Michael, who disintegrated Shamrock's attack, looked at Shamrock while using the Technique Mimicry of Hercules Method, which showed the muscles that Shamrock used in releasing that kind of slash, Michael saw the muscles contract and expand as he moved, noting that there are no wasted movements in Shamrock's swing, showing his precision and control, Michael then controlled his muscles, shaping it in the way as Shamrock's muscles formation, it enhances the power in his swing.
Shamrock, who did not know what his brother was doing, just turn his focus at the recruits where he saw that the majority of them have passed, since almost all of those that wanted to be a God's Knight, are prepared by their respective families, with their strength equal to a commodore rank in the marines.
"Good, it seems that majority of you have the starting strength to be selected, but those who proved themselves worthy shall be invited to God's Knight, do not be complacent on your current strength as the God's Knights duty required perfection and strength to accomplish our missions," Shamrock announced, while the other 3 God's Knight stepped forward, selecting recruits for themselves, to be a part of their squad.
Then, Gunko, Saint Killingham, and Saint Sommers selected their respective recruits one by one, until only Michael have not yet been called, which earned Michael looks from other recruits that were now part of squads.
"Saint Thorne of Shepherd Family, step forward," Shamrock said, which surprised the others, considering that Shamrock had not selected from their batch. Michael, who was called, stepped forward,
"Even with Shepherd's Last name, you could not deny your heritage as a Figarland, making you a direct line in duty, you are officially recruited into my squad, which consists of Gunko, Saint Shepard Sommers, your cousin, and Saint Killingham of Rimoshifu family," Shamrock said towards Michael.
"In this squad, the training load would be much higher than what they are giving towards the others, but your position after finishing your training would be higher," Shamrock added.
"When does the training start?" Michael just asked, not caring about the higher training requirements, but wanting to start training to learn how to use haki.
"Now," Shamrock said, where he just summoned an abyss and marked Michael the same mark as every official trainee of God's Knight, as it is something that would be needed to be able to teleport them into the official training base.
Shamrock summoned an abyss, taking Michael with him, towards a much larger island, with a castle, Michael then used his Observation haki to detect the entire island, which seems so huge that Michael could not see its shores and where would it end, he also noticed something strange there were pillars in that was placed around the place of their castle that emits an eerie aura.
"Let's begin then," Shamrock said, making Michael break his concentration from observing the entire island.
Shamrock just summoned Cerberus's true form. It then attacked Michael, but Ingrid, Michael's sword, defended him by itself, transforming to the real form of Byakko, a large white tiger that have a white smoke in its shoulders, with it's claws being the as sharp as those meito swords, even without haki, Byakko then attacked cerberus, slashing its entire body, and controlling wind and thunder that countered the fire of cerberus.
Shamrock, seeing that Michael was not fighting by himself, jumped towards his weapon, which immediately transformed into a hybrid between the Cerberus and the blade, Byakko, then it flew towards its owner, where it transformed into a hybrid of Swords and Byakko, he then grabbed his sword, not intending to give Shamrock a headstart to their fight since he saw all of his possible move.
Michael, who got his sword, then started seeing blue patterns, where Shamrock would swing or attack, and Michael already conceiving the future of those attack, in a blink, Michael saw more than hundreds of millions of combination where it their fight would result, and he saw the possibility that he won.
Shamrock, watching his brother retrieve his sword, immediately launched an attack, swinging toward Michael's right side. At first, it seemed he was merely testing Michael's full skill and strength. However, Michael, who had already anticipated the swing, countered without hesitation. He thrust his sword straight forward, aiming to disrupt Shamrock's momentum. Shamrock, reacting swiftly, redirected his swing mid-motion, parrying Michael's stab with fluid precision.
Michael, who already knows what is next that happens, just follows the motion of Shamrock's parry, to get back his sword's momentum, where Michael immediately used his crash magic to destroy the fire output of Cerberus.
Shamrock then increased his strength, making his attacks faster and faster, which disrupted the moves Michael was seeing, going into overdrive, with his body, trying so hard to increase its strength to match Shamrock.
Michael then started focusing on speed, compressing his muscles as he swung his sword against Shamrock, copying the moves of Shamrock, and integrating them into his fighting style. The moment they started, Michael just used his simple slashing techniques, similar to how Kenpachi fights, except for exchanging injuries, but now, Michael incorporated the Fencing Sword techniques. The longer this fight continued, the faster Michael matched Shamrock in pure swordsmanship technique.
Michael, while in the state of total focus on fighting Shamrock, has not realized that his entire body was improving by itself, matching the strength of Shamrock and also increasing its healing capability. It reached the point that as he was getting injured by Shamrock, his wounds immediately closed up, showing an incredible healing feat that even though it was not to the point of the God's Knight, but still commendable.
Michael, who just started his training this first day, was now in the eighth hour of his spar against his half-brother, a soon to be commander in God's Knight. Shamrock, noticing the time, finally decided to end the entire fight, increasing his power that was enough to make Michael faint. Michael, who was saw Shamrock, starting to moved, immediately felt the danger that he was in, and started giving all of his strength. First, he talked to Byakko's spirit, summoning wind and lightning element, in the whole sword, which Michael added his Crash energy, charging the entire attack.
"HELL'S REBELLION!" Shamrock said, attacking with one of his special moves, but toned down in strength towards Michael, who, seeing this, slashed his sword towards Shamrock.
"All Crush: Storm Break," Michael shouted, attacking Shamrock with a move he just invented; both of their attack reached a stalemate, until both disappeared, leaving only the two combatants, where Shamrock and Michael were looking at one another.
"GREAT, I HAVE CONCLUDED THAT YOU DESERVE THE FIGARLAND NAME, YOU DID NOT EMBARASS OUR FAMILY," Shamrock said, while Michael just looked at him weirdly.
'I am a Shepherd, dumbass' Michael thought.
The two then teleported back to Marijoa, in the office of Shamrock himself. Michael then excused himself, planning to go home, but was interrupted by Shamrock.
"I will be seeing you, Brother," Shamrock said, bizarrely smiling at Michael, which Michael just looked at him and leaving without saying anything.