Chapter 4: Learning the Basics
“Ok so the both of them can be stronger than the rest”
“Can’t you just identify it?” “I mean like a daughter of a goddess like you should be able to identify what it is called am I right?” Zorn questioned. Zorn was curious why she couldn’t know what they were called yet she was a daughter of a goddess.
Cetri frowned “Because i don’t have a good enough level to identify them which is the reason why it can be stronger than the rest.”
“To identify it you’ll need to go to the legendary forge of dwarfs” “Dwarfs are masters of crafting and mining” Cetri explained “They love to find new ores, craft weapons, and explore dungeons”
“The god that created dwarfs was called Aindur, the god of crafting” “My mother was good friends with Aindur so i know him pretty well, we could either ask him to identify it, or the dwarfs”
Zorn nodded “alright, once we finish training martial arts in the academy we’ll go straight to the dwarfs since we don’t know where Aindur lives” Cetri laughed “That’s easy Aindur lives in a volcano” “Volcano?” Zorn asked “Why live in a volcano?” Cetri clicked her tongue “To melt the ores that normal lava can’t” “The volcano he resides in have their lava stronger due to Aindur’s divine aura and magic” “The ores he has are simply legendary things that even a million souls cannot buy” Cetri said proudly. It was clear Cetri admired Aindur’s work.
“Alright then we’ll get a dwarf to identify the cultivation techniques while we can ask Aindur to create us something” Zorn smiled. Mr.Lor suddenly shouted at him “Zorn hurry up!” “Why are you taking so long?” The teacher was irritated having to wait for Zorn “You’re keeping the class from learning!” “Ah sorry Mr.Lor” Zorn said nervously.
Academy Martial Training Grounds:
“Alright find a place to sit and and get comfortable while I tell you the next instructions” Mr.Lor said. “Alright let’s see..” Zorn said while finding a spot to sit in. Zorn chose a spot 1 meter away from everyone. “Alright i see you guys found a spot” Mr.Lor said. “Now your next instructions are to meditate like how i taught you lot” “To meditate, you must enter in a half-dead state and clear any thoughts or emotions and find your soul” Mr.Lor explained “now that i told you again hurry up and meditate”
Zorn closed his eyes and felt his soul after 3 seconds. “An ordinary soul will be the color white while genius soul’s often are red ” Zorn frowned “then how come mine is golden?” Zorn’s soul was a dazzling, bright, brilliant gold that could be shinier than a gold coin” “What if your soul color is golden?” Zorn asked as he stopped meditating “Golden symbolises a god-like power but no one from this mortal world has ever gotten a golden soul even legendary figures only had the soul color of red” Mr.Lor explained “Why do you ask?” Mr.Lor questioned “Ah i just heard of a golden soul so I guess it would be almost non-existent in our world” Zorn said nervously “Ah, I see then” Zorn let off a bead of cold sweat “If I was found with a golden soul, who know what they might do to me” Cetri intervened right after “So you have a golden soul that’s considered quite good in the god realm” “your’s is only probably as shiny as a golden coin right?” Cetri said “Nah, mine is shinier” Zorn said puffing his chest out “What!?!?!” Cetri exclaimed “That’s only what legendary gods and goddesses have!” Cetri felt envious towards him “Hmph I have a silver soul only myself and my mom has a golden soul as shiny as a gold coin”
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“Then i’ll be a legendary god as I ascend to the heavens!” Zorn said with determination. Saying that Zorn had 2 things to accomplish. 1, destroy the humans that killed off our tribe, 2, ascend to godhood. “I’ll begin meditating again” Zorn said
30 minutes later
“Alright you guys have gotten in touch with your souls so let’s begin training your body so your body doesn’t explode due to the explosiveness of attacks that martial arts have” Mr.Lor said “Everyone except Zorn wear 10 pound leg weights on each leg, and arm bracers on each arm while Zorn will wear 100 pound weights” A rhino shouted “How come we have to wear 10 pound weights!” “I bet i can wear the same amount of weights the new kid has!” the rhino said proudly. Hearing this Mr.Lor sighed “alright, go ahead if you want anyone else wants to wear 100 pound weights?” he questioned … “Guess not, okay begin running around the school for 100 laps under 2 hours” Mr.Lor explained “get going now!” Everyone wore the weights and began running.
After 50 laps 10 beasts gave in while Zorn was not even breaking a sweat. If a tired out, legs aching beast saw this they would want to cheat and break his legs they could only question how can he run 50 laps with 100 pound weights on without breaking a sweat? The rhino that said he could wear 100 pound weights is so tired his eyes were bulging out and sweat came down profusely “Damn why’d i have to say i could wear 100 pound weights? Fuck!” the rhino cursed in his head. Meanwhile Zorn was thinking to himself “Wow 10 people already gave in, this is not even exercise how can they be so tired?” he questioned himself. Cetri sighed “ You’re a minotaur Zorn, you boast muscles and endurance that most beasts don’t have idiot and you are stronger than a ordinary adult minotaur remember?” “Ah right I forgot moooo” Zorn laughed. It’s been only 1 hour and Zorn already finished. Mr.Lor was surprised he finished so quickly. Doing 100 laps with 100 pound weights can be tiring yet Zorn only broke 1 bead of sweat finishing 100 laps.
“I’m surprised you finished already, oh well just wait till your other classmates are finished too especially that rhino” Mr.Lor said
“Alright Mr.Lor” Zorn said and sat down waiting for the others to finish. 5 people finished in 1 hour and 10 minutes, 15 in and hour and 30, and 1 rhino finishing in 2 hours exactly. Seeing the rhino finish last made Mr.Lor chuckle. Mr.Lor walked up to the rhino that was about to throw up and pass out “Well are you still sure you can wear 100 pound weights running 100 laps?” “No, sorry Mr.Lor for saying I could” The rhino said ashamed of himself. “Ahem, well only Zorn has the body strength and endurance to handle the shock of using a powerful martial arts move, while the rest of you will have to keep running laps till you’re half as good as Zorn”