章 25: Lesson Start

After we're done trying the weapon of our choice we regroup in front of Mr. Carlos and wait for the lesson to start. I ask Anna about a way to raise the weight limit and she said you have to raise either your strength or your endurance to gain more weight limit.

You can either raise 5 strength and you would gain 1 weight limit or 5 endurance and you would gain 0.5 weight limit. It's a dumb choice if you only look at one way but she also said raising your endurance would also increase your stamina. I have to guess it's kinda important as if you don't have the stamina it's really doesn't matter whether you are strong or not.

I also saw Alice, Kana, and Anna weapon stats in the meantime before we start the lesson while James is trying to look cool with the new coffin shield that he holds. The width didn't cover his lower body part and most of his legs are exposed while it covers most of his chest.

(you can google coffin shield if you want to know how it looks like)

The shield sides are angled so it's easier for you to counter-attack unlike when you use other wide width shields. I bet he never consider that and only choose base on stats.

Well, I also did not realize that until he wears one so I can't really blame him. Now that I think about it. it's kinda fitting that he is a necromancer who hold a coffin shape shield

30 minutes pass by and Mr. Carlos raises from his chair and getting ready to instruct us. Around me, I the view is not a bunch of high school students hanging out together in a field rather it's a bunch of miss match soldier holding all different kind of weapons ranging from swords to giant axes.

"Now that I see all of you already pick a weapon we can start the lesson."

After saying that Mr. Carlos told us to be separated into 2 groups melee and range as the basic way to fight of these 2 types differ so much. Me and Kana in range group while James, Alice, and Anna join the other one.

James contemplated for a while in which group to join. In the end, he chooses the male group as he wants to focus on defense and create a strong summon that can help his attacks. That way he can work together with his summon to beat his enemy.

After we're separated Mr. Carlos start instructing the melee group first as we watch from the sides. He told us that understanding how the front liner works would make our teamwork flow seamlessly.

He began teaching the melee group basic movement for each different weapons and how to use them efficiently. Not even 10 minutes pass by and some of the students are already doubted his credibility when instructing students who did not use swords as the main weapon.

He dismisses the students by saying that it's up to him whether he wants to listen to him or not.

"All I say here today is base on my experience. Whether you use swords or you fight with the bare hand the basic is the same. Kill your enemy before they kill you."

"How to achieve that? I can tell you 100 different way to do that. Which one is the easiest? That differs for every individual as everyone has their own unique point."

That shuts some of the students but I can still see some stubborn guy stop listening to him altogether. He spends almost 2 hours instructing the melee group about all basic of fighting in close range. Dodging, blocking and parrying, counter-attacking, and observing your surrounding area.

Well, I say instructing while most of the times what he did is suggest the students read titles related to that in the library. I wonder will the lesson from others instructor are the same as this one. I wish we can go back to the library after each lesson.

Some of the titles that he suggests are not even there when we're in the library. One of the students who pay close attention to the instructor lesson ask him where he can find the titles.

"The library is filtered so most of you can see before is the basic stuff only. After today, the filter would be lifted and you can read more. There's still some that required a permission as some are life works of other and we need their permission or restricted stuff that have potential danger."

After he finishes instructing the melee group Mr. Carlos proceed to teach the second group. As he specialized in close combat all he taught us during this lesson mostly about positioning. He includes stuff about dodging projectile and how to cooperate better with your teammate.

He does not suggest most of us to a title to read well it's already amazing how he can advise the frontliner so I guess he also has weaknesses. He suggests for mage and support class to ask others instructor to help them with the basic. He also suggests others who use range weapon such as bow, crossbow, throwing a knife, to the different instructor.

It's really weird that I only can see 1 hot weapon such as guns being used in this training. Is gun mastery a rare skill like my puppet skill? Or even very rare one like Alice's. The last half an hours are a free time for you to try your weapons and swing at the dummy.

Most mage and support class are just sitting there like a duck while others smack at the dummy. Some students even spare with others. Mr. Carlos advice us not to spar if you don't have any experience so only a small few are doing that.

From the corner, I see James, Alice, and Anna is doing 2 vs 1sparring. I'm not even a bit worried that they would hurt each others. Alice can only punch using bare hand and defend with her arm guards. James can only defend using his shield while Anna got to have enough experience if she agrees to do this.

Worst case scenario James is the only one who would suffer as there is no way Anna would hurt Alice. I and Kana approach them to observe and pass time until the next lesson start as we have nothing to do.

Anna swinging his long spear left and right suppressing James while Alice would sneak around and launch a counter-attack when the opportunity arises. Alice can raise her battle experience and as James wants to learn how to cooperate with his skeleton to comfort his enemy later this training can be very useful for him.

Anna keeps hitting James's shield while pointing some flaw she can point. Granted there's not a lot as she is not an expert either but it's still useful for James. Anna dodges most of Alice's sneaky attack and launch a counter back whenever she can towards her.

She always stops before it hit her even when Alice is prepared to defend with her arm guards. Granted such an event is not occurring so often but I can see Alice learning as she goes. At first, she always lingers after she attacks and that makes her vulnerable to Anna's attack.

After the 30 minutes is up Anna said that she should either go back to James's protection after she attacks or at least keeps moving so she is not so vulnerable.