BXBX NOVEL Chapter 104 Traing The Polearms Arts
Even if the terminology that the Lord Moon Sword Elraroth Daeric Yaennernamis titled Samiel indeed fitted for him. Samiel Zentaur was indeed an amalgamation of nature and an abomination of the highest grade.
Not only was the man absolutely frightening in the department of individual combat, where he could effortlessly fight those Tiers above him and kill them. And the most frightening member aspect was that he could also go as one man army, where his Undead Army could slaughter even ten times or even more numbers.
Especially when he used the Void Magic, his combat prowess was extremely terrifying. With the Void Magic at his disposal and his racial heritage, Samiel Zentaur was a nightmare on the battlefield, completely unstoppable, like some God of Slaughter incarnate.
She was sure that some of the Trasncednental entities, be it Gods of Slaughter or Massacred or Killing, Daemons who enjoyed casing carnage or other unscrupulous individuals were enjoying the show that Samiel was unfolding for them to watch. She knew that what was happening on the 3rd Floor; many of the Transcendentals watched attentively, meanly because her Goddess watched personally, which attracted the attention of others.
And for Transcendentals, mortals were nothing more than entertainment, and only a few of them had the privilege of being taken seriously. Such was the cruel nature of the Cosmos, where even the weakest Trasncendetals could blow apart the entire Lower World to smiterness like nothing; mortals in the Material Plane were rather insignificant in the greater scheme of all things.
"Of course, Lord Elraroth."
Yvraine just nodded her head. If she managed to incorporate the usage of the Metamagic more into her combat style, aside from her physical strengthening magic or some offensive magic that she occasionally used, it would tremendously increase her combat prowess.
As the Silvermoon Elf, she had an extreme affinity for the arcane, and she had to admit that her usage of the Magic was subpar at best till now. She used Magic only occasionally, mainly in the form of some physical enhancement spells with temporary effects, and from time to time, she used some offensive magic.
But it was just a waste of potential she had; it didn't take a genius to realize that if she incorporated perfect usage of Magic into her combat style, then her combat prowess would be increased several times over.
The aim of Lord Elraroth was for Yvraine to achieve the realm of elites, who could easily fight across their Levels and some even Tier, as they perfectly combined together every aspect of their very own beings. In perfect synchronization, thus achieving frightening combat prowess, far above the limits that should be possible for their Level.
"Right now, return to practicing the sword stances."
Yvraine, hearing this resumed her training while Lord Elraroth observed everything. He was like a hawk observing his prey, not missing an inch, what she was doing and how she was moving, carefully guiding his protegé on everything.
Lord Moon Sword, during his life, taught many people and even had several disciples, and Yvraine had to admit that even though his brutal and inhuman teaching methods, with no care about her health or well-being, was a brilliant teacher.
Just based on the results they achieved in this short time, Yvraine could see that she already made a tremendous progress from the moment she have arrived at the 5th Floor of the Tower.
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5th Floor of the Tower, somewhere on the floating island where Samiel was located.
Several days later, Samiel was still training with the Hall Master Menuhyutt Faulhaber in the Polearms Arts in the hope of increasing as much proficiency as possible. He hoped to attain the Skill Polearms Mastery by the end of the season on the 5th Floor.
Depending on what the old man was willing him to teach or rather how long he was willing to teach him here, Smaiel knew that he could attain the Polearms Mastery Skill bec,ause as Master Faulhaber had the Ability Eternal Arms Mastership, he could handle any weapon on mastery Level with the proficiency of 100%.
That was the might of the Level 4 Transcendent Ability Eternal Arms Mastership. Menuhyutt Faulhaber was one of the few people across the Cosmos who managed to attain such an Ability as Mortal, which was almost unheard of, as the only person with the only recorded person who had achieved the Eternal Arms Mastership as a mortal was Scáthach, the Warrior Queen of the Land of Shadows.
