Arad lay on his bed, Mira sleeping on one arm while Isdis slept on the other. rlin slept on a bed beside them, Ignis curled up on her legs like a large dog, and Tina was sleeping on a bed beside Serin's cradle. Ti quickly passed by, and Arad's brain kept going through what happened in the day as he slept.
The first day of the week-long training had ended, and the second day was about to start. By the end of the week, would he be able to fully absorb the overgod's dead heart, or will he fail and get killed by Kayden? Arad didn't know the answer to that, but he had his own guess. He'll either fully absorb the heart or fail and kill Kayden instead of being killed, he had no intention of dying in a battle that he didn't start.
The second day started, and Arad was standing once again inside Hati's training ground, facing Kayden who just arrived. "Did you have enough rest?" Kayden asked with a passive face, looking at Arad and imdiately noticing that he got a bit leaner. "Or are you starving?" Arad had eaten his full yesterday; he indeed didn't finish the whole tall neck in one sitting. Currently, as he stood, he was well-fed and rested, ready to perform at his peak. But that was only physical, as Arad didn't know what kind of training it would be, he couldn't be fully prepared.
"Does that even matter? It's not real training if I ca ready for it." Arad said, his head slightly tilted to the side as he glared at Kayden, "What should we do? Should I just try killing you?"
"It's the opposite, try to not get killed." Kayden suddenly disappeared from Arad's field of view. He appeared behind him swinging a fist.
Arad imdiately accelerated to dodge, but he was a bit slow to react and ended up having his side blow to bits as Kayden's fist scratched him. Arad could easily accelerate rapidly to attack, but it was still difficult for him to do it on instinct to avoid attacks, Kayden is trying to push him further to learn to do that.
While to most creatures Arad was far too fast for them to face him, which allowed him to dodge all of their attacks with ease, Kayden was the first person to far exceed him in speed and acceleration. Arad was forced to learn, like an amateur martial artist finally facing a master, he started to notice all of the wasted movents he was doing and started cutting them off.
Arad usually dodged punches by running behind his target to attack them from the back, but had a lot of wasted moves and was extrely inefficient. Such moves were useless against Kayden and Arad was forced to shorten them. Instead of trying to run around him, he'll simply duck to avoid the attack, and instead of attacking from the back, he'll counter with a punch right beside Kayden's fist, nearly avoiding death by a hair strand to maximize his efficiency. With each dodge, Arad started to realize that this was what Alcott was doing all along. Dodging certain death at the last mont to deliver deadly blows to the overpowered dragons. Even now, Arad was already far faster and physically stronger than Alcott, yet he'd lose to him, all because Alcott had trained to be extrely efficient against dragons and use all of his knowledge to dodge their attacks and counter.
Just like how Alcott had trained until he could face the dragon even though his body was still weaker than theirs, Arad was now doing the sa, trying to supplent his lack of raw strength and speed against Kayden by improving his skills.
The more that Arad adapted, the more power that Kayden used, always keeping Arad on the edge, forcing him to adapt even further. The fight quickly heated up as the two figures disappeared, only the thunderclap of their clash remained booming across Hati's training ground, shaking the ground as they leaped from one area to another, leaving a trail of destruction.
With each passing second, Arad accelerated even further, his moves grew sharper and got far deadlier. Each ti his attacks were blocked or deflected by Kayden they generated a shockwave that shattered the ground, and Arad didn't waste that energy, using it to accelerate even further.
Kayden blocked Arad's counterattacks with a passive face and kept attacking him with stronger and stronger attacks, forcing him to learn how to dodge and deflect attacks instead of dodging or relying on his regeneration. There was no mistaking it, one punch from Kayden and Arad would find himself in the afterlife.
This was the demon that halted all of the dragons' armies, both the chromatic and tallic dragons, all of dragonkind stopped, unwilling to take a step further toward Kayden, and now Arad alone, the small wyrmling that once attempted to fight them as he woke up terrified, is now standing against that demon.
Arad stepped back, a few ters away from Kayden, and lifted his hands. [Gemini] His body split in half, and another Arad rushed forth. The Arad twins surrounded Kayden in the blink of an eye and started swinging at the sa ti, taking the offensive crow out of the demon's hands.
"Constellation of the stars, it easily doubles your attack power by giving you a twin." Kayden started blocking their attacks with both hands, and it looked like Arad was pushing forward and winning. "Albeit it's usually accompanied by a severe drop in intelligence, your brain seems to be able to handle that well."
If Arad had learned anything from his fight with Kayden, it's that there are always people far stronger than him, and people that he needs to actually think and create plans to fight on the fly. His fight with Kayden is a great one, and sadly he can't use magic since it's physical.
Arad had one more trick up his sleeves, and from his hands, a long three-part nunchaku quarterstaff while his clone pulled the adamantine sword. [Taurus]
Arad's mana dropped to zero as the constellation activated, his physical strength, speed, and durability all skyrocketed into the clouds as he smacked Kayden in the face with quarterstaff- nunchaku as he tried to block the sword.
Arad was going to pay back all of the pain of yesterday a hundred-fold, and Kayden started getting tossed left and right, smacked in the face with the nunchaku and then slashed by the sword, getting kicked in the guts and had his body thrown through several massive boulders with ease.
The fight had changed drastically, from facing a single unard Arad to facing two ard Arads with both of them being physically enchanted by the constellation of Taurus. Hati who was watching from far away could only stare with a shocked face, Arad was really as rabid as she heard. Poke him the wrong way and you'll see a horrifying growth speed.
Arad spun around alongside his clone as they threw kicks toward Kayden at the sa ti, but those weren't regular kicks, but instead tuned in the sa way Arad had learned to fight from Dalla. Painful slap kicks chained in with his attacks and extre aggression.
In the span of a day, Arad had learned Kayden's acceleration, mixed it with his fighting style, and lastly brought Dalla's fighting style that was used by the weak to fight the strong, and made it into a deadly martial art of his own.
"I see you've improved quite well. Shall we start today's lesson?" Kayden used one of Arad's attacks to jump back and landed on one foot, his eyes glowing red.
Arad had first learned how to accelerate instantly, and now Kayden had made sure that he was competent enough to use it for both offense and defense. The second stage of this training could start, and it's about putting that skill to work.
Engulfed in demonic black flas, Kayden disappeared and Arad's clone got slashed in half across the torso. "You can teleport with a move called void step or walk, right? Now accelerate in the middle of that, try to surpass what's possible, and use teleportation not as a moving tool, but as a way to fully utilize the acceleration to attack."
Arad gasped as he saw Kayden holding a black katana in his hands, that blade wasn't made of tal, but out of his own flesh. The god-slaying demon started to reveal fragnts of his power, and Arad is now facing a bigger hurdle to surpass than yesterday.
Arad's clone imdiately regenerated and he lunged with Arad toward Kayden to fight back, but both of them ended up getting slashed as Kayden started teleporting left and right while accelerating and decelerating at a mind-boggling rate. Trying to predict his moves was already hard before with just the sudden acceleration that left no telegraph, and now it beca even more confusing with him accelerating in the middle of teleporting. Kayden's training isn't over yet, and Arad is only starting his learning journey. The path to fully utilizing the power of his own body and void.
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