23 Warrior Classes (1/2)

The Fist Battle Class first class was simple sparring among the students; the instructor randomly formed pairs and the students battled for a whole hour.

Yale's opponent was one of the biggest among all the students, but that opponent was someone who only relied on brute force. Furthermore, Yale estimated that even if the guy had such a big body, he still didn't have ten points in strength.

Yale thought that because his opponent seemed a weakling in front of him. Yale wasn't skilled in fist techniques, but he had a good battle sense and perfect stats at his level, the big guy wasn't enough to make Yale sweat.

The big guy was frustrated as initially he thought that he got lucky to spar against Yale, the lucky kid with an influent big sister.

However, he understood that even if Yale joined the academy by a shortcut and seemed to be without muscles, he wasn't weak and the big guy learned it the rough way.

Of course, Yale didn't use his full force nor the Bloodline Force as they were only sparring and there was no hostility between them at most a misunderstanding generated by the irregularities in the process of Yale joining the academy.

If Yale used Bloodline Force, he would be as powerful as a peak 2-star in strength and agility, no one in the class would be able to battle against him.

However, Yale decided that he wouldn't use Bloodline Force.

Unless the opponent was someone who he hated, even losing a match was okay.

They were only sparring, so who won and who lost didn't matter, the experience gained in the battle was more important than the result.

Using Bloodline Force would make the matches to be too easy, and thus Yale wouldn't gain any experience from them.

Furthermore, the Bloodline Force effects would be too shocking, and even if Yale already gathered a lot of attention, he didn't want to attract even more by showing a 2-star peak strength in a mere week since turning ten.

The class finished, and the defeated big guy ran away, Yale had hurt the big guy's pride by winning against him without breaking a sweat at all.

The next class was the Rod Battle Class, more than half of the members from the Fist Battle Class left, and new students arrived.

After all, the students usually weren't meant to attend to all the classes like Yale.

The Rod Battle Class followed the same structure as the previous one, but this time everyone had a wooden rod in hand.

Yale felt better battling with the rod than with the fists, after all, a rod was still a weapon like a sword while the fists were part of the body.

His opponent was one of the students that didn't attend the previous class, and he was skilled with the rod.

In the sparring, thanks to having a skilled opponent, Yale became aware that it was possible to use a rod in a way that resembled a sword.

The rod was a very versatile weapon and was possible to be used as a sword even if it hadn't had the same efficiency as a real sword.

Yale lost focus in anything else than using his battle style with the sword applied to the rod.

Yale's efforts quickly produced results as he started to overwhelm his opponent, mixing Yale's sword techniques with the rod improved Yale's prowess with the rod a lot.

”The user understood the similarities between sword and rod; the system added the Passive Skill [Sword-style Rod]”

Yale didn't expect that his efforts to fuse the styles from both weapons would cause that the system added a new Passive Skill based on his recently acquired understanding.

”Sword-style Rod: While holding a rod the user would be able to execute Sword Battle skills at 50% of power and double cost.”

To execute a weapon-focused Battle Skill it was indispensable to use the same weapon that was related to the skill, but this new ability let Yale use Sword Battle Skills while using a rod, even if the power halved and the cost doubled while wielding a rod, the new skill was still excellent.

”The user started to obtain enlightenment about the essence of weapons. Now it will be possible for the user to obtain new weapon talents and upgrade them by practicing with a weapon.”

Yale was surprised enough to hear that last notification that he almost got hit by the opponent's rod.

After that, he widely smiled as he found a new meaning to those sparrings which Yale had started to consider boring as he didn't face difficulty.

Yale stopped using only the rod like it was a sword and started practicing by imitating his opponent's moves.

That put Yale slightly at a disadvantage for a while, but Yale's battle sense was top notch among his generation, and he quickly gained the upper hand again.

Initially, Yale didn't want to learn other battle styles, he had enough with the sword and the bow, he joined the classes to learn how to battle against other weapons.