Gen wasn't totally agreeing with my decision, but I didn't need his approval to do what I wanted. In the next minutes I used a thick robe carried by one of my players and used it to reach the ground.
At the sa ti I controlled the speed of the balloon to be slower. I needed it to keep up with my marching speed, which would be delayed a lot by my training.
Just after my feet touched the ground, I found Robin coming from far. He went down first with a group of players to secure the area around all the ti.
These arrangents were done by Gen as he was worried about . I was grateful for his worry, however I knew if there was any danger then it would co from that empire in the distance.
So they would be able to spot it from the balloon. However I couldn't refuse more security.
"We have patrolled the area and we can wait for the final report from the team in minutes princess," Robin said.
I glanced silently at Robin, I knew he was also worried about my safety. I just sighed before saying:
"Let's start training then."
He looked strangely at as he hesitantly said:
"Shouldn't we wait for the team to return?"
"And then what? If they returned with good news then we have wasted the ti here waiting for them. if there was already a danger they will neutralize it and if they can't do it on their own then reinforcents can descend from the balloon."
I then took a breath as I added:
"Let's start our training then."
Robin couldn't refute my words especially when I said it in this order. He didn't find a way except to reluctantly start teaching .
"Listen up princess, the skill we are going to practice has so differences than other skills. Normally skills consist of two parts, the initiative and the process.
However this skill is different as it has one more step, the compose step. So you will have to learn the three steps separately and then you will be able to combine them together," he said.
"Combine them together?! Sorry, I didn't get it, do you an after I finish learning the three steps I won't be able to start using the skill at once?" I asked about the thing that bothered .
"Well," he seed to be hesitant or to struggle about what and how to say, "the steps I just ntioned in this skill have a rging process ongoing between each other. That makes it unique and a high level skill."
"Sorry, you lost here. When I finish learning the three steps I will have to rge the three steps together? Is there a manual or a guidance for doing that?" I asked.
"Unfortunately no, as like any other high skill each player has his or her own combination that works only with him and him alone. For example I perfectly know how to rge the three steps together to perform my skill, however even if I told you the steps, you won't be able to do it as it won't work out for you," he tried to explain in words things I found so difficulties in understanding this way, so I proposed:
"What about you show the three steps and let try first?"
Robin seed to understand my confusion as he smiled while saying:
"No problem, let's just try these steps separately and then try to mix them together."
He then took out his spear and started to move one step at a ti. I noticed sothing, the moves he was doing were sohow consisting of two main things, the spear move and the leg move.
For it seed much complicated to do the two at the sa ti, however I suddenly began to recall the tis I used my skills before. Everything seed to play just perfectly fine in my head, however I couldn't recall all the steps for my skills.
So I focused again on the moves Robin kept repeating one ti after another. He perford three sets of moves, each with the sa combo of leg and spear moves.
Just as he was performing them in front of , I also began to copy his moves. We both were moving forward during that, and our marching speed declined by an obvious margin for that.
Gradually I was imrsed in these moves as I forgot everything around . in fact I wasn't just blindly repeating them, as I was trying to mix them together, waiting for so weird pieces to match each other.
Sotis I felt so moves suited each other, and many other tis I felt they didn't. Without knowing it, six more hours passed, and if we were travelling by our normal speed then we should have reached our destination by then.
However we were way late than our schedule, and that wasn't annoying as much as it was annoying Gen as he personally ca down a couple of tis to check on .
I was sure he was worried about , but I needed to learn this skill no matter what. Sothing I felt deep inside kept telling to push further after this skill, it was a gut feeling which couldn't be explained by words.
It seed that Gen's fears were destined to co true before my own hunch proved itself. After one hour of practice, I heard a strange whistle that ca from a place not far from here.
This thing wasn't our own way to communicate, as we had our own horns which Gen got from a couple of players in our team.
This whistle was followed by another group of whistles that ca from different directions around us.
We were surrounded!
"Princess, we need you to get up now!" Gen suddenly yelled from the balloon up above.
I just looked at him before I felt great danger approaching. In return I threw my spear up, held it by my fingertips and then threw it directly straight towards the direction I felt.
"Bam!"
A sudden loud collision sound ca from tens of ters up front where my spear was heavily inserted into a strange shaped tal that kept flashing.
I didn't delay as I snapped my fingers where the spear and that piece of tal appeared in front of . suddenly a group of ten people appeared from nowhere after I retreated my spear.
"Kill them all, but keep one alive," I ordered Robin so furious of the fact I was sneakily attacked in his presence.
There were twenty players around my place including Robin. They moved at once to execute my order, and at the sa ti I began to inspect this tal that was attached to my spear tip.
My spear was sothing of low quality, but for my level it was heaven defying. So I accepted the fact it couldn't penetrate this strong looking tal, and that didn't prevent from storing it into my silver grade porin.
If I was the one who planned this attack then I wouldn't be satisfied by one plan, right? What if this plan I just discovered was ant to be discovered in the first place? what if it was just a decoy that had other purposes than taking my life.
Like it ant to push us to let our guards down, or perhaps it ant to distract us and make the guards busy by dealing with this insignificant group of people right there.
If so then we fell in their trap perfectly and I was in danger at this precise mont.
"Gen, use all long range skills and rain the area before please," I suddenly yelled while I turned around and threw my spear to the open air.
My orders were late to be executed for a mont as my players up there must be startled by my sudden scream, however they were high level players with many years of experience.
So they reacted as fast as in the next mont, and that fast reaction helped to save and save the day.
Many skills poured down from the balloon to literally lit everything up in the whole area around . Interestingly enough, many hidden bodies appeared with multiple cries for pain plus the appearance of many shapes in the front.
We were tricked, or nearly tricked and now we were about to have our retaliation.
"Attack at will, leave none alive," I ordered while I snapped my fingers and then threw my spear again a couple of tis before I stopped.
This battle didn't need my intervention, as the attackers lost their strongest weapon from the start, the elent of surprise.
The battle didn't last for ten minutes as everyone around us either got killed or ran away from fear. After things cald down I ordered again:
"Clean the area and let's keep moving."
"Shouldn't we just" Robin was about to suggest retreating to the balloon however I just glanced silently at him to make him swallow what he was about to say.
"Let's keep practicing and the others will handle things here," I said as I took out one pearl and ate it. I felt greatly refreshed after eating the pearl, which was a wonderful feeling I never felt before when I took the pearls.
'Was there a hidden effect for these pearls other than building up my hunger value?' I wondered.
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