Pioneer Academy Dormitory, Room no 36
His head hurt and eyes become blurry. Like a swirling tsunami, immense pieces of information started surging in his mind from all sides.
"Why was I transported to another world like this?"
"Was it because of the hand exercise I performed before sleeping?"
Sighing, he sorted the memories in his mind.
"An ideal soul detected. Performing contract synchronization.."
"Synchronization completed. Adding the system.."
" Contract completed. Ready to launch.."
"A System?"
[Martial Art system]
I have chosen host to dominate this world of martial arts.
I have provided a separate training space to train the host.
These words were floating in front of him.
According to the memory of previous owner, this world is a power hungry world, and the strongest is at the top of the food chain.
When he found the names of martial arts and their description in memory, there was no limit of his happiness.
Body stronger enough to stand on sun, cutting mountain with a sword, crushing mountain with a punch, there was no limit on how strong one can get.
"Enter the training space."
Buzzzzz!
He felt a buzzing sound in his head and when it subsided he was standing in an open white space.
[Tasks:
Perform 10000 pushups.
Perform 10000 pull-ups.
Perform 10000 squats.
Run 10000 Miles.
.
.
.
Perform 10000 Bench press.]
[Reward: Exit from the training space]
"What?" His head was hurting even to see the list of over 100 exercises.
[The current body of host is garbage, so the system has taken responsibility of making it good enough to learn martial art.]
Since he cannot even get out of this place without completing the tasks, he performed the tasks.
The most important thing was he never felt tired while doing the task.
[The training space is a special place. Host can train in his optimal and best condition possible. Tiredness and injury cannot be inflicted to host inside the training space.]
Vidal couldn't perceive how long it took him to complete the tasks, but he finally finished every tasks.
[Tasks completed. Upgrading the energy core of the host.]
Vidal felt warm in his entire body.
Energy core, the source of strength for a martial artist, he was delighted to have it upgraded.
When he came out of the training space,
Knock! Knock!
He heard a knocking sound, "I don't remember having any friends in the dormitory."
He opened the door and a beautiful girl was standing there, Vidal found some memory of her and smiled.
"I heard you were beaten again," she put forward a box, "Take this and try to not get into any trouble."
She immediately left after handing him the medicine box.
Grace, his childhood friend, was always considerate of him. But if someone saw him with her, he would be as good as dead.
"Well, things are going to change soon," Vidal murmured and got ready to leave the room.
He still had to attend the academy. He saunters out of the room.
…
"Yup, I am in a different world," Looking at the surrounding he thought.
The academy was just some minutes away from the dormitory.
Many students started murmuring and gossiping looking at him.
He, not caring about any comments, moved forward and entered the academy building.
His class was on the second floor.
He was blocked right in front of his class.
"I thought you would never show your face," a bulky guy said with a smirk on his face.
"What is happening, get to your seat," the teacher arrived just in time.
At first he was confused, but after searching the memory he saw a glimpse of incident he caused two days ago.
Vidal took the seat under the fierce eyes of the bulky guy named Tommy.
The class was about how to condense your energy core and accumulate more energy to increase your realm. It was interesting for Vidal to learn all the new things different from his previous world.
He carefully sneaked out of the academy, not wanting to get seen again.
[A new martial art has been unlocked. Host can enter the training space and start learning.]
"A new martial art. I hope you won't disappoint me system," Vidal was optimistic of getting a heaven shaking martial art from the system.
"Enter."
A buzz sound resounded in his mind and when it subsided,
[Martial art: JUDO has been unlocked]
[Proficiency on Judo: 0%]
"Judo…."
This name wasn't new to him; he had heard it many times and even watched many matches on TV.
"Are you kidding me?"
The world filled with superhuman martial warriors and the system was going to teach him martial art from earth.
"Aren't there more option?"
[With the advancement of Proficiency in the Martial art other will unlock in the future.]
'But still why this martial art?'
Before he can complain, a person wearing a loose jacket and trousers of strong white cloth appeared in front of him. He had tied a red belt to show his rank to his waist.
The moment Vidal eyes met the eyes of the person standing in front, Vidal's thoughts and body felt chill as if he was inside a freezer.
Although he was weak, there were still some instinct which were hereditary were naturally in him like instinct to sense danger.
[Judo 11th Dan master]
The system showed the information about the master. Vidal was feeling a life-threatening vibe from the master.
"System, this is not a normal Judo master, right?"
[No, a person on earth cannot increase his strength after a certain limit. But the person in front of you represents a Judo master without the limitations.]
[The teaching will start in 10 seconds.]
The master immediately began talking about Judo. The history, evolution, teachings, meaning, and other philosophy, and finally he started on different techniques and their uses.
{Kano Jigoro as the founder of Judo has listed two major Principles from his vision:
1. Maximum efficiency, minimum effort
2. mutual welfare and benefit}
The voice of the master in front was like an electronic machine consistent and emotionless.
The master continued, "With its origins coming from jujutsu, judo's most prominent feature is its competitive element, where the objective is to either throw or take down an opponent to the ground, immobilize or otherwise subdue an opponent with a pin, or force an opponent to submit with a joint lock or a choke."
"I will be overseeing your progress on throwing, grappling and striking techniques until you became familiar with each one of them."
Like in a trance, Vidal started digesting information about Judo. Learning inside the training space seems to have accelerated, which was relief for him.
And finally the learning begins.
Another person appeared in front of him wearing a light blue belt. The master showed different throwing techniques on the apprentice and told Vidal to examine.
{The initial balance break,
the act of turning in and fitting into the throw,
the execution and completion of the throw.} The key notes of throwing the opponent by breaking the balance was shown to him visually.
