He took his left feet back, took the Japanese swordsman attack stance, one hand on his sword hilt ready to draw at any moment.
’What kind of a sword stance is that?’ Valeric’s eyes narrowed at Lukas stance, even the people were quite surprised by his stance
Just like the way he used to swing his energy blade back on earth, Adam’s mind moved Lukas body.
Lukas stepped forward in a quick pace, drawing his sword and swinging his sword in an upper diagonal slash.
He swung with force without using mana to aid his swing.
Swoosh.
Lukas sword cleaved cleanly through the air neatly with enough force behind it.
The four generals were stunned by that one display of his, even Valeric looked at Lukas with an unreadable expression.
"What kind of stance was that?" Gato asked Tristin beside him.
"Gato, I have no idea" Tristin replied to Gato, even he could not believe his eyes at the stance Lukas had just pulled.
’The way Lukas had just moved just now and swung his sword in such a prefect diagonal stroke while keeping his movement balance is not something that one would call little training, it’s more like a stance he had been practicing for a long time"
Valeric watched as he thought.
Lukas wasn’t about to stop there; he retook his sword stance again.
’He is not do yet?’
Valeric looked at Lukas who was getting prepared to show his practice. Left foot pulled back, his hand on the hilt of his sword ready to draw.
Lukas moved faster than before, his trained body allowing him to do such, he drew his sword and swung his sword.
Whoosh!
Lukas swung his sword in an upper diagonal slash again, then
Shoosh!
He swung the sword in a downward diagonal slash as he moved forward and came to a stop.
"What!" The spectators where surprised by Lukas movement and swing. Even his slash made many wonder if his class was truly a mage.
But Lukas did not stop.
He retook his stance, moved, swung his sword in an upper diagonal slash first then turned around in the process and brought down his blade in a quick succession in a downward diagonal behind him quickly.
To Valeric it felt like Lukas felt danger behind him and turned around after slashing the first opponent, bringing his sword down diagonally to defend against the attack or land a slash at the opponent This chapter was copied from g.com without permission.
Lukas retook his stance; he executed the same attack pattern he had just displayed but as he brought down the wooden sword in the downward diagonal slash which was supposed to be the last swing of the attack pattern.
He instantly shifted his center of gravity to the right and swung his sword in a wide sideways arc slash.
For Valeric it felt like after Lukas had taken down the opponent with the downward diagonal slash, three enemies attacked from his right flank and he instantly switched by swinging his blade in a wide sideways arc slash to take out all three enemies at once.
Lukas retook his stance again, hands on his sword ready to be drawn, he moved forward, made an upper diagonal slash then switched to a downward diagonal slash as he moved forward.
Then he bent his body like as if he was trying to duck, but he swung his sword in a horizontal slash forward.
In the eyes of Valeric, it had looked like Lukas sword had clashed with that of his opponent twice, after the second clash, his opponent attacked with a wide arc slash but he ducked and landed a horizontal slash across his opponent’s body.
Valeric noticed that his foot work was refined, his movement was grounded and his swings were precise to him, it felt like seeing someone who had been training such swordsmanship for years.
Everyone looked at Lukas movement and slashes with pure disbelief written on their faces, including the generals and their dragons.
Lukas had beads of sweat trailing down his face as he swung.
’With just the physical strength of this body, is nowhere near my endurance from my past life while doing this sword display with just the physical strength of this body’
Lukas thought to himself as he wiped off his sweat from his forehead.
<Mana can make up for the endurance process> Ava said to him.
’I know it can but do it outright, I just have to wait for father to say it outright himself and besides what if I do it wrong?’
Lukas replied to Ava.
Lukas decided to make a last move, he retook his stance, his right hand placed on the hilt of his sword, his center of gravity bent slightly,
He breathed in and breathed out slowly. Lukas thought to him, if people in this world grew stronger by using mana to cultivate and strengthen their bodies, it made them surpass their former limits as an ordinary lifeform.
To Lukas it felt like an awakener in some novels were the limits and shackles placed on humanity have been lifted up by the awakening energy, where their cells could now surpass their limits, unlock new abilities and evolving the human body beyond its physical and biological limits.
The same could be said for this world, he had to ask himself, even after going through physical training and still undergoing, why was his endurance still weak, from his perspective, this body was supposed to be stronger in physical endurance than his previous body in his past life.
It was their mechanical battle armor suits that allowed human soldiers to achieve incredible feats beyond their physical limits in the interstellar-era back on earth.
’So, I guess the reason must be this body heavy reliance on mana for attacks and movements, whereas the shackles of physical limits have been broken a long time ago’
Lukas came to his final conclusion, he needed to train this body not rely on mana too much, instead use it in harmony with his physical body.
Lukas closed his eyes, he sensed all the mana flowing his body, then like the flip of a switch, he instructed all the mana to flow back to his mana core and they did.
Lukas locked the mana in his mana core, as he decided to use the physical prowess of this body that has evolved beyond its limits.
Lukas readied himself, his muscles clustered together as they tensed and tightened shut like a chain of cobblestone, all the force in his entire body was locked shut in place in every of his muscles. You are reading on NovelPing, the official source.
Then Lukas took a leap forward. As he did his muscles in is legs untightened releasing the stored force at once.
Lukas shot forward faster than one should without using mana.
Then Lukas swung his sword, the muscles in his hand releasing the stored force.
WHOOSH!
His wooden sword cleaved through the air with pure physical force, that the air been sliced slightly was heard, he swung in an upper diagonal slash.
Still moving with the same speed, momentum and balance, Lukas swung his sword in a downward diagonal slash instantly then he quickly ducked and using the same momentum to swing his sword in a wide horizontal slash as he pushed forward.
As his sword cleaved through the air horizontally, as the sword was still in its swinging motion, Lukas quickly placed both hands on the sword’s hilt.
He sharply used the momentum, bent his wrist on the swords hilt and swung his sword in a devasting rising arc wide slash.
Then he came to a stop. He chest heaved as sweat drenched his chest and upper back area.
"So how was that father?" Lukas looked at Valeric with a smile.
Valeric’s expression was neutral as he his eyes settled on Lukas
Everyone was stunned at what Lukas had just pulled off.
"Did he actually move that fast without using mana?" Veya had a dumbfounded look on her face as she stared at Lukas.
"Well, he actually did and his swordsmanship looks like what he had honed for years" Tristin had a look of pure surprise at Lukas display of swordsmanship.
"You know you could use mana to boost your attack speed and movement to achieve a greater power but nevertheless I have never expected my own son to have such swordsmanship even if they are some twists here and there but never did, I expect my son’s swordsmanship will be this incredible at such an age.
So, tell me how long have you been practicing?" Valeric asked
"Well before my coming-of-age ceremony, you know I used to think I would awake a sword class just like you, that’s I trained myself in secret before then, I just guess the heavens had other plans for me during the ceremony" Lukas replied.
"And I never for once noticed, just how did you learn such swordsmanship?" Valeric’s eyes narrowed at Lukas.
"I just came up with it during my training" Lukas smiled.
Valeric was silent as he just stared at Lukas.
"You want to learn my swordsmanship, right? That’s why you asked me to teach you swordsmanship despite already having a swordsmanship of your own?" Valeric looked at him.
"Yes" Lukas answered.
"Very well, then let this father of yours teach you swordsmanship that you could combine with yours then" A grin curved on Valeric’s face as he held his own wooden sword.
Valeric took his stance, he held the wooden sword with both hands in front of him, then he drew his left foot back and he dashed forward in a blink.