Chapter 29 – 029. Shadow Heaven Style
029. Shadow Heaven Style
[The ‘Shadow Heaven Style’ trait has been unlocked.]
[Shadow Heaven Style Lv.1
You can use the Shadow Heaven Style.]
I immediately got up from my seat. My body felt like it weighed a ton, but the rising joy wouldn’t let me stay still.
“Kuhhh….”
Ignoring my screaming muscles, I swung my sword.
The basic movements of the Shadow Heaven Style followed. Just a moment ago, I was stumbling during the transitions, but now it was completely different. The stance flowed as smoothly as water.
Also, the tip of the sword barely grazed the wallpaper without tearing it. Unlike before, I could perfectly grasp and control the length of the sword with skillful precision.
‘This is!’
I realized why I had failed at the basics until now, and why Jin Se-young had said that talent was necessary.
The movements of the Shadow Heaven Style require adding or subtracting force while continuing the motion. In other words, it meant that subtle adjustments of force were needed in the short instant of swinging the sword.
‘The timing of adding and subtracting force is crucial. This isn’t something someone can teach.’
It was literally a matter of talent and a realm of sensation.
‘This is fun!’
I swung my sword until I was exhausted. Being able to suddenly handle the Shadow Heaven Style, which I had never succeeded at before, made me ecstatic.
[Shadow Heaven Style Lv.1
You can use the Shadow Heaven Style.]
Lying down, I looked at the Shadow Heaven Style trait on the screen. The effect was enormous compared to the simple explanation.
‘This is just level 1. What would it be like at a higher level?’
It cost 3 points to level up to level 2.
My hand was already moving.
[Shadow Heaven Style Lv.2
You can use the Shadow Heaven Style.]
‘Whoa, something’s entering my head.’
I shivered. What entered my head was information about the Shadow Heaven Style.
I learned how to use the Shadow Heaven Style efficiently in different situations. No, it would be more accurate to say that it was engraved into my body rather than just learning it.
‘Level 2 is this good. What will happen when the Shadow Heaven Style’s level gets higher?’
Level 3 required 5 points, and level 4 required 10 points. It was exactly the amount of points I had.
[Shadow Heaven Style Lv.4
You can use the Shadow Heaven Style.]
Level 5 required a whopping 30 points. I couldn’t even imagine how many points would be needed to level up to level 6.
‘Hehehe. Jin Se-young will be surprised when she sees my skills tomorrow, right? She might grab my legs and beg me not to leave.’
I was very much looking forward to how Jin Se-young would react tomorrow.
•••
“Hey, sis. Spar with me.”
I said to Jin Se-young when I arrived at the Shadow Heaven Sword Center.
“Spar?”
Jin Se-young looked surprised.
I had never asked her for a spar before. Jin Se-young’s Spartan training was no exception when it came to sparring. It was common to get hit somewhere and swell up during a spar.
“I had an epiphany yesterday. I’ll be a little different from the me you know.”
“An epiphany? Okay.”
Jin Se-young didn’t look very expectant as she spoke.
She and I created some distance between us and pointed our wooden swords at each other.
Jin Se-young was a B-rank hunter. Even if I hit her with a full-force attack, it would probably feel like a child’s punch. That’s why I could go all out without thinking about the consequences.
“Huh?!”
Jin Se-young was startled by my movements.
It was understandable, because my movements were completely different from yesterday. If yesterday’s me was a caterpillar, today’s me was a butterfly.
I stepped using the footwork hidden within the basic movements of the Shadow Heaven Style and approached her blind spot, swinging my wooden sword.
Thwack!
As expected, it was blocked.
But I didn’t stop. The Shadow Heaven Style was characterized by its fast speed and attacks from blind spots. It was easier for me to maintain the initiative of the attack by taking advantage of the fast speed.
“Ugh…!”
Even the her from yesterday would have been able to take my attacks without any problem, but now she was stepping back while blocking my attacks.
Jin Se-young’s eyes became even more serious. She was now fully engaged in the spar.