Land of Shadows was a weird place in the Cosmos; it wasn't a world or Floor, but rather some sort of pocket dimension that existed on its own, and was considered as a haunted ground filled with the various forms of the Undeads and other unspeakable creatures that were technically imprisoned there. In the Cosmos, the Land of Shadows was considered more like a myth, as many people didn't even believe that it existed and considered it a legend.
And Scáthach was the Gatekeeper of the forsaken place, responsible for nothing entering the place and nothing leaving, forever imprisoned there. Menuhyutt told Samiel that he visited that place several times during his life, and after that, he never spoke about it, and neither did he spoke about the Warrior Queen that lived there, technically imprisoned as well because she couldn't leave the place as well.
And just like that, Samiel was training with the Menuhyutt Faulhaber, though this time, he was repeating the combat stances for the Polearms, which was relatively easy with Samiel's superior memory.
Due to that, he was able to easily learn them, memorizing them and subsequently executing them with relative ease. The old man was a believer that experiences were the best teacher; thus Samiel was thrown to the fight instantly as he started learning the Polearms Arts.
[Proficiency with the Skill Polearms Arts has been increased by 1%.]
[Proficiency with the Skill Polearms Arts has been increased by 4%.]
[Proficiency with the Skill Polearms Arts has been increased by 3%.]
[Proficiency with the Skill Polearms Arts has been increased by 1%.]
[Proficiency with the Skill Polearms Arts has been increased by 2%.]
[Proficiency with the Skill Polearms Arts has been increased by 1%.]
[Proficiency with the Skill Polearms Arts has been increased by 5%.]
[Proficiency with the Skill Polearms Arts has been increased by 1%.]
[Proficiency with the Skill Polearms Arts has been increased by 2%.]
[Proficiency with the Skill Polearms Arts has been increased by 4%.]
[Proficiency with the Skill Polearms Arts has been increased by 3%.]
With just a few days worth of training, Samiel managed to increase his proficiency with the Skill Polearms Arts from the measly 3% to a staggering 30%, which was a 10 times increase, meaning that he was no longer any amateur and could put up a very decent fight with the trident already.
"You are getting better and better."
The elderly Hall Master stated, with a weird affectionate smile, that Samiel didn't really expect to see. For the past weeks he spent with the old man, they developed a very non-standard relationship. While Samiel was technically his disciple, the relationship between the two of them was somewhat closer.
Menuhyutt Faulhaber was a very old man without any descendants; there was nobody who would inherit his legacy, aside from Samiel, who was his sole, first, and the last disciple, because he knew that he wouldn't be taking anyone else.
"Thank your master."
Samiel answered as the Hall Master dispersed Samiel from his training because it was time for the pause that would last two or three hours, enough for Samiel to regenerate completely, and Samiel decided to use this time to absorb some more Soul Force Crystals for the Ability Seed.
For the past weeks, he was devouring some Soul Force Crystals from time to time, slowly increasing the speed of termination of the Ability Seed, but he was using the Soul Force Crystals he obtained from Estrid because they were of lesser quality.
This time he was going to use the ones he got from the Menuhyutt; those were of much higher quality, and were created from much more souls, while those Estrid gave him, were not so much.
Samiel sat down cross-legged and took out one of the Soul Force Crystals that he had gotten from the Hall Master Menuhyutt and started slowly devouring the Soul Force from it. It was a tremendous amount of the Soul Force he was obtaining and directed it all towards the Ability Seed in his body.
The Ability Seed itself was greedily absorbing all of the Soul Force, as it glowed a bit and shook before it started growing slightly. After several seconds, Samiel finished devouring all of the Soul FOrce from the Soul Force Crystal; afterward, he spent time minutes just meditating.
After ten minutes, Samiel took out another Soul Force Crystals and started repeating the process.
[The Ability Seed has entered the state of germination.]
