The next day
Talus had woken up early; for some reason, he felt different. His realm didn't increase, yet his body felt different.
Rushing out of the room, Talus went straight to the clan's training arena. Reaching the arena, he went directly to the weight area. This was part of the training that measured one strength. The purpose involved lifting a bolder and throwing the boulder. A peak warrior of the body transformation could easily lift 300 pounds and throw the boulder to about 15 yards. In contrast, a warrior at the first tier of the spiritual condensation could lift a 500 pound bolder and throw it 40 years. Clearly showing the difference in realms.
Looking at the 300 pounds boulder, Talus used all of his strength and lifted it. To his surprise and compared to before, the 300 pounds felt light today. Did something change? Talus wonder. Lifting the bolder and walking to the throwing area, he threw the boulder, which landed at 25 yards, using all his energy.
Talus was lost, knowing everything he knew; he did not know of any warrior at the peak of the body transformation realm that could do this. Talus went back and picked up the 400 pounds bolder and also threw it 15 yards. Next, he moved to the 500-pound boulders. This was difficult for Talus to understand; unlike the other two boulders, Talus had to put all of his efforts and threw it. It landed at the 5 yards.
Next, Talus ran to the speed course, quicking running thru the timed course, he found out that it was similar to his past times.
" Hmm, it seems like my strength is just lower to a warrior at the 1st realm of the Spiritual condensation, while my speed is still at the peak of the body realm."
"Anyhow, I am the strongest person in the body transformation realm." Talus didn't know whether to laugh or not, the strongest in the body transformation! It was a joke!
Shaking his head and making these thoughts disappeared. Talus finished his training and decided to head over to the main lecture hall, especially the library,
The main lecture hall was where the student would learn, at times, clan elders and guest elders would appear and lectures. Most of the other times, it would be the instructors.
Today, Talus was not going to any of the lectures; he was going to the library to selected martial arts. Once a Martial artist was able to awaken their spirits, they would then choose a specific martial art geared towards their spirit. For example, if a person had awakened a fire type spirit, they would have the opportunity to pick out a martial art based on fire.
But, faith was not on Talus's side as he only had to pick the arts that were not designed explicitly for a spirit type.
Reaching the gates, a guard should watch; noticing Talus's arrival, he stopped Talus. After checking on him, the guard gave him a badge that would allow access to the first floor of the library,
The library had three floors, the first floor was the basic, the second floor was more of the spirit based arts, and finally, the three floors contained the high-level skill.
" hmm, since I know that my body strength has reached close to that of the spiritual condensation realm, yet my speed lacks. I need to select skills that can work and also improve my weakness."
Talus quickly started looking for the best skills. an hour later, Talus walked out of the library and went to his living area.
He had selected three skills, was stone-aged finger, the second was the howling cries of a wolf move sets, and lastly was the shallow shift move sets.
The stong-age finger and shallow shift were high-grade earth skills, while the howling cries of a wolf were a mid-earth grade skill.
The stone-age fingers had two attacks, one that fits perfectly with a warrior at the body transformation realm, this involved hardening of a warrior skin at the tip of one of their fingers. A fully mastered stone- finger could cause damage and break the bones of a peak eight body transformation warrior. The second attack was more geared towards the spiritual condensation realm, where the warrior would be able to use their spiritual qi and release a beam from their finger.
The shallow shift was a moving technique, and lastly, the howling cries wolf was a move set that contained three moves, two towards fighting and one towards movement. These were called the Howling punch, Swiftness of the wolf, and the strongest mad wolf craw.
Not wasting any time, Talus started practicing; he began with the stone-age finger, and then about two hours later, he practiced the Shallow-shift.
Slowly midnight had arrived, and a tired Talus had gone to bed. Similar to last night, a dark cloud had covered his body.