Arthur didn't hurry to let the sword down. He closed his eyes and started to feel his energy consumption while holding the sword.
"The consumption is strangely low," he softly muttered while opening his eyes, "but the consumption rate gets much higher when releasing the strike… or should I wait for a while before striking to stabilize the connection?"
He was puzzled now, and as the technique was already active he didn't want to discard it before testing everything out. "Be ready for another strike," said.
"Bring it on," Gege laughed as if she was very excited about joining him in the fight at last.
"Here I come," he jumped high in the air before releasing another strike. The first sword wave was about to die, and when he released the second one, strangely the two got synchronized together.
"Unbelievable," he landed while watching the first wave getting more lively and continued to wreak havoc for a longer distance.
As for the second strike, it kept following the footsteps of the first one while apparently it didn't lose much of its strength with time.
"And the energy needed from me this time wasn't that much either," Gege was already aware of his line of thoughts and so she gave him the answer he thought after.
"Was it because of the first sword strike?" he didn't jump directly to conclusions as he thought of another possibility.
"Why are you acting like you don't know your techniques?" the golden dragon muttered.
"I know the old one, but this berserk evolved strike is totally alien to me," he muttered before adding, "Gege, we'll have one more strike once the two die."
'Any time," she simply answered and they all waited for a couple of minutes before the two strikes died together. The first one didn't grow weaker but slower with time until the second strike reached it and merged together to form a brand new one.
And this one needed five more minutes to die.
"So roughly ten minutes," Arthur muttered before adding, "let's see how well a single strike will perform then."
"I'm ready," Gege said, "let's do it," she was too excited to make him suspicious.
He simply ditched these thoughts especially when she could read his mind. She only laughed on his reaction and doubts, and that made him sigh before he launched another strike.
And this time he felt a greater depletion of his pearl energy more than the second strike, but not even compared with the first one.
Yet the end result was the same, and he waited for almost three minutes for it to die down.
"So I can decrease the energy expenditure if I just waited?" he softly muttered, "and also releasing more waves won't only elongate the time for the strikes, but also would get them much fiercer."
"Exactly," the golden dragon said in an excited tone, "like this you can be a real thorn to your enemies."
"Indeed," Gege laughed, "and like this I don't need to push much energy at once. Works best for me."
"Alright," he let the sword fall before waiting for a couple of seconds for the aura to die down. "Second strike then… the epic sword technique."
"Ding! What's this technique about?" the system asked.
"I will also draw the spiritual energy from the entire universe around, but this time I won't store it inside my body but inside the sword," Arthur explained.
"So you won't be using any of your energy?" the golden dragon asked.
"Any technique can't be activated or used without my energy," Arthur corrected, "but the way to use it is different according to each technique."
"Let's see then," Gege laughed before adding, "I want to help in this one too."
"Ding! What does this technique do exactly?" the system asked.
"It will turn my sword gigantic."
"Like what happened in the previous one?" Gege asked.
"No," Arthur laughed, "that one only created a great aura of fire around the sword which made it look bigger. This one here would turn the entire sword gigantic by creating a giant shadow of a sword around mine."
"I think the two are the same to me," Gege didn't get the difference.
"No, the first one only makes the sword look bigger," the golden dragon explained, "but the second one will make it stronger and sturdier, right?"
"I'm impressed," Arthur laughed, "the old dragon knows something about my techniques."
"It's common knowledge kid," the golden dragon said before shouting, "and stop calling me old dragon!"
"Hehehe," Arthur only laughed before starting to take the position of the strike. "I'll use my energy normally and you keep watching. Try to find the best thing to do to evolve it," he instructed before taking the position.
This time he held the sword in both hands before he leaned to his right side.
"What are you doing?" just before he could move, Gege exclaimed in a funny tone that was able to make him laugh.
"Please," he controlled himself again, "stop interrupting me and let me focus."
"You didn't answer me!"
"Techniques in my world are classified either to right, left, or straight direction ones," he said while taking his position again, "and the first technique was a straight one, but this one is a right sided one."
"What's the use of all this," she mumbled and this time he was ready for her funny comment and didn't even react.
As he took his position he started to move. His moves this time were slow, looking like he was stamping heavily on his feet and not normally walking. Each move hit the ground massively while a small tremble occurred on the sword.
Just as he took five like these steps he moved one hand over the sword edge and caused a shallow wound there.. The entire blade was covered in his blood rich with spiritual energy, and then the sword started to hum and the blood soaking it started to get absorbed fast in less than few seconds.
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