Kapitel 100: The Last Lecture

Receiving tutelage for the Double Saber Kalivan technique was a little different than expected. Merlin demonstrated the individual steps of the technique several times and asked Zayn to repeat them, individually at first and then combined them into a sequence of movements and attack motions.

Zayn couldn't recall how often he repeated the same motion over and over again, but he knew that it had to be hundreds of times. It might actually be a thousand times, or in the thousands. Zayn didn't really know anymore. The only thing he remembered was that Merlin had nodded satisfied with the result.

Four months, with each month feeling like an eternity, had passed in the blink of an eye. It was about time that their hellish training ended and that they focused on the final steps to complete Merlin's mission.