The throwing techniques can be used to throw heavier and stronger opponents with little effort.
…
And finally, it was the turn of Vidal. He started his practice with the light blue belt apprentice.
Different throwing and take down techniques to immobilize the opponent with joint locks and choke were taught to him. The entire time the master stood in one place and instructed him against the apprentice.
When the master instructs on strikes using hands and feet and also weapon defense techniques, it was confusing for Vidal as he has never seen such moves in matches.
But since he was learning from the Dan master, he gave little thought on it.
The time passed and the light blue changed into white and again into brown. It was finally the time for him to learn directly from the master.
But his time in the training space ran out. Standing in his room, he thought how easy and fast it was to learn Judo. He could reach the third belt so fast, it was unbelievable for himself.
Since he could not perceive time inside the training space, he does not know how much time he spent inside the training space; it can be years or even hours.
He had to wait for another 24 hour cool down to enter the training space again.
He woke up early in the morning and started his usual training. The pushup and pull-ups of thousands took him only few minutes. The reason was this world filled with spiritual energy and upgraded energy core.
He sighed, thinking while everyone was cultivating flashy and powerful martial arts; he was practicing Judo.
He doesn't hate Judo or anything like it, but who does not like to shoot energy balls from their hands and laser from their eyes. And he was here learning how to throw people and choke them.
He bunked his classes and trained in his room.
It was time again to enter the training space.
He bowed to the master and took his stance, ready to battle.
He doesn't know what happened, but he was already in the ground and a throbbing pain started from back of his neck and spread all round his back and head.
He died.
He was again standing in front of the master.
"What happened?"
[The host died. The pain reduction status in effect. Reduced 99% of the pain.]
"But you said, I cannot sustain any injury," Vidal rebuked.
[I see no injury on your body.]
Vidal went silent.
{This is the first throwing technique you are going to master: Ippon Seoi Nage}
'I know the name. But while practicing with the apprentice it wasn't this hard.'
Now, Vidal finally understood the situation he was in.
He again tried to grapple the master, but instantly it was him who was in his grapple. He was choked, pinned down, and locked down.
'If a person can this type of strength in earth, what would have happened?' a look of horror appeared in Vidal's face.
"You haven't taught me how to grapple and get out of chokes. This isn't fair."
But he only got silence treatment from both master and system.
Then the practice started again.
Unlike first time, the master gave him the chance to give up. He was learning through pain and experience.
[Proficiency on Judo: 1%]
The second day of judo practice ended. He was irritated and frustrated getting thrown down for how many times he can't count.
He went to bed as from next day his academy was going to start the new training course for the martial artists. But unfortunately he hasn't chosen the training course.
He couldn't sleep pleasantly because of the Judo master coming to choke him, even in his dreams.
…
Vidal headed towards the academy.
There was no class; everyone was in the training hall. When he reached there, the practice has already started.
"Stone palm..."
"That's childish. Look at my iron body.."
This was the type of martial art he was vying for but…..
When the fight ended, another match started…
"Vidal, here. I have saved a seat for you," Vidal heard a call from the upper audience area.
Luke was one of his classmates, so he waved at him and moved towards him. They weren't close friends or anything, Luke was also the lower rank warrior of the academy, but his family was rich.
"So what's up?" Luke asked.
"Nothing much. You haven't entered the warrior training, right?" Vidal asked.
"What are you talking about? I have already decided to take over my father's business," Luke replied.
They watched the matches while chatting and time passed slowly.
Ring.. Ring..
When the time was up, they waited for the training hall to empty, At last Luke and Vidal decided to go to the cafeteria.
At the exit of the training hall, they encountered the supposed bully of the academy. Tommy, the apprentice grade warrior and about to reach the iron level, was because of his previous incident with Vidal.
The incident was simple, in the cafeteria Vidal tripped and the food in his hand was kind enough to land in the head of Tommy. Tommy as a hot headed guy took it as a challenge.
"Well, my boy Vidal came to see the match. What about our mat..," Tommy tried to put his hand on Vidal's shoulder.
When he saw the hand coming toward him, he vividly remember the Judo master and "Osoto-Gari": instinctively grabbed his right hand sleeve with his left, grabbed his shirt collar by right and left foot to break his balance He was ready to slam him down.
Shit!
Vidal felt the enormous amount of energy gathering into his hand from energy core.
He immediately stopped his momentum of the throw.
Bang!
The sound of Tommy being slammed reverted in the entire hall. The floor of the hall cracked and Tommy passed out.
Vidal nearly killed Tommy.
Luke's mouth was wide open to see what happened right before his eyes.
Even Vidal was the same. He was underestimating the martial art from the earth.
With the help of system, he can clearly dominate martial artist from this world. A fire of hope ignited in his heart.
Vidal pulled Luke out of his surprised state and dragged him towards the cafeteria.
Vidal was surprised to see him beating Tommy didn't cause any commotion in the academy so he was relieved.
…
The Pioneer academy warrior classes will run till end of the month. So he still has about three weeks on his hand. Since he hasn't signed up for the warrior training class. It was a holiday for him.
He was going to use his whole three weeks to master Judo.
From the rough evaluation of Luke, he was clearly above apprentice rank. And at least intermediate iron level.
Vidal used his time outside of the training space to do physical exercises and get used to the throwing techniques and with days passing his proficiency also increases.
After a week he could throw the Judo master on the ground.
The judo master taught Vidal total of 67 throwing techniques in different groups and another 6 throwing techniques which were unrecognized in the traditional Judo.
And the Master finally disappeared.
[Proficiency on Judo: 20%]