Chapitre 6: Training

By then he wasn't home anymore and spent most of his time exploring the forest around the village, it wasn't very big from what I heard from others but I never made it to the other side.

My mom didn't mind too much because she knew I wasn't like other kids, so I had a lot of freedom.

She only asked me not to go into the forest too much because there were many dangerous beasts there.

And of course it's the place I stayed the most!

My appearance has changed a lot, my hair now reaches the middle of my back.

My entire body was marred by lines of muscle and huge veins, the thickness of my fingers running down my arms and legs.

But my biggest differential was my wrists, they are very thick, from the hands to the shoulder, they were the same thickness.

I think from swinging that piece of broom so much.

Now I'm going to do some training to keep my eyes open.

I know it sounds ridiculous, but whenever someone attacks or an object is about to hit us, our first instinct is to close our eyes.

And I didn't want to die because of such a stupid mistake.

I went deeper into the dense forest, contrary to the imagination of many, a forest was not an open and easy place to pass through, there were all kinds of plants and vines with thorns everywhere, the ground was full of sharp stones with spikes. broken trees and I could barely see five meters ahead.

After all, my body was flesh and blood, so if I fell on something sharp or nailed myself on the thorn of a poisonous plant, it would be the end of me.

But after several months passing through here, I already had a good path through the forest and knew which was the easiest and safest place to pass.

After a few hours of running through the woods ignoring the loud noises around me, I finally arrived.

It was a small lake, maybe the size of a football stadium, but the waterfall was huge, maybe over a hundred meters high. The sound of water hitting rocks made my ears ache.

The lake didn't have very big fish, the biggest I've ever seen in it was about three or four meters long, which I thought was quite small considering the size of the kings of the seas that exist in this world.

The biggest predators are upstream from the lake into the forest.

And of course I've never been there, after all I'm not some kind of protagonist, I don't think that suddenly running away from danger I'll find a magic sword with some kind of superpower.

I took off my clothes, got naked, and approached the shallowest part of the ravine.

I was still tens of meters from the water, but the water that splashed me was already very strong.

I forced my eyes that until then were half closed to open.

Immediately when the water drops hit me, I felt overwhelming pain in my eyes as if they were knives, I groaned in pain and jumped back and rubbed my eyes several times.

"Fuck, this isn't going to be easy, I'm still too fragile.

I got up again and now more carefully I opened my eyes slowly, but only a small line, I immediately felt several twinges in my eyes and started blinking non-stop, but the pain was bearable.

I stayed that way for several hours until night came, then I turned back and walked a little way into the woods to a big old rotten tree, climbed the bare wood to the top and climbed into a small hole the size of my body. I think it was an anthill, but now it was empty.

I sat down and got the bunch of leaves from a hole in the tree and got a bunch of ripe, almost rotten fruit and lots of dried meat and devoured as much as I could until I felt like throwing up.

I lay down on the flattest part and closed my eyes, I felt extremely tired mentally, my eyes and head hurt a lot.

But I ignored it and forced myself to concentrate by imagining it in my mind.

In the darkness of my mind, I imagined myself facing three men, none of them had a face and had ripples all over their bodies as if they were just smoke.

All of a sudden they will all rush at me at the same time, one of them will punch my face and the others and the other two will kick my body.

I quickly jumped up and stepped on the outstretched arm of the one who punched me in the face, drew my sword and quickly slashed horizontally across his neck, his head rose in the air and he disappeared.

The other two will react quickly and attack me from both sides, I turned and one of them kicked me to the right with the sole of his foot throwing me on top of the other.

I quickly used the back of the sword to take the impact, feeling a huge shock run through my body, although there was no pain, it still felt like I was taking an impact on my body.

I held the sword with one hand and put my "feet" on the blade, with the momentum I flew to the other and cut from top to bottom.

I sliced from his middle finger across his chest until I cut it completely in half.

As one of them dissolved into smoke, I turned towards the other.

We stood still for a second, then I moved forward.

I let my body fall forward and when my face was about to touch the ground, I quickly kicked my left foot in front of me and pushed with all my strength my heel off my right foot that was behind me.

With an impulse I instantly got in front of him, I slipped between his legs and cut both ankles, as he fell forward I stood on tiptoe and used all my strength and cut forward from top to bottom catching his right shoulder until the ribs.

argh...! I woke up on the tree trunk completely wet with sweat even more tired than before.

Since I started doing mental training I feel much different than before as my mind is more centered and I can think and process things more clearly.

I think the feeling of constant adrenaline that my mental training gives me keeps me always alert as if my body is always ready and my mind is always a little awake.

When my breathing calmed down, I lay down in the tree again and fell asleep.