"Now go and start running. Complete hundred laps around the whole training ground." Ramona said with a gentle smile on her face.
"Wwwhat! Hundred rounds, isn't it too much for me. I rarely even do physical work."
Caesar said with a bewildered look on his face.
In response to Caesar's answer Ramona just materialise a whip made of fire in her right hand. Seeing the whip Caesar just snorted and said, "Do you think I am scared of that."
Ramona still had a gentle smile on her face but for some reason Caesar thought that he shouldn't have said those words and soon his premonition came true. Ramona flexed her right hand which moved at a speed which was hard to follow with naked eyes, what Caesar saw was just an blur and 'BANG', the fire whip hit the air and created a sonic boom which was enough to destabilise Caesar who was standing at opposite direction. He subconsciously closed his ear with his hand to block the sound.
After the dust settled down, Caesar could finally see Ramona who still had a smile on her face but for Caesar that smile was no less than a devil's smile. He had his mouth half opened and disbelief clearly written on his eye.
"W-wha was that."
"Close you mouth Caesar and start running if you don't want me to whip your ass."
Caesar furiously nodded his head and went on the training ground and started running laps of the training ground.
Caesar was already wearing his training suit so there was no need for him to get changed. While he was running, Ramona was getting herself comfortable, she was currently sitting on a luxurious sofa and watching him running.
After few minutes Ramona suddenly appeared behind him and told him stop.
"Stop running and listen on what I have to say."
Caesar hearing her stopped running and looked at her with confused eye.
"You really don't know how to run brat." Ramona said while letting out a long sigh.
"What do you mean, Is there a even technique or skill on how to run."
"Of course running comes in category of basic skills and seeing how you can't even do that properly and how your breathing is slowly getting heavy after running for couple of minutes, it means that your basic skills are close to zero. And your stamina is also too low to continue my training, sigh! I guess there is need for some modification to your training regiment."
"For now you will continue to work only on your physical states for next week."
"Now start running behind me and see how I run and try to copy my posture, see how I breath during running and make sure to sync our our body moment and breathing and focus on my legs. "Saying this Ramona started running and Caesar was following her from behind trying to match his body posture and breathing rate, same as Ramona.
Caesar was running behind Ramona, just like a baby duckling who tries to to copy mother duck.
While running Ramona started talking with Caesar, "The main objective for you must be to not waste even an ounce of your energy, keep in mind that every extra moment you make will cost you energy so conserve it."
Caesar was getting more irritated as Ramona started to talk, he thought
'Heck its already difficult to just match your pace while running and its getting more difficult to get our breathing and body posture in sync and your fucking babbling, its fucking distracting me, so for god's sake just shut your trap vixen.'
After an hour of continues running, Caesar had no more energy to spend and collapsed right there. Hearing a 'thud' sound Ramona turned back to see that Caesar was collapsed on the ground totally exhausted.
"Your stamina is really the worst Caesar, lets take a 20 minutes break and then we will continue with your training" Saying this Ramona walk away.
Caesar was still laying on training ground, panting heavily. He clearly heard Ramona saying that training was going was going to continue after 20 minutes but Caesar could not raise any objections as he was still catching his breath and had no energy to speak.
After 10 minutes Ramona returned again, she could see that Caesar was now sitting on his butt and his breathing have calmed down, Seeing this Ramona took out a water bottle and one flask which had blue green liquid inside it and gave them to Caesar. "Go on and drink it."
Caesar threw a puzzled look at Ramona after being handed the flask, he points toward the flask and asks, "what's inside this."
"Its a high grade stamina recovery potion which you will be drinking a lot for a while." says Ramona in a nonchalant voice.
Caesar had a frown on his face, "Isn't this potion usually used in battles and also constant using of stamina potion during physical training will have repercussion later in life and it can also damage your health, right Ramona."
