Chapter 30: Force out the potential? (1/2)

Chapter 30: Force out the potential?

After suffering another heavy blow, Notebook Teacher Huston seemed to spend the entire time in class as if in a dream.

The “Giants’ Snack” was indeed very precious. A piece like that was enough for a team of arcane masters not to worry about food for a week while they were out on a mission.

In some dangerous missions in the wilderness, especially when fighting other arcane masters, many edible things could be where the enemies buried their traps.

He spent the “Giants’ Snack” he’d saved because he wanted Ayrin to fail the test. Then he could punish Ayrin and exhaust him until he ended up more dead than alive. But what he never expected in a hundred years was, Ayrin requested the punishment on his own initiative even after passing the test. He even continuously sprinting at top speed during the penalty run, making him more miserably tired than all the other freshmen.

Huston simply couldn’t understand.

So at sundown, when he announced the end of the class, Huston thought he had to go back and reorganize his thoughts, else he might suspect his own brain of having a problem.

“Teacher Huston!”

Ayrin’s voice suddenly came to his ears.

Huston turned his head back. Ayrin stood not far away beside him, his face looking exactly like a well-behaved child.

“What else do you want?”

“I wanted to ask teacher Huston how to condense arcane particles as fast as possible.”

“What?!” Huston almost fell down face first.

“I heard that although you can’t be regarded as a powerful elite teacher and aren’t very strong when it comes to fighting, you still know your stuff when it comes to arcane particles, you still were among the fastest people to condense arcane particles.” Ayrin said with a serious face, “So teacher Huston, can you tell me a few techniques and exercises that’ll make me condense arcane particles faster?”

“Arcane particles? He’s already thinking about this issue at this stage.”

“Even if he wants to ask a question, he doesn’t have to say Huston can’t be considered a powerful elite teacher and isn’t all that strong when it comes to a real fight. Notebook Teacher Huston is the one most concerned about face, doesn’t this simply amount to a slap to the face?”

“This is simply a slap to the face.”

“You can hit someone, but you can’t hit his face.”

“Teacher Huston’s going to go crazy now for sure.”

A clamor ran among all the freshmen.

“You…” Huston even felt the urge to cry. He felt as if countless feet had stepped on his face during this short moment.

He only restored his sanity several minutes later.

“Since you don’t leave me any face at all, since you talk to me like this, then don’t blame me for acting vicious and ruthless!”

He roared that in his mind, but he put on a gentle expression on his face. “There are two stages to condensing arcane particles. The first stage is to train your body and spirit to a level sufficient for condensing arcane particles. When the body and spiritual power reach the required level, what follows is the second stage, gathering a high degree of spiritual power and condensing arcane particles. For now, you don’t need to worry about the second stage in your current situation. The only thing you need to worry about is to make your body and spiritual power reach that boundary.”

“Mhm mhm!” Ayrin nodded vigorously, thinking that Huston’s explanation indeed made things clearer.

“To complete the first stage, the only way is, of course, to continuously exceed your own limits with painstaking training, to make your body continuously break through.” Huston narrowed his eyes. “If you want to go faster however… If you want to genuinely surpass your own limits, there’s only one way, it’s to make breakthroughs in the things that make you the most uncomfortable!”

“The things that make me the most uncomfortable?” Ayrin was a little doubtful.

Huston glanced at his belly and reminded him, “For example, maybe you’re most afraid of hunger? Maybe the feeling of hunger is the most uncomfortable feeling, the hardest to withstand?”

Ayrin suddenly nodded strongly. “That’s right.”

“If you previously could resist two hours without eating anything, then just resist for three hours! If you can resist half a day without eating, then just resist a whole day!” Huston firmly brandished his fist at Ayrin. “If you can withstand extreme hunger, and train or fight in such a state, then you’ll be able to continuously surpass your limits, force the last drops of potential out of your body!”

“Back in the days, teacher Huston you also challenged the things that made you the most uncomfortable, that’s what you did?” Ayrin watched Huston with much admiration.

“Of course! If you want to condense arcane particles as fast as possible and become an arcane master in the true sense of the word, then you have to truly squeeze out the power from every tiny particle inside your body. It’s just like a sponge. The drier you squeeze it, the more water it can absorb the next time!” That was what Huston’s mouth said, but what he thought inside was, if I can’t sort you out, starving you until you’re half dead works as well.

“Thank you teacher, I’ll definitely work hard!”