Chapter 153: Piercing Is Done, Now It Is Cutting
James had never realised that what his ancestors had taught him was so destructive. He thought that if he could influence reality, Vlad could break through the 20th floor with just a few moves.
If Vlad was so powerful, how powerful could his ancestor Desmond, who was feared by everyone, be?
Amid these thoughts James had something he needed to know, he wasn't going to ask Vlad, but one day he thought he would ask Nyx and Erebus, who had watched him most closely.
He wondered how powerful Desmond was, of course, he realised that he was indeed powerful, after it wasn't every day that someone could build a system of church and empire that would last millions of years, it wasn't every day that someone could go out and slaughter thousands of gods by his hand.
James didn't know exactly how great the Black bloodline was, even if he realised it.
When Vlad realised that James did not see what was happening, he took the same position again and then said, "I will show it much slower this time, carefully watch how I make each move, how much power I divide and release out tensely."
James shook his head when he heard these words and then began to watch Vlad carefully.
Vlad again gathered that 'aura' that did not give out that outward sensation and then made 6 different moves as fast as James' speed.
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Each of the moves was made in different places in different ways. After the moves were made, it looked just like a hexagon. With each attack, a certain amount of aura was released, and the subtlety of these moves made it look like he was sending out a beam.
"So that's how!" James suddenly realised what was going on after seeing the attack more slowly. He could see why this style of attack was easier than the first style of finishing, indeed after watching it, it was too easy even for James.
After that James started to hold Clarent tightly in his right hand, he wanted these 6 moves with the holy sword to be perfect.
He didn't close his eyes this time, he wanted to watch everything he was going to do.
Vlad smiled when he realised James' eyes were open, the old man's smile seemed to tell all the Titans and Chaos-Born who could see him that James had already succeeded.
James carefully felt the aura swirling around his body and then managed to swirl every bit of aura from the tip of his toes to the tip of every hair on his head, swirling as much aura as he could manage at the moment.
All the aura in his body suddenly began to charge Clarent, but nothing was released, not a single aura was released.
Vlad marvelled at the skill of the boy in front of him, he seemed to want to praise James with laughter.
"It's like I'm looking at my father," Vlad said suddenly, and even if James hadn't heard it, the audience had, and it filled the Titans who had known Desmond for a long time and the Chaos-Born who had just met him with pride.
James, in his perfect focus, thought everything was ready, and suddenly the attack was on.
He was making a piercing thrust every second and delivering a different point each time:
"SWOOSH!"
"SWOOSH!"
"SWOOSH!"
"SWOOSH!"
"SWOOSH!"
"SWOOSH!"
His six thrusts cut through the air at the same volume, each time James managed to split his aura in detail and use it. Patterns of flame were travelling towards the throne.
James had controlled his aura so well that even when the black-coloured flames hit the wood, they did not cause any damage.
At that moment, the sound of applause was heard:
"CLAP!"
"CLAP!!!"
Both his Aunt Emily and his ancestor Vlad were seriously applauding James, the pride on Vlad's face and the joy on Emily's face was the best thing James had seen in the last month.
"Well done James, my father would be enormously proud to see you," Vlad said and Emily's voice was heard as James was overflowing with perfect happiness:
"My sister would cry with joy if she saw my little nephew."
James smiled when he heard these words and said, "If you are trying to make me cry, you are on a good path, dear family."
"Well? How do you feel?" Vlad asked as if he already knew the answer to that question but wanted to hear it from James himself.
James looked at his own hands when he heard this question, he seemed to know what to say, and that's why he smiled and spoke, looking at his precious sword in his hand:
"I...I feel...I feel comfortable, there is no fatigue in me, the pains in my body seem to have been expelled, and I feel quiet....Free."
At these words of James, Vlad could not hold himself back and laughed loudly enough to deafen the ears:
"HUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAA!!!"
After this laughter, Vlad's smile became visible to everyone and then he said, "We can move on to the next part of the sword art, the [Cutting] part."
James was proud of himself for having learnt both styles of slashing.
As James was filled with these thoughts, he suddenly heard his ancestor's words:
"The cutting part is very different from the first part, James. While piercing can be used at both close and far distances, cutting is an art that can only be used at close range."
"Of course, that doesn't stop you from discovering things. If you can use the magic that you are likely to use in the future in the piercing section in the cutting section, who knows, you may be able to create a long-distance style."
"As you can understand, this means that the cutting section has only one style, and that style is called [Serial Cut]."
At his words, Vlad raised the sword in his hand and showed James that he would have to figure it all out himself, and then he continued to speak:
"This is where the element within the aura, not the aura itself, will come into focus. This is the first thing you must learn."