Soren frowned slightly.
"Second form technique…?" he muttered under his breath.
The words stirred a memory.
He suddenly remembered something Instructor Ivory V. had told him when he visited her in her office.
Back then, she had explained that learning the first form was relatively easy.
But from the second form onward, things became far more difficult.
—claiming that only nobles families had techniques that could teach what needed to be learned to move forward.
He also remembered something else.
She had offered to teach him a technique if he agreed for her to tutor him.
At the time, Soren had suspected something.
And now, hearing Buttermint mention it again, that suspicion only grew stronger.
From the second form onward, the techniques were learned.
Not purely naturally gain by the Give and Take relationship one had with a Shade.
But that raised an even bigger question.
Every Soulbound warrior had different abilities.
Different manifestations.
Different powers.
