training 2

[meanwhile back in the world of darkness]

"chwww!"

'am I catching a cold in this place' nic thought as he looked around him, he can see the hundreds of shadow skeletons that were preparing to fight.

he felt as though he was in this world for weeks, he had lost numerous times, and had lose count on the times he killed a skeleton.

all he had been doing to fight these skeletons was using his new fighting technique, this gave him rapid growth in his technique.

a shadow skeleton behind nic wasted no time in attacking nic, as though nic had eyes behind his head he leaned forward, and raised his right leg behind him, this caused him to lose balance but in the process he performed a kick that struck the chin of the skeleton, the kick caused the skull to fly in the air before bursting into smoke.

two more skeletons emerged from the smoke, but nic simply smiled, he was accustomed to the never ending cycle, he fell to the ground because of the kick he performed and was bombarded by bone fist.

he then reappeared again, as he looked at the large numbers of shadow skeletons infront of him, it was similar to a mini army.

'it seems that I was right, my technique as of right now is not meant for large crowds, the most I can fight using this technique is 3 skeletons, that's the maximum, anymore than that and I would be biting off more than I can threw' nic was deep in thought while also watching the movements of the shadow skeleton's that were surrounding him.

"these pesky skeletons, alright now it's time to try something different" nic said as he watched the skeletons infront of him.

this time as though they did not care anymore about nic having them in his view, they all charged at once.

'ohh so no more surrounding me I guess that's better' nic thought as he was consumed by the horde of skeletons.

as if they were all connected the skeletons moved as though they were one, each one of them took care of the other, and their timing was just unbelievable.

nic however was simply dodging, he did not attempt to attack, but he kept trying to dodge all the blows coming towards him.

'to perfect my technique I need to perfect my reaction speed' nic thought, this went on for what seemed to be a couple hours, and nic was running out of stamina.

suddenly however in the back of the crowd of shadow skeletons one of the skeletons was thrown in the air by another, the shadow skeleton was thrown in the direction of nic, it was straight as a arrow as it's two feet stroke nic in the back.

the attack caused nic to lose focus and balance, in doing so every part of his body was bombarded with bone fist and feet.

he then reappeared again, this time however as soon as he reappeared the shadow skeletons wasted no time, giving him no second to prepare, they threw their own at nic giving him not a second to go into fairies peak, nic died again.

nic reappeared again this time furious, "fuck this world, I have been fighting these things for so long and they still always find a way to kill me, and the fucking pain, what the hell!!, even in my original body I never felt this much pain!!" nic eyes were bloodshot red as he looked at the shadow skeletons, nic didn't even bother to go into fairies peak.

but for some reason the skeletons weren't moving.

"HAHA, so the cocky brat can be angered to" a voice came out of no where, it was as though god was talking to man, the darkness of the world shock to this voice.

"dont worry your training ends today, you have been in here long enough" as the voice spoke nic eyes suddenly closed on it's own, when he opened his eyes he found himself holding hands with graygrash.

"huh, what the hell happened?, where are we?" nic asked as he let go of graygrash hands, causing graygrash to open awake as well.

"ohh this, this is my private training room, you are back in reality, your training is over, I think that your now strong enough"

"strong enough?" nic asked confusingly.

"yes, I have been with you all this time, the thing is you cannot connect to the dark world without touching me, I have seen your skills, and am impressed" graygrash said with a smile

"impressed!, I died so many times that I lost count, what the hell were those things?"

"ohh you just lost 567 times, an they were not that strong your just overreacting, just that in the dark world I placed u in an disadvantage, you only had 20% of your original physical stats, you were like a normal human that never trained to fight, and I gave one shadow skeleton the 80% that you were lacking, you cheated however when you used your gift that even the fight 50/50, anyway you still got stronger mentally, and that is what is important, knowing how to win and being strong an thinking you would win are two different thing's, to depend on strength and raw force is what leads most to die" graygrash smiled as he walked pass nic.

"follow me, thier are more important things that need our attention" graygrash then exited out of a metal door, large rhino beastmen can be seen guarding it.

as the beastmen saw that they were exiting they both kneeled and dared not to raise their heads.

"vice-general graygrash, the general have asked to report to him with young master nic on your return" a rhino beastmen said as his head was touching the ground.

"is that all" graygrash replied, and as he did the beastmen shouted back "yes sir!" , he then looked to nic signaling him to follow.

nic did not say much but walked behind graygrash, the only thing that was on his mind was that they kept calling him master, 'I got to do something about this name, it sends a shiver down my spine...'

but graygrash suddenly spoke as he saw that nic seemed unsatisfied about something "your swords and equipments are in your room if that's what your worried about"

nic then realized that he did not have phyora by his waist, he slapped his face as he realized that he seemed to be forgetting phyora alot as of lately.

"thanks" nic mumbled.

"for what?" graygrash said confused.

"for helping me learn how to fight" nic replied, before he was just fighting based on his strength, but now thanks to the darkened world he learned a technique, he plan to use this as his main fighting technique, 'as a man once said, he those not fear a man that has practiced 10000 kicks once, but I fear the man that had practiced one kick 10000 times' nic then smiled, this was a quote from one of the books he loved to read.

graygrash did not reply, he smiled under his mask as he looked back at the halfling.

they both approached a giant door that was open, it was neither guarded or close, and looking inside they can see Arthur seated in his chair, and on his lap was that of violet, next to the chair was a busty woman that had her head held down, the room was to bright to see her face because of the sun that can be seen out of the large opening behind them.

"dona!!" nic shouted.