*Noir's POV"
Yulia invited me to train with her because of her father's recommendation. Yulia picked me up and we went to the mansion of her teacher uncle Davis. Davis Viola also know as the "Sword Demon" is her teacher in martial arts and swordsmanship. He is not only good at martial arts and swordsmanship. He is also known for his terrifying psychic powers {Flame Tyrannosaurus}. He fused his martial arts, swordsmanship and psychic powers so he was called the "Sword Demon". A demon holding a sword that dominates the battlefield.
We arrived at the mansion and we were greeted by Miss Ruby Viola and her maids. Honestly I feel very nervous this time. I don't know what to do. I never studied etiquettes.
"Hello Yulia! Welcome to my house,
Schoolmate Noir"
She greeted Yulia casually and bowed elegantly to me.
Perhaps sensing my anxiousness, I heard Yulia speaking in my mind.
(Relax! Just act as you always do. You'll be fine.)
(Thank you.)
"Good morning! and thank you for having me."
I bowed back, albeit nervously.
"So you guys want some food, drinks, or train directly?" Miss Ruby asked
Yulia telepathically asked me about my opinion.
(What do you think?)
(It's obviously to train. Mr. Davis might be waiting for us. So we need to show some enthusiasm.)
She nodded and answered Miss Ruby.
"We can have that later, We'll train directly."
"Okay!"
We followed them to the large training ground. The further we go the hotter it gets. The area is probably as large as the school training ground. I saw a scary man meditating on the center, scorching aura covered him. All of my senses are tingling and telling me to run away.
The strong aura vanished and he slowly opened his eyes and looked at us. His eyes scanned me from head to toe. He praised me with a rough voice and asked.
"Interesting kid. So young man, have you ever trained?"
"No Sir!"
"Oh? That place is indeed magical as Arnold and George said. Yulia got stronger too. I also heard from Arnold that you got a good sword. What's the name again? Jing Jang?"
"It's Shuāng Xīng Jiàn." Then she took out her sword from nothing.
"Oh? That sword in indeed one of a kind. So for now I need to see what you can do so—"
"Wait father. I need to test Yulia's strength first." Miss Ruby intervened.
"Are you sure?"
"Yes father!"
"*sigh* You're really stubborn aren't ya? Then go."
We all stepped aside to give them some space to spar.
*Yulia's POV*
Here we go again this girl really doesn't know how to give up. It's not that I don't know where she's coming from. She is the only purple level psychic in our generation, at least in this country. She's from the Viola family which is known for purple level pyrokinesis in every generation. She above the normal standards in everything. Family background, talents, skills and intelligence but she never won against me.
Name: Ruby Viola
Age: 16
Strength: Elite human
Agility: Average
Endurance: Average
Intelligence: Above Average
Luck: little bit lucky
Psychic: purple level pyro kinesis
Proficiency: super natural
Weakness: losing
She really is afraid of losing. So I don't understand why she's doing this even if she knows that she's going to lose. I put away my sword. She's glaring at me full of fighting intent but hesitation can also be seen from her brave figure. Scorching flame emerge from her hands. She condensed the flame in the she shape of a ball and shot at me like a canon. I covered myself with my psychic powers and walked towards her calmly. I got hit by the fire ball causing a loud explosion.
*BOOOOOM!!*
I shrugged it off like nothing and walked out of the smoke and dusts unharmed.
"What!? How is that possible?"
Ruby asked full of doubt. She continued firing condensed fire balls causing continuous explosions.
*BOOM!!* *BOOOM!!* *BOOOOM!!*
I steadily walked as I ignored the heat of the flame and the force of explosions. It can't touch me anyway.
"I don't believe it." She declares
"{flame Storm}"
Woshhh!!
Fire Tornado surrounded me as it spins faster and faster while the temperature became higher and higher as it continued to burn out oxygen around me. Heh! Smart but not enough. I stepped out of the fire tornado Before all the oxygen got burned. I stopped my steps in front of her and flicked her forehead.
"How is this possible? How can I lose so badly?"
She pouted and started tearing up. Aww! so cute, She's very upset about losing badly to me. I gave her a head pat and said.
"Don't cry, I just covered myself with my psychic powers so that I can't be affected by your flames."
She slap my hand away from her head.
"Get off your hand from me, I'm not crying, You are!!" She desperately said
*Clap!* *Clap!* *Clap!*
"What a magnificent control of psychic powers." Uncle Davis praised.
He looked seriously at Noir and me.
"I need to test your strength, skills and cooperation so you guys have to spar with me. Are you ready?"
""Yes!""
I looked at his stats. What a monster.
Name: Davis Viola
Age: 39
Strength: Elite Super Human
Agility: Mach 3
Endurance: Elite Super Human
Intelligence: Above Average
Luck: lucky
Psychic: purple level pyro kinesis
Proficiency: Natural disaster
Weakness: His daughter
(We are going to lose. Are you ready?)
(Yeah I know but we won't retreat without fighting right?) He bravely asked.
(Hmph! Who do you think I am? We are going to hit him.)
I said as Shuāng Xīng Jiàn appeared in my hands.
(Let me test him first and you can support me. Can you do that in reality?) I uncertainly asked.
(Let me test first since you have telepathy I can probably share my new psychic power {Daydream} with you.)
