"What should I do? I have 2 hours remaining. It's better if I just practice next weapon for one hour and rest for last hour. Though I'm physically fine, I'm mentally exhausted." Prajwal was about to use one more attribute point to purchase basic sword proficiency but suddenly a thought strikes him.
"What if there is a tricky weapon that I don't know about but is included in the training. Won't I have advantage if I used it to fight against humans. Someday I have to fight human so, why not prepare now. I will have advantage over them. But people sure will discover new types of weapons them self. Survival instinct will force human to do it. I better be careful from now on. Who knows what the other people is hiding."
Prajwal began looking through the list, there were many names of weapons he didn't even understood. He didn't take the risk of using his stats on some random weapons without any basis. As he was scrolling through the list, he saw something he recognized.
*Basic mix martial art : 2 *
"Is this something that comes after the body training? Body training itself seemed to be mixed martial are, may be this is related to the use of those moves while fighting where as the body training might be to lay foundation."
Prajwal payed two more points and started practicing martial arts. As he had thought, this martial art did have connection with the body exercise. This one seemed to be advanced form of exercise which could be used on application level. He did it for 45 minutes and used 15 minutes to remember the steps of everything he had practiced, so that he could practice it even after returning to the earth.
"Now comes the last hour. I'm down to 6 free attribute points but I do think it's worthing. I didn't know anything about combat, but I sure learnt many things. Now I can use dagger, fight properly, I just lack real fighting experience. I could improve my fighting standard after gaining it."
Prajwal sat down and started meditating, he freed his mind form any thoughts. He entered the state of mushin, also known as the mental state free from any thoughts. It was the state every martial artists aspired to reach. Prajwal had reached this state when he was learning to control his emotions. He took the wrong approach while training. Instead of focusing on controlling his face, he delve into control of thought. He had the advantage of time which many people lacked, coupled with high intelligence, he used decade of time reaching that level. Mushin was the state which was most required during the combat but prajwal didn't understand those things. In his eyes, this was just a method of removing the thoughts form his mind and becoming extremely sharp in contemplating something. He had this thought as this state was the very reason, he contemplated the intent left behind.
He even activated his mental zone skill and just focused inside his bodies. He was scanning his body through the use of skill as well as his mental state. If he were to loose single bit of concentration, he would loose the sight of his working internal body parts.
Prajwal first observed his external appearance. Nothing seemed to have changed except look in the eyes and expression on his face. Then he moved on to the muscles surrounding the body. He could see the repairing of his muscles fibres. To speed up the process of recovery, he put up an additional conscious effort. After that he tried moving onto deeper levels, but he couldn't. Muscles were the last thing his brain could process. So, he just focused on recovery of fibres and used effort on doubling the amount of fibres by separating all growing fibres into two. This could make his muscles more durable than what stat showed.
Prajwal understood that what stat showed was the basic or to be more appropriate average value. If you can use all of them or more than them all depended on user. Two person with same stat will have difference in attack power, agility, and everything. One could overtake other on certain areas. It's due to their body being developed in such a way. So, Prajwal used every opportunity he could use to get stronger as he knew that he was not much great in vast expanse of world not talking about universe.
There were thousands of people with same or even higher stat than him, he was just thoughtful and daring enough to participate in all the trial and win the competition. He accepted his weakness and used his only weapon, intelligence to win the trials. If wits didn't worked he used his wills. What was his driving force? Why was he mature enough to think about his weakness in this desorted century where everyone took themselves as alphas ? Only his future endevour could reveal us.
After he was done with the healing, he started meditating and trying to sense Prana present in the air all around him. He could already make out presence of some particles in the air but couldn't see or feel them. But this time he was using his skill to sense the flow of Prana. What he observed was mind blogging, none of the particles of Prana were entering his body, all of them we being bounced off his body.
"My body can't absorb Prana, is this what administrator meant by absorbing mana from the surrounding in appropriate amount."
Prajwal stopped meditating and entered deep thought.
"Someone has sealed the mana in this star system. I just understood it completely. It's not just system, every single being is being affected. Until I absorb Prana in the place where I was sealed, I won't be able to open up my channel for absorbing mana.
*Your time is up. You will be transported back to earth. *
Prajwal stood on his legs and looked last time around the room which he would be looking for the last time. He felt that he was in this place for a pretty long time though just 48 hours had passed.
The room suddenly went dark and there was a beeping sound from the system. That was the sound of receiving notification. But Prajwal couldn't read the notification as the instant the room went dark, he was wrapped into another space. He could handle the space turbulence till certain extent but space wrap still was something much for him.
After few seconds he was back to the place where he was laying like a log before all this evolution began. It was the same square in front of the campus no. 5. He felt a wave of nostalgia. But there was no change in his expression. He noticed something amiss, the surrounding was desolated. No-one could be seen anywhere. He felt like he was in ghost town. The sun was in the last phase of it's setting thus the sky was painted red.
*Host has fulfilled criteria for attempting mythical trial but host isn't strong enough to participate in the trial. Host must be at least tier 5 to participate *
Yet another bomb was blasted within his mind. Trial related to myth and he got chance to participate in it but was rejected due to his lack of strength.
*Before host develops the thinking of superiority, just a reminder that this trial is awarded to all the being at the top of the star system. And host is one of the top of this star system*
"Hey, system what do you mean by one of the? There are others who got the same overall performance rating as me. That's not possible as it is clear that I was winner among all the people on earth. So, there should be atleast slight difference in the score. "
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"Are you suggesting that other planets have life in them who are more or less as intelligent as humans."
*Host don't think that the only organism to participate in the trial are human. Many intelligent animals from earth too participated in it. You just couldn't think to that extent*