Desert Weight (Spec Training/Tenma)

The Desert of Forgotten Souls. At least it held up to the first part of its name. It was a desert if Endolf had ever seen one. He didn’t know how it came around to earn the second part of its name, but he wasn’t entirely willing to find out. All he could think about was how great the shifting sands under his feet would make for speed training. It had been a bit of time since the last time he focused on training to get faster with his movements and with his attacks. He had made his way out only maybe a mile or so from the city, giving himself enough room so that if something did go wrong he didn’t have to involve any innocents. Shifting his right foot back and forth in the sands he nodded to himself. Everything was perfectly conditioned. All he had to do was start running around at top speeds.
 
Several minutes passed and he found that his ideas had been proven correct. The sands weighed heavily on his feet and lower legs, coating his boots as he tried to run back and forth. It was proving tricky however as he was barely able to make it from where he stood to roughly five meters away and back. Pausing in his efforts he hunched over, hands on his knees and chest heaving as he panted. It was a training exorcise he wasn’t regretting and the more difficult it seemed, the more he was positive it was the proper way to train. It was while he was taking this break that he would notice a figure approaching from the direction of the city. It wasn’t easy to make out at first and causing Endolf to reach for his Resentment strapped to his back, but as the figure continued to approach it became easier to see it was a man he had become familiar with back in Reim.
 
“Tenma?! What’re you doing all the way out here?”
 
The Fanalis stood tall as he addressed the man who previously aided him in slaying an entire cavern of undead sailors.
 

“Whatever your reason, you’ve got great timing. I was just training and I think I could step it up a notch or two. If you’ve got anything you can throw at me, literally throw at me, while I try dodging it it’d be great!”


Training WC: 397/1000

The swordsman sighed to himself, looking around to see the vast scorching desert and wondering something. He was just arrived at this land of sun and sand by using ship before, but what was on his mind to visit this hot desert of forgotten souls once again? Did he want to become the second part of the name, becoming the forgotten souls in this desert? Nah, he didn’t have that kind of intention… he just wanted to train another abilities if there was a chance. Training in the middle of hot desert truly brought his strength to increase faster rather than being in a comfortable place. The pressure that he got, the heat from the desert all forced him to survive; but still, he brought complete ransom because it would be bad if he ran out of food and water while he was staying in the desert. Bringing along a cloak with him, Tenma was more than ready to spend several days in the desert in order to train himself more.

The one eyed man closed his eye while his gloved hand touched his forehead to wipe the sweat there before bringing his hair to the back to give some air to his forehead. Even though he was wearing a pair of gloves, his clothes was not his usual attire. He wore Heliohapt’s signature attire with him, the one that he bought before he visited the desert for the first time. “Hmm…” He hummed to himself while he was walking in the desert, wanting to find the place where he did his training before. The walk that he took on his path was heavy due to the sand and the heat was as scorching as before, this would be a great physical training for the swordsman even though it might just took a while to walk…or not, well, who knew…

From the afar, the one eyed man could see a red-cladded figure but he was not sure who. He would touch his Katana with left hand to prepare for any incoming attack or any fight that might happened, he didn’t know who was there and it would be better if he kept being on his guard. Once the figure started to approach Tenma, he decided to keep walking and didn’t bother to stop and waited for the redhead. Then a familiar smile would cross the black haired man’s face when he recognize the one who was in the middle of the desert as well, wondering why the fate making them meeting up in this kind of place… Fate must be cruel. “Ahh, I am just taking a stroll. How are you, Endolf?” He chuckled to the Fanalis that he met at Reim before, quiet an interesting one but he had not seen his quality in the battleground. When he heard that Endolf was planning to train as well, the swordsman smiled brightly and nodded. “Anything?” Then without waiting for Endolf’s answer, Tenma would began to unsheathe his Katana before swinging it towards the Fanalis’ chest from below. “I won’t be able to throw anything towards you if we are this close, right?” His tone was calm, but it was commanding. There wouldn’t be any other option to at least giving some more distance between them so Tenma could help in whatever training that Endolf wanted to do by asking the one eyed man to throw anything at the redhead. “Unless you wanted to try and dodge my Katana slashes, but that wouldn’t be called as ‘throwing’…”

WC: 568/1500

Endolf found himself relieved that it really was Tenma that approached him. He was afraid he was already beginning to go crazy between the heat and the heavy sand weighing down his feet as he moved. The two would continue to talk for a few minutes, Tenma answering Endolf’s previous question about what he was doing out in the desert of Heliohapt with an answer that only raised more questions. Following up Endolf found Tenma clarifying his meaning of his use of the word “anything”. It was questioned by the one-eyed fighter’s drawing of his sword, swinging it up towards Endolf’s chest from below before the Fanalis stopped it with the clawed blades of the gauntlet on his right wrist.
 
With the immediate danger of the stranger’s sword detained by the three steel claws the redhead would then respond to Tenma’s comment about not being able to throw things at him while they stood so close to each other.
 
“Well, I was thinking something more along the lines of actually throwing things for me to dodge.”
 
Moving his “friend’s” sword out of the way the redhead removed his claws from the metal weapon. Silently he began to walk away, putting a good 23 meters between the two of them. Turning around to face his partner.
 

“Ready when you are Tenma.”

