My eyes open. I the weight tears at my arms as I push myself to my feet. I feel a slight tremor, and my legs shake, and my balance shifts as ai begin falling towards the floor, but I put myself back up, and regain my balance. I need to practice moving, my body's changed again. I begin with a kick… what? Why would I kick? I'm a swordsman. But that felt… natural? Is that it?
I begin performing other movements, punches, kicks, slashes, I mix all of them together. Soon I'm fluidly transitioningbetween kicks nd slashes, I can use my swords to better control the balance and increase the power of a kick, and I can use kicks to position myself better for slashes. Though the main focus stays on my sword, mixing other martial arts in like this, I think I can reach new heights in my techniques.
But it isn't just things I've trained with before, even techniques that I only saw once can be replicated after a few tries. That means… I think back to a technique I fought against before, Tsubami Gaeshi. I tried to replicate it from memory in the past, and I tried learning it from Greg's skill machine, but it was always lacking… maybe with this new soul, with his technique I can master that strike, and combine zero with infinity.
But now's not the time. We need to gather back. I begin returning to the fortress, but when the darkness comes into view rage begins building up in my body.
"Yeoui. Exte-" I bite into my tongue and grab hold of my arm, yanking it back.
"Don't, you'll destroy this world if you do." I say to the soul that's emanating bloodlust towards the darkness. "Just wait… we'll destroy it for sure." I calm down, and return to the front of the fortress to find that much of the group has already gathered.