"Welcome Micah Reed. Mi casa es su casa."
" La casa es suya tambien." replied Micah as he bowed to 3G.
" STOP!" shouted 3G clearly a little angrily making Kumo wonder what had changed because 3G's mood had gone a full 180 degrees swing.
"Rule one Kumo, an assassin never bows, " said 3G putting Kumo's mind at rest." The first time we met, I arrived during your bow and when you looked back, voilà I was there. A lot could have happened and will happen if you don't cease doing that."
" Oh, thanks for today's lesson I guess. If we're finished, I'm free to go right?" Amidst these words, Kumo was just trying to bring a little humour back seeing how 3G was pissed.
"Second lesson boy is now. Thanks for trying to rattle me but as an assassin learn to ignore jokes. You don't want to find yourself trying to hold in a laugh while spying on a rival guild secret meeting. So if I ever tell a joke and you laugh, we'll go twenty laps. That is my standard for a punishment." He looked at Kumo's face and seeing a straight face and clear composed posture, he said, "You got that?"
"Yes 3G"
"Now I'll want to know all your skills. Apparently according to Darrien, your skills are ripe but Old Josh thinks they still need a bit of polishing and that's why I'm here but of course that is already established but now is the time that you show me what you can do."
Just a few minutes with 3G Kumo had concluded one thing, he was in for a good time since he would be training with the best Grandmaster in the world although he had a tendency to be very talkative.
"So you say the name, then exhibit the skill, " continued 3G.
Kumo stepped up and got into the centre of the compound and said, "Number 1 is silent veil. Not a familiar version I reckon but so you know I got a few techniques, then added some tweaks to them to create the perfect stealth technique." Just after saying that, Kumo went behind a pillar but never appeared the other side. He was gone. Just gone.
Silent veil, a stealth technique made up by Kumo himself after studying a lot of techniques and having trouble choosing the perfect one, he ended up creating the perfect one from the known existing ones. It consisted the ability to walk silently without making any noise or leaving footprints, and the ability to vanish in shadows. At higher tiers, Kumo would possess the ability to mask aura and intent.
3G looked pretty impressed but not that much by Kumo's technique. He then said, "Come out Kumo. Anyone can tell you're standing in the middle of the compound." Well 3G could see as a skilled assassin and being two tiers above Kumo who was just a novice, it was perfectly reasonable.