Chapter 342 Weapons And Training (1/2)

Arran spent a quarter-hour considering the type of weapon that iant diggers, but the more he pondered the reatly increase his reach, which would help not just against ainst dense ranks of human enemies Yet while it would increase his reach, it would also do less daainst arlaive or halberd would address that problem, but it would sacrifice soroups of opponents, weapons like those would leave him exposed with each attack

Each option he saould solve so entirely new ones

But then, a thought cale choice

The Living Shadoeapon could take any shape And if he selected a handful of weapon types and taught it their shapes, it should be able to assume those familiar forms far in a matter of moments

With that, he would have a small armory at his disposal He would have the weapon to suit any type of enele monster or an entire arainst the Darians, a norainst dense ranks of eneht him within reach of his ene to force his way through their line

Of course, he could have easily relied on his strength to break their ranks But that would require hiainst enemies as weak as these soldiers had been

Intent on addressing these probleht help him But the two dozen weapons he came up ere far toodown the number

Finally, he cast a satisfied look at the short list before hi to use each of the it soht, he put the list aside While he could try to have his sword take the shapes he had in mind, it would be far easier to have proper versions crafted, then copy their designs after he'd studied them

That would take ti he did not lack With the mercenaries in the mines for at least several more months, there was little he could do but wait and train

Fortunately, the quarters Captain Kaleesh had arranged for hi roo the list of weapons

There had been little opportunity for him to study the Forms after he arrived in the Imperium Even if others would not have been able to detect his Shadow Essence, spending several hours standing around estures would certainly have drawn attention

But in his new quarters, he had enough privacy to train properly And that was an opportunity he would not soon pass up

He practiced for several hours, finding the Forms every bit as difficult as before as he used Shadow Essence to execute theh he had e wasn't hts they contained

And that would require countless hours of practice

As expected, a single night's practice yielded little progress Arran did not let this discourage hiun to explore, and he could not expect iht, continuing until his focus began to waver Finally, when his rown too weary to continue, he headed to bed

The day of study had left hihts slipped away as soon as his blankets touched his skin

When erCaptain Kaleesh's manuscripts

Here, at least, he kneas ress While he was still far fro the details and nuances of thehis corew

The more he learned, the more impressed he found his, in particular, contained a wealth of knowledge, ather in a lifetian to make sense to Arran While he'd previously wondered what the abstract schematics could teach about the fury of battle, he no that there was so that could alrams distilled battle lines into abstract forths and weaknesses, and the battles they described were like duels betweenarmies rather than swords as their weapons

Still, when midday came, Arran found himself predictably weary

For all their beauty, the diagrams and their explanations were fiendishly co of study left Arran every bit as exhausted as he would've been after an entire day of hard training