"That was an exciting night" Exclaim Sam as he woke up in his room in Maries inn, in a surprisingly early hour for him, at 9 in the morning.
Sam then proceeds to have his breakfast, only to realize that early in the morning means to wake up at 6 am.
-I'm really not a morning person-.
After having a late breakfast, Sam goes directly to the adventurer's guild. In there, the receptionist lady recognizes him and directly gave him his stuff.
"And here are an extra 2 copper coins, the guild is giving this to you for killing a group of wandering goblin in a civilian state, as says in the ||red shirts|| report"
-She must mean about Liam's group-, "Very well, on a side note, what are the requisites for ascending to an iron adventurer?" Ask Sam as he was thinking in rushing to Salas city to officially joining little Peanuts group for his convenience.
"Normally the guild only let you have a chance after a couple of successfully completed F ranked missions, but with the last report, you can skip that. You have to kill tree goblins at the same time or similar feats"
"Doesn't seem too hard, I already did that" Said Sam remembering the goblins he killed on his way to Magda.
"Not wandering, unequipped and wounded goblins, tree armed and fully healed goblins. You should remember that are two ways to upgrade your adventurer grade, an individually type were you challenge the guild mission on your own; or as a party, where your grade are determined by group but doesn't affect your own rank, just like the party that you encounter, only half of them are actually iron adventurers, but as a party they are all iron rank. Listening all of this you want to proceed?"
Being happy for himself because he actually listened without missing anything of that large exposition, Sam replies "I will try to do solo the mission, but I'm not ready, I will come back in a few days"
"Very well, you should go upstairs and find a suitable E ranked mission when you're ready. One more thing, because you are trying the solo mission, you have to give a silver coin as collateral"
"Why is that?"
"There's too many wood ranked adventures, so is a fee to limit the adventurers that want to blindly try, and the guild member is there to make sure that you completed the mission alone, or to guarantee your survival. In case of breaking rules, your silver coin will not be returned, and if the guild member interferes in your mission to save you, half of the silver coin will be taken. If that's all, have a nice day"
"Thank you" Said Sam as he was returning to the inn.
"Wait, the lady told me repeatedly that was dangerous and no go blindly, I better gear myself up" Sam realized as he was looking to a armor shop –I only have my bracer, I need more range and defense-
Finding an armor shop, he orders a full leather armor, costing him a total of 3 silver. –I better start working, my initial money it's almost gone-.It got worse when Sam buys three health potion costing him another 15 copper coins.
Deciding to not buy an extra iron weapon, Sam decided to buy a 2 meters long pole of hard wood, making him poorer.
Back to his room at the inn, Sam feels like crying - Being a prepared adventurer it's so expensive, no wonder all of them forms parties or doesn't have all full armor, being a priest don't sound that bad now-
Sam then starts to undress, leaving only his pants. –With this body, this is the more confortable way of practicing on my own-
"First I will train my body, later I can polish my weapons muscle memory"
While moving and doing some karate katas, Sam starts to remember his early practices…
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"Remember, in this stile of karate, there's two types of katas, the first one is explosion movements, that's it's what we are to begin to practice"
"To do this type of katas, the essential it's the speed of your attack, don't try to use full strength in every movement, only the bare minimum, move freely and in the moment of impact, that when you put all your muscle strength…"
"You are doing your defense wrong; don't put your defense directly in the way of the attack, and put an angle that way the attack gets redirected in some way and you don't have to bear all of it…"
"Regulate your breathing, and exhale at the moment of impact, and if you want, try screaming too. Don't look at me like that, don't you know that if you scream you don't feel as much pain compared to when you don't scream?; it's the same principle, if you scream at the moment of impact, you unconsciously put more strength… its true, do you want to try the pain theory?
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After remembering that, Sam relaxes, he starts to put less energy in his movements, without affecting his speed. After an hour, his movements become nimbler and his defense and attack becomes more explosive.
Huuu…
Sam exhale "I better do other stuff, I should not get tired only doing this" – Too bad I don't have a sand bag, so I can practice my attacks, my style of karate it's the best I have for defense, but I don't believe the same for my attack-
Sam then takes a deep breath and stand firmly, putting hard every muscle in his body, then he begin doing the second type of kata that he know…
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"Very good, now we will began the second type of kata, the muscle flexing type"
"First, the rhythm of the movements, it's not about speed, in fact, it's a very slow type of kata. Take a deep breath for half a second while you are not moving, and exhale for two seconds while you are moving"
"SAM!, you are not putting enough strength, in every moment of this kata you have to flex every muscle of your body, in a high level, I suppose to hit you with a stick in any part of your body or push you trying to mess with your equilibrium, and you are supposed to continue like nothing… but we can't do that type of thing anymore"
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Sam could only keep this type of kata for about 30 minutes –The curious thing about this, it's that the higher the level, you more quickly you become tired, doing it for less time-
"With this type of training, I should be able to retrain my muscles memories"
Resting for about 10 minutes, Sam approaches his weapons, and chooses to start with his pole.
"If I can remember correctly, the trick was…."
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"Now you all officially are brown belts, you all now can start training in weapons, the pole, the double knife and the katana. If you want to reach black belt you are supposed to master the basic of this three type of weapons…"
"Now you will start with the wooden pole, the trick here its momentum, you put strength in one part of the pole, doing more damage in the other end…"
"More circular movements, more speed, look the movements of your wrist and where you are putting your hands, it's not the same taking the pole with your thumb upwards or downwards, every stance takes a specific grip…"
"Low defense, high defense, attack, leg sweep, you have to do a more swift change in these movements…"
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"Now the double knife, put your knifes in both sides of your body, taking the one at the opposite side of your hand…"
"Reverse grip, low defense, high defense, normal grip, double slash, reverse grip, cut down to up, cut throat…"
"Remember that the trick in knife skills it's in the wrist movement…"
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"Now the katana, you can't possibly have one, put we practice anyway with this wooden katana, the boken…"
"Put the boken in the left side of your body with its sharp side upwards, then with your right hand take the handle, twist your wrist so the boken it's now facing downwards, and take out the boken…"
"Slash, take the blood out, take your fighting stance and then rest, the katana it's a one hit kill, remember that…"
"When you slash, your both hands don't have to cut downwards, its better if the right hand pushes while the other one pull…"
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Hu, hu, hu, hu
Sam continue his half practices, karate check, knives only one, pole check, katana missing one.
After hours of practice, Sam is out of breath. "The katana practice will not work in this world; I need to find others form of practice the saber, except for the cutting technic"
-I will do this type of training for about a week before attempting the E mission- Said Sam as he goes take a bath.