"Don't act like you know everything brat, this is a specially made potion which are made for people who have yet to develop magic. And what you are saying only happens with awakened who drink the cheap stamina potion available in market. The thing in your hand was made by my friend whom I ordered on short notice, The ingredients used and the production cost of a single potion is equal to thousand stamina potion you will find in market, so be grateful that I am using my personal connections to make you available such potions to you and there will be no side effects."
Even though Ramona was saying all this, she was sure to milk every penny she spend on Caesar by showing Jonathan the bills of potions. Making Jonathan pay out of his own pocket.
The Patriarch will soon spit blood after seeing the bills.
Hearing this Caesar let all his worry go in gutter and directly opened the cork of the flask and tried gulping down the whole potion in a single go but as soon as he took one sip Caesar choked, the smell and taste of the potion was like rancid meat and he vomited the little bit of potion which had already gone down his throat.
"Guaaak! Guaak! agooohh."
Seeing Caesar puking down the expensive potion Ramona face went pale and she screamed in low but shrill voice. "Aaaaaaahhh! fucking idiot what are you doing stop it, stop pucking it right now."
Ramona was cursing Caesar for puking the potion out but Caesar could not listen to her as his whole mind was focusing on the disgust he was feeling by smelling and tasting the potion.
After 15 seconds when he came to his mind, Caesar turned toward Ramona to shout at her, "You wh-- " but he couldn't speak more because Ramona had a huge grin on her face reaching from one ear to another. And this made Caesar whole body shiver, the atmosphere surrounding both of them was getting weirder. Ramona was grinning at Caesar like she had finally cornered her prey and it had no where to run.
Caesar turned his head slightly and what he saw was the remaining potion inside the flask and the bit that he gulped and puked was all floating in air. Seeing this Caesar gulped his saliva and again shifted his head and was now looking at Ramona. "See Miss Ramona it was just that the potion was too smelly to even drink so akkk-"
Even before Caesar could utter any more word Ramona disappeared from Caesar's view and just a split second late she was holding Caesar in air by cupping his chin such that his mouth remain open and his feet's few centimeter above ground. Ramona's big black eye just centimeter apart from Caesar's red eye, staring at Caesar like a hawk.
Caesar tried to speak something but before he could do it, the whole potion floating in air was directly poured inside Caesar's mouth and he was made to drink it forcefully.
Thud!
And like that Ramona let him go which made Caesar fall on his feet but he couldn't keep his balance and soon he feel on his bump.
"Good boy, see that wasn't too hard to swallow. Now from next time if you puke the potions then I will make sure that the potion will not enter through your mouth but from your nose."
Caesar was now looking at Ramona with a fierce eye. Ramona totally ignored his bloody stare and was going back to sit at her sofa and relax and before going she said, "Rest for another twenty minutes then we can start with your weapon training." Saying this Ramona went on her way while humming.
Caesar sat there trying to cool down his anger, he took the water bottle which was placed near him and took a few gulps.
'Bitch bitch bitch bitch fucking vixen bitch.'
Caesar just sat there quietly for next twenty minutes. Ramona soon came back and this time she had a sword in her hand, Well big enough for 12 -year old Caesar but to her it nothing more than a small toy.
After seeing the sword Caesar soon squinted his eyes. The weapon was too big for someone like Caesar and probably too heavy. The sword length was probably 3/4 of Caesar's total height, the handle was made of wood which had a metallic luster to it.
Ramona gave the weapon to him, Caesar's hand trembled while taking up the weapon due to its sheer weight. "Can't you bring another one which is less heavy." Said Caesar with irritated voice, he still wasn't able to calm down his anger for what happened earlier.
"No this weight is perfect for you, and once you get used to it I will be changing it with a new one with an increased weight. So stop complaining." Saying this Ramona took a few steps back and held her hand in air, materializing an sword made of fire which was suitable for her size and was an exact replica of sword Caesar held albeit just bigger.
She started walking toward the center of training ground and Caesar followed her. After reaching the center Ramona said,
"Now look carefully all the movements I am about to do, try to read my breathing rhythm and see my body posture, I will be showing you basic movement done while wielding an sword. Basic attack, basic defending posture, and how to dodge.
