"Boy we have arrived!" Shadow one yells as he stop running. I look up at the Training Arena to see it as a giant Pentagon! Has to be at least five stories tall, completely pitch black in color with out a single window. Pure white marble floor tiles line the walk way up to a deep blood red door with white and red runes outer lining the edges. A shine starts to produce from the red runes and the door starts to burns a sinister red and the metallic smell of blood reaks from the flames. Shadow one pushes my back as I stumbled tord the flames. "Have fun, this is the my stop oh and don't forget to pay the debt you owe!" As I fall face first into the flames, I pull my arms up to protect my face as I slam into the ground. Feeling the numbness in my arms from I fall I realize that the is no fire anymore just a bitch black room with white floor tiles lining the floor all the way up to a deep blackish red desk. When I approach the desk a robotic voice sounds out "Pick a card for who sent you... In front of you is the five cards that have the ability to call the manager..." Five golden card appear on the table in front of me with each one with a different design. The first one had two sabres clashing, second had a skeleton hand holding the world in its palm, third seem to be a dead ancient tree, forth was hammer slamming down onto an anvil. Last just had a deep black one in the center of the card. "That one." as I point to the last card. The first four other card disappear as the last card appears in the middle of the desk. Two gray card appears below the gold card each with some cryptic letters on each. "Pick your jobs type." The robotic voice sounds out once more. The first gray card say contractor, and the second sparing partner. I instantly point at the second one, two books appear and the robotic voice rings out. "Congratulations for joining the Training Arena as a sparring partner! Because you made that choice you now get a ten percent discount from the shop on the third floor, that is the highest level you are allowed to until you get stronger. Next here are a beginner training book and rule book " A small smokey clear crystal appears right in front of me as the robotic voice continues. "This is a vortex stone, it has ten cubic feet of space that you can use as a storage device. A door will appear to the right of you that will take you a seniors room, after that the senior will examine what your element is and will decide what to do next." With the ending of the robotic voice the smokey black crystal fall into my hand, once I shove the crystal in my pocket some of the darkness fades next to me, when a white marble door appears next to me. I grab the books as approach the door with extreme caution. "I dont understand anything that's really going on, especially with the crystal. What did that voice even mean it can hold stuff? A what element test am I going to take?" I push on the door as I walk forward, I steadily move pass the door. I see a open field with two figures clashing back and for with pitch black stone broadsword. Both figures seem to be wearing a foggy grayish cloaks. The figure to the left speaks. "One final strike! After i'm going to go show the new guy around and take him to his house after the element test." The figure to right responds with a feminine voice "Good I've been working on my new middle tier Martial Art, Senior Brother you better be prepared!" The figure to the right throws away her black stone sword as she start to form weird hand signs as above her water particles start to form and mix to get her into a water sword. She screeches.
"ICE SWORD SLASH"
The water sword instantly condenses into cold frozen ice sword and it flys at a dazzling speed at the other figure.The flying ice sword has appeared five feet away from the figure when he finally reacts and reaches his hard in line to the ice sword as he catches the sword with two fingers! Once she saw this sight she instantly left and the ice sword shatters as he squeezes his fingers."Nice strike but how many times can you do that? Once or twice more and that's it. Its not that practical for you. But in life and death situation that Martial Art may come in handy," as the gray cloaked figure starts to walk over to me. The gray cloaked figure is a middle aged man who seemed to be in his late forties early fifties, with a scar that reachs down this right eye. "Catch" As he throws over a perfect white cloak that some how appears in his hands to me. I drop the books in my hand to catch the cloak and as the books are just about the hit the ground they start floating a foot above the floor. "Hey newbie, my name is senior Yee and you can't just drop you books as if there nothing. These are to teach you how the Training Arena works, look this is the book that has all the basic rules and understanding of this place. look here" He grabs the floating basic rules book and hands it to me with the first page opened. I read the rules as I notice the first two rules are written in black in any the last seems to be written in a deep red color.
RULES
1. DO NOT KILL FELLOW TRAINERS
2. DO NOT BETRAY THE TRAINING ARENA
3. STRENGTH RULES ALL.
I read these rules once over and memorized them. I flip the page to see a deception about the Training Arena.
TRAINING ARENA
The Training Arena is divided into two separate main schools. The first main school is known as Holy Soul, this school main slogan is "Those who have a holy soul with walk the holy road..." This school mainly focuses on establishing connections between different factions and family clans. This school is also the main front of the Training Arena. The second main school are known as Hell Walkers, Main slogan, "If your path demands you to walk through hell...Walk as if you own the place! SLAUGHTER those who stand in your path!" This school is the main back bone of the Training Arena, This school mainly focuses on one personal strength instead of outside connection. Both schools have the same academic requirements, and facilities, such as Blacksmith, Alchemy, formations, etc. Each school has unique points to purchase different resources, Hell walkers have Hell Points, Holy soul has Holy Points and if you deserve a monumental reward then you can collect Soul Points.Once a year both schools will do a tournament to access their students growth.
