Primordial Expanse: I have the Strongest Talent!

Chapter 252: A familiar face

The next morning was the official start of Alex's training.

Luckily for him, there were no classes scheduled for the next day, so he would have the whole day to train.

It was a much more relaxing schedule compared to what he was used to, which Alex was honestly quite happy about.

He would be under less stress, and he would be gaining valuable knowledge at the same time.

It was a win-win in Alex's eyes.

He gobbled up his breakfast with no care for what it was or how it tasted — he was only interested in getting the nutrients his body needed.

Thankfully higher ranked beast meat packed a lot more nutrients than normal animals, otherwise awakened would be in big trouble considering they needed vastly more energy than normal people.

Alex would have to make sure he kept his diet packed until he at least became a higher life form.

'Training starts at noon… Guess I'll do some stretching or something then.'

With no classes scheduled or practice spars queued up, Alex realised just how boring his life was outside of his usual routine.

He was essentially a workaholic without any hobbies, which to a normal person might sound like a hellish lifestyle, but Alex was rather content with his situation.

The thrill of feeling his strength improve was enough to drive him to keep going.

Noon soon came around and the Professor in charge of Alex's training should be showing up any time, and Alex was getting bored sitting around in his living room just waiting.

He tried reading some of the novels he used to read a few years ago, but they didn't pique his interest anymore.

Why read about such fantasies when he experienced them every day?

Knock!

A sudden knock on his door woke him up from his boredom, and Alex rushed over to open the door for his personal training teacher waiting outside.

"Good to see you, Alex."

Though Alex was pleasantly surprised by who greeted him.

"Professor Will!"

It was a familiar face, the same teacher who had oversaw his entrance exam and had looked after him since his entry into Capital Prime.

"It turns out I'm going to be your combat skills Professor! Though I have to warn you, my training will be tough, which I suspect might not be much of a problem for Mr 'King class prodigy' himself."

Alex felt his cheeks slightly redden when Professor Will uttered his newly appointed title.

It sounded cool when it came from Admiral Olgierd, but it sounded more cringe and embarrassing coming from someone he knew.

"We'll be working on a specific area of combat skills called martial arts, as well as swordsmanship, alongside any further areas that might crop up further down the line."

Professor Will ignored Alex's embarrassment and got straight to the point, explaining what exactly Alex would be doing in his training.

Alex, just happy that he was finally going to be receiving some training, let Professor Will in and led him to the training grounds in his garden.

"You might be confused about what Martial arts are, since some uninformed people might call them outdated in this day and age, but they couldn't be more wrong."

"In pursuit of true mastery over one's own potential, there exists a discipline known as Martial arts."

Alex listened intently. He was unaware of the technique Professor Will was talking about.

Martial Arts had become largely unknown ever since the advent of the Primordial Expanse and the awakened.

"Unlike traditional combat techniques that rely purely on strength or agility and are generally targeted towards Awakened, Martial Arts is a refined method of controlling one's own body down to the minutest movement."

"Martial Arts have been around for thousands of years, yes — thousands, and are not just limited to Awakened. In fact, it was normal, unawakened people that came up with Martial Arts in the first place."

"It is the art of precision, where every action is calculated, every motion deliberate, and every strike maximised for optimal power output."

Professor Will finished his introduction of the concept of Martial Arts and let Alex take all of the information he had just received in.

Considering they were both powerful awakened, it didn't take long at all.

'This sounds like exactly what I need! I've been relying on instinctual movements, or just what I thought was right at the time. Precision is precisely what I was lacking this whole time!'

"I think I understand, Professor."

Alex informed Professor Will that he was ready to move on to whatever he had next.

But Professor Will shook his head, and spoke again.

"There's still one more thing I have to explain — swordsmanship."

He pulled out a wooden blade from presumably a spatial storage and started speaking.

"Although Martial Arts focuses entirely on your control over your body, it actually ties in quite closely with swordsmanship."

"Like Martial Arts, the goal of swordsmanship is to achieve perfect precision in every strike you produce, essentially making your attacks almost impossible to dodge. The only difference is that instead of using your body to achieve this, you use an external weapon, in this case a sword."

The concept of swordsmanship was easier for Alex to understand, since he had already understood the basic concept of Martial arts, and like Professor Will, the two were very similar.

"Allow me to demonstrate. I'll limit my strength to around Variant C rank. And then, you attack me."

Alex felt a sense of Deja vu from this request.

'Ahh, I remember!'

It was because he had practically gone through the same thing with the Principal not that long ago after his rebirth.

Only instead of testing Alex's strength, this time Professor Will was demonstrating the effectiveness of Martial Arts and Swordsmanship to him.

'Though I don't get why I have to attack him for this demonstration.'

Alex didn't voice his questions and simply complied.

Professor Will was the teacher here, not him, so he probably had a good reason for asking Alex to do this.