Offense (Blade)

(Offense/Blade Increases)

You gravitate towards the sword, almost as if it’s calling to you. As you grab the weapon, you feel the heft of it. It almost feels like finding the perfect key to an impossible lock. Like it completes a part of you, you didn’t know you were missing.

Anu breaks you away from your thoughts, “Ah, the blade, a noble choice. Close quarters combat, the test of a true warrior. That is, if you know how to use it. That’s what practice is for.” Anu hands you a sheath, it fits around your waist and rests comfortably. Anu helps guides your movements so that your form is correct when striking.

Now ready for combat, Anu sets up a dummy for you to strike, “Take a deep breath, focus your breathing, calm your nerves. Let everything around you fade.”

Confident, you swing your blade, cutting through the air and landing deep in the neck of the dummy, nearly cutting the head clean off. You look on in shock, and quickly a smile spreads across your face. Anu too looks on in amazement, doing double takes between you and the, now near headless, dummy. “That was incredible! You’re a natural!” By the end of the day, you’re cutting limbs clean off every dummy you encounter. However, this is only the beginning of the road to becoming a warrior.