Hayden went to bed but he didn't sleep very well due to the story he heard. Sarah knocked on the door as she opened it to enter the room.

"It's time to wake up" Sarah said

"5 more minutes" Hayden replied, not paying attention to who he was talking too.

"If you stall anymore you won't be able to get up from the bed."

"… Okay"

Hayden quickly sat up and rubbed his eyes together. He wasn't a morning person in the slightest, he only got up quickly since he accidentally said 5 more minutes like he always does and wanted to draw attention away from that. He saw that the two blades were lying against the wall and convinced himself that yesterday wasn't a horrible dream. He still hopes that being summoned to a different place was a dream itself. He looked at Sarah who was waiting on him to get up. They both walked to the dining room to eat breakfast.

"How are you Hayden? Did you get a good sleep?" Liri asked with the same positive tone as she always had.

"Yes I did." Hayden replied trying to make small talk.

"Um… Hayden. I hate to ask this so early in the morning but, do you know about the swords?" Sarah asked in a gentle tone.

"What about the swords?"

"About what they are."

"No. No clue, some guy in the cave just gave them to me a disappeared." Saying too much could land him in a lot of trouble so he held his mouth shut about knowing Ark.

"Oh okay, that's good. Eat up, you and Liri are going to practice in a bit."

"Oh."

They ate their breakfast which consisted of meat of an animal that Hayden didn't have the guts to ask and what looked like bubble tea. After, they switched clothes and walked out into the backyard which had dummies made of straw. Liri wore the same clothes she did when Hayden saw her outside of the house and Sarah had the disciple outfit on. There were spare male clothes in the house which Hayden switched into. They weren't flashy but were made to feel comfortable. Liri brought out her book and started chanting something.

"Sarah, didn't you have to go to Mistral to summon?" Hayden asked.

"That was to summon you and this is just low level summoning."

A Burny and a Sparky appeared after two circles on the ground lit up due to Liri's chanting.

"Sparky, Burny and Hayden attack the dummy." Liri commanded.

The battle screen popped up in Hayden's view again. This time it showed the Burny and Spark as his allies. This would be the first time Hayden actually swings a sword and so he waited for the Burny and Sparky to attack first. The slimes attacked with by biting but didn't actually rip off anything from the dummy. Hayden felt Liri's command to attack, just like the first encounter and ran forward to attack. He swung his right sword first and then his right and then his left. It felt like the swords were telling him how to move. He spun around to attack, and felt some power go to his legs. He jumped high in the air and attacked the dummy as he went down. He jumped backwards as he landed and landed near the slimes. Hayden felt out of breath but wasn't at the same time. It was a wired feeling like stopping after you spin around. He glanced over at Liri and Sarah and both were stunned at Hayden's display of skill.

"Wow Hayden, that's amazing." Lira complimented.

"How did you manage to move like that?"

"Would you believe me if I said the swords told me?"

Liri laughed. "You don't have to be modest Hayden its fine."

Sarah clapped her hands to get their attention.

"Let's continue the lesson shall we? Try using his brave burst."

Hayden looked back at the dummy he hit and it looked untouched. He felt kind of sad since he didn't make a mark after all of that.

Liri looked down at her book and lifted one had towards Hayden.

"Hayden use Phantom Blade: Rise."

Hayden still didn't get the naming sense of his brave burst but he felt the surge of power and the command to attack flow inside his body. He leapt forward to attack and there was another bright light that shined whenever he would make contact. It was distracting at first but as he continued to attack he adjusted to the light and could see clearly.

"Most brave burst gives the team things called buffs. This is used to strengthen the team but are temporary and will wear off after a while."

Sarah looked over into Liri's book and read Phantom Blade's effect.

Brave Burst: Phantom Blade: Rise

/ combo Light attack, double normal hit count and slightly boost attack

'Number of attack is blurred out? How? He just keeps defying his Holiness' gift.'

"That BB will increase his damage and the amount of normal attack your team does."

"Wait, isn't that rare Sarah?" Liri looked at Sarah with a shine in her eye.

"Quite rare."

Hayden thought about the number of units that could give the team extra hit count and while it isn't a buff limited to only one unit, it still was quite rare. Hayden got a little bit more confident about himself since he got an advantage.

"Now try attacking with the others."

"Burny, Sparky attack."

As the smiles were about to attack a loud sound could be heard from the forest nearby. A black monster came from the forest and appeared in front of them. It looked like a wolf but was black, with red eyes and a purple aura. It was as big as Hayden.

"Sarah, what is that?" Liri asked quickly

"I don't know. I have never seen anything like that."

Panicking, Hayden thought about every normal monster unit he could and the monster didn't fit any fodder monster that Brave Frontier had. This was a new monster.

-In the forest nearby-

A masked figure with black clothes hid behind the trees.

"That's Hayden, and those are the holy blades. If he fails this, then he is not worth of being Karna Masta's disciple."

Not wanting to wait for the result the figure disappeared into black smoke that quickly disappeared into thin air.