Chapter 59 Aerora Feels a Sense of Crisis
For a period of time afterwards, Shaya completely immersed himself in the training room within the manor.
He was giving his familiars special training.
Or rather—
To be precise, he was giving Crimson special training.
Shanshan and Yin’s abilities were primarily focused on support and control, and they were already nearing maturity.
To improve further, it would generally require new skill seeds to develop entirely new skill combinations and ability systems.
But Crimson was different.
As a newly added main combat-type familiar, it was extremely raw in all aspects. Compared to Yin and Shanshan, whose completeness was already extremely high, it had significant deficiencies.
However, this also meant that it had immense room for improvement.
Especially since, in Crimson’s skill list, apart from “Slash,” “Bone of Swords,” and “Blood Burn,” the Skill Proficiency of other skills was almost entirely undeveloped.
It was practically the perfect target for Shaya to assign points to.
…
Swish—
A silver-white spear glow cut through the air.
Tearing the atmosphere, it stirred up a storm.
The sharp aura that swept up seemed as if it would tear everything around it to shreds.
However, facing the blonde maiden in a knight’s skirt armor, who exuded an astonishing aura, Shaya simply closed his eyes.
Next Moment.
Accompanied by the connection of the Soul Pact deep within his soul.
A faint and indistinct crimson light spot gathered at Shaya’s fingertips.
Then, in a very short time, the illusory light spot transformed into a solid entity.
It was a blade of blood.
Immediately after, Shaya emptied his intellect and thoughts.
Following the intuition and instinct rippling out from the depths of his soul—
He swung his sword.
Clang—
The crimson sword edge traced a simple arc through the air.
A tenth of a thousandth of a second later.
The blade of blood clashed with the silver-white knight’s spear.
Metal against metal, it erupted with a crackling ring.
The Magic fluctuation generated by the collision made the specially made metal outer walls of the training room vibrate with a hum.
After a moment, the Magic radiance of the small energy storage array lit up, and everything returned to peace.
As a training room built into a valuable estate, its construction standards were originally quite luxurious.
Theoretically, it was sufficient to withstand the full power attacks of all Beast Tamers and familiars below the Four Rings.
Yet, at this moment, the two Third Ring Beast Tamers had only exchanged blows for a moment, and the training room showed signs of collapse.
“Let’s stop here for today.”
“If we continue fighting, we might lose the whole house.”
Shaya waved his hand, dispelling the fusion state with Crimson, and the crimson blood blade in his hand once again turned illusory, disappearing into light spots.
Almost simultaneously with Shaya speaking these words.
The killing intent shrouding the entire training room vanished.
Aerora’s mithril skirt armor, which had covered her entire body, disappeared in a streak of light, revealing her neat, plain white school uniform.
The blonde maiden walked lightly to Shaya’s side, picked up two towels already prepared by the training room, handed one to Shaya, and took the other for herself.
She looked up at Shaya’s side profile, a hint of surprise flashing in her beautiful blue eyes.
“Your close-combat skills have improved so quickly.”
Aerora herself, as an armed-type Beast Tamer specializing in combat, was naturally most familiar with the details of close-quarters combat.
Therefore, she understood clearly that contracting a powerful new familiar could indeed allow a Beast Tamer to achieve a qualitative leap in panel attributes such as Power, Speed, and Defense, or in physical fitness.
However, if there were only Power and physical fitness, but no matching experience and skills—
Then no matter how powerful the panel attributes, it would be equivalent to a child holding a large axe; it would be extremely difficult to unleash even thirty to forty percent of their strength.
Aerora’s own combat skills and experience were accumulated and broken through through countless military missions and the brutal combat of iron and blood.
And based on Aerora’s understanding of Shaya, Shaya’s combat style was completely different from hers; he rarely engaged in head-on battles.
Rather than crushing opponents head-on with overwhelming force, he preferred to play the role of a sly old fox who, through Illusion and other means, would claim victory without anyone noticing.
Because of this, in Aerora’s original prediction, even though Shaya’s third Soul Pact was with a high-species familiar specializing in Physical Class, it would still take a long time to accumulate combat experience.
But now it seemed—
The facts were not so.
In the battles of these past few days, Aerora could feel Shaya’s experience and skills improving at an unimaginable rate.
That slash just now, even against her, did not put him at any disadvantage.
“It’s a method of taking a shortcut.”
Shaya also sat down by the training field and took the damp towel Aerora handed him to wipe his sweat.
“I know I’m not a prodigy like you, who has innate combat instincts and can often make the best judgment in a flash without thinking, relying only on intuition.”
“My pursuit of the Way of the Warrior and Chivalry is not as pure.”
“Even if I tried to practice hard, I wouldn’t be able to achieve the same single-minded, unadulterated sincerity you do, refining yourself day after day, year after year.”
“So, I actually took a shortcut.”
Shaya put down the damp towel in his hand, grabbed a strand of hair that hung by the maiden’s side, and casually twirled the strand of light golden long hair between his fingers.
That strand of hair was very soft and smooth, with a faint fragrance, the scent of Aerora’s favorite shampoo.
Speaking of which, Little Ai’s hair actually felt quite good to play with.
“Through the highly compatible Soul Pact with Crimson, and the self-hypnosis assistance of ‘Tsukuyomi’.”
“I shielded part of my subjective consciousness and completely handed over the judgment in battle to Crimson’s instincts, honed by countless sword swings.”
Shaya knew his own limitations; he just wasn’t the type for fighting.
His mind was too meticulous, and he preferred to think before acting.
Normally, this was not a bad thing.
But in close-quarters combat where the tide of battle could be turned and victory or defeat decided in a flash, excessive thinking would become a hindrance.
However, it was fine if Shaya was not good at it; as long as his familiar was good at it.
To train the most straightforward skill, “Slash,” to an Extraordinary level without the aid of extraordinary resources and evolution materials, one could imagine how strong Crimson’s combat awareness and intuition were.
It was no less inferior even compared to natural knights like Aerora.
“Oh.”
Aerora nodded, allowing Shaya to play with her hair.
However, in her heart, she had secretly made a certain determination.
Originally, Shaya’s frontal combat ability was not strong, and she was the only partner who complemented Shaya.
But now, with Shaya’s shortcomings being addressed, Aerora instantly felt a sense of crisis.
“To be—”
“Someone who is always useful to you…”
Feeling the hands playing with her hair.
Aerora silently repeated in her heart the vow she had made to the young man eight years ago in the broken ruins of Ceylon.
It seemed she had been a bit too lax recently.
She needed to take on more high-level military bounties to adapt to the strength she possessed after breaking through to the Third Ring.
The second update still needs to be revised and will be sent later. You can read it during the day.