Shadow Heaven Style versus Shadow Heaven Style.
It was a battle of concentration. Whoever lost concentration first, or failed to keep up with the opponent’s speed.
The moment you lose sight of the opponent’s sword, the match is decided.
Clack! Clack! Clack!
The wooden swords collided. We moved back and forth across the wide training room. As we aimed for each other’s blind spots, our movements naturally increased.
Her physical strength was superior. However, my basic skills in the Shadow Heaven Style were slightly better. She had learned the basics to a minimum when she was young and then moved on to the next stage.
But the initiative I had was soon taken away.
I reached my physical limit. The moment I lost sight of Jin Se-young’s wooden sword, it struck my left shoulder hard.
Thud!
“Kuh!”
“Ah…?!”
Jin Se-young was the one who panicked when I grabbed my shoulder and fell. She immediately dropped her wooden sword and came to me, reaching out her hand.
‘Hehehe. Gotcha. Sensual Boost.’
[Sensual Boost is activated. Stamina is continuously consumed.]
Jin Se-young flinched, but she couldn’t take her hand off my shoulder. She stroked my red shoulder with her palm.
“S-sorry, I got too caught up in the moment. Are you okay? It’s a little swollen, but it’s not enough to bruise. D-does it hurt a lot?”
“It hurts. But it feels better when you rub it, sis. I’m sorry, but can you keep doing it?”
“Really? But wouldn’t it be better to use an ice pack?”
“I hate cold things. Just rub it with your palm.”
“O-okay.”
She reluctantly nodded when I insisted.
If it had been yesterday, she wouldn’t have listened to me so obediently. Today, I proved my talent to Jin Se-young and raised my own value.
‘Now the tables have turned. She has to keep me at the Shadow Heaven Sword Center, not kick me out.’
A genius of the Shadow Heaven Style.
I felt that way about myself, so how much more would Jin Se-young feel it?
‘Tsk. This sis still smells so good. Her sweat smells like a pheromone bomb. Pheromones.’
I wanted to hug her right away and bury my nose in her neck.
Rub. Rub. Rub.
With each stroke of my shoulder, Jin Se-young’s breath slowly grew hotter.
“Sis. That’s enough now.”
“R-really? Should I rub it a little more? Or maybe put a bandage on it?”
“It’s okay. I’m a hunter, even if I look like this.”
I couldn’t get up right away. I needed a little time because I was slightly erect down there.
“Ah. I only have two weeks left here. It was nice, but it’s a shame.”
“W-wait a minute! What are you talking about? You only have two weeks left!”
“You said it yesterday, sis. That I didn’t have any talent.”
“T-that was because I didn’t see it right! You’re a genius of the Shadow Heaven Style! So, won’t you keep coming? I’ll let you use the private training room for free!”
Jin Se-young grabbed my arm with a desperate look on her face.
I chuckled inwardly but didn’t show it. On the outside, I put on a slightly bewildered expression.
At this moment, it was clear who was in charge.
“Should I? Ah, but I think I’m going to be a little busy, so it’ll be hard to come every day like I do now.”
“Why all of a sudden?”
“I’m a college student, sis. I have to study and go to dungeons to hunt consistently to raise my hunter rank.”
There were two things needed to raise a rank. Skill and performance. If even one of them was lacking, you couldn’t raise your rank.
“Yujin, you’ve only learned the basics of the Shadow Heaven Style. To properly learn the Shadow Heaven Style, you need to start training in practical techniques.”
“It’s not like I’m quitting. It’s just that I might be a little less diligent. And lately, something…”
I trailed off and looked at her. Blue leggings and a pink tank top. A captivating figure no matter how many times I saw it.
“Never mind. I want to train alone today. Is that okay?”
“It’s okay. But isn’t it better if I’m by your side?”
“Sometimes it’s better to train alone. Yesterday, I had an epiphany while training alone at home.”
“An epiphany…”
“I can’t really explain it in words, but it suddenly came to me. That’s why my skills improved today.”
