Chapter 22 - A New Challenger Arrives! (1/2)

For the past few years, Modus had been sending Will opponents in the form of beasts almost every day. Modus had not revealed himself to Will, and no matter how much Will asked he never got a response. They were all E+ and all quite powerful. Will had nearly been caught by the jaws of death quite a few times already.

At first, he had been quite reliant on bloodlust and radiant energy. Healing himself from life-threatening wounds every day. However, as his experience and yuan increased in quality so did his ability. Assuming a year has four seasons; Will estimated that it had been at least six seasons since he had last used bloodlust and three seasons since he had last used radiant energy.

Although he didn't need bloodlust Will still got injured, even till today, however, he wanted to avoid relying on the crutch that was radiant energy knowing he could heal himself from nearly any injury made Will careless in battle. Will did not want himself to get used to such a style of battle.

After all, his current objective was to achieve a perfect technique. If he got himself injured during the process, then it was a sign that he still had a long way to go, thus in order to motivate him to improve his movement skill

Will put a ban on the use of radiant energy.

This made his following battles much more difficult, because not only could he not fearlessly accept certain attacks, he would have to fight again the next day so he had to minimize his injuries as much as possible.

This somewhat Spartan training made Will improve by quite a bit. Not only his movement technique, but it also improved his ability to judge his opponents. Now to avoid further Injury, Will had to properly size up his enemies and choose the proper strategy to deal with them accordingly. With his Dual Mind skill, this was not too difficult to achieve even though

Will had no teacher.

This winter was also a milestone for Will because it was the first season in which he was able to escape from every battle without a single scratch. Will estimated that the season was almost up, so once it was over it would definitely signify that he had improved by quite a bit.

After defeating the Lion Snake Will continued his drills. As usual, he did not clear up the corpse and let the smell of blood permeated the air. Now, Will had gotten used to this and it was normal for him. He would only take care of the corpses once they started to disturb his practice by bringing flies and such.

As Will swung his sword continuously, numerous thoughts ran through his head. Such as when he would be able to perform his first true strike. Will believes that his technique was good enough. As for qi he had no clue how to bring it out of his body. After all the SSS manual was made for people who already had a rudimentary understanding of such matters. Will only knew the basics of the basics which Modus had graciously handed down to him.

The manual explained nothing about how to bring out qi and how to implement it. Not to mention Will was a person who had yuan, not qi. He hadn't the slightest idea how to separate yuan into qi and mana. Not to mention if they could be separated.