Flat-Brim Samurai Chapter 149 - Testing Power
Apollo and Cias followed Hiroto to that same space that they had trained in before. Hiroto called to Apollo ,"Show me what your sword looks like now."
Apollo immediately summoned Akarui and took a closer look at it. Apollo had noticed that the tsuba had gained another point already, but he didn't notice that the damascus on the blade had grown even denser. The sword felt sharper, light and more durable. He felt the feeling of being able to both duplicate this sword and make it so that he could absorb the energy of his foes.
Hiroto noticed these changes as well and said ,"I see that you've gotten even further into assimilation. You'll be able to draw out even more power from your soul and your progress to power will receive an even bigger growth factor. It seems that the points on your tsuba correspond to this connection. I have to ask, what is this new power of yours?"
Apollo without a second thought said ,"This."
Immediately, he spawned another Akarui into his left hand. But it didn't have a weaker energy source, it was the exact same.
Hiroto smiled ,"You're able to put that same katana into multiple places at the same time? Fascinating."
Apollo felt something extra ,"Wait a second."
He felt that Akarui was resonating with him somehow, like it was telling him further what this ability was.
Apollo started feeling out the soul steel of his katanas and shaped it before his very eyes. He extended and retracted the length of them.
Apollo smirked ,"I can also seemingly do this."
He started summoning water and creating clones of himself, each of them holding an Akarui.
Hiroto gasped ,"This is very creative, I like it."
Cias smiled from the sidelines ,"Could you change the shape of the katanas so that they can be totally different weapons or is that too much?"
Apollo said ,"I can try."
He gripped the soul steel and extended the handle so that it was close to the spear that Cias had.
Apollo spoke to him ,"It seems that I can only shape it in shapes that are equivalent or close to a katana in shape. Other than that I can manipulate the side of the components as I need in every situation."
Hiroto said ,"I think that training with multiple weapons like before would be very good for your development. Weapons that connect to what Akarui can do, of course. Creating an army of yourself that could all wield different types of Akarui and also have different styles would be next to impossible to fight against for a lot of people relative to you or even a comparable bit stronger than you in terms of strength. I also think that learning to dual wield would be helpful."
Apollo spoke ,"Actually I've been playing around with that thought, I've been creating a Spirit Weapon of my Akarui as well as summoning Akarui so that I could use both."
Hiroto smiled ,"I've never thought of that in all my years, sometimes it takes a young person like yourself to come up with something like that. Maybe even your soul enjoyed that idea so much that it helped you with the process and gave it to you in an upgraded form. Fantastic."
Apollo smiled ,"Is that even possible."
Hiroto laughed ,"Anything is possible."
Hiroto clapped his hands together ,"Here's the game plan. I want to brush you up on the skills of duel wielding even more than you already are and start you on the path of creating your own martial art, I want you to create a name for this martial art. As long as it's not stupid, it won't be vetoed. I will also be working on increasing your power even further, of course."
Cias said from the corner ,"Then let's get to it!"