novelraw Chapter 193: Training Over
Chapter 193: Training Over
Stanley saw a future of the spear striking him on his arm from the right and he slowed down time.
He didn’t attack back or try and dodge the strike. Instead, he took the time to try and think of the perfect counter to this attack.
Given the past week of intense training as well as the years long training he had received back in the Town of Last Hope, he saw two options here.
His first option was that he could move back and get out of the way of the attack. However that gave his opponent the time to adjust to his next attack as well.
Instead, the proper response to this attack was to step in and swing at his opponent from the bottom.
Stepping in not only allowed him to attack, but it also lowered the intensity of the incoming attack by a lot. Not to mention he would be out of the spear’s edge by doing so.
Time flowed back to normal and Stanley dashed in and swung his sword from the bottom.
Max backed away at a last second and got out of the way of the attack. He stopped and smiled.
"Nice!" he praised. "How much?"
"22," Stanley said.
"What was the last one? 24?" Max asked.
Stanley nodded.
"Yay! Progress," the guy said.
As a method of training, Max had come up with a new way to help Stanley get used to making the right decisions with the sword.
Every time they fought, Stanley was supposed to slow down time when he was about to be attacked. When the time was slowed down, he was supposed to come up with the solution on what he should do at each moment.
He had started with having to slow down time all way to over 50 times as slow to think of the solution. In a week’s time, he had become fast enough that he could slow down time for just 22 times as much and still had time to come up with a solution and apply it.
They were hoping that doing it this way would help Stanley to become faster with his decision making skills to a point where he had no need to think and could move on instinct alone.
The training had lasted a week and Stanley had made more progress in that time than he had in his 2nd year of training as the Defendant.
He wanted to say that this was way better than the training he did with Gray as well, but it was hard to control those two.
This was him training his sword, while the other one was him training his powers. They were completely different and thus had different results as well.
Max trained Stanley as much as he trained himself as well. Stanley was the only person he had met that could keep up with him mentally enough to not just dish out attacks and have an actual fight. As a result, he improved a lot as well.
The training was going to last one more week, and Stanley was more than ready for it.
Max helped him train every single day and before he knew it, it was the end of their training schedule.
Stanley was laying on the grass, tired and out of breaths. "Can I... can I train with you again... after this?" he asked.
He knew there was some sort of mission coming up for him, but he was more than willing to continue training with Max.
"I don’t know," Max said. "It will have to depend on if I’m around."
"Of course, I mean when you are around," Stanley said.
"No, I mean when I’m... never mind," he said. "You don’t have to know."
Stanley looked at the standing man, not understanding what he was saying exactly.
"Get up, you need to leave," Max said. "Aren’t you going on your new mission in a day or two?"
"I am," Stanley said, sighing as he remembered his mission. "I have no idea what the mission is going to be and yet I have to go on it."
"Isn’t everyone the same?" Max asked.
"Yes, I’m just complaining," Stanley said and quickly got up. "Alright, lets go."
"You go," Max said. "I won’t be coming."
"Are you sure?" Stanley asked.
"Yeah, I need to go take care of my little sister," Max said. "Make sure to get healed before you leave."
Stanley nodded.
After Max used whatever it was that he used to teleport out of the place, Stanley ran back to the mountain where the AAA was located, climbing all the way back to the top.
He quickly went to go meet Amy while he could and told her that he was done training.
"Hmm, its been 2 weeks already huh?" she said as she healed him completely. "Time moves so fast."
Stanley said nothing. "I hoped I could train for longer, but Max doesn’t seem to have the time," he said.
"He doesn’t. He has to take care of his little sister," Amy said.
"Oh right, I have been meaning to ask this for a while now," Stanley said. "Why do you keep saying ’his little sister’ and not ’our little sister’? Aren’t you siblings?"
"We are," Amy said. "He is my brother, but his sister is not my sister."
"Huh?" Stanley stared at her with a confused look. What she said made little sense to him. He thought for a moment and a possibility came to his mind.
"Is it something like where he is your half sibling, but the parents that you two do not share married with another person and had another child?" Stanley asked. "So he is your half brother, and the little girl is his half sister, but you two ladies have no connection."
Amy smiled. "That is a possibility, isn’t it?" she asked. "But no, our situation is much weirder. He is my full brother, and the little sister is his full sister, but the little girl is not related to me at all."
"I know it hurts your brain to try and make sense of it, so I suggest you don’t," She said. "There is no point in thinking any more than you already have."