Chapter 7
Today I will train using the knife until dark.
I would have really liked to be able to secure food, but aside from wild grasses and berries I had no means of securing meat. So I decided to practise “knife throwing” in parallel with the knife forms.
Normally it would be inefficient to practice more than one thing when it hasn’t been mastered to the point of becoming a skill, but the current me had very scarce means of survival, so I wanted to have a “trump card” however meagre.
First of all, before I forgot, I had to carefully trace and repeat the knife forms I had been taught yesterday.
Feld told me that since I had a good foundation in Body Strengthening I would be able to learn them quickly as long as I could use the forms, but I wasn’t so optimistic, so I decided to trace the forms perfectly and speed up the acquisition as much as possible.
In the first place, a “level 1 skill” was not an easy thing to acquire.
If you could sprout a bunch of skills after a few days of practice, the average person would have learned a large number of combat skills by the time they grew up.
So, just how good was a “level 1 skill”?
Even if that woman wasn’t familiar with close-quarters combat, at the very least she had some common sense “knowledge” to offer.
For example, a child could attain “Sword Arts Skill Level 1” after attending the town’s Sword Arts dojo for several years and would finally be able to learn it at the age of 12-13 when the body was ready.
From there, to get to “Level 2”, you had to pile up training at the level of actual combat, making life-or-death battles your profession.
Raising it to level 3 would bring you to the level of a career soldier or knight who has served for more than a decade, enabling you to call yourself a “warrior” unashamedly.