Noah Orion's POV.
"From today onwards, Sir Thaldrin is going to train you.", I said as I looked Thaldrin was prepared with what people call a baseball cap.
'Edgar was not here.', I noticed.
"Alright all of the physical stuff and weapons art are going to be taught by me and the magical stuff will be taught by Lyra. Do any of you have a problem?", Thaldrin asked.
They all looked stunned.
"Thaldrin Vordan, wants to teach us who would disagree.", Thane said.
"Yes" the other also agreed.
"Alright then start running.", he said as we all started to run.\
'This is going to be hard.', I thought.
'I am wearing about 50 kgs weight to make sure my weak body gets stronger.', I thought in my mind.
We started to run around the training ground and running and running.
I could feel my body getting weaker every second and this time. I didn't use Qi or mana but just let my body feel the weight for the fast time.
At Lap 50, I could see everyone getting slowly tired and lower level started to fall off but I still continued running with proper form.
At Lap 75, I felt my body starting to give out but the others were still able to run with proper form but were getting considerably slow.
Suddenly, as I was running, the fatigue hit me but as I pushed myself forward, I could feel something happening to my meridians expand.
The middle meridian near my diaphragm started to send energy to the other meridian in my body making it grow in size and the magic around it is also protecting it safely.
'This is good. I can cultivate Qi and run which will make the meridians grow stronger.', I thought as I started to run faster and started to use [World Qi Gathering Technique].
"Alright stop, all of you.",
Thaldrin said after we have done over 200 laps of the training ground.
'I could feel my internal energy has increased by 30 days which was quite a lot for a short amount of time.', I thought.
"I have seen all of yours battle style and things you lack in.",
Thaldrin said.
"So, I am going to tell you how to fix it.", Thaldrin said.
"First is Thane, you use an axe but you rush forward and gets beaten first.",
Thaldrin said.
"Ahm, yea how can I fix it?", Thane asked while brushing his hair.
"Why change it? Use it to your advantage.",
Thaldrin said.
"How?",
Thane asked.
And Thaldrin started of ways he could trick or use that hard headed personality in a fight and turn it into his advantage,
He then did that with everyone.
At-last it was my turn.
"Young master, can I call you your name in training?", he asked me.
"You can call me anything you want.", I said to him with a smile.
"Alright then Noah can you show me some basic sets of moves with your sword?",
Thaldrin asked me.
"Yea", I said as I took the wooden sword from the rack and took my stance.
I then went forward and showed him a down strike
Then, I stabbed the air and thrusted it.
Then I slashed the air in-front in a straight line.
And then swung the sword upward.
"Ok, now can you show me one of your Qi moves",
Thaldrin asked.
"Sure.", I said as I put some Qi in my sword and used
[Heavenly Demonic1st blade: Three ferocious fangs]
I used it and three fangs of reddish black colour formed and teared the air in-front of me.
"Hmm, I know what might be your problem?",
Thaldrin said which shocked me but I understood that there was always something missing I was feeling.
"Your moves are great but your lack in fundamentals",
Thaldrin said.
As he said that it was like a drop of water falling in the river, it sends ripple throughout my body and I understood what I lacked was made up by the insane amount of Qi I had. I had never learned martial arts properly but I had just continuously practiced it and mastered it which must have made me a lack in fundamentals.
'I need to fix it immediately.', I thought.
"Sir Thaldrin, can you show me a proper slash, stab, thrust?", I asked him
"Sure."
He said as she took the wooden sword from my hand.
"Alright.", I saw him exhale out air.
He immediately rushed forward. He kept the whole body in a single line and transferred all of his force from his hips to his hand and slashed the air in a straight motion.
I was filled with inspiration now.
He then again rushed forward and transferred the energy from his elbows to his hands and stab the air and then thrush the air.
After seeing this I have made up my mind,
'I needed to practice this properly.'
"This is how you do it?",
Thaldrin said but I immediately took the sword from him and started to replicate it.
"Noah",
Thaldrin muttered.
I ignored him and continued to slash the air in-front of me.
I maintained my body in a straight line and transferred the energy from my hips to the hands and slashed the air in-front of me.
"SLASH!"
I messed up the balance.
"SLASH!"
I messed up the edge alignment.
"SLASH!"
I messed up the energy transfer.
"SLASH!
And after 80 times slashing the air, I suddenly felt my meridians align in my body and I was able to slash it in a straight line.
"Yes! I did it.", I said as I looked at Thaldrin.
It was a face full of shock.
"Yes, Noah you did it. Now you have to practice it for thousands of times then you will get it perfectly.", Thaldrin said.
"Oh!", it made me a bit sad but I still continuously then swung it and perfected my technique.
I have finished doing the thousand slashes and my hands hurt so bad it felt like it was about to fall off.
I felt a coldness on my cheek.
"Drink this.",
Lyra said as she gave me a portion.
It was a blue luminous portion.
"Thank you.", I said as I opened the bottle and drank it.
"Thank you, Lyra", I said.
"Should we start the magic lesson?",
Lyra asked me.
"Yeah.", I said as I felt excitement on learning a new type of thing.
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