The next morning Linsang woke up full of joy because he knew that this was the day he’ll become stronger than ever before.
He dressed up and went downstairs to eat breakfast.
I looked into the kitchen and I saw my mom cooking breakfast it was about 5 am I knew that my father was already at the workshop since he is a carpenter and right now he’s working on something big. Even we don’t know what he’s working on.
As I entered the dining room I bode my mother a good morning she brought the breakfast to the table and we started eating.
Mom(Pelexa):”So what did Dogg teach you yesterday?”
Linsang:”Well not much taught me how to gather some mana from my surroundings.”
Mom:”Mana, isn't that the energy that’s inside everything?”
Linsang:”How do you know?”
Mom:”You’re forgetting that i’m a librarian and a nurse, I read books about that subject.”
Linsang:”Can I borrow some books about mana?”
Mom:”Sure you can, you are my son for Nidala’s sake”
Linsang:”Thank you for everything, I have to go mom, see you later!”
I ran to the clearing and saw the old man sleeping against a tree and I saw some markers lying near a dummy. An evil plan came up in my head and I thought of making it happen. I sneaked to the dummy grabbed the marker than I came as silently as possible to my teacher and started drawing on his face with the marker. BUT then I felt a poke in my back It scared the hell out of me. I turned around and saw My teachers sadistic face grinning at me I fell on my butt since he was too scary.
Dogg:”Linsang you know that I hate surprises? Especially if someone tries to sneak up on me, so Linsang that would be 50 push-ups and not the fast ones but with a two seconds descent a one second hold and a two seconds ascent without resting otherwise you will start over.”
Linsang:”Nooooo! Why that many? I can’t even do ten!! You sadist!”
Dogg:”For that last word it will be 50 more.”
He said with an even bigger grin across his whole face.
Dogg:”Now begin before I add 10 more!”
Cursing my dumb idea I started doing push-ups and it was alot heavier than anything I ever did, at 20 I felt how my arms started to shake like crazy and it got worser and worser until I reached 50 and I almost collapsed. But I had to do another 50 and that seemed like ALOT! But I had no choice whatsoever and had to go even further beyond.
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After 30 minutes of struggling
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I lay on my back and felt like I was paralyzed. My breath was heavy, it felt like there was a mountain pushing down on my chest.
Dogg came to sit next to me and said:”I’m impressed, those other 50 push-ups were a joke but you did them. And before you hear some compliments from me, you have to start meditating now. I’ll tell you how to gain mana faster, while you meditate.
I followed his indirect order and I sat down to meditate with alooooot of struggle.
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He told me to direct the mana flow in my lower dantian which is my abdomen and my middle dantian which is located near my heart.
It’s really hard to do, my mana flows only to my lower dantian and I cant split it up to redirect a part of the mana to my middle dantian.
Dogg:”Stop forcing your mana. You need to let it flow without you forcing it.”
I opened my eyes and thought about what he just said. Then after a few minutes I asked:”How do you let it flow without forcing it?”
Dogg:”Let it flow like a river, the mana is the water and your thoughts are it’s riverbeds they can split the river in two and lead it to another place without forcing the water to change direction.”
Linsang:”Ok I will tr… do it.”
I closed my eyes and imagined the scene of a river within me while trying to gather mana to flow inside of me. I gathered mana from my surrounding earth and lead it to my lower dantian and split it up almost in half and I lead the other part to my middle dantian. But I failed I tried again and again but I couldn’t let it collect the mana.
After another hour of practicing I began to freak out, since I couldn't let my middle dantian gather mana. I was confused. I asked Dogg:”Do I have to learn to gather mana in my middle dantian right now?”
Dogg:”You should learn it as soon as possible, because more mana means better endurance which you will need for my training. And if you can’t gather it right now, practice it every morning and evening till you master it. If you don’t master it, I won’t teach you hand to hand combat.”
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After 3 weeks Year 951 (AN: Linsang is still 5 years old, just needed a time period)
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Linsang was training in the moring like his teacher told him, it was a fierce battle to be able to gather mana in the lower and the middle dantian at the same time.
I was sitting in my bedroom practicing to master my teachers mana gathering method.
I gathered mana from my surrounding again and split it and let it flow like a river.
Something was feeling different from all the times I tried before, something warm next to my heart.
My middle dantian began sucking mana like a hungry Grodsaar eating it’s prey.
After a while it began to lessen the absorption rate at which it was going. But that was really scary when my middle dantian began taking more mana than I ever gathered before I felt such… power, I felt like I was reborn but this time really powerful.
I succeeded when I wanted to give up on everything and that is what my teacher meant when he said “Do no try”.
I was happy with my achievement and went downstairs to wash my face, as it was sweaty after all my efforts. I walked in our bathroom next to the staircase, I closed the door and began pouring water to wash my face when I saw something on the back of my right hand. It was a…..