Holding the wooden sword made from platinum oak in his two hands, he
took up the basic middle stance and regulated his breathing.
"Tsh!"
He swung down the wooden sword from overhead with a short yell. The
thud of a heavy impact rang out and the log with a diameter of thirty cen
quivered to its very core after being hit on its right.
Feeling the pleasant feedback from his hands, he took a step back and
swung the sword down from the left side this time. Next, the right side,
then the left again. After striking it for as many as ten times, everything
vanished from his cognizance aside from his own body and sword, and the
log as well.
The practice Eugeo goes through each night was to execute these
downward swings from left and right for a total of four hundred times. He
does not carry out any revision for the complex styles taught during the day
exercises, like what Raios and company were doing earlier. That was
because his partner, and mentor as well, Kirito, said that there was no need
for it