She said she was fine with a smile. It was not long before they reached home. They called their father and mother and reassured that they were alright. Ben helped sister cook food today and after eating and ensuring she was upstairs, Ben dashed outside. After what happened in the morning and the information he got from the teacher, he could not sit still. All his soreness was gone and he was having a new energy in him. Soon he reached the place where he practiced and started to practice the various exercises and poses along with breathing patterns in the ‘Agastya Parvam’. He practiced for about 3 hours. He concentrated on making his form and breathing pattern correct. He did more than what he did yesterday. Soon he was wheezing on the ground. After a while he sat up and drank his entire bottle of energy drink. Then he left for his house. He was sore all over again. He reached his house and had a bath. He did some studies and homework. By that time his parents came. Ben and his sister came down. The entire family discussed what happened today. They had their dinner and soon they went for sleep.
The seminar for beast masters happened the next day. There were still beast masters coming to the city for the seminar. The brother-sister duo saw a lot of exquisite animals today as well. They were moving to the north western part of the city. The seminar was for 10 hours, with some speeches and demonstrations as well. The beasts and their masters were moving to that part. The traffic in air, land and water were congested.
The classes also were happening normally. Ben and his friends discussed about the scholarship system. They all wanted to get the scholarship. They knew that it was a very difficult endeavor. There were many geniuses in their school. In their class itself, they had some extraordinary students. Ben had considered passing the exercises from the book to his friends. He had to come up with some story before that. He wanted them to succeed in getting the scholarship. Soon they had the martial class which was more intense than yesterday. At the end of the class, they had the mental fortitude section and the healing section. For Ben this healing section was a blessing. He was having soreness from the exercises at home. That intensified after the activities at the martial class. This made him physically tired. The mental fortitude class tired him mentally. Thus, the healing section was really divine for him and everyone else. What he and everyone else did not know was that this was just the prologue of what was to come.
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In the coming days, the final students noticed that the work load for them in the normal classes were increasing. The martial class was also equally intense. Ben found it very difficult to balance his day with studies, martial class, home works and his extra curricular exercises. But he did not give up. He continued with his schedule without much change. He sacrificed some sleep. He went through his timetable and began to find and eliminate activities which wasted time. His parents and sister also helped him adjust to the new intense workload.
Soon, Ben found that the pain and soreness from his exercises was decreasing. Not only that, the soreness after the martial class was also decreasing. He was also getting accustomed to the mental fortitude test as well. It was having various circumstances in it. Sometimes he would be a dying soldier. At other times he will be a hunter who was running away from a beast. The test was called mental fortitude test. But it contained test for investigative capabilities and strategizing capabilities as well. Ben found these tests moderately difficult.
During this time there was an announcement by the mayor of the city. He apologized for the happenings on that day. He did not explain what happened. But he said that some relief measures and compensation would be given to all those who were affected. That issue was buried by the politicians, military, and the bureaucracy.
In the northeastern part of the Gyagar republic, in the city of Pergos, there was an issue. There was an accident when a mining was happening. Fortunately, nothing happened to anyone other than some animals around that place. It was thanks to the Martial Entity, Whalon Evano. He was able to contain that accident before it caused problems. But an area of around 800 square miles of civilians had to be moved out because that accident caused the flora, fauna and all the objects within that area were decayed. It caused a lot of speculations and media attention.
Like this, two weeks passed. Ben continued with his schedule. His entire body had become robust. His stamina had also increased. Today was the sixth day of the week. When he was coming back from the school, he saw an announcement from the school. It was regarding a competition that was happening in the martial class and it would be counted for evaluation as well.