After being disappointed by me, Emma's lips twitched before she disappeared in front of my eyes. I had no time to think about anything, so I swung my sword to dodge her attack. The reflexes I have gained after training with Hoover for past three days came in handy for this.
Clang!!
After our swords clanged against each other, the blade of my sword shook tremendously and there was sharp pain in my right hand's grip. I dropped the sword from my hand as I had no strength left to hold its hilt.
It was the strongest attack Emma had ever tried on me.
"Woah! Woah! Woah! From where you got this strength?" I asked after falling on my butt. Emma was standing in front of me and was sheathing her sword.
She glanced at me and shrugged. I knew she was hiding things from me; she again nearly just killed me and is now acting all nonchalant!
"Hmph!" I expressed my anger in silence.
Emma after embarrassing me, literally... went to Clawford and started talking to her. I was looking at her with curious eyes when Hoover came to me.
"If you are done training with her, let's continue our training from yesterday."
Training with Emma was not my idea, it was just that I did not have any other choice. Old Seth and Emma used to train with each other and now I had to fill that spot. If it was up to my choice I have spent all five days training with Hoover. After training with Hoover, I can successfully practice my caliber, as well.
"Let's continue!"
Hoover had an axe for its Holy arm's prototype, which indirectly means that his Holy arm is an axe. His axe was of black and silver in colour, with its handle being of black colour and the larger blade being of silver colour and smaller blade on the backside of larger blade also being of black colour.
His Holy arm is perfect for his caliber Storm summoning. He channels lightning through his axe and majorly uses it as his offensive ability.
After my affirmation Hoover pointed his axe at me and held it with both hands. He started channeling small amount of lightning through his axe's blade. His eyes were also glowing.
I also took a proper stance with holding my sword in my hand and dragging my right foot backwards and started to activate my caliber to use it in training against Hoover. It took my five days of training with Hoover to gain this ability.
['Achievement' one who spars with storm king is chosen]
I learned about my ability just two days ago. My caliber's ability is called achievement. Well, I gave it this name in my heart but surprisingly the voice resounding in my mind started calling it 'achievement' as well.
It comprises of simple function. First is, if I did something extraordinary it will be collected as an achievement in my caliber's record. The achievement I will get will give me great advantage towards something relative.
For example, my achievement,
['Achievement' one who endured the deadly flames] was obtained by the old Seth after surviving the murdering attack of Rubridoire which caused him to be buried under the ignited rubble. Because he was able to survive that horrible situation his caliber recognized it and gave him an ability to endure fire and any type of heat energy to some extent.
I obtained ['Achievement' one who spars with storm king] after training daily with Hoover for five days. Unfortunately, I still don't know the condition which is required by my caliber to recognize something which I am doing, as 'extraordinary'.
Hoover jumped towards me boosting his speed by using lightning, I started preperation to deflect it, the moment our weapons collided a sharp metallic sound of 'clang' was heard which reverberated through almost half of the training hall.
Crap! I was still weak in my grip strength because of Emma's attack and dropped my sword.
Clang! Clang! Sound was heard after sword dropping on the ground.
Hoover looked at me with surprise after withdrawing his axe away from my face and said, "Was her attack really that strong? You cannot even fight me when I am not attacking you with killing intent!"
"You attack me with killing intent!!?"
I was startled after hearing Hoover's words. He attacks me with killing intent, but why?
"Oh, come on! It's not like that! What I wanted to say was, when I am not even serious how can you drop your sword after one strike from me."
"Sorry for being weak, then!".
"Heh! Stop being such a baby and pick your sword, tomorrow we are going at our mission, you should not slack off!" Hoover tried to act cool in front of me.
It has been five days since I started training with Hoover, it took me two days to convince Gil that Norde is not as bad as they think, same as Elizabeth. Richard still has not agree upon me making acquaintances with Norde and Elizabeth. I always sensed these gazes whenever I train with Hoover, I know these gazes belongs to who.
I am hoping that today I will be able to convince Richard as well!
**
After training with Hoover for fifteen minutes I was summoned by Clawford who was standing at some distance away from us and was busy teaching other cadets of our group, after coming close to her I saw her standing with the support of a sword. To be more specific it was the same shaped katana which was seized from me on my first training day. It looks like all the inspections had been done and now it was going to be returned to me.
"Yes mam! You called me?" I deliberately did not look at the sword.
"Ah! Yes! Here you go, your sword was approved for the use by the bureau." She said with her characteristic smile that was much lethal for me.
"They did not f-found anything wro.... weird? I mean in this sword! Since they summoned it immediately and took five days to return it! If it is really that dangerous for everybody than I am happy with what I am using right now!!" I feigned fake innocence and ignorance to not get under any suspicion. Sometimes you have to act like this to prove something which cannot be described easily by words. I acted like this to prove that this sword really is not that special and that I have really not done anything suspicious and was not familiar with this sword.
