The Broken System - Chapter 11 Training Part II
“What are your name?”
“Kinoya Arviga.”
“Shamil Dao.”
“Shamil why do you want to use a bastard sword?”
“My father is a captain in 9th army uses one,” Shamil said it without hesitation. It can be seen that he was quite influenced by his father. If not for the rule by the emperor, he would have joined his father troop.
The instructor handed over a red badge. “Go to the main instructor at the training hall 2, he will know what to do.”
“Yes, sir.” Shamil saluted and left the yard.
“Why you want to use two swords?”
“No reason, I want to learn as much as possible.”
“You are one general recruited at the bandit base?”
“Yes.”
“What is about the talwar in your back?”
“My master gave it to me. But I am not tall enough to use this.”
“You have any sword mastery?”
“I have [Intermediate sword mastery].”
“That will make things easier. I will teach you the dual sword technique. If you work hard then you might learn the dual sword mastery in 15 days.”
“I have no problem with it, instructor.”
“But I have a condition. If you are ready to accept this then I will teach you otherwise he had to look for other.” He stopped to see the expression on Kinoya face, “If you can’t get the skill within 15 days you won’t get a chance to train as shield-sword infantry.”
“Ok,” Kinoya answered before the instructor could complete the sentence. He was dumb-found for a moment, “Why you use gladius?”
“It is of the right size.”
“If you really want to use the talwar in the future it would be better if you learn to use saber or scimitar. You can use these short scimitar. Rather than having the edge of 3 feet it had the edge of 22 inches. Little short of gladius but the technique is similar to Talwar and the technique I am going to teach you.”
Kinoya took the short scimitar and moved it around. He just used the basic moves of the sword, but it was enough to show the instructor how deep his basic is.
“I will use it.” Kinoya completed his moves with a nod. “There are wooden one of these?”
“Why do you need the wooden one?”
“I am a trainee, I shouldn’t use the real sword.”
“You are carrying a talwar in your back, will it really matter whether you have more?” The words made kinoya embarrassed. “You are a soldier now, if you can’t control yourself then you better leave it.” Kinoya nodded like an obedient child.
“With your basic, I have nothing to teach you about the sword. There will one rule that you will follow for 15 days and one technique you will practice. Now grab the scimitar.” The instructor took out a pair of weird looking gloves, slide it over the short scimitar as he held it and knotted it. One can’t see Kinoya’s hand again, it was covered in the leather gloves. It looked like two scimitars came right out of his limb.
“The rule is you can never take the scimitar off your hand, whether you are eating sleeping or bathing. If you get injured in training it will be your own responsibility.”
“Ok then look closely I will show you each day for three times. One time at normal speed, one time at slow speed, one time at fast speed. It will be up to you if you able to learn it or not?”
He started at normal speed started with a simple slash then full moon thrust, and from then on things started to get complex. Kinoya didn’t know when it happened but for some reason, he lost his sense. He so mesmerized in the sword dance that he unable to observe it. Even after the instructor stooped the dance he was unable to get his mind free.
[Skill Check: The secret of the [Falling leaf dance (incomplete)] is observed.]
[Do you want to learn the skill?]
The question woke Kinoya up. ‘Falling leaf dance?’ After getting the confirmation the broken system sounded again.
[Analysing…
…]
[[Falling leaf dance (incomplete)] Observation level: 58%]
[Unable to initiate the quest to learn it.]
“The first stage of [Slashing leaf technique] is called {Free Fall}. The second stage is called {Hitting a leaf}. If you are too forceful while catching a leaf you will miss it. So you have to be slow when attacking.” The Instructor started the sword dance again. It starts with the same slash, then the full moon thrust, he was a lot slower but it was becoming more and more impossible for Kinoya to observe it. He was looking but his eyes were out of focus. He lost his conscious lot before this time.
[Skill Check: The secret of the [Falling leaf dance (incomplete)] is observed.]
[Analysing…]
[[Falling leaf dance (incomplete)] Observation level: 72%]
[Unable to initiate the quest to learn it.]
The mechanical voice wakes him up again. The old man never taught him a skill other than the basic sword technic, whatever he learned was from the sword. So he knew nothing about learning from other. He was afraid that he might not able to learn the skill.
“Now I will show you {Grabbing the leaf}. One had to be fast to catch a leaf without tearing it. This is the last stage, it took me 4 years to reach this stage. See if you can.”
As the instructor said Kinoya was unable to see the whole slash before losing his consciousness.
[Skill Check: The secret of the [Falling leaf dance (incomplete)] is observed.]
[Analysing…]
[[Falling leaf dance (incomplete)] Observation level: 79%]
[Lower threshold of initiating the quest achieved]
[Does the host want to learn the [Falling leaf dance (incomplete)]?]
‘So it doesn’t need to be 100%.’ Kinoya breathed a sigh of relief after confirming.
[Skill Check: Quest [Falling leaf dance (incomplete)] is activated]
[Quest: [Falling leaf dance (incomplete)]
Condition: 1.Observation level 100%
2. Practice (0/1,000,000) (System updated)
3.Comprehension level 50%
Reward: 1. [Basic Dual sword mastery]
2. Strength: 8; Agility: 3
System reward: 1. Hidden Stat Patience: 6
2. Hidden Stat ####.]
After talking to the old man Kinoya somehow understood the Broken System. It was not something special to have a system. One in every 1000 had it. Though every system is unique the Broken System is different in its own way. The condition of completing the quest seems harder than the quest given by other systems.
If his guess is correct then the condition of completing the quest might be practising the skill for 10,000 or 100,000 times, ten or hundred times easier than the Broken System. But the biggest advantage of it that the System can activate the hidden stats. Even if you have more than 100 points in the hidden stat you can’t utilize it unless you activate it.
