope to the team. After hours and hours of research though, Alex had come up with a final percentage of Montem beating the current Westgate team.
On the bottom of the piece of paper held in Alex"s hands, was the number three percent. The main problem was Lucas. Alex only had information of Lucas from one game, but even in that game, he had shown enough skill to clearly show he was above everyone else.
Lucas was a new person compared to matches that were available to watch online, so that information was useless.
Not only that but the rest of the Westgate team were veteran players, and although Alex didn"t want to admit it, every one of them would be able to outplay the members on his team. With calculations of luck and improvement from his team players, three percent was the highest number Alex could come up with.
While everyone else had decided to head home, Novis, on the other hand,
decided to head to his grandfather"s dojo. He laid out each of the weapons on the floor and looked at them carefully deep in thought.
"The thing that Lucas did today, that was the so-called sword energy, right?" Novis asked.
"Yes, I believe so." George replied.
"Can you guys explain a bit more about sword energy, if I want to beat Lucas I need to learn everything I can about it?" Novis asked.
George looked towards Arthur and smiled.
"It looks like you were right about the boy, he hasn"t given up."
"To put it into simple terms there are nine levels of sword energy." George began to explain. "Now there have been a few people that you have seen or met before that has been able to perform sword energy in the real world. Hastam and Daki would be two examples of these, both of them are only at the first level though."
"What really, only the first level!" Novis said, he couldn"t believe that such strong and powerful players were only at the first level.
"Then what about Lucas, what level would he be at?"
"I"m not too sure since I have only seen him through video, but to be able to perform something like that, I would say he was at least at the 3rd level."
"How is that possible though? He only fought with Arthur not too long ago."
"That we are not sure of ourselves," George replied.
"You see, sword energy is not something you can just learn as we have stated before, there have been some studies into it from our world and it seems like it also has something to do with the body as well. The stronger your body is then the stronger the sword energy you can perform. For example, I am able to at least perform sword energy at Level five, however, when I use your body Novis at most I can only perform Level one."
"And Arthur, how strong is he?" Novis asked.
"Arthur can go up to the highest level, level nine." George replied.
Novis was stunned, he knew Arthur was strong and had even seen Arthur do incredible things. But according to George, the two of them could do even more things as long as Novis"s body got stronger. It truly did remind him that the two of them were from another world.
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While Novis was busy learning about sword energy, on the way home, Dan decided to stop by the supermarket. He wanted to treat everyone to a nice meal when he got home at the orphanage. After all, they had gone through so much effort to see his game the other day.
While in the supermarket though, Dan couldn"t help but think about what he had seen Lucas do.
"There are so many monsters out in the world." Dan thought.
Before Dan would have considered himself special, better than most in the world and people had always said he was blessed with a good body and skills born to do sport with but after meeting Novis and seeing Lucas, Dan wasn"t sure anymore how blessed he was.
But even he could see that Novis was far behind Lucas. If the team wanted to get better in the future, they couldn"t rely on Novis like they did the last game. They themselves needed to do something and help Novis.
But how, how could Dan get stronger he thought?
As Dan was going through the meat aisle, he saw a streak that was discounted on sale. It was the last one on the shelf. As he went out to grab it though. Another hand at the same time had grabbed it too.
"Oh sorry, was you going for it? You go right ahead." A man"s voice said.
"Thank you, you are so kind," Dan said as he took the steak of the shelf. When he looked up to thank the man, he was surprised to see who it was.
"Huh, it"s you." The man said.
It had been a while since they both had seen each other but the last time they had met they had made quite an impression. The man was Tony, the guard who worked for the Ruman family.
Tony felt a bit awkward because the last time they had met. Tony had beaten Dan to the ground, although Tony did it to for Dan"s own good. He was afraid Dan hadn"t seen it that way.
Although Dan held no grudges about what had happened, he remembered it was because of him, they could leave with Scarlett. Not only that he felt like the answers to his question had appeared right in his face.