During his time as the Ragnar Grimes, he had undergone an uncountable number of training sessions, battles, spars, research, and so on. His life was the incarnate of constant struggles and he did all he could do to get to the top fo the world.
If one was to broadly categorise how a himan could strengthen themselves, Ragnar divided the power divisions into various groups. The first one included weapon users. Weapon users were a special group of people who mastered weapons as their main means of attack and defence. Humans primarily belonged to this category before the second and third change occured. The knight appeared from this as well.
The second group was martial artist. These vary in a way different from weapon users. While weapon users specialized in concentrating their life on improving weapon arts and the weapon itself, martial artists were a bit different. They concentrated on improving their bodies. While martial artist also used weapons, their primary focus was martial arts whose major portion depended on the body itself.
Then there were magicians, those who used magic spells, casting them to interact with the world and their enemies.
All of these jobs were quite same in the sense that all of them used energy as their base. The difference appeared in their usage of it. Slowly, integrating started to take place and jobs like magic swordsman, applied magic theoretician, magic combat artist came into existence.
Ragnar was a mix blood, which meant that his bloodlines gave him access to memories that came from a versatile backgrounds. While he wanted to grow strong and concentrating on a single domain is the best way to go about it, Ragnar eventually found that all these jobs complemented each other. Rather than choosing a single path, he had both the motivation and the situation advantage of pursuing all paths.
When he was thrown out of the Avalon family, along with his mother, all he thought about was how to improve his strength. He didnt have resource , neither the means to grow in a particular direction. So he accessed all his memories and began to train in whatever area was available to him.
Just like humans, Trolls, Elves, Dragons, Elemental had a similar kind of divison in their species as well. They weren't that different from each other. But the variation appeared in form of what the specified could use energy as. Their means,method, area of expertise, inherent ability all differed from each other.
Body Strengthening was a great example when it came to Trolls. It is one of the most basic abilities of a pure blooded troll. They could strengthen their bodies, heal rapidly and pratice martial arts and battle arts in a much better way than they could do so in magician class. Troll magician did exist, but they were a rarity.
During his peak, Ragnar's Body Strengthening was so powerful that weapons of some demon kings couldn't even pierce through his body. His body was strong enough that they had to collaborate with each other in addition to back stabbing him just to win. At that time, Ragnar's Troll Blood's purity was on another level. He had managed to improve its purity to a level so high that almost all the ancestral memories was available to him. Hence he knew a lot of its secrets and skills. As of now he only possessed a single ability.
The first task at hand was to improve both his body strengthening as well as his blood purity to the next level. For that he choose two pathways. During his previous life, he not only managed to gain meories of the best Troll martial arts, but even improved on them and create his own martial arts version from it. Although his body was not strong enough to execute the best martial arts he possessed, he could slolwy reach there.
For that, Trolls Breathing Method, Troll One Hundred Pose Exercise and Troll One-Body Martial Arts were the three best methods. While the breathing method improved mana, the exercise increased core strength, endurance and flexibility, while the last one was a offensive as well as defensive martial arts. Leaving the breathing method, the other two were the lowest level arts, but all three of them had the effect of improving the blood purity of the one practicing it. There were even better method in his meories, but he needed to improve his minimum purity as well as his body's status to the next level.
"GAMA, could you please set up a schedule for me to efficiently complete the exercises?" Ragnar asked.
"The host is requested to execute all the methods once so that the system is able to record them and then the analysis and formulation of the best possible sequence would be carried out." GAMA said.
"Ok." Ragnar replied and assumed a lotus position. No matter which art was practiced by a human, the lotus position was the most efficient way of mediation and energy training in the static category. It promoted energy circulation as well enhanced the body's hidden metabolism and growth characteristics.
The Troll Breathing Method was a special way of breathing while rotating the mana within your body. A minimum amount of mana was required to even begin the process, and Ragnar had previously qualified that minimum requirement. He immediately started the breathing training and soon enough the energy from the surrounding was rushing into his body.
"A huge amount of mana has been inserted into the host's body. It is being forcefully revolved around the body. Mana stat us increasing. Mana stat is increasing. The host needs to slow down or the body wouldn't be able to hold the sudden impact. Mana stat is increasing at a rapid pace."
While GAMA was screaming messages, Ragnar didn't heed to any of the warnings. He had better things to do. He continued his breathing process.
"Mana overload detected. Mana stat had increased. Mana stat had increased. The body's channels are being forcefully opened. The host is being warned about the incoming pain."