I finish reading the first book as Senior Yee nodded his head. "Good now you can see the situation better let's go test your element, it's right around this corner." Senior Yee walks me down the court yard and around a stone corner. " Senior Yee what do you mean by elements testing?" Once I ask this question all the air around me freezes. "You can already effect the spiritual energy around you to such a degree and you have no idea what element you are...CANT YOU TELL FROM THE FROZEN AIR! Senior Yee yells the ending at me. "Come on, I'm pretty sure that your element is water and your specialty is ice. There are four main elements, Water, Fire, Earth, and Wind. Each of these elements have specialty's just like Water has ice, Fire has lava, Earth has mud and so forth. Each element can have any kind of specialty so when every you are facing someone and always be prepared for anything to happen, also don't believe because someone's element is W7ater that they cant use Fire attacks. Anyone can use any type of element but the speed that they comprehend the element is based on that element affinity that you have naturally." Senior Yee finishes speaking as we round the stone corner I see a floating clear crystal that was 4 feet in hight and 1 foot in thickness that was emitting rainbow color shine. When we start to approach the Crystal I see a sign that says. "Six Elements Crystal"
"Senior Yee what does it mean by six I thought you said four main elements?" I question Senior Yee.
"HAHA that's because those are the comments elements, the last two element are so rare we dont see them for hundreds of years...They're Dark and light element, the Dark element is the most dangerous element, as all of its power is mostly used for destruction, where light is the opposite, all of its powers or mostly use for healing. Now stop asking so may questions and go put your and and the crystal and try to sense the energy around you, try to feel as the spiritual energy speaks to you." Senior Yee retorts back at me. I put my hand on the crystal as a deep dark blue shine start to emerge from the crystal and it keeps filling until the entire crystal is a deep shade of blue. As I pull my hand away from the crystal I turn around to see a dumbfounded Senior Yee staring at me with his mouth agape. "Did I do anything wrong?" As Senior Yee fixes his dumbfounded expression he scared me as he yells in joy! "HAHAHAHA HOW COULD YOU DO SOMETHING WRONG! YOU HAVE A PERFECT WATER SPIRIT, THAT MEANS UNDERSTANDING THE WATER ELEMENT WILL COME NATURALLY TO YOU!!"
Once this information starts to process in my head the amazement starts to kick in I start to become greatly excited. "With a perfect water spirit I'll be able to become stronger and find out who killed my parents." As I think about the torment of the darkness I endured and the scenes that I saw. "Come now" Senior Yee says as he starts to walk out of the room. "We will first go to your house and have you settle in and then tomorrow morning we will have you go straight to the martial arts hall to pick out a cultivation spiritual manual to train in, right here a map of the of the Training Arena, this is the residential floor, it's a spatial room so the room itself is hundreds of miles long because it was condensed from the outside world, dont worry about all that for now and here we are your house." As senior Yee brings me to a stone cottage that only has two rooms, both filled with nothing beside a stone bed and table, some simple cook wear and a restroom. "Thank you Senior Yee for everything you done today." I sincerely thank Senior Yee for everything. "Ha dont worry about it I'll leave you to settle yourself. As Senior Yee excuses himself.
Once I finally relax and eat some food I start to try and digest everything that happened today."First it was Shadow 1 who now I owe 100,000 gold coins, I dont even know how much that is...After was that weird fire he pushed me in and that room with the robotic voice. Right the vortex stone!" I reach into my pocket and pull out a smokey black crystal. "I wonder if it's the same as with the six elements crystal!" I start to try and feel the spiritual energy in the stone, as I start to focus a bright white ten foot cubed room. Once I made a connecting with the room I felt as if I could always access the room with zero work. "Anazing now I wont have to carry anything with me like these books, I've ready the beginning of the rule book so let's the basic Trainer book." When I first open the book I was stunned by the writing on that page.
Body cultivation system - EXTREAMLY DANGEROUS! CAUTION WHEN PRACTICING.
"What should I do... I will read it to see if I should practice this dangerous cultivation.
Body cultivation system is broken into three main categories that strengthen your physical body. To practice this method, one must force ones inner potential out. The easiest one is by experiencing life and death situations, after is to temper ones body with natural treasures or temper ones body with the power of the elements! Each and everyone of these methods are extremely DANGEROUS, only one in ten may had success but the one who succeeds will be reborn to have a body as powerful as a sharp weapon. "First I will read about the national treasures."
BODY OF TUNGSTEN
First: Skin refining, broken into 4 parts. One much absorb strengthening treasures for the skin.
Bronze skin, Initial step, Skin shines a bronze color.
Steel skin, early step, Skins shine a steel color.
Diamond skin, advanced step, Skin has a
diamond like shine.
Jade skin, peak step, Skin clear as a polished jade.
Second: Muscle refining, broken into 4 parts
Bronze muscle, initial step
Steel muscle, early step
Titanium muscle, advanced step
Tungsten muscle, peak step
Third: Tendon refining
"I cant train this, it take way to many treasures for me to afford. After I read about the element section. It's the same besides it has you use the elemental power in the air to absorb in to skin, muscles and tendons. But if I do this then I will limit my self to only using the element that I refine my body with... I most likely would find this technique easier because of my pure water spirit but let's the out the last one, the life and death is said to
be the strongest of them all by far.
THE WAY OF THE GLADIATOR
One must put their life on the line and fight with everything they have to fight until you have nothing more to give. To put your self in front of the fire and withstand the flames, to shower you body is the blood of your enemy's and as you succeed your body will under go the refining process. As I look down I am stunned to see that there is only one part listed.
Skin refining. Broken.
First. Jade skin Initial step.
These two sentences stun my mind! "Body jade body if peak for the skin refining for the treasure body!! The strength of this technique must be insain and to bad they only have the first part...." I keep thinking about which technique to choose if I should do the Way of the Gladiator of if I should do elemental, until the memory of the darkness appears. "HAHA THAT'S RIGHT! I NEVER HAD A CHOISE BUT NOW I WILL BECOME THE STONGEST AND I WILL AVENGE YOU MOTHER AND FATHER!"