Chapter 62: Push yourself (1/2)

While Lucas and Scarlett were busy registering their team for the tournament. Novis had invited Ashley over to his grandfather's dojo at the request of George. The two of them were holding wooden kendo swords and stood opposite from each other. Ashley had brought her own sword from home, while Novis was using the one that George had originally emerged from. Novis had just told Ashley that George was the one who actually invited her.

”You're telling me, that this Ghost that my father was talking about wants to teach me? I thought you said it couldn't go inside my body?” Ashley asked.

”It can't, instead I'm going to let George use my body and teach you.”

”He can do that?” Ashley said still sceptical about the whole ghost thing being real.

Novis thought it was pointless trying to explain and better to just show her. He closed his eyes and went into a sleep-like state, while doing so George started to take over Novis's body.

”Are you George now?”

Although Ashley couldn't see anything happening, the air felt slightly different around Novis's body.

”Why don't we spar a little and you find out?”

Novis or George it didn't matter to Ashley. The person right in front of her was annoying her with their cocky attitude. She didn't believe this crazy ghost thing in the first place and thought Novis might just be playing a trick on her right now.

As she went in for the attack George stepped out of the away and countered back, hitting her three times.

Ashley didn't see what happened but she clearly had three faint marks on her leather armour piece.

”Do you believe me now?” George said.

”Yeah right, you were just holding back last time, weren't you?” Ashley said as she went in for another attack.

This time, when Ashley went in to attack, before she could even see anything happen, her bamboo sword was snapped in half.

”It looks like your senses still aren't good enough, what I just used there was sword energy.”

Ashley was at a loss for words. Clearly, the fifteen-year-old boy stood in front of her was no longer Novis. It was a grandmaster.

”What are we meant to do now?” Ashley shouted noticing that the only sword she brought with her had been snapped in half.

George laughed.

”Don't worry you can just use a regular sword.”

Ashley followed George's words but didn't understand what George was going to do. With the use of sword energy, he could actually make his wooden blade harder. Or more precisely the wooden sword would be covered with energy, meaning when the two swords touched, her blade wouldn't actually be touching his wooden sword, just his energy.

Novis was watching the spar between the two of them and he was starting to get excited. ”So, it's called sword energy?” Novis thought to himself. Arthur was a good teacher but he wasn't the best at explaining things. His way of teaching was by showing.

Suddenly, while Novis was outside watching the match in spirit form. He felt someone grab his arm and pull him back into Novis's body. When Novis got the time to look around he noticed he was in the dream world.

The person who had dragged him there was Arthur himself.