As the school ended, Alen went to a mountain top to train.
When he reached the top of mountain, he took a deep breath and blowed a whistle, after a minute or so a beautiful black horse came running.
"Hey Duke how are you" Alen said to Duke the black horse
"I am good but why you did not came here yesterday. I was bored" said Duke
"Nothing, I was just tired yesterday" said Alen suddenly Duke asked "How was your date with serena "
Alen replied "we are not together anymore and I don't want to talk about it".
"Ok it's fine " Duke said frowning
Others may think Looking at Alen and Duke that they are both mentally disabled but it's a strange ability of Alen that he can communicate with any beast in the world.
"Now you can remove these contact lenses" said the Duke.
As Alen removed contact lenses strange color of his eyes were highlighted in his husky face. His one eye was fiery red while another was violet the same color of thunder. Suddenly he remembered a memory with his dad.
He was 5 year old and his dad was looking younger too. His dad said "Remember son, no matter how close someone is to you never show them your eyes it's a secret between me and you. So promise me that your real eye color will remain hidden"
"Yeah, I promise you dad" replied Alen
Present time....,
"Hey Duke, I want your help, my awakening is only six week ahead I want be a mage" Asked Alen
"Hmm..., there is a way but it is used by beasts so I don't know how much can it help a human" answered Duke
"I will do it, I don't care about anything I just want to become strong" said Alen in an inspiring tone
" Ok, so this is breathing technique we beasts use, you just have to sync your breathing with natural Cosmo energy flow. In starting you should do it as an exercise but later on you will be able to do it as naturally as breathing. That's how we beasts do it" explained Duke
After hearing explanation Alen sat in lotus pose weirdly controlling but he was not able to sense any mana but he consistently was sitting for two hours.
"Stop all your senses, don't smell, close your eyes, try not to listen to everything don't feel anything. You will feel it " said Duke
After half an hour Alen was able to feel an energy entering his body and slowly he started adjusting to the natural flow. His body was felling refreshed as he was sleeping fro some hours.
After 1 hour he stood up and said to Duke "Now I know why mages look so refreshed all the time."
He made a exercise regime that he will workout for two hours straight pushups, pullups and squat with rocks as weight and then rest for one hour by meditating.
He did first round by running for 1 hour straight, well it was just walking at high speed to be honest. Then he did 5 pushups, 1 pullups, and 15 squats then was tired and started meditating.
In next round he found instead of tiring out he was able to do more, he did 6 pushups, 2 pullups, and 16 squats and he also ran with higher intensity.
A smile came to his face and he thought 'I found unlimited training glitch now I can grow with unlimited potential'.
After another two rounds he found that his stomach was empty and it was not usual hunger it was like he was fasting for a day or two.
He asked Duke about it and Duke replied "yeah, it's common. That's why we beasts eat a lot of food and grow to a very large size. I think you should increase meat in your diet because most of the meat eating animal eat a lot during their learning phase."
"You mean carnivorous and omnivorous beasts" asked Alen
"Yeah that what I said, these human and their stupid terms for everything" Duke said in annoying tone.
"Fine, I am going home will return Tommorow in morning with lots of food" said Alen
"Ok but come early, I don't have any friends except you so it feels lonely here". Said Duke in sad tone
"Fine, I will be here correct at 6 am in morning so you don't feel lonely " said Alen and he started moving towards his home while Duke also went to jungle.
Upon returning to his home, Alen went a meat shop and bought a lot of chicken, fish and eggs from his pocket money. Then when he checked his bank balance in his phone it said $1.11
After reaching home he stalked all meat, fish and eggs in refrigerator and went to his room.
In his room he removed his shirt and looked at mirror. His body was lean there were no drastic change but it looked like he trained for a month or so to achieve this.
In his mind Alen did some maths and thought If in one day I was able to progress comparable to a month's progress of normal human in these 42 days I will be able to do what a normal human trains 3-4 years to do.
I will become stronger and so strong that no one will able to bully me and I will not only protect myself but also people I care for.
Later when his dad called him for dinner and they sat together, he found some strange changes
His dad enquired " have you eaten something different today or maybe did someone gave you something"
Alen answered "No dad, I just started working out calisthenics and nothing else."
"Oh, very good it's good for you" his dad added
Why was Cosmo energy is coming out of his son' body he is not a mage was only thought that was running in his dad's mind
Later they finished lunch, Alen did dishes and went for sleep as he knew every day from Tommorow onwards was gonna be hard.