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I've been swinging my wooden sword for a whole year while checking if the ores mixed the way I wanted them to.

What I am trying to do for the past year was making my own sword arts by combining Ryusui Gansai-ken and my swordplay. Although I'm having a hard time completing my own sword arts, I can see a glimpse of what I'm trying to accomplish.

I'm also trying to keep abandonment at all times, as I practiced the breathing technique by letting the oxygen flow through my entire body, spreading it even to my veins, breathing it out and inhaling another massive amounts of air.

Its hard to keep it up as my head felt like spinning and my sight is getting blurry due to massive amounts of oxygen intake, but I continued even though it's painful. I stopped circulating the air inside me when I was about to pass out.

I also fought with my father who always defeated me, he asked me if I was creating my own sword arts, I nodded and he was surprised, in my early age of 10, I am already paving the way for my own sword arts.

"That's it, use everything around you, use every muscle in your body, use every fiber of it." my father was talkative when we were fighting as he was encouraging me.

What father doesn't want to see their son improve at a monstrous rate with his own eyes. Although he is stingy, it was only in terms of forging materials, but when it comes to teaching about fighting, he won't hold back, especially since I'm his son.

When he said that, I was enlightened, there are skills that I haven't been utilizing, observation haki, armament, thought acceleration.

Thought Acceleration, you say? It was just speeding up your thought process right? I was wrong. I've been using the skill wrong all the time. I realized the potential of thought acceleration. I flooded my brain with demonic power to further accelerate my thought process by a hundred... no a thousand times.

Observe, observe everything, his breathing, gait, movement, even his blinking, and form an image inside my mind, simulate and predict what move he is going to use next.

'Should I use this? No, he is going to block it, what about this? No, he is going to counter it easily.' I thought.

In just a span of a second, in my mind, I've been battling father's thousand of images and all at the same time.

In the midst of the match, I've been fighting as the thought acceleration has been kicking at its full power. Slowly but surely, my father's attacks, I can dodge them.

'I've seen this, and this too. His next move should be that, and after that is a slash to the side followed by a sweeping strike.' I thought as I've been keeping up with my father's swordplay.

'What a monster, the way he improves in battle is even faster than mine. I really am proud of you, Vergil.' He thought as a slash finally managed to hit him and a cut appeared in his cheek.

'Finally!' I thought as I fell down, but didn't lose consciousness. I was breathing heavily and the backlash of speeding up my thoughts for a thousand times overloaded my brain as I lost the feeling in my entire body, but I was smiling like a fool.

"I can see, you've completed a technique. What are you going to call it?" he asked.

"The Ultimate Scanner, Thousand Image Defense." I said as I slowly tried to feel my hands and they finally moved as I raised my body to a sitting position. I knew for sure that my technique managed to work against father as a slash managed to bypass his defense and cut his cheek. Although I think that father has a similar technique to mine as well due to his experience with the sword, but I'm sure he cannot be copy Thousand Image Defense.

After a few minutes of recuperating, I stood up and left the place as I need to train by integrating my martial arts to my swordplay.

In the 7 month, I started smelting swords, including my recently forged Yagura no tachi. Even though I can use different swords in length and weight, what I'm still comfortable is still with Yamato.

And in the 12th month, I inhaled massive amounts of air before slowly exhaling it out. In my top form, I took out Yamato from the fire and its blade is shiny red because of the heat.

I then laid it down to a cast I've made to contain yamato and poured the mixture of the ores I've smelted for a year before slowly hammering it and forming it back to my desired shape and length. I then summoned the boosted gear as a gauntlet appeared in my arm.

"Hey Ddraig, want a new home?" I asked him as I decided to keep the boosted gear.

"Sure, Partner." he said as I borrowed a sword from my father in replacement to yamato to split the soul of Ddraig to the sacred gear system.

Seeing a ball of light, I grabbed it and infused the soul to my blade and started hammeriing it once more before quenching it. Seeing the sword I forged, it looks like the same Yamato but more stronger, and sharp than ever. It has anti-divine properties, the temporary blindness debuff of the Yagura no Tachi, making it into an anti-human as well.

I then eyed the changes to the sword, despite having many alloys, metal and ores didn't make it bulky and heavy, instead it was lighter than even before.

I then summoned the dragon ornament and removed the handle wrapping and replaced the dragon head ornament in there with the will of the world and weaved the handle wrapping back. As soon as I'm done with the newly reforged Yamato, blinding light surrounded the sword.

A statuesque, voluptuous, red-haired woman with two large horns growing out of her head, donning a revealing red dress and stiletto heels appeared. She looked at me in happiness and tried to hug me, but I used my DS arts to dodge her.

"I am happy, happy that you've heard my voice. I am Red by the way." the woman said.

Scathach saw a new person in the land of shadows and saw Red and instinctively turned defensive and raised her spear at the newcomer.

"Stop it. Scathach. No need for hostilities." I said as Scathach finally lowered her spear.

"This is Red, A Titanic Red Dragon. She manifested when I completed my sword." I continued making Scathach finally understand the situation.

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Final chapter before turning in for the night, or was it? XD If lucky, I'm gonna rest, If caffeine pulled me out then unlucky XD.

Let me know your thoughts on the chapter and how to improve it.