Saying this Ramona started her demonstration. She first got into position while holding the sword with two hands, then she performed Parry, slash, strike, stab, lunge, feint, sweep, block, advance, blade, guard, edge, retreat, stance, tip, and attack.
And like that Ramona has demonstrated all the basic skills to Caesar which included basic attacks, basic defence and dodging movement in 10 minutes.
She looked at Caesar with beaming smile and said "Do you want to ask something."
Caesar nodded his head, "I heard that you use a sword and you are a grandmaster."
"I asked you if you have any doubts or question regarding the basic movements I just showed you, not for you to ask unrelated question."
"Well how should I say, Can you show it to me again cause I concentrated all my attention on the movements so I can't keep up with your breathing rhythm."
"Fine but this time you will follow me, grab your sword and stand in front of me and trie to copy my moment and breathing. I will show you so concentrate properly brat."
Saying so Ramona started swing the sword again and demonstrated all the basic movement for next half and hour while Caesar tried to copy her every move.
"Now start practicing this movements and remember if you let go of your sword before you collapse then I will personally beat-- Hmm spar with you so start now."
"What, I have to swing my sword till I collapse and with this heavy sword and you just said something about beating me, hey where are you going."
Ramona started walking away from the training field ignoring Caesar's voice.
Caesar too after hearing no reply from her reluctantly got into pose and started doing all the basic movements.
Due to sheer weight of the sword Caesar movement were all sluggish and slow, he had yet to adjust and become familiar with his new weapon. All his movements were unsteady, his breathing was becoming haggard slowly and his muscle were screaming in pain. His mouth was totally dry and every time he breathed it felt like his lungs were on fire, after a total of four hours of continues training Caesar collapsed due to exhaustion, his muscle torn apart and his body was in immense pain.
Ramona had no expression in her face but internally she was surprised. What Caesar did was simply impossible, he was clumsy at start even his breathing was out of order, his posture was imbalanced, one can say that Caesar had never held a sword in his short life of 12 year but in this four hours of training, Caesar created a miracle.
Except for his stamina, Caesar improved so much that it seems impossible. At the end of fourth hour Caesar had nearly perfect posture while holding a sword, his breathing was rough but it had the same rhythm as of Ramona while she was explaining sword. It takes at least a month to get into correct posture and rhythmic breathing but Caesar did it in just four hour, merely four hours. It was close to a miracle.
Ramona quickly understood what had happened. It was due to Caesar's two passive skills 'perfect memory' and 'high comprehension'. Perfect memory is a advance skill where your brain doesn't forget anything you once seen, smell, hear. And high comprehension let you understand any problem, skill, riddle and any situation very easily and on a deeper level.
Caesar used those two skill unconsciously, perfect memory to remember Ramona's movement, posture and breathing style while using sword and high comprehension to to understand how she moved, how she swinge her sword, how she used her wrist to hold the sword, her body balance while using the sword. Caesar comprehended all of this in just four hours. It takes weeks to get posture and breathing perfect and that to with guidance from a master but he just did it alone.
A genius had been born in Rosehart.
Ramona seeing that he had exhausted himself, went toward him. Even though she was at some distance from the training ground sitting at her sofa, her whole attention was at Caesar for 4 hours.
Now standing just beside him, 'I will have to tell Jonathan about this.'
Ramona soon took out a green amulet from her space storage and called someone, after one minute a women in her late thirty came running onto the training ground, she had deep brown skin, black hair and black eyes with two canine teeth protruding out of her mouth moreover she had cat ears and a long black tail on her back, which was coming out of her maid uniform.
"Clara take this boy inside and let him rest in one of the rooms. He is currently sleeping due to extreme exhaustion and thirst when he wake up bring him to me." Saying this Ramona went on her own way.
Clara too picked Caesar in a princess carry and started going inside the four storey mansion.