I felt that something changes within my mind. My thinking speed has accelerated and become more aware of my surrounding + {sound appraisal detection}.
"Ho!? Your eye colors change into black which means that the young man shared his psychic powers, Interesting."
I bent my knees and rushed to him faster than sub-sonic speed and slashed him upwards. He dodged with smile on his face.
"Oh? You have grown a lot."
I was still being careful of being counter so I immediately run out of his range and observe. I cannot waste Noir's stamina to pulled me out of trouble every time like we did in the Labyrinth. I rushed and attack again and again. I even freeze his foot to reduce his movement but it does nothing. I heard Noir speaking from our thought communication.
(No Yulia! You're doing it wrong! That's not how you use my powers. You're only using it to sense.)
(Then how? Not to mention will that drain your mental strength?)
(No worries I think we can do it. Daydream is the power of delusions. You just need to believe that you can do it but it's not a reality breaking ability. You just need to believe in the most possible things that you can do. If you think that you could dodge him my powers will help you to dodge Instinctively.)
(What the heck? That's broken enough and you still talked like it's not enough and you want a reality breaking ability?)
(Well, reality breaking ability is common to the overpowered protagonist now a days and they have harem so--.)
(Okay, stop about the harem and focus on the fight)
What was this guy's thinking. This ability is ridiculously enough okay? My only cheat is appraisal and I have to travel across the multiverse to fight other players with random cheats.
[Appraisal Note: Just marry him already and let him build a harem.]
Shut up already!!
I calmed myself down and relaxed my body. Just believe in myself and rely on Noir's power, Let's test it. I rushed again but this time is different I was faster and sharper than before. I slashed him continuously at the speed of sound. Every slashed produced sharp cold wind that shocked him.
"Wow! You're still holding back that much?"
He counter attacked and I barely managed to dodged.
"I just want to test but you really did managed to dodged."
I ignored him because I was moving more than my body could react normally. I freeze his foot again and I raised my sword preparing to slice him but we did more than he could expect.
(Noir switch!!)
We swapped places and Noir slammed his 'black lightning fist' to his crossed hands catching him off guard.
*BRRRRZZZZZZZZZZT!!*
*BOOOM!!*
He jumped backwards using the impact from explosion. The sleeves f his clothes was shattered but he is unscratched. As expected it will not be this easy.
"Haha! That caught me off guard. Those two must be messing with me for not telling me your abilities. However that makes things more interesting."
Indeed he wouldn't be caught off guard if my father and uncle Arnold told him our abilities. In that case I wont let him be on guard.
(Noir, how long you could maintain the {Daydream} on me?)
(5 hours in minimum use and 1 hour maximum use.)
(1 hour maximum on this state? How's that possible?)
(Because of the ring in my index finger. I discovered that I can use it to store stamina, mana and mental strength so I stored them as much as I can. I can only do it while at home because it's really tiring.)
Damn it! I'm tired of being envious of this guy's luck. I thought it was an ordinary storage item so I didn't check it carefully but it was another cheating item.
(Oh by the way I forgot to tell you that I can share the stored stamina and mental strength but not mana since you don't have it. I can do it through {Daydream} but it will reduce the time into 30 minutes.)
(30 minutes? Then let's go all out for 30 minutes straight and don't give him space for breathing.)
Noir sprinted towards to uncle Davis with a hand covered by black blade and tried to slashed him but he is not as careless as before. He was about to counter but it's my time to trade clashes on him.
*Clang! Clang! Clang!*
"You kids are very good. No wonder Geo and Arnold think highly of the two of you ."
We didn't respond. We just attack or dodged.
"Looks like I need to get more serious."
The temperature of the surrounding becomes higher. He held the handle of the sword and the scabbard and an image of a burning Tyrannosaurus appeared on his back, menacing and powerful. DAMN IT! HE'S SERIOUS!!
(Noir be careful, He's coming.)
"{Tyrant's first breath: Scorching fang.}"
I just saw a red orange line and he appeared in front of us. A quick draw with twice of the speed of sound. Fortunately we already had the experience of facing someone at this speed but his skill is still superior to the Orc Lord. We managed to dodged but we still got some burns.
"{Second breath: devouring flame}"
*ROOOOAAAAAAAAR!!*
An extremely wide range AOE That's burned everything on it's path. We have nowhere to escape so I decided to finish it.
(NOIR!! I'M GOING TO MAKE A PATH!!)
I roared in my mind. I didn't wait for his response
"{ICE CALIBER!!!}"
The freezing wave reached him but it didn't do any damage. But that's enough I'll leave everything on Noir.
"{Black Armor}"
He rushed to uncle Davis like a lightning and pointed his hands with a giant black lightning blade.
"{Black piercing star}"
Uncle Davis smiled and whispered
"{Third breath: flame domination}"
A wall of flame emerged and blocked the giant black lightning blade.
*BOOOOOOM!!!*
The entire training ground was destroyed and a deep crater surfaced from the dust and smokes. There's no destruction other than the training ground because of the barrier that covered it. I can't imagine the damage and destruction that it caused if there's no barrier.
"AHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! I was planning to end it after the first move but you guys really surprised me. The only thing that you guys lack are control and proper Fighting technique for Noir. You guys can relax now."
""Thank you for your guidance""