A test. Lucius groaned a little. He quickly got in the game however, and began analyzing the best way to act. He acted quickly. He activated his training sabre and confronted the challenge.
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The dummy was pushed back by the force of his force push, another hologram attacked him from behind but he used a backwards high kick. The hologram of a blaster bolt flashed by him, he dodged and rushed towards the assailant, blitzing the "enemy" with a swift flash of his sabre. He had to conserve energy, the training course had just begun 2 minutes ago.
He sensed a boulder-or rather a hologram of one-falling on top of him. Force Leaping out of the way, he force leaped again onto a higher ledge. He was immediately granted with a series of blaster bolts for his efforts. Shocked and panicking, he deflected a couple, was grazed by a few, but managed to dodge the rest and blitz the holographic opponents. He then found himself at a rapidly opening and closing door.
He hesitated, before rushing through it, thankfully managing to get through it one go. A holographic blade swung by his nose, barely touching it, if it was real, it would have nicked a few flakes of his skin off, but no real injury. He managed to leap back, then waited for the blade to pass by again, and leaped past it in the split second he had to act. The hologram however registered a little bit of his skin when he leaped through, and if it had been real, he may have barely lost a couple skin cells, but still was a notable failure.
He continued, dodging and moving quickly past the holographic pendulums, his reflexes improving as he did so. He swiftly moved through the mimicked Flamethrowers and decapitated a mock enemy soldier.
Sprinting, he quickly made it through many mock booby traps and narrowly avoided two mimicked boulders falling on top of him, barely. Panting, he began to feel strain. He had used his speed significantly, and despite his capabilities, he was burning out of energy fast. He began moving at a more sustainable pace, avoiding a mimicked blaster bolt barrage through relying on timing rather than pure speed. He then used his force push to knock the force dummies off their feet, and continued his pace, moving past them and decapitating them quickly with a wide sweeping strike. He stuck to one-handed moves, disliking how uncomfortable two-handed moves were. He was caught off guard by a flurry of mimicked blaster bolts, but then transitioned to the Shien reverse grip and deflected many of them back to their attackers, with the rest narrowly missing him. He jumped at the holograms and cleaved two in half with one wide sweeping motion using the reverse grip, then switched back to the normal grip and quickly dispatched the rest with decapitations and quick cuts.
He continued at his pace, but he was getting exhausted. He leaped up, deflected another flurry of blaster bolts, rushed through pendulums, was shot from all around him and deflected the bolts, jumped out of the way of another pendulum, then he was finally hit by a mock blaster bolt in the chest, ending the simulation.
He panted heavily. He had strained himself to his limits. That was brutal... He thought to himself. It was clear the obstacle course would not be easy to complete. He was down on the ground, panting, too exhausted to look at how far he had made it, only worrying that he had disappointed his new master with his failure.