"Don't worry! I assure you; you would have done the same if you were in the bureau! You know why this sword holds such importance! But it was not safe even for its own wielder, so they wanted to inspect it!"
I know, in fact the first thing I searched about after my first day of training was Devil's fault. I wanted to know why everyone was surprised to see this sword and why Seth had hidden it from everyone.
I found that this sword was pursued by the general of the supreme army of KING in the war between humans and divine beings. That general possessed great destructive ability with him being master at causing destruction with fire.
It is recorded in history that the general betrayed KING for his own personal benefit and joined with divine beings. Because of the general half of the population of different species that resided in different planets of Milkyway was killed by the invasions of divine beings.
The advancement was halted by the supreme general of supreme army alone, who is now a conqueror and sit beside the KING's throne ALEX MORGAN.
Because of general's betrayal that tragedy occurred, and it was later revealed that general did all of that to get this sword which was at the end obtained by ALEX MORGAN. Because of this reason this sword is called Devil's fault.
Alex Morgan gave this sword to Heinsberg as it is a training institute for those who want to join the space patrol in the future which is an organization run directly under the influence of true royalty of this world, for its use by the hands of good, but nobody except for original Seth has ever pulled this sword out before.
Its capabilities were later revealed that this sword had the power to amplify and modify any type of destructive ability if it takes a liking to it.
"I guess you are right!" I slightly nodded my head.
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After training, taking bath and eating dinner Gil and I went to our rooms to get some sleep. We were going to leave for the mission along with everyone tomorrow on 11 of the morning so we needed to get some sleep.
"Don't do anything reckless tomorrow, like you did on our last mission! Please!" I heard Gil say this from the bottom bunk.
"Don't worry! If my guilty conscience will allow it then I will try my best to ignore those who need help."
"Che! That's the problem with you!" He hit my bed with his foot and continued, "whenever someone tried to convince you, you always had something stupid to say, I am saying this now because I am worried about you!" He yelled at me.
"I get it! I was just teasing you. A-and besides I was 'cough' 'cough' not planning to do anything stupid this time!"
My manner of speaking this just now might imply that I was lying but the truth is what I said just now was true! I am not planning to do anything stupid on our mission, heck I will even try my best to avoid fighting as much as possible if something bad happens.
"Besides, tomorrow mission consists of a whole week. We will be going to different parts of Emerald nation to patrol, and our major task is just to maintain peace there. If no terror attack occurred on our mission, I doubt that something will happen." I tried to convinced Gil that I will not do anything stupid.
"Rich is still upset with you, you should apologize to him before the mission starts, he was really anger when you declared to make acquaintances with those wretches." Gil said it with closed eyes and both hands on his chest.
"I will!" I would've if he wasn't such a baby. Why is he so upset, why can't he understand that I am doing it for my benefit! The reason Gil and Rich are so against me forming acquaintance still remains a mystery to me.
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It had been twenty minutes since Gil started to snore in his sleep and I was still not able to sleep. All the events that happened in the past five days continued to flash in my mind. Richard's attitude towards me after I declared my plan to form acquaintance was still confusing me because if Gil understood it than why didn't Rich? I don't even know how he became old Seth's friend and Seth had not written anything about him in his diary. Well, he is not that upset or angry so I guess it is okay.
Emma's attitude also remains a mystery to me. She is at the top of our training camp of 135 groups along with Ellie, Hoover and Gil. But she sometimes complains about dumbest things. She is expert at using her caliber whatever it is but still chose to feign ignorance just to not tell me anything about it.
Over the past five days I have built good relationship with almost everyone in my group except for Andre. Well, he is my hardcore hater so what can I say about it?
I was indulging in my thoughts when I started to feel my eyes becoming heavy and heavy, I closed them when it became difficult for me to keep them open.
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"We have confirmed their arrival time sir! If our calculations are correct, then it will start in the third day of their patrol!"
"Good! Now go, I must relay this good news to 'HIM'."
After saying this a man embedded in black cloak walked at a fast pace it almost seemed like he was running, through the wooden corridor. He opened the wooden door by turning its round knob in clockwise direction.
"Myth! Their arrival time is confirmed, we are also calculating the time in which they will reach the check points."
After entering the room, the man embedded in black cloak relayed the message to 'Myth' who was again sitting on the wooden chair of his study table with his hands intertwined below his chin engrossed in thinking.
After hearing the words of the man, 'Myth' stopped thinking and turned his head in the man's direction. After giving a faint smile to man 'Myth' put his right hand in his pocket and took out a pack of cigarettes. The cigarettes were of black colour. After pulling one cigarette out, he put it in his mouth and lighted it by the flame created by snapping his finger. After inhaling some of it and blowing out smoke he said with both eyebrows raised and a smile, "There is no need for calculations, believe in the words I said to you earlier, and make all the necessary preparations for our success!"