Zeno's wake up and find himself in dark place with nothing in it. he looks around and see only endless black. he realizes that this dream ,because zenos hasn't been sleeping or blink his eye for whole month so, zenos has a strong grasp of reality. he hasn't dreamed or missed a 0.00001sec of moment of his life. this gave him strong grasp of reality and resistance to 100 illusion and ability to remain conscious in his dream.
"I remembered every second before falling a sleep. I was practicing the body art that was written in dark body secret art" zenos said. As he remembers and thought of practice and the dark body secret art. a figured appears in his dream looking like zenos and the book of dark body secret art. the figure was doing the secret art with perfection without limitation of body, muscle and bone structure. Zenos looks at it and practice with it . After practicing for 12 hours he woke up in reality. zenos now went to middle open space and saw that food was given ot the children's. Zeno's goes gets his rations for them and get back to his prison. after eating the food he starts practicing the secret art and found himself that he is doing every move with perfection. It only take 1 day for him to master this art.Where others take weeks or even months to master it.
"Its still lacking body muscle to perform this secret art. if i want the dark body to its full potential i should develop muscle for this" zenos said and start practicing the dark body secret art while concentrating in every moves to its fullest.
1 week after
zenos feels strange energy inside his every part of muscle in his body. After eating demonic blood pills and training in secret art allows the demonic blood pills effect on every part of body in equal proportion. Zenos stamina is now 8 times more than before. "Its time for meeting in central base said by the masked man" zenos stand up and left the prison.
*central base = big open wide space connect to small tunnel.
everyone gather as the masked men said to gather in central base. "Form a group of 10 children each and that group will fight one instructor and here every instructor is a master, so you should maximize your chance prove yourself to pass this test. form group with you are familiar with, so you can fight by helping each other and discuss strategy to fight the instructor. we will be back tomorrow at same time as today here. so all should present here. any doubt raise your hand." masked man said.
bell crundle raise his hand. "okay, you say what's the doubt and you can call me, sir" masked man said. "Sir, you said that we have to form group of ten but here we have total of 69 children so, how can we form ten one children will be less in one group" bell said.
masked man picked a stone from ground and throw at dark place, that's where zenos was standing and listening to the conversation. zenos doged the stone from piercing his eye from a hair breath. "you there, you think you can hide from me. you may have hide from children but you can't hide from me, I can sense your life force." masked man said.
zenos comes out of darkness and the masked man left .
drogus comes forward and grabs the zenos collar and lift of from the ground. zenos dead stare at drogus eye. drogus full body shivers from fear, but he can't be afraid of him when his subordinate are watching him they follow him because of his dominance and bravery." where is the respect when you see a group leader, huh " drogus said. bell step forward and says "he is our men. if he has done anything wrong. I will apologize for him. so, let him go".
"tch, so he was taken. You better teach not to mess with me or my subordinate and you better change your attitude or else you will get in trouble". drogus says and left with subordinate
bell looks at zenos and pats him on his head saying "you don't need to be so cautious i know you want to hide and do everything by yourself. but you will reach limit of it and at this situation it will be better to make more friend than enemies. even through you don't like it and as we have met first time so tell me your name?"
"zenos" says zenos with very low voice. "oh, zenos it a good name. i like it and how old are you? "bell said
" seven" zenos said. " you are 3 years younger than me so, i am your big brother bell crundle and you can call me bell and i will there to help you if you need. don't hesitate to ask." bell said.
"....." zenos feels strange warm as the tension goes away from his mind from thinking a way out without depending on others, other than his grandma. zenos only depends on grandma when she was alive. after, her death zenos has no one to depend on, only at himself. but, still he remains calm because of her grandma's teaching and sweet memories with her grandma. this is 1st after grandma's death.
Zenos joins the bell crundle's group and practice the secret art with them.
Zenos spar with others on the team but, no one can defeat him. as he has been hunting for years and had experience.but its still first time fighting human. he always have been fighting monster using the terrain to his advantage. but, bell was different he used strange technique and zenos was defeated in seconds.
"you may have defeated others. but, not me, i was trained from my childhood in my family martial arts and i am qi level 1 and i know how to control qi." bell said.
but, zeno didn't gave up he keeps challenge him for hours.