I deliberately created some distance between her and me.
Looking back, I had been too led around by Jin Se-young. I was in a position to learn from her, so it couldn’t be helped. But it was different now.
Her body was heated up by the Sensual Boost, and she had seen my talent with her own eyes, so her heart would be heated up as well.
I went into my private training room, closed the door, and took off all my clothes. Of course, I took off my underwear as well, becoming completely naked. Then, I stood in front of the mirror wall.
“Wow. My body is amazing.”
Over the past week, my body had become slightly muscular from the intense training. It was a nice, slim physique. If I kept going to the Shadow Heaven Sword Center for about two more months, I could probably become the main character of those bodybuilder photos that circulate on the internet.
“And my dick is still awesome.”
My large, dangling dick was my pride. Even when it wasn’t erect, it was so substantial that it reminded me of a thick carrot.
“Shall we start training in earnest?”
I grabbed the wooden sword and performed the basic movements of the Shadow Heaven Style while naked.
The sense of liberation I felt through my naked body. I felt like I was becoming addicted to this sensation.
•••
“What if Yujin says he’s quitting? I think I’ve been too cold to him….”
Jin Se-young paced anxiously around the training room. Her mind was filled with thoughts of what to do if Sung Yujin quit.
He clearly said he wasn’t quitting, but… the atmosphere in his words made it seem like he would quit in a few days.
“Ah… It’s my fault. Why did I say those things yesterday…!”
If she had known that Sung Yujin would explode with potential like this today, she would have treated him more kindly.
‘If it was normal talent, I wouldn’t be this anxious…!’
If he only had enough talent to learn the Shadow Heaven Style, she would have thought it was okay if he quit. Even if he had talent, if he didn’t have the will to do it, he wouldn’t achieve anything.
‘Yujin’s talent is beyond standards. Even if it’s just the basics, he’s slightly better than me.’
His talent, which had changed in just one day, was a little strange, but she had encountered so many absurd things while working as a hunter that she was quick to accept it.
And most of all.
“An epiphany….”
Jin Se-young knew about epiphanies. Her father and grandfather had always said that epiphanies were important.
“Is there… is there any way to keep Yujin here?”
If providing a private training room wasn’t enough, she could just not charge him a membership fee. This building itself belonged to her father, so she wouldn’t have to worry about maintenance costs even if she didn’t charge a membership fee.
‘But that would make the Shadow Heaven Sword Center look too cheap.’
As a B-rank hunter, Jin Se-young knew the psychology of hunters.
Hunters didn’t really like free things. They pursued luxury goods as much as they earned a lot of money. If something was free, they would first doubt whether it was a proper product.
‘Yujin’s hunter rank is low right now, so he might like free things… but even if he becomes a D-rank, he’ll be reluctant to accept free things.’
Jin Se-young unconsciously imagined Sung Yujin abandoning the Shadow Heaven Style and looking for another hunter academy.
With Sung Yujin’s talent, any hunter academy would welcome him with open arms. And he would be successful as a hunter, and if Sung Yujin became famous, it was only natural that the hunter academy he attended would receive attention.
‘Ugh.’
She hated even imagining it.
She desperately racked her brain, but no solution came to mind.
‘I can’t do this. First, I need to talk to him and find out what Yujin wants….’
She stopped as she was about to open the door to Sung Yujin’s private training room. She had forgotten to knock because there hadn’t been any guests using the Shadow Heaven Sword Center for so long.
She was about to close the door again and knock, but she saw Sung Yujin training in the Shadow Heaven Style through the slightly open door.
‘Aaaah?!’
Jin Se-young was so surprised that she almost screamed. Sung Yujin was training in the basics of the Shadow Heaven Style without a single thread on his body.
His body, which had started to gain muscle through recent training, looked good, and a large penis dangled in his crotch.
It was clearly limp and flaccid, but it was bigger than her boyfriend’s, whom she had broken up with three years ago.
