Chapter 128: Nine Levels (2/2)

”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.