“Phew,” Ellie breathed lightly, lowering the wooden sword in her hands.

“Wow...” Minhyuk exclaimed in surprise. The destructive power that Ellie had displayed was so overwhelming that even Minhyuk, who was usually focused and preoccupied with food, could not help but gasp in awe.

“I will teach you four moves in total.”

“Yes!”

“After I teach you the moves, you have to repeatedly strike the wooden puppets with those moves. You only have one week to master them.”

“I understand,” Minhyuk answered, and Ellie began to demonstrate and teach him a set of movements. The moves were simple: a stab, an indiscriminate sword slash, a quick step back and a strike going down. The way that NPCs trained the players was usually quite monotonous. It was made that way so the players would understand the contents of the training and would be able to follow and learn them easily.

[You have mastered the basics of Ellie’s Swordsmanship.]

[Please repeat the movements to train Ellie’s Swordsmanship.]

[An invisible training progress has been created.]

[Your training progress will remain invisible for a week.]

“What does the invisible training progress mean?”

“It means that you can’t determine it.”

“Can’t determine?”

“It will depend on the amount of effort and perseverance you put in the training.”

“Aha,” Minhyuk said. Although Ellie only explained it briefly, Minhyuk was still able to understand it. What it meant was that the power that he could exert using Ellie’s Swordsmanship would depend on how much effort he...