11 The Result of His Effor (2/2)

It served as the personal quarters of the instructor and also as a defensive mechanism that could form a powerful Anima barrier around the summit of the mountain in the event of an attack.

The imposing black nail held emitted a chill that froze everything around its immediate vicinity for hundreds of feet and only grew colder the closer one got the nail. The only way students like Reed could approach and enter the nail was by following a specially constructed path that had been built for them, otherwise, they'd freeze to death before they could even reach the entrance.

Axtorius had been reviewing documents on a holographic device, but put it aside once he noticed that Reed had arrived.

He gestured for the boy to sit and Reed followed suit, slightly nervous. He wondered why he'd been summoned after the fight. Perhaps he'd be reprimanded for failing or breaking the ring?

Reed rushed to come up with a bullshit excuse, but before he could speak, Axtorius said, ”You did well that night, boy. I know you probably feel disappointed, but your performance that night was...superb, to say the least.”

Axtorius reclined and asked, ”Did I ever tell you who created Yohua, boy?”

Reed pensively thought for a moment and said, ”No, sir, you never told me. You just said that it was created a by renown conqueror from ancient times.”

”It was my great-grandfather who created Youhua four thousand years ago during the Age of the Goddess.”

”The story my family has passed down the generations is that my great-grandfather who lived during the same time that the Goddess still roamed across Mulia witnessed something legendary.”

”He saw the Goddess and a lone man fight; their fight raged across all of Mulia and the Will of the World itself eventually had to intervene on behalf of the lesser beings were accident caught up in their destruction.”

”Yohua was created from the measly insights that my great-grandfather gleaned from the man who fought the Goddess that day, or so it is said.”

Reed was internally shocked; who would have thought that the martial art Instructor Axtorius had assigned to him had not only been his own family's martial art but also one that held such an impressive history?!

He swiftly started to voice out his gratitude for having been bestowed such an impressive martial art, but Axtorius brushed it off with a wave.

”It doesn't matter who I teach Yohua to; as the acting patriarch of my family, I can do as I please with my family's legacies. Teaching it to you is just an investment for the future, so don't worry about repaying me, haha.”

”What I called you over here for was to show you the result of your continued efforts,” he said as he pulled up and played the video of Reed's fight against the android.

He skipped towards the final part of the fight and let it play. Reed and the android rushed at each other as both of them intended on delivering a one-hit kill blow.

The android's glowing fist struck Reed square in the face, just he remembered, but what came after shocked him silly. The fist that he threw out had struck the android, but that wasn't the important part. It was the fact that his fist had the same red glow as the android's when he struck it.

Both Reed and the android flew backward with great velocity, but the android did not survive the strike. It promptly shut off as soon as it landed and the ring declared that a tie had occurred and updated Reed's record.

”That's why I called you over, boy. I don't know how you did it, but you channeled Anima and used it in your final strike. That's why it ended in a tie, otherwise, you would have lost.”

”So that warmth that coursed through me really was Anima...,” thought Reed. He had been worried that it might have been some sort of chicken bloodline he had or some other mysterious power.

Axtorius let out a deep sigh and said, ”You managed to beat my old shadow in the end. The combat data used in the expert-level droid came from me, albeit during my days as a contender. Why do think the combat droid had Yohua programmed into its martial arts archive?”

”So, in essence, that night you scored a tie against me, with my own family's martial art, no less. I don't even know what to tell you, boy. You're a genuine freak.”

”I'm going to have to discuss this event with the other instructors have them adjust their teaching plans for you. You're moving too quickly, so we'll need to raise the difficulty for you or you'll get ahead of yourself.”

”That's all you need to know for now. Don't get cocky, boy. Even gods can fall from grace here, so don't even think for a second that you're in the clear.”

”Go back and reflect on what I've told you. Also, you're forbidden from fighting any other combat droids aside from the expert-level one from now on. Off you go.”

Reed cried internally as he wondered what he had done to deserve this fate. Raising the difficulty; expert-level only from now on?

”Ah, there is such a thing as being too talented,” muttered Reed as he slowly shuffled out of the black nail...