Damon ran into the Training Room #7, the ti at exactly, 4:00pm.
The training ground was a huge white and black room. The room had a variety of features such as nurous training appliances. The room also had various features such as Gravity Manipulation, Mana Regeration Deterrent and more.
Currently, Damon could see Karthus and his various collegues whom were assigned to train him and Karthus had already arrived. Karthus was wearing his Military General Uniform, a red and black uniform with black shuriken marks dotting around the design and the Demon Sigil branded noticably on the front of the top. On Karthus’ arm was a 5 star logo that proved his rank as a General.
The various other subordinates were wearing the sa Uniform but with lower rank stars than Karthus.
Killian was also in the room, ready for training, but instead of his standard butler uniform, he was wearing an all black combat outfit dedicated for training. Damon walked up and stood alongside Karthus, looking at the various soldiers in front of him who would be training him in combat for the foreseeable future.
"Hey Brats, I know you all know so I’ll skip the boring introduction. These people behind are my n, and we will be responsible for whipping you weaklings into shape. Grand Marshall has given full power to make sure you’re strong enough to survive out there. Get ready because my training is not soft at all," Karthus and his crew laughed as they began the training.
Little did Damon know how tough this training would be.
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"Huff... huff..."
The heavy sound of panting echoed in the room as Damon and Killian continued their training. Killian and Karthus were currently lifting Mana Enchanted Barbell’s that were increadibly heavy.
Since the beginning of training, Karthus and the others had focused on intense physical training. The Gravity Manipulation feature of the room was quickly activated, and Karthus increased it up to 20x ( 20 tis ) the normal gravity. Not only that, weight inducing braces were put on each of Damon’s and Karthus’ arms to make their bodies even heavier.
Before this, Damon and Killian were made to run for 1 hour around the room. As they ran, the gravity increased more and more until it reached this level. Then Damon had quickly moved to pushups, situps, squats and various basic exercises before he reached the current mont.
"-GRRRR! -GAAHH!" A loud grunt escaped from Killain’s mouth as the barbell fell onto the ground, exhaustion washing over his body.
"Is that all you can do? Now that you idiots have awakened, your bodies can take in more Mana, and your bodily strength can increase even without breakthroughs. Physical Strength is your foundation. Without high enough physical strength and stamina, how can you battle for long periods of ti in the battlefield. Abyssal Monsters wait for no-one." Karthus roared as he gazed at Damon and Killian who had fallen over.
In truth, Karthus was incredibly impressed with Damon and Killian’s persistence and ability to continue their training. He was incredibly talented when he awakened, and had a natural physical strength gap with Killian due to Killian being an Elf, yet Karthus knew he wouldn’t have lasted as long as Killian.
Karthus simply acted incredibly tough on Killian and Damon to draw out their talents. He knew a Golden Generation was coming and wanted his Young Master to be as strong as possible. So, he wants to be able to provide the most effective training she can.
While this was Karthus’ most difficult and grueling thod of training, it also provided the highest results. How does he know that? Because Grand Marshall Sapphire had trained him in this exact sa way, building up his bodily foundation, combat instincts, mana control and mana regeneration before helping him increase his cultivation.
"Alright, that’s it, yall can stop now." Karthus said, allowing Damon to finally stop. Damon collapsed onto the ground, panting heavily.
"You have 5 minutes of break. Once it’s done, pick a Weapon." Karthus said.
"Weapon? What are we gonna do now?" Killian asked curiously.
"For the final part of training, you will be fighting a soldier." Karthus said.
"AHA...Eeh... What?" Both Killian and Damon said aloud in complete shock. All of these soldiers were at least 6 Major ranks ahead of Damon and Killian, and would effortlessly be able to kill the duo.
"Don’t worry, they won’t be going at full strength. These spars are to train you both in Combat Instincts and effective Mana Control." Karthus said as he moved towards Damon and Killian, removing the weight bracelets.
minutes passed and Damon stood across from a solider. This soldiers na was Anivia, a female Demon who had been enlisted for over 50 years.
"Let us begin!!!" Karthus roared and signaled the start of the battle.
The battle had begun, yet Anivia had not released her aura, or else Damon would of been locked in place due to the Aura Suppression.
Damon had seen that Anivia had not moved from her spot, and so he decided to make the first move. Damon walked towards Anivia slowly in a standard combat stance. Damon had already taken advanced weapons training when he was younger before he awakened his mana and so he was very comfortable wielding a sword.
As Damon moved closer and closer to Anivia, he suddenly dashed forward, his sword in his right hand slicing fiercly through the air towards Anivia’s neck while his left hand held a dagger flashing towards Anivia’s stomach. Damon knew one of the earliest lessons in combat was attack decisively and from multiple angles, and he went for the kill.
Damon wasn’t going to hide his powers in this battle. There was no use as Anivia was infinitely more powerful than him and fighting at full strength would allow them to access his combat instincts better and train him more effectively.
Anivia carefully dodged Damon’s strikes by backstepping, however Damon wasn’t holding back, he slashed his dagger throughout the air, and sent a slash of jet black demon flas hurling towards Anivia’s location.
Anivia’s eyes slightly widened at seeing this. For most awakeners, it would take over a week to even tap into their elent, let alone having good enough Mana Control and elental mastery to effectively employ their elent in combat, yet Damon had already done that 1 day aftering awakening. Anivia marveled at his talent.
Anivia quickly moved her sword, slashing harshly at Damon’s Black Flas, hitting the point where the Mana Concentration in the flas were weakest and dispersing Damon’s attack. However, Damon had to keep Anivia on her toes, a slash ca towards Anivia’s neck and she flew back, avoiding the attack.
Anivia imdiately went on the offensive, dashing towards Damona and slashing at Damon. Damon counterattacked quickly, clashing swords with Anivia, yet he could feel himself being pushed back due to the physical strength difference between the two.
Anivia started attacking Damon more and more vigorously, her angles changing fluidly and her attacks getting fiercer and fiercer. She fluidly changed between the Fire and Darkness elents like a master and pushed Damon back further and further, leaving him only hanging on in the battle.
Anivia dipped in and out of the shadows, slashing at Damon ferociously like a deadly assassin, her attacks coated in flas.
~SLASH~SLASH~BANG~BANG~
Damon hurriedly dodged two of Anivia’s fierce strikes, yet two more ca out of no-where, and Damon could barely see the attacks. Thankfully, Damon’s could see the flow of mana, and Damon managed to spot the flow of Mana in Anivia’s flad-coated-attack, just barely clashing with her and defending himself once again. The sword’s force pushed Damon back and broke his stance, causing him to lose his balance slightly.
"What happened? Is this all you have?" Anivia mocked Damon as he kept striking him, Anivia’s ruthless attacks were not helping Damon at all. And he was barely relying on the
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