Book One: Alpha World

20 Eps.The Sword of Courage

My eyes opened for a while after I closed my eyes at the Ranker training ground. My head lifted and immediately looked to the left right. The old-fashioned troops surrounded me. I was shocked by the black great sword already in my right hand and the shield in my left hand. The screams of war my troops filled the air. The sound of the trumpet of war was earthy from the middle of the line. I realized, now I was in the vanguard position of a war soldier.

Five more minutes I was silent in that situation, until suddenly all the movements in front of me stopped. Like the video being paused, even the eagle flying over my head stopped in midair.

“The situation in front of you right now is an exercise that has been created by the Ranker training team and this exercise has also adjusted your abilities. Happy training!” Kiseti's voice was heard entering my ears, without me knowing where it came from. The announcement he gave was short, but I began to understand, I was in the most basic training, becoming a squad.

The video continued, and the enemy troops had been exactly a hundred meters in front of me. My head was drenched in cold sweat under the scorching sunlight. I gulped as I looked at the golden-armored enemy army with a sharp glistening sword.

Me, I ‘kan have not practiced sword at all, my inner. I racked my brain in my desperate position.

A person of armour began to wander around with his dark horse to the entire army. I guessed it as a commander or something. He went around and began to smash the sword he was carrying with his shield, asking for attention.

“Enemies are in front of you, they come with more numbers of us and weapons greater than ours, maybe you are afraid, daunted, have no confidence, no confidence, I'm sure most of you think defeat is ahead of us with a lot of inexperienced troops, or maybe many who have no ability and experience of war at all, or maybe someone is still holding the sword in his hand with trembling.” I stared at my hand which was also shaking as it held the sword. The voice of the commander in front of me boomed and echoed throughout the ranks.

“Close your eyes for a moment, reassure yourself of your confidence, for that is the key to victory in battle, seek the enemy's weakness before you and fight as a hero! Victory in front of us!” The commander's hand clenched upwards punching the sky.

“Win!! Win!!” A loud and compact shout full of courage echoed from the entire army line beside and behind me, the smoke of the battle filled the scorching daytime sky.

I started to close my eyes, imagining victory, courage, unyielding feeling overflowing in my chest. Eager explosions began to surge as the shouts of the soldiers beside me entered my ears. This exercise is starting to get me excited.

I opened my eyes and changed myself, including the troops around me. Everyone now looks like a character in my favorite game. I myself turned into my favorite character, a man with short hair in white, white armour with a slightly open golden edge revealed a large muscle in my body, a black sword with a golden handle decorated with a sapphire green gem in the middle, and not forgetting the long thick purple scarf draped on my back, the purple scarf waved in the wind of battle. My steps became very light and free.

I've seen war, experienced it, ever moved one character, in my game, yes, in my favorite game, I can imitate it.

“Strike!!” My now-fashionable martial artist with thick purple hair and golden armour covering his arms and chest and stomach was purposely revealed to show his stoutness. A huge tiger belt was slung around his waist. It's very scary, I think.

My eyes immediately looked at the enemy before me who was still unchanged at all. Simultaneously the two sides advanced against each other risking their lives.

I immediately jumped up, lunging at the enemy in front of me fearlessly. Training begins, in order to gain grandfather's trust, I can definitely.

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Kiseti shook his head slowly while smilingly staring at the hologram screen before him.He was on the edge of the field which was in the garden above the clouds. Ten small screens were plastered in front of him. He shakes back.

Occasionally his hand is raised wanting to press the pause button under the screen. He nodded again, feeling no need. After roughly two hours on Alpha count, one month on Lian and his team's training ground count. Kiseti logged out ten people who appeared on her hologram screen. The ten people were now in front of him.

I'm dealing with a big war. Rais, Asuza, and Cera become a trio of rescuers trying to free dozens of villages from the clutches of the evil demon power. Rheda and Dea are training their abilities in treating various types of diseases. Ella is reunited with a super-modern technology Ranker. Kapi and Sian were also met with the Lower Hand Rankers, and I just found out that such a thing also exists. Lastly, Gina trained as an Alpha board chief and was faced with a variety of difficult problems.

Everyone is trying to tell us about the success we found in this exercise. Such as myself who managed to rise to the level of being the leader of a platoon of horsemen, a trio of rescuers who managed to liberate about two-thirds of the entire village, and others with unimaginable success.

“Good, great once.” Kiseti looked at all of us, he clapped and laughed.

“I, I never thought, you guys turned out to be more than capable of mastering the training that this team of creators created. Hahaha.” Laughs heartily. We looked at Kiseti curiously.

“Means how does Kiseti?” Gina finally asked as Kiseti's laughter stopped.

Kiseti raised her index finger. “First, I will ask you from now on to call me Master Kiseti.” We nodded, no problem.

“Secondly, I want to tell you that your training yesterday was just an exercise to provoke confidence and optimism in you alone. Actually, your physical and your abilities have not reached the stage yesterday. Think of the month-long exercise as just an initial entertainment.”

Me and everyone in the team were shocked to hear Master Kiseti's explanation, as we looked at the floor. Just as an initial entertainment, it means yesterday's practice hasn't been anything. Our ability is still low.

“Three, next is your actual practice. Strenuous exercise, maybe even full of failure. But, as long as there is an unyielding spirit, your failure can be very quick to repair.” Our heads were still lowered, embarrassed by our confidence and arrogance at the start of the training. Though training still leaves six years and eleven months according to our later count.

“Don't give up, you know?I see yourself as having unusual abilities, maybe even you are more than enough to be a ranker later.”

Finally we tried to lift our heads back, we understood, it was deliberately made to train us.

“Master, master, when will our practice resume?” Sian asked politely.

“Hei!Are you all ready?” Kiseti pointed at our faces.

Think of it as our answer.

“We are ready Master, maximizing the time of this exercise is very important now.”

“Alright, alright. Actual practice we start now..” Master Kiseti pressed the log in button on his screen.