After a night of waiting to arrive in Oaraio I realized something, in the game the power of Transference was not available until of one of the Main quests known as the 'Second Dream'.
In that quest entities known as the sentients from another solar system called Tau came to attack and kill off the Tenno, the human counterparts to the Warframes and more specifically the game character that you make for yourself finally appear and that's when tranference is unlocked for the player.
Originally I thought I'd need to stay in the pod to have a full control of my Excaliburs Transffernce, especially since I have no way to walk and I would be in extreme danger if I was kicked out of the Warframe in my crippled state, but turns out I can just shift myself in and out of my Warframe along with the full capabilities of walking as a result.
Though until my spine is fixed I will still use the pod in order to do tranference into the dungeon as I have no clue how dangerous it gets deeper in.
While I was thinking about this I was following Riviera who kept glancing back at me with a look of both confusion and curiosity in her eyes, and I couldn't blame her as I was truely an anomaly in this world.
But soon enough we had stepped outside and arrived in the training yard that was empty at this time of day as most of the lower ranked members of the familia were adventuring in the dungeon in order to increase their stats.
Sitting upon a stump was an old man with long white hair held up in a ponytail and thick beard on his face, he wearing what appeared to be a eastern styled outfit with a singular pauldron on his shoulder while he rested his hands on the pommel of his sword that appeared to look like a katana, I don't know much about this world but it's clear that their must be some parts of the world based upon Asian culture, then again this world is based upon an anime but I digress.
The man stared at me intently before slowly standing up and holding his blade at his side, "You seem very intrigued by him Riviera." The old man couldn't help but say to her.
"Noir…. It's hard to explain what I just saw him do before coming here, but even if he doesn't show promise in his strength without being boosted by Falna, I would personally vouch for him to join our familia regardless." She said to which the old man rubbed his chin with his eyebrows raised in slight surprise.
"He's caught your interest has he? Well if you vouch for him I see no reason not to have him join us, but Loki wants to see what he can do if the Goddess Artemis had vouched for him personally." He said nodding towards the manor as we turned to look at a woman leaning over a second story balcony.
She had some rather tom boyish looks, red hair put in a ponytail wearing some normal looking clothes and holding a bottle of wine in her hand, her face was red making it clear she had been drinking.
"Well come on kid, show me everything you got." He said unsheathing his Katana before taking up a sword stance as he faced off against me.
I waved my 'Exalted Blade' before holding it at my side, "I'll warn you old man besides sword fighting I have a few tricks up my sleeves." I said deciding to warn him in advance.
But hearing that he just grinned, "Then you better not disappoint me kid." He seemed excited for the fight and even though he appeared to be in his late 60's early 70's he clearly had the vigor of a man in his mid-thirties at this rate.
So I decided to come at him strong before I moved in a blur making his eyes narrow slightly before blocking my 'Sword Dash' with ease, but not without making him take a step back as a result surprising Riviera.
Noir was a Level 4 Adventurer just like her and has been one for some years and thus is already on the high end of being a level four with a mix of A, B, and C Stats, so him being pushed back by someone who hasn't even gained any Falna at all is shocking to say the least.
"A good strike and a strong move, but you got to do more than that!" He smirked before breaking through the sword clash by striking my blade up leaving me wide open before he slammed the hilt of his sword into my Solar Plexus sending me flying back before tumbling across the ground and only stopping when I slammed my blade into the ground.
I grabbed at my stomach as if I felt the pain personally and it hurt badly, if it wasn't the Warframe that took the hit I would have definitely been out of commission with that single attack, however since the Warframe did take that attack it shattered its Energy Shield before my body slightly glowed blue as the Energy Sheild slowly enveloped my body once more as I pulled myself up.
"Kid I was holding back with that attack, if I was serious I could have killed you, but I'm really impressed you could stay conscious and get up from that." Noir said as he stroked his beard with a clear look of interest in his eyes.
"Yeah, ugh, I can tell, can you at least let me show off my skills before we end this test?" I asked as 'Sword Dash' was only Excaliburs first skill out of the four natural skills he has and I wanted to show all of them off, well technically the 'Exalted Blade' is his ultimate fourth ability but that's only when energy is pumped into his summoned blade, if not it's just a sword to start out with alone.
"Alright, show me everything then." He said grasping his blade in both hands as he got ready to keep going while Riviera and Loki looked on with interest.
I then slammed my sword down into the ground, forcing the blade upward sending dirt into the air, however this seemed to have been used to signal the start of another attack as javelins of blue light appeared behind me and then hurtling straight towards Noir.
Though surprised he quickly reacted with immense speed that no ordinary human could achieve, not even a master swordsman could be this fast but it was all thanks to the power of Falna bestowed upon mortals by the gods that gave them powers beyond those of what normal people could achieve.
Though as he was deflecting the well over twenty javelins heading his way I began to sprint towards him, not wanting to repeat the same move again I waved my hand over my 'Exalted Blade' as it glowed in the same blue light as the 'Radial Javelins' I had created earlier.
Just as he had destroyed the last one he put his full focus onto me but got confused at what I was doing as I soon preformed a sliding whirlwind spin attack on the ground, it wasn't the attack that was confusing it was the distance.
He could tell I didn't have enough rotational speed to reach him with that attack and I would actually stop right in front of him so he raised his blade to preemptively strike me down.
But what happened next caught everyone off guard as I lifted my 'Exalted Blade' in the air after completing the spin dash move which in turn activated my second ability 'Radial Blind' as a wave of bright blinding light came out of my sword blinding Noir momentarily and causing both Noir and Loki to cover there eyes as a result.
Using this I pressed the advantage and went on the offensive to attack him, however even though he was blinded by that bright flash of light he still had his hearing so without being able to properly see he was able to block and deflect any and all attacks I made before his eyes cleared up once more before breaking my guard yet again and with the same move send me flying away before I tumbled to a stop.
"I must say kid, you surprised me with all of those skills of yours." He says clearly impressed that I was able to put up such a fight with him without any Falna, he then looked up towards the balcony looking down on the training field.
"What do you think Loki? I think he would make an excellent addition to our familia." Noir said as I looked up as well seeing Loki who couldn't help but burst out laughing at everything she had saw.
"My, I can't believe how lucky I am to find a child as extraordinary as this! You passed with flying colors at that, so welcome to the Loki Familia Arthur." She said to me making me pause before I looked up at her.
"I'm sorry Loki, but Arthur isn't my real name, it's a name I just decided to make up on the spot at the time, Artemis didn't try and double check if my name was real name since I know gods can see through lies but I thought it was for the best to call myself that." I say to her as she looks down at me and rubs her chin.
"Really? Then what is your real name if not Arthur?" She asks before her eyes widen as Excalibur is now suddenly holding my true body shocking Noir as well from seeing that.
I then pull off my hood before taking off my helmet to reveal my face for them all to see, "My name is Hayden, Hayden Tenno."
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