Somehow Kinoya unable to understand that whether the System is called broken due to its near impossible condition to complete or the due to its overpowered rewards. The thought of Kinoya was broken by the instructor again.
“It is one of the strongest Dual sword techniques you can learn under the General rank. Attack wise it would be in top three in all the attack techniques those are below general level. Practising [Slashing Leaf technique] will generate the Dual sword skill. Do you think you can do it?”
“Sure no problem,” Kinoya said with a smile.
“You don’t need to go out in the yard. Practice here. You will practice as long as you can you will stop only after you fall down. Then you will get your meal. Don’t worry the canteen of will open 24X7.” With the words, the instructor left the inner yard.
Kinoya went to the middle of the yard, took a deep breath and started practising. A simple slash, a full moon thrust, a quick drop back step…
The moment he completed the whole move a mechanical voice appeared in his mind.
[[Falling leaf dance (incomplete)] practice (0/1,000,000) failed.]
Kinoya didn’t mind that at all, by training under the old man his persistence increased like crazy. He is not sure if there any hidden stat like that or not but he is sure that he wouldn’t give up even he failed for 1000 times.
[[Falling leaf dance (incomplete)] practice (0/1,000,000) failed.]
[[Falling leaf dance (incomplete)] practice (0/1,000,000) failed.]
[[Falling leaf dance (incomplete)] practice (0/1,000,000) failed.]
…
…
[[Falling leaf dance (incomplete)] practice (0/1,000,000) failed.]
[[Falling leaf dance (incomplete)] practice (1/1,000,000) completed.]
[Comprehension level 3%]
[[Falling leaf dance (incomplete)] practice (0/1,000,000) failed.]
Kinoya almost missed the success message in all that failure. Kinoya forgot to count after 326. It was like repeated it like a mindless Zombie. The understanding of the skill increased with the comprehension level.
Unlike the name, which was {Free Fall} the free fall of a leaf was quite different from any other thing. The leaf never went against the flow of the wind for gravity. It was always about riding the wave, never to force it.
[Comprehension Level 4%]
With the mechanical voice, a smile appeared in his face. Kinoya started to practice with new enthusiasm. The next success appeared at 309th try, then at 300th. It wasn’t long before he turned into a mindless Zombie again.
The same drum sounds woke up the whole training caves. On the second day, the recruits were a lot more organized. Chaos was a lot less but somehow 2 of them were late. The result was as told. They were sent back home with 50 whips.
But when the instructor came to receive he was slightly surprised. He never expected that Kinoya would be absent.
Those who will be able to get the basic skill within a week will be tutored by an instructor. The instructor will be able to change the training schedule if he wanted. Lucky for Kinoya that Amogh, the instructor already recorded him as his student otherwise Kinoya would have been on his way home.
While running the more Amogh think about it the angrier he got. The effect was shown on the group of recruits that was following him. The whole run completed within 2 hours this time. He came to the training yard 4, as the main instructor of the training yard 4 he got the news about everyone.
As young soldiers followed him and continued to the advancement of day one. Amogh ignored all this, “Send someone to cave 377, drag the one named Kinoya here right now.”
The mood of Amogh was clear from his voice but the soldier answer with a smile “Sir, if you are looking for the one you left in the inner yard is still here.” Amogh gave a surprised look at the soldier for a moment but left with the wind.
In the inner yard, Kinoya was like a mindless zombie, his was mind was flooding with the notification from the mechanical voice.
[[Falling leaf dance (incomplete)] practice (27,230/1,000,000) failed.]
[[Falling leaf dance (incomplete)] practice (27,231/1,000,000) completed.]
After full night workout, Kinoya can now do a perfect sword dance at every second try. But there was no feeling about it, each and every movement was bored into his muscle. Every part of his body was moving on his own.
But the view from Amogh’s eye was totally different. What he saw scared the shit out of him. Every move of kinoya’s body was perfect. Just one night this boy was able to perfectly copy him.
Compare to the sense of the system which was defining the success by the energy flow through Kinoya’s body, Amogh depending upon the movement of the muscle to characterize it. To find the energy flow was perfect or not Amogh took out his saber and interrupted Kinoya’s movement.
[[Falling leaf dance (incomplete)] practice (27,235/1,000,000) failed.]
[[Falling leaf dance (incomplete)] practice (27,236/1,000,000) completed.]
[[Falling leaf dance (incomplete)] practice interrupted…
Energy path obstructed…
Practice failed.]
Kinoya stepped back and fall on his butt. He opened his eyes only to see Amogh was looking at him with big round eyes. Kinoya gave a smile and stood up while cleaning dust of his cloth.
“What are you doing here?”
Kinoya was surprised by his question still answered. “I was training as you told me. This was the first time I fall so I am going to get something to eat.”
“Stop.” Amogh himself wasn’t sure how this little child was able to carry on for 24 hours. ‘If I didn’t stop him who knows how long he would have repeated it. Is he a special one? Let’s see how long he can carry on.’ He said in a stern voice “You missed the morning run. You will have to run around the city twice before you can eat.”
“Yes, sir” With a shout, he started to run out of the yard.
Within 4 hours he was back again. He then bowed to Amogh and started practising again.
Amogh he didn’t know what to say. He had sent someone behind Kinoya if he didn’t complete the course he would have been reported. That’s mean Kinoya had run around the city twice that was within 4 hours. ‘Is he really a monster?’
Unknown to Amogh, Kinoya had already gotten the name of ‘Little Monster’ for a different reason. All the prepared foods of the training canteen were cleaned by Kinoya leaving the chefs in tears.
“No problem.