บท 4: 4 - Training
Inside a forest , a young man could be seen doing push ups while sweating all over his body.
He was 5 ft 11 inches tall , had a well toned body which had low fat percentage. He had sword like eyebrows and short spiky pitch black hair and looked quite handsome. He was William who had already spent one month in his new body and new world.
" 999.. 1000! " Just when he completed the last push up , Wiliam collapsed on his butt with a tired smile on his face.
" Hahaha.. I finally completed 1000 push ups in one go !! " he could not help but yell as he was quite proud of this achievement.
Well he had all the right to be proud because in his past life , he could not even complete 20 push ups in one go. This new body was in better condition but still one month ago,William could barely do 30 push ups.
So now the 1000 in one go were possible only because of his daily training and breaking his limits while gritting his teeth and ignoring the burning pain he felt in his muscles due to the accumulated lactic acid in them.
William had completed most of the training schedule for today as he had completed 1000 squats and 50 km running before. He had taken short breaks in between but the fatigue was clearly accumulated and he could not feel his arms properly anymore.
Still William had his sword practice remaining and would start after two hour break. Such heavy training daily could be said was very hash on the body but William was totally fine with it as in One Piece world , the human body had great potential plus he had unlocked his chakra which increased his vitality even more. Thus it wont take long for William to regain his lost stamina.
William took few steps with his wobbling legs and sat down on the ground after reaching near the nearby thick three. He laid his back against the bark and enjoyed the feeling of light wind touching his skin which produced a cooling sensation due to his sweat.
' System , how is my current raw body strength compared to Luffy? '
' 9% !'
' Sigh.. I still have a long way to go!'
Wiliam could not help sigh when he heard system's evaluation.
He had discovered this function when he casually asked system to compare his raw strength with Luffy a month ago. At that time it was not even two percent. So it could be said that William had come a long away in just one month of extreme training.
Still he could not bring himself to rejoice because he knew that Luffy was still weaker than his counterpart who would set sail in two years and some months. Besides he could not even imagine how strong characters like Ace , Sabo etc will be.
William had long since decided that he would have train like a madman if he wanted to surpass those guys in future. William's combat strength would improve when he started training ninjutsu , Taijutsu etc but he still wanted to increase his raw strength as much as he could for two main reasons.
First would be that it would be a shame if he did not focus on increasing his physical strength. After all this body had a lot of potential to grow. Besides more physical strength and speed meant more power behind his taijutsu and swordsmanship.
Second reason was very simple. Chakra was combination of his vitality and spirit. William knew that his cells would gain more vitality after breaking through limits and eating lots of nutritious food. And his spirit would be tempered with ignoring the pain while breaking limits and future battles. So William would be a fool if he was not interested in increasing his endurance which also meant increasing his chakra capacity.
Now he could understand the reason behind enormous appetite of the strong characters in this world. After all their cells would need more energy as their endurance continued to increase plus the faster metabolism of their body. William himself was experiencing increase in his appetite daily as he continued to break his limits and become stronger.
* Growl*
Suddenly his stomach started producing growling sounds. William patted his stomach and started thinking about what he should eat for today's dinner.
Right now it was time for lunch and William had a large bento with him which was prepared by Makino san. He had come to respect that lady in this one month because she was kind enough to lend spare room to him for free and even cook the dishes he caught in bulk from the sea every morning.
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Time passed and William once again stood up to continue to train. His stamina had already recovered after resting his body and eating nutritious lunch.
William willed with his mind and suddenly an iron sword appeared in his right hand. He had stored some in his inventory which he found from Grey Terminal.
William held the sword with both hands and started to practice the basic Kendo Swing.
* swish*
The sound of cutting air was produced with each of his swing which he practiced with all his might. William's focused eyes only looked in front as he continued to swing without rest.
Still he could not help but smile as he heard the now familiar sound of system notifications continously inside his mind with each swing.
' Primary Swordsmanship +1'
' Primary Swordsmanship +2'
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He had discovered this phenomena one month ago when he had just swung sword for the first time.
Apparently his system could help him master skills without facing any bottlenecks but he was required to fill the experience bar of each skill before breaking through to the next level of the skill.
William was naturaly overjoyed with this piece of information because he could save a lot of time. William was a normal person in his past life so naturaly he had no experience in wielding weapons or using jutsu. So it was a great blessing for him that he could master these skills with just repeated practice.
When he had unlocked the swordsmanship skill with his first swing , the system had told him about the realms in swordsmanship of this world.
They were -
Primary swordsmanship
Intermediate swordsmanship
Advanced swordsmanship
Sword Master
Sword Grandmaster
The normal people could not even advance to the second realm in their whole lifetime.
Wiliam was shocked at first when he realised the enormous amount of experience he needed to level up to intermediate swordsmanship skill.
He needed 200,000 and it needed to be mentioned that with a single swing , William only gained +1 exp. And the swing cant be casual because to gain exp , he needed to swing with full concentration and all his might. Apparently during battles , his skill would be sharpened more quickly thus gaining more exp but William still was not confident to battle with the ferocious beasts in this forest.
Swinging the sword for long time without rest caused great fatigue as each swing had his full concentration and power behind it. William would lose feeling in his arms daily but he wont stop swinging the sword because only after reaching his current limit , he could push through and break it.
One more reason was that , after just breaking his limit , if William continued to swing his sword then he would gain +3 exp with each swing. His mind would go blank and swings were all based on instinct. Thus he gained more muscle memory which made it easier to swing the sword next day.
So William had no choice but to become a training maniac as the feeling of becoming stronger daily was too addicting for him.
After completing more than 1000 swings, Wiliam's fatigue was accumulated so he collapsed on the ground gasping for air. He was feeling pain all over his body especially in his arms but William ignored it as he tried to smile after looking at the current experience bar of Primary swordsmanship skill.
18,670/200,000 !
He still had a long way to go before breaking through to the next level but William was greatly satisfied as he could feel that his comprehension of basic sword movements had increased compared to before.
It was strange experience as William only practiced the basic swing all the time but his comprehension for all 5 basic sword techniques incresed with each session. Anyway he welcomed it though because he saved a lot of time.
William was too tired so it was difficult for him to keep conscious as the urge to sleep was continuously hitting his mind. Still William stood up with great difficulty and started to head towards the direction of Foosha Village barely feeling his legs.
He had chosen a small clearing of the forest which was not in the territory of any of the beasts but he still could not let his guard down and fall asleep there because it would not be a joke if he was assaulted by a beast in his sleep.
Besides tonight he planned to sneak into Goa Kingdom to steal money. So he wanted to sleep in the bed as soon as possible to wake up in best condition for the job. He had trained for one month and was confident that he could run away from guards and even defeat some if he had no choice but to fight.
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The Basic Sword techniques -
Chop
Slash
Stab
Sword Draw
Block
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