Training WC: 617/1000

With a smile on his face, the swordsman nodded when Endolf stepped back to give 23 meters between two of them. He would then stepped a little bit to make the distance between them to be 20 meters before he slipped his hand behind his coat, but still suppressing his murderous intention. He wondered how the Fanalis would react if he could feel Tenma’s killing intention but he decided to just not giving out any kind of aura from his body, he let out of a heavy sigh and stayed friendly. The redhead seemed expecting Tenma to throw his goods towards Endolf, but the swordsman would stay still and stared at the Fanalis to take a good look at the redhead himself. His built was totally different than usual Fanalis that he often saw, it seemed like he wanted to be fast in the battle. It would be something that those body could achieve and the black haired man tilted his head to observe more of the younger man who was standing in front of him right now. His intention to be able to dodge attack was clear enough for the goal that Endolf might be aiming, so after he memorized him, the one eyed man gripped his Katana tighter before his other hand that was slipping inside his coat moved. A throwing knife was thrown and directed right towards Endolf, aiming to hit his neck even though it would not be strong enough to actually deal a severe damage. But it wouldn’t be fun if Tenma just trying to hit the Fanalis, so he would say, “Perhaps we can make it to be more interesting? It wouldn’t be fun if you are dodging it… How about we do something fun? Try to kick away all the things I’ll throw to you.” Then he took 3 senbon before throwing one by one towards Endolf continuously, one was being thrown right at his forehead, right after that another one was being thrown and aimed around 50 cm on his left near his arm. The third one would be thrown and aimed on his foot approximately around 4 seconds after he thrown the 2nd one.

WC: 931/1500
Ammo : 11/15

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It seemed like Tenma was amused by the prospect of training Endolf, at least the redhead hoped that was what the smile the man with the missing eye gave him meant. The Fanalis boy was at least excited by it. He had seen just a fraction of the surface of Tenma’s abilities first hand, the wave of lava that had been conjured up to turn several undead sailors into smoldering burn marks and ash back in the cave in Reim being a powerful testament. Endolf himself had wanted to put some distance between them, at least 23 meters to start, but it seemed that Tenma wanted just a little less than that. After taking a step or two the still mysterious man seemed to leave it at an even 20 meters.
 
Endolf’s right foot would shift in the sands below him as he watched Tenma reach into his coat. For a minute the redhead could swear he could feel some kind of malice radiating from the swordsman but it soon passed. He could feel Tenma’s eyes focusing on him. Watching he could see the man’s head tilt as he seemed to inspect Endolf. In a flash the hand in Tenma’s coat was withdrawn, an object being shot towards the boy. Endolf attempted to move to the side, the sands shifting as his feet slid several inches to the right. As the object passed he could make out that it was a knife that had been targeting his throat.
 

Off on the other side of their makeshift training area he could hear Tenma speak up. He proposed that they make things “more interesting” and that instead of Endolf just simply dodging he was to knock away whatever Tenma threw at him instead. Before the boy could give any kind of response he was put on the spot with three new objects flying towards him, one after the other in succession. On the fly he moved into an unarmed style he had been practicing once having gotten his second gauntlet. His head tilted out of the way of the first object as the second was cut from the air by the claws of his right gauntlet. The final object seemed to be heading low, aiming for his foot of all things. With a moment of his right arm the chain connected to his gauntlet was unhooked and let loose, whipping around to knock away the final projectile and sending it into the sands where it would be lodged.

Spec Training WC: 1033/1000

Tenma whistled when Endolf managed to hit all the knives and senbon aimed towards him, happy to know that the fanalis was truly a capable fighter who specialized in their speed and strength. “Nice one, Endy~!” He started to call the redhead with a friendlier name as he started to take a liking to Endolf for being a quick learner, perhaps it would be fun if he play with Endolf some more by throwing more projectiles towards him but he actually wanted to test a new ability that he had at the moment. The concept of his skill was to reach a wider range of attack by using his weapon so probably he needed to do something and modify how his weapon would work in certain situation.

So far he had a skill that would allow him to reach a wider range but it was too powerful and quite exhausting if he kept doing that. He needed to focus his energy to his hand before clapping both to produce a powerful shockwave that would be able to take down several enemies at one time, something that he thought as a great idea. He was used to fight in melee and mid-range buy using his Katana, Wakizashi, Throwing knives and the senbon, but usually it could only be used to attack an enemy at one time, now several enemies. By having opportunity to be able to attack more than one enemy was a very helpful stuff, it would give him several other options on how to react in the battleground just in case he needed to take down several people quickly on his own. A sigh escaped his lips as he began to think that maybe having a partner in the battlefield that was specialized in magic or wide ranged fight would be very nice, but at the moment he didn’t really want to have a long term companion beside him as he had a secret to be kept. Playing around like this was much better now…

“Here come another!” He warned the Fanalis before throwing 2 knives that was aimed to his eyes and another one was to his crotch, wanting to know how he would move if he aimed at the place like those. Then just a second after that, Tenma took out his needles and shot one towards his arms. Another one was being thrown as was aimed around 1 meters away from the redhead to test how quick his reaction would be. If the redhead was able to hit all of that, Tenma had another surprise waiting for him right after. This was what Tenma wanted to try, he put explosive stuff in the needle so the moment it flew towards the Fanalis, the pressure would heat it and the moment it touched the enemy, the needle would explode and dealt damage to several people that was within the range. He was not sure how Endolf would react if Tenma really did this because it would be a very cheap move but the one eyed man didn’t really care, he just wanted to try it and check if it could be used in the battlefield or not. The poor Fanalis would be the first one to taste it whether or not he could hit the needle bomb, so without waiting for any longer, the swordsman used his new skill, Bakuhatsu Hari and was throwing his senbon towards the Fanalis’ feet, aiming it right to the ground actually to trick him. Right after it hit the ground, it would explode and the redhead would be getting damage if he was not quick enough to dodge.

WC: 1538/1500

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