859 Line of Sight 1 (1/2)

Fortunately, the core had given him a training method that seemed to be rather unique.

After the warehouse incident, Garen had downloaded the confidential document that was transferred via the core to him from the Mech's computer. He then proceeded to wipe off all traces of it once he had done so. Once he had reached home and recovered the data, he made sure that he did not leave behind any loopholes multiple times before he deleted all the records. He even destroyed the hard disc and used a new one in order to prevent any leaks.

”After this incident, I should start analyzing the training methods that I obtained,” according to Garen's estimation, this training method was no ordinary training method as it was at least a Level Five. However, he had no intention of retraining himself. If he were to abandon his Crouched Eagle Talon, it would be extremely difficult as his Willpower had already taken to its shape. Similar to a stone sculpture, it would be difficult to change it to another shape once its external shape was formed. He would have to exhaust more material and time if he were to start over.

As Inari kept driving along the road, Garen was thinking of a way to further perfect his Crouched Eagle Talon.

He didn't plan to abandon this training method at all. In fact, he planned to improve it.

This was because the new training method was completely irrelevant to the Crouched Eagle Talon in terms of the involvement of body parts. The three main body parts involved with the Crouched Eagle Talon were the hands and chest.

On the other hand, the new training method involved his head, legs, and the back, which was the most important part. There were a total of four body parts and they did not overlap with the Crouch Eagle Talon. This seemed to have been considered by the Core.

Two training methods could be overlap and not interfere with each other. This was equivalent to wearing two sets of equipment and utilizing one of them whenever needed.

Unfortunately, the Crouched Eagle Talon could only go up to Level Five. Naturally, he could go the Eagle's Nest and spend his Quest Points or Contribution Points to obtain the information for all five levels. However, the price wasn't cheap as it was at least equivalent to hundreds of thousands of Universal Units.

Even so, the Crouched Eagle Talon was still a high-cost performance training method to the public since there were very few training methods that could reach Level Five.

Garen had realized that the strength of his Crouched Eagle Talon was just a mere Level Three. This was probably because he would need a military identity to reach Level Four. Before taking on the mission, he would have had no opportunities to be qualified to possess such an identity. However, after contributing to them with his strength, it was slightly easier for him to obtain a military identity and it should not be a problem for him to obtain all five levels of the training method.

Beep beep… Beep beep…

As Garen was lost in his thoughts, his watch started beeping.

He raised his wrist to eye level to find out that it was a new message.

'The Merit Awarding Ceremony will be held at the second military division. The time will be tomorrow at 16:00. Please arrive beforehand.'

”Where is the Second Military Division located?”

Garen casually asked.

Inari who had been messed with by Garen didn't dare to mess with him anymore and decided to be very honest with him.

”It's just beside the Empire State Building in the Magical Rose District. Why do you ask? Are the upper levels going to award the merits?”

”Yep. You're good guessing these kinds of stuff, no?”

Garen glanced at her as he knew that this girl possessed a great amount of intel.

Inari didn't dare to speak further as she displayed the location of the place clearly on the vehicle's map. They didn't speak further after Garen copied it into his Watch Terminal.

They encountered a few red lights along their journey back to the Blackboard Academy.

The sky gradually turned dark while the number of cars increased as the peak hours were approaching. Red cars and buses started appearing more and more and their speed gradually slowed down.

A few motorcyclists in helmets and sports enthusiasts who had passed by Garen's car would whistle and laugh loudly when they saw Inari in the driver's seat.

”These kids!” Inari scoffed.

”You grew up around these people,” Garen casually laughed.

Inari didn't refute as she seemed to be traumatized by Garen's ambush.

The traffic jam became worse as everyone had just got off from work. Occasionally, honks could be heard from the front and back.

The traffic jam was terrible and the vehicles could only move at a snail's pace. The VIP lane which was three meters above the ground was empty as usual. Since the cars at the bottom did not have the authority and the capability to rise up to that level, they could only move slowly at the bottom lane.

By the time they arrived Blackboard Academy, the sky had already turned dark.

Garen immediately went to report to the academy, called up his instructor and a few good friends, and took his dinner before going back to his dorm.