It's been a week since I started studying at Eastsea Academy. The studies were just the same as Elementary Academy but in a more detailed and broader theme than the Elementary Academy... which should have been obvious but nah.
There was no Wu Zhangkong or something nor was there any Kakashi intro or Shanks speech. The teacher looked quite uninterested in the classes, just the combat one. The other studies were normal; no, better than before. Even the way they teach history was amazing as I was listening to all of this with interest. Maybe I should better pay attention to history. I have just read the novel but reality was different with my fragmented memories and demented self.
Maybe...
The past may have the answers to my questions.
Lunch came. I was sitting in the corner drinking vegetable soup and stir fried veggies. Out of more than a hundred expensive spiritual dishes, there are only two vegetarian dishes. These too were made because of the demand of a female teacher to eat low fat food to look good.
Nonsense! Just training without enough food can make a person skinny and her Martial Soul was blazing hippo. How can she turn into a skinny person from that? Maybe she can, I don't know?
So for the past week I have been eating these dishes but even then I didn't feel tired or got bored eating the same dishes everyday. The taste of these dishes were fresh, like I am eating it for the first time. It must be the work of spiritual ingredients or that Chef who is smiling towards me.
I smiled back.
I couldn't eat anymore after eating three bowls of vegetable soup and one plate of stir fry veggies. That's my limit. I need to go out and use my skill to digest the food.
For the past week I am eating these dishes and using my Soul skill to absorb it completely. This increased my cultivation speed to three times of what my current cultivation speed was. This was after I came to Eastsea Academy and got a better cultivation skill. If I keep going at this speed then I would be able to reach Soul Grandmaster level in around two and a half years.
Now this was horrifyingly amazing.
There was just one problem, I had to keep my soul skill activated till the time my food is being digested and here comes the question, how do I know exactly how much time it takes my stomach to digest food?
The answer being I don't, hence I have been using my soul skill 8 hours at the minimum everyday, be it training or studying or cultivation. Doing all this does increase my cultivation speed but...
It's fast, far faster than my previous cultivation speed but it is not enough. I am being greedy, I know.
If only that Alliance Officer was not on my back, I would have bought a improved version of my cultivation skill from the market.
Now onto serious matters.
I need to be at least level 27 to 29 if I want to get selected at Shrek Academy.
Entering the school with low soul power level is impossible. The Soul Power isn't just simple level accessory but each level adds strength and power. The difference can't be seen in one or two levels but if the difference is of four or five levels then it's one sided even if the opponent is not a super genius.
The students who came to Shrek are all the best cream of the crop of their respective schools. Underestimating them is just plain stupid, more so with my Martial soul.
Even Wulin was only able to fight them on equal grounds after his third ring and third dragon awakening.
I don't have any choice. I needed to increase my strength faster.
Henceforth coming to Test no.7. The second test that succeeded in increasing my Soul Power. The procedure of this test was to eat till the stomach feels a little bloated and then to eat after digesting the previous food sometime again. As the stomach had extra space for food because of the already digested food. In one day I could eat five days worth of food but it has one drawback.
Excess energy. Too much absorption lead to to much nutrition and energy in the body. Energy that I couldn't deplete even with heavy exercises or work.
I nearly died the last time I tested it on myself. The energy went rampant in my body, destroying my body everywhere from inside out.
(Basically Electro from The Amazing Spiderman. He got overcharged and then exploded)
My situation was not that big. It was a slow death. Instead of my body exploding in a mush of organs and flesh, only my artilleries would burst and they would continue to burst for like two days.
More if I ate more. Haha.
That was dangerous. I would have died if I was in my old world. Fortunately this world had high class doctors and Spirit Masters but I didn't go to them. I just suffered through the injuries, lying in a pool of my own blood.
I survived though!
If I could somehow control the situation, my cultivation speed would be double of my current speed, and I would be able to reach Soul Grandmaster level in just 1 and a half year, maybe even faster.
So what do you think I am going to do?
I never had a choice to begin with.
*Three weeks later*
In a small forest of Eastsea Academy aka Eastsea Park.
A tanned kid of around 11 or 12 was panting heavily while laying down on the ground. He was covered with blood and dirt all over his body. Broken pieces of wood can be seen all around him, all of them were stained with blood. If someone were to pass by this place then they would scream in horror as the scene was quite gory.
'It had been three weeks. I have been doing combat practice every night in the forest behind the Eastsea Academy and YET the energy didn't deplete.
Why did I eat so much?
The first few days, I thought of giving up. Even now I do want to give up. It was too tiring, the pain didn't go away. It increased even more the next-day while training. But what's worse is that if I didn't train and tire me out then I would die and it would be worse than last time.
My fragile mentality was somehow improving though.
I was regretting my decision to do this. But I didn't stop. It wasn't the fear of dieing this time. It was the fear of not being able to do anything , to change anything, be it the past or the present. I hate this helplessness. I hate myself for being weak. He was living like that without complaining for just a single thing in his life. He was living a life worse than than this.
He didn't give up. Even after he died. Nor did she. So how can I give up?
I can't give up. I won't give up. This time I will change it. Change it as I want without giving in to my self.
*One month later*
In the forest behind the Eastsea Academy aka Eastsea Park.
I feel like I am turning into a masochist.
A kid was laying down. He was covered in blood and dirt. But this time he was smiling, laughing too at times.
Just kidding. I hate pain, moreso when it's mine.
The Moon hung in the sky make it seem like a maniac crazy laughter in the midnight.
Finally. Finally that officer returned to the headquarters after arresting 27 criminals and announcing them as the criminals behind the Glorybound City massacre.
I am finally free from his clutches. The people he arrested were all serial criminals so I have no guilt about it. At least that's what he claimed.
Now the things I needed to do, was to book a place in Spirit Ascension platform in Spirit Pagoda. Book at least 12 to 15 seats for the coming three years. And then to confirm my guess.
Secondly I needed to find the information of all the gangs in Eastcoast City and its neighbouring one.
Finally I needed to grow stronger before Wulin went to Shrek Academy because Shrek only recruited students once in every three years. And the quota is pitifuly low, just a few 100.
Just the Skysea Alliance will send more than 100 students of the different schools.
Then there are many other alliances and schools who will send their students to participate in the Shrek's admission test.
Then the different families and what not.
I need to snatch a place among that group. From students who had given their all, maybe trained even harder than me. Can I do it?
Do I have a choice?
I do. Always have but not ponder this for too long.