Samiel read the notification from the Akashic Records before he decided to stop entirely. He already felt he had absorbed enough souls for today, and absorbing more would be contra productive; thus he right now focused just on silent meditation and nothing else.
After meditating for several hours, Samiel heard the voice of the Menuhyutt Faulhaber, who came to tell him that his meditation was over.
"Pause is over... we are starting again, this time you will be fighting against you Undeads, solely with your Polerarm Arts. We will see how you will go far against multiple enemies at the same time. So, summon Ashimer and twenty of your strangest warrior-type Undeads and start already."
Hall Master instructed; Samiel then carried out the order immediately, summoning the Ashimer and twenty of his strongest Bronze-Tier Undeads. Ashimer took control of the Undeads as they instantly surrounded Samiel with their weapons pointed at him.
Of course, Samiel relinquished the control over his Undeads to Ashimer, who brandished his sword and appeared instantly near Samiel, slashing at him with one of his swords, to which Samiel blocked it with his trident.
Not having any to react because, from behind, he was simultaneously attacked by five of his Bronze-Tier Undeads in perfect coordination under Ashimer's leadership skills, which increased their threat several times over.
Samiel flipped backward, landing behind the five Undeads, immediately attacking them with his trident by hacking at them, only for his attacks to be blocked by Ashimer, who instantly appeared in front of Samiel.
Contrary to Samiel, Ashimer was far more experienced in the aspect of close combat and weapon mastery. Under Ashimer leadership and commanding skills, Samiel was not getting any kind of rest.
He was constantly being attacked by the Bronze-Tier Undeads from all sides, often forcing him to go on the pure defensive. Though after several minutes, Samiel was able to adjust himself to the tempo of the battle and started counter-attacking.
Seeing this, Ashimer adjusted his strategy once more while the rest of the Undeads reorganized themselves into a new combat formation. Dodging to the right side, Samiel dodged the incoming attack by one of the Undeads, who was formerly an Ork, holding an enormous two-headed axe, as he sent him crashing into other Undeads with one swift and powerful kick.
Instantly afterward, he rushed at Ashimer, who readied his twin blades in a combat stance, to which Samiel jumped forward, jumping above several Undeads who wanted to attack him, but because he was high in the air, they all missed him.
Ashimer used his sword in a cross-like pattern to block the incoming trident, creating a small shockwave, which threw away all the surrounding Undeads around them; this turned into an exchange just between Samiel and Ashimer, who continued to exchange the blows one after another.
After half an hour, the exchanges were becoming more and more powerful; both of them were using more and more power, but in exchange for that, it was taking a toll on their stamina, though only Samiel's was more visible.
Ashimer, as an Undead, was basically impervious to this, and couldn't be tired, but it, though what Ashimer was losing at a faster rate than regaining, was the Mana, which he was expending to keep up with Samiel.
"That should be enough for this time."
Menuhyutt's voice stopped the fight, while Samiel just got the notifications from Akashic Records.
[Proficiency with the Skill Polearms Arts has been increased by 1%.]
[Proficiency with the Skill Polearms Arts has been increased by 2%.]
[Proficiency with the Skill Polearms Arts has been increased by 4%.]
[Proficiency with the Skill Polearms Arts has been increased by 3%.]
Right now, his proficiency with the Polearms Arts was already at a startling 40%, which was very nice. Of course, there was then the fact that it would be now harder and harder to increase the proficiency with the Skills.
Samiel then dispersed and unsummoned his Undeads before he dispersed his ice trident and sat down on the ground. He himself was surprised by his development; he always thought that his talent for the weapons and marital arts was close to zero. Still, clearly, he severely underestimated his own talents.
Of course, with the additional increasement of the Eldritch part of his being, everything about him was enhanced, including his learning capabilities and his senses.
"Rest for a bit, and we will work on your magic this time."
Menuhyutt stated.
Right now, Samiel was undergoing extremely rigorous and brutal training, which was focused on learning how to use his power to its full potential.