1105 A 1000 Star Technique.
"A 13 Star Battle Skill."
"What...?" Nux's expression changed.
One had to know, other than in his System, he has yet to see a 13 Star Skill Book in Yrniel and even in his updated system, Nux only found 13 Star Spells, not Skills. The System didn't have 8 Star Skills or above.
Nux had once asked Eisheth about this and according to Eisheth, most of the 13 Star Skills and Spells were with the Order, so Vyriana having a 13 Star Skills wasn't surprising.
But to create one on their own...?
"Honestly, after 12 Star, the strength of a Skill highly depends on the cultivator who uses it and how compatible the cultivator and the said skill are.
We can ignore the compatibility factor since we are creating this Battle Skill for you, so it should at least be as strong as what everybody calls a 13-Star Skill. If you do well, it can be called 14 Star Skill as well."
"Does 14 Star Skills even exist?"
Nux questioned with a curious look on his face.
Divine Stage was comparable to 12 Star, so the existence of the 14 Star Technique meant...
"Nux, it is just a number.
If your battle technique is strongest then you can even call it 100 Star, no one would stop it.
We have 12 Star Techniques, we simply call some rare techniques that are stronger than 12 Star techniques 13 Star Techniques and if there are some even more absurd techniques than the 13 Star ones, we call them 14 Star Techniques.
This is no different than rankings, it has no real meaning behind it."
Vyriana explained.
"What is the level of your technique?" Nux was still curious.
He wanted to know what he was chasing.
"Mine is a 1000 Star Technique."
Vyriana shrugged.
"..."
Nux stared at the arrogant woman in front of him with a deadpan look on his face.
"Now stop wasting my time and get to it."
Vyriana completely ignored his stare and ordered.
"Start with Stab, Slash, Parry, Counter, and then Footwork, you have 6 years to master each of them at Small Achievement Level, so 30 years in total."
The Dragon Woman hadn't even bothered to remember the grand names the techniques were known for.
"Keep in mind, do not act recklessly and go further than Small Achievement Level, if you finish before 30 years, then use this to call me. I will help you combine all these Skills into one using the Silent Vessel."
Vyriana spoke as she threw a call artifact toward Nux.
"Now get to it, if you fail to do it in 30 years, be ready to face the consequences."
Saying those words, Vyriana disappeared.
Nux's head was filled with questions, however, seeing that Vyriana had already disappeared, he shook his head and stored all the books in his Storage ring other than the Transcendent Stab of Flawlessness.
It was time to learn new skills.
Nux emptied his head and took out his sword before copying the movement mentioned in the book.
It didn't take him long to go through the first 30 pages, they were filled with nothing but the basics of a simple Stab. However, it was a 12 Star Skill for a reason, the more Nux continued, the more complex it became.
Indeed, a Stab was a part of swordsmanship, and winning a battle with just a stab alone was difficult.
However, Transcendent Stab of Flawlessness was different.
After discussing the basics and explaining why things are as the way they are, discussing the importance of correct Mana Flow, Foot Placement, Body movement, and more, it then started going away from the basics.
This crazy technique divided a battle into 50,000 different scenarios and created a different, improvised Mana Flow, Foot Placement, Body Movements, and more for each of those scenarios.
The book's logic was simple, the basics were important, they were called basics because they were the most optimal way of approach that worked in every situation.
However, did that mean they were the most optimal stab in every situation? The answer was no.
So the creator of the Transcendent Stab of Flawlessness skill created the most optimal stab for the 50,000 different scenarios, individually.
And now, Nux was supposed to remember and imprint all those 50,000 different scenarios and the most optimal stab in each of those scenarios into his body, in the next 6 years.
Of course, these 50,000 different scenarios were not extremely different from each other, they were battle simulations between 2 cultivators, the creator created a different stab for even a situation where the opponent performed the exact movement however instead of looking into the eye, he looked somewhere else, or the way he was breathing was different, or how his footsteps were uneven.
The differences between these 50,000 scenarios were sometimes so minute that one would think they were the same and similarly, the strongest stab in these situations only had slight differences as well. So after a certain time, when Nux learns a good amount of 'Strongest Stabs', learning new stabs wouldn't even take him 10 minutes.
This was the reason why Vyriana told him only to master the skill till the Small Achievement Stage and not go all the way.
"Crazy Bastard..."
Nux cursed inwardly.
Then, he stopped thinking about
everything and started working on the Skill.
For the first month, he only practiced the Basics of Stab, his body was already in an optimal state, combined with how perfect Astaria's basics were, as her student, his basics were close to perfect as well.
In just one month, Nux perfected his Stab Basics, and now,
It was time to forget what he had learned and switch to learning 50,000 different 'Strongest Stabs'.
Long 6 years followed after that.
Nux pushed his body to limit, in these past six years, he only took 12 breaks, one for each of his wives, and the break didn't last more than 2 days either.
He was needy, however, the sense of rush he felt after witnessing Vyriana's strength pushed him to train as much as he could and beyond.
6 years later, Nux had already learned around 10,000 Strongest Stabs, finally stepping into the Small Achievement Level, and with that done, he moved to the next technique,
The Crimson Cresent Strike.
