Talent! Talent! I got another talent. Aster jumped in joy for getting another Talent successfully. Aster checked his system. "What can this one do? Dream Realm? So I can train in my sleep? But what’s lazy about training? Isn’t my class supposed to give me talents that let me slack off?"
Still skeptical, Aster went to sleep to test the Talent. "If it’s a SSS+ talent, I suppose it has more to it. The only way to test is to just sleep."
Aster lay down and fell asleep, and he woke up in a completely white place, where there was nothing, nothing at all. Just soft, featureless clouds stretched in every direction—no sky, no ground, nothing else.
."So this is the dream realm?" Aster walked a little, but there was nothing else to do, no training ground, no equipment, no opponent. Aster thought, "How should I train in this place without my sword?" The moment he said sword, a sword appeared out of nothing.
Aster was shocked to see the sword appear, but he instantly understood what this dream realm is about. Aster thought of a training dummy, and a training dummy appeared before him. "So this dream realm is like a ’lucid dream.’ Everything I think of will manifest here."
Aster tried to manifest a slash, but it didn’t work. He could see the skill in the system but couldn’t manifest it.
Slash level 12 (0/8000)
Then Aster swung physically, and the skill use went up by 1 (1/8000). "So skills that cost Mana can’t be used? Then this is same as training in real life? If it only does that, I don’t think it’s that useful."
But instantly an idea came to Aster’s mind. Aster thought of a Greatsword, and a dummy with a wooden sword. Both of them appeared in front of him. Now Aster thought of the dummy attacking him. It immediately attacked like a real person. Aster parried the attack of the dummy with his Greatsword physically.
System window
Skill:
Parry level 1 (341/1000)
"Yes! Parry skill use went up by 1." All this time Aster couldn’t level up his parry skill because there was no attack to parry in his training ground. Aster kept using parry physically, and soon it leveled up.
System window
Skill:
Parry level 2 (0/1500): Manifest 1 parry per second. Range 2m
As always, every minor level increased the range of it. Aster trained more to level it up further, and he noticed something that changed his opinion about his new talent. And that was his stamina. "I have been training for hours, but there is no sign of fatigue in my body. I feel as fresh as before. So this is the effect of the Slumber Domain! It seems to be more useful than I thought."
The next morning, Aster woke up with a fresh mind and body, like he hadn’t worked out all night at all. He opened his system window.
Attack: 105
Parry level 10 (0/6000): Manifest 2 parry per second. Range 10m
"My attack stat has also increased because of all those parrying. This skill is really very useful. I’ll take back everything I said about it before."
Aster then thought, "If Nolan had this skill, he could have trained 24 hours a day. He could have surpassed every genius with his hard work. Sigh! Luck really doesn’t favor hard workers."
The next few days, Aster spent his entire day and night training in the dream realm. Aster also started to level up Strike along with Slash because the opponents he would fight would be humans. Slash would do too much damage to them, so Aster decided to use Strike against them.
The day of the tournament.
System window
Attack: 112
Skill:
Slash level 25: Manifest 5 slashes per second if holding a sword. Range 40m
Strike level 25: Manifest 5 strikes per second if holding a Staff/Stick. Range 40m
Parry level 25: Manifest 5 parries per second if holding a Greatsword. Range 40m
Bind level 25: Manifest 5 binds per second if holding a Chain. Range 40m
When a person awakens his class, they enter a martial art college, and those who fail to awaken go to normal colleges. In Aurora City, there are 5 martial art colleges.
Broad River Martial Art College
Saint Helena Martial Art College
Pine Hill Martial Art College
Lincoln Martial Art College
Military Martial Art College
And today’s tournament will be held at Saint Helena Martial Art College. Everyone would be transported there by train. General Cassius had already left many days before to take part in the management. We would be escorted by Senior Soldier Lyra Ashbourne. Soon everyone arrived at the train station.
Aster looked at his teammates for this tournament. Adrian gave him a sneering look. Alas raised his hand to say hi with a smile. Shul was defeated by Yor, who was ranked 8 before. She looked at him and gave a gentle smile. She was a support class, so I guess it is good to have her with us.
Then we got on the train. It would take about 2 hours to arrive at Saint Helena Martial Art College. Everyone relaxed in their seats. Aster looked around and saw students from the other 3 Martial Art Colleges wearing their colleges’ uniforms.
The train was passing through a deserted area when suddenly, a distortion appeared around the train. Aster looked through the train window and saw a pack of black wolves with horns chasing the train.
System window
Monster: Demonhorn Wolf
Their average level was 30-35. All the instructors from the other Martial Art Colleges and Lyra climbed onto the train roof to handle these monsters. Here, Aster saw Senior Soldier Lyra fight for the first time. She summoned her dual swords from her storage ring. A white chilling aura was coming out of them. She jumped upon a pack of wolves and moved so fast that only the chilling aura could be seen following behind her. In an instant, a pack of 8 level 35 Demonhorn Wolves was cut to pieces.
A few from the other side managed to run away, but they were within Aster’s range. Aster summoned his Wind Edge Sword and used Slash 5 times. Twenty-five slashes were manifested, and all the running wolves were sliced up. Soon all the monsters were cleared by the instructors.
Soon everything went back to normal, and we finally arrived at Saint Helena Martial Art College.