I found out how difficult training can be when my mom started training Luke and me.
"Boys we are going to start basic combat training today, it will still take a few years before you awaken your core and find out what kind of core you will have more until awakening, I will teach you how to wield various weapons like swords, axes, spears and the bow it's like moving around in combat to defend and attack more efficiently."
"You are still too weak to start training with weapons, so let's start with exercises to strengthen the body, the first and most important aspect of the body is physical resistance without it you will not have the resistance to train efficiently and fight for it. long periods of time."
"Let's start with the race. Today you will follow me to learn the way."
"Understood?"
"Yes! "We both responded together and started following my mom.
Even though I wasn't running at high speed I couldn't last long, after half an hour I already felt like I wouldn't be able to last much longer. At the end of my endurance, it reached a limit before I could no longer run my mother stopped the race but there was still a lot of time left until the training ended.
"I'm disappointed in how long you guys lasted. Especially with you Ulric, it looks like you're dying, it looks like extra training will be needed. I'll give you 5 minutes to catch your breath and drink water to start the next exercise".
After I recovered a little, we started a series of exercises interspersed with very few breaks to finish with another run until noon, and to intensify my suffering Luke always finished the exercises before I did. Causing me to earn a reprimand is a threat of more exercises.
In the afternoon I was able to rest after lunch but I had to go back to running several times until the sun went down, but I didn't have to do other exercises although I don't know why I won't ask, I feel that if I do that, I'll gain more training.
That was my training routine for the next four months, it was tedious and challenging. But during this period, I noticed something curious and irritating about Luke, the nonsense between the physical condition between us only grew during training he started doing more sets of exercises than me.
And his rest time was shorter than mine, it seems he didn't have a physique, much better than mine at the beginning of the training, but he recovered faster than I am and that's what creates such a big difference between both of us.
I asked my mom about it because I realized she wasn't very happy about it.
"Mother because you look like you are upset with the result of the training."
"Dear Mom, you're not upset about your results, you weren't bad at training, you were worried about Luke's. When a child trains the feces, you can see some characteristics in her physique that can serve to guess the element that she is compatible, in the sky if I noticed that her body has more flexibility and explosive strength this leads to the probability that you can awaken an affinity to fire or wind."
"In Luke's case he has shown abnormal recovery which may be that he awakens the element of life which may not be a good thing for him which will likely have an empty core."
This explanation made me think that I wasn't bad in training, but it left me with a different doubt.
"Why would the element of life be bad for awakening? He is not a good element."
"Honey has neither bad nor good elements, each of them has aspects that can be considered good and bad in the case of the life element he is great for a mage's cumin he can walk as a healer or in a supporting role but for a fighter he is only good when accompanied with another element because he would use as a support for his other element most methods for a fighter who only have the element of life tend to take a risky path."
"The element of life does not have many techniques and offensive arts that combine with it making the warriors that awaken it have more difficulty in combat, when compared to warriors that has other elements, the most used paths are cumin that focuses there is regeneration more for Compensate for the lack of offensive power they have a more suicidal fighting style without caring about damage to their body by combat, drugs and techniques to make the most of the brute force of the body, these warriors have a greater tendency to die in combat or retire more silky because the body can't withstand the stress of combat, the second most used choice is blood warriors who use the vital force of their blood as a weapon, the style comes from an adaptation of the arts of water element warriors, more as the amount of the warrior's blood is limited makes them try to use loot from their enemies during combat, but doing so can generate a lot of side effects, many fall into a state of l hear why they absorbed the blood of the enemies."
"That's why I'm worried that Luke awakening just the life element isn't a path with chances of success compared to other elements. Even though he could focus on his aura like a fighter without elemental energy, and that is unlikely to happen, most fighters who have an element focus their combat style on it."
"Should I talk to Luke about this mom?"
"No. And only one possibility that may happen in the future now you should focus on training, soon we will start training with weapons. I will teach you about the elements and Anna when the awakening is closer."
"Why isn't Anna training with us now?"
"Because her body is more fragile than the two of you, she will start her physical training when she turns 13 or 14, she will probably generate a stellar core so her body is not ready for physical training right now."
"Mother when do you think I will awaken my core?"
"Honey don't be afraid to grow up, your awakening will probably be before your 15th birthday, Anna and Luke woke up before 16 because only one of your parents woke up before 17."
"Can you wake up before you turn 14?"
"The closer the awakening is to the 14th birthday, the more talented it is. That for the human race there are other races that the age of awakening is greater or less, but for a pure human the awakening before turning 14 years old can only be achieved by external help and depending on the method and ingredients used it can cause impurities or deformations in the core that will make it difficult to advance in the future, only using divine power or divine natural treasures can speed up core formation without negative side effects."
"Now and dinner time is after you're going to sleep, because you're going to have a lot of training tomorrow. "
My body training continues to focus on improving mileage, but soon my mother added weaponry.
"Boys today I will start teaching you how to fight with weapons. Let's start with smaller weapons like the dagger, it's more than just a weapon for fighting, it's a tool for hunting, harvesting plants and building."
"Its most striking features is its low weight and short range unless you throw it at your target. Anyone with the slightest bit of intelligence will learn the basics of how to use a dagger."
Luke can't help but ask." Why the dagger is so important if guards use spears and shields. "
"Luke just because guards carry spears and shields doesn't make them the best weapons. What makes a weapon better is how much you're fighting style is compatible with it. The importance of the dagger is not only present when it is your main weapon but because it can be your last weapon before dying. "
"Both warriors and magic users carry a dagger. As I said she is a useful tool, but she is also the last defense before dying. Because it is much more effective if you find yourself unarmed by your enemy or without mana to use magic for you to draw a dagger than it is to use unarmed combat."
"Thanks to the small dimensions of a dagger you can hide it in your clothes and make it ready for a quick draw. I will teach you the basics of the dagger and only after you learn the art of the dagger will we move on to other weapons."
With that, my routine had the addition of training.
For the next few months, we only used daggers against a piece of log. Not that this is boring or bad, in fact I really enjoyed learning to use a dagger and because of the flexibility I had a good result in training.
But that doesn't detract from my physical training, and I continue to get extra training as a punishment for having a lower-than-standard result for Luke.
With that our training became a routine that changed after I reached 12 years of age. First, we had the addition of Ana in training even though she basically trains alone.
The second thing was that I and Luke finished learning the basics of using the dagger, sword, mace, shield, spear, crossbow and bow. I'm not very good with maces but other weapons I'm passable. Well, that's how I was classified by my mother.
Luke is good with a sword; a spear is a shield. Ana is focused on physical training, even though it is extremely likely that she will be a normal mage in the future, having good stamina will only help her.
But the news isn't just that, Luke and I started having combat training against each other, because fighting my mother can't be called combat because she doesn't use weapons but a piece of wood to hit us when we fight, it always ends up with me and Luke running and getting beaten until he can't run anymore. It's her laughing and making fun of our sorry state.
I've been going to the forest to hunt animals and harvest plants putting survival lessons into practice, of course before I could go to the forest, I had to pass my mother's test which was basically her chasing me with a piece of wood through the forest, her justification was that she was testing my ability to escape the forest alive should I ever find myself in danger.
I'm really looking forward to my awakening, hopefully I'll have him before I turn 15, but I'm afraid that because of my soul I might disappoint my mother a lot. For her I will have a great talent because she and my father are strong.
The stronger a couple is, the harder it is to have a child who will be as talented as their parents, I believe this is nature's way of balancing.