The axe blurred through the dark until my arms went numb. Thousands of swings. Hours bled away, counted not in heartbeats but in failed repetitions.
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[Daily Quest #0]
Standard Axemanship Practice (5/5)
100 Downward Chops (100/100)
100 Horizontal Slashes (100/100)
100 Downward-Diagonal Slashes (100/100)
100 Upward-Diagonal Slashes (100/100)
100 Tail-End Stabs (100/100)
Mana-Channeled Axemanship Practice (4/5)
1 Downward Chops (1/1)
1 Horizontal Slashes (1/1)
1 Downward-Diagonal Slashes (1/1)
1 Upward-Diagonal Slashes (1/1)
1 Tail-End Stabs (0/1)
Time Remaining: 1 minute 03 seconds
Reward: 10 Mastery Points
Failure: ? ? ?
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The System had been kind enough to give me additional training wheels for the Mana-Channeled swings. Since I had a total of 115 mana now, it had limited the Mana usage per swing to 20 Mana, AND it had also made it so that my mana channeling was cancelled if my form was imperfect.