After that he chose to listen to her, he would train much harder than others. She told him he can use this room for as long as he want, free of charge.
He left Snow with Cathra, found out Lisa took her as an apprentice and they will also be gone to train her somewhere. He bought a lot of food, he intended to spend some time in the training room.
They started the gravity at six times. From morning until night he would train body control movements. Most looked like yoga but some were more body building style.
Like the upside down pull-ups? He had to hang upside down with his feet, his upper body constantly parallel to the ground. A bowl of acid was on his chest and he had to pull himself up and down by bending his knees.
Doing this in six times gravity was a nightmare, for a week he did these different poses and moves without complaint. He never slept and only took a few minutes rests to eat.
His body was sore all the time and he had set himself a rule, only use healing once every two days, no matter how sore his body was. He realised that although using healing magic does not eliminate his progress it does slow it down.
Not using it ofcourse would render him unable to continue with his training for longer so he had to use it but rarely. This entire time Athena was just sitting there watching him, her body did not even twitch once.
Okay that enough, she said as he was doing his push-ups, he had doing them for 2 straight days without rest, his arms felt like they were melting but he did not even wince.
Although you haven't reach the level of body control I want, I think it's time we begin with martial arts. You have a hand to hand combat manual right? He nodded.
Good, show me what you learnt from it. He took a stance and followed the movements in the manual exactly as they are shown there yet he could still feel the dissonance.
He frowned, it feels wrong, he could tell that even before but now after all that training, that lack of synergy was made even more apparent.
It was a slight problem, he could tell that much but he didn't know what the problem was. He continued as she watched him. Can you tell me what you doing wrong?
If I knew I would've fixed it, I'm following the manual exactly as instructed. Exactly, that your problem. What? The manual was designed after somebody elses body.
Although human bodies are largely similar there are minor differences especially in the mana veins. In order for a martial arts to evolve into a skill it must resonate with the mana veins.
That manual follows the mana veins of another. Ofcourse if you continued training with it you would've eventually reached resonance and become an adequate martial artist but you would never become a true a master.
You need to adjust your stances in order for it to resonate with your mana veins. Normally if you did this by yourself it would've taken you a long time through trial and error but since I'm here, it will be much quicker,be grateful brat, I'm your savior.
Oh thank you holy Jesus. Who? Never mind. She clicked her tongue,give me your hand. He did as she said. He felt a pulse of mana through his entire body. Your mana veins are strong and wide, that good, means you can use more mana at a time.
Okay now repeat those stances. He did, a golden stick made of pure energy appeared on her hand. She used to adjust his stances, from his feet, hands and even waist.
The adjustments were not large, barely a few centimetres or millimetres but everytime she did he felt things click like a perfect key to a lock.
The movements felt lighter and easier, he continued following the stances and she was adjusting the minor movements he was doing wrong.
His punches and kicks flowed after that, each punch felt atleast 2 to 3 times stronger,not because he gained more strength but because he was using the strength he already had more efficiently.
However repeating the movements exactly like she instructed down to the correct millimetres was extremely hard, especially with the gravity weighing on him.
She had lowered it to only 2 times the normal gravity. He felt like he had more control of his own body, it made repeating the stances much easier but it was still not perfect.
However she demanded perfection, her stick changed on the fourth day, it still looked the same but had the properties of the whip from before.
Everytime she tapped him pain flooded his body. He continued with his training like he did not even feel it. The more he trained, the less imperfections he had in his movements.
A week passed, for the past week he had been doing the same punch and kick movements nonstop. His muscles felt strained.
He was breathing heavily with sweat dripping off his body. Two days into the second week of this repeat he recieved the notification.
" Notice, skill-basic hand to hand combat created"
He stopped, finally he said with a heavy breath.
For the first time in a week he took a rest.
System interface
Name: Noel Clark
Class: Holy envoy of the underworld
Rank: F
Level: 11 ( 15 032/ 20 480)
Mana: 1430
Stam:1370
Vit: 106
End:137
Str:85
Agi:72
Int:143
Charm: 26
46 Free stats
Affinities: water(low earth grade), fire(low earth grade), wind(low earth grade), earth(low earth grade) darkness (low sky grade)
Skills:
Healing magic F ( transcended grade)
* Healing hand E( heaven grade)
* Holy field F( legendary grade)
Barrier magic E ( transcended grade)
Barrier control F( mythical grade)
Heavenly eyes E ( mythical grade)
Perfect memory E ( heaven grade)
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Death touch (-----------------)
Martial skills:
Basic hand to hand combat G ( earth grade)
Attributes:
Beloved Child of fate
- fate stands at your side, probability of favourable coincidences increase
Call of the shadows
- The underworld summons it envoy, death follows, chances of being thrown into deadly situations are likely to occur
Moniker: Dark Prince
It seems he got 2 stats on endurance and 1 on strength, atleast he benefited from that torture.