10 Training (1/2)

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The triplets woke up early and head outside.

They were in front some training dummies holding out their weapons. Paul was holding out a circular shield on his left hand and a simple wooden spear on the right. Mark was holding a wooden broad sword that has a straight arm guard. Raven was unarmed but both of his fists were wrapped in an old looking bandages that covered both of his arms completely.

Paul and Mark were weirded out by this but they didn't say anything, they believed that Raven has his own ideas in his mind.

”Bro? Are we seriously going to hit dummies all day?” Paul asked. They don't have any classes today and for the rest of the week at that.

The institute's classes are only once a week and the rest could be spent however the students want. Everything that's being taught in the classroom are just general knowledge and theoretical ways, they don't actively facilitate on the student's training, another thing that really has to change according to Raven's opinion.

”Yep! But these dummies aren't gonna be the normal ones.” Raven grinned fiendishly and told them, ”I tampered with these guys right here. Once I turn this on, thee will start attacking you.”

”Oh! Such a genius idea!” Paul was honestly impressed but Mark seemed a little unnerved by Raven's grin. This wasn't the first time that he showed this kind of grin, he was even having some spooky flashbacks as of the moment.

Raven walked behind the dummy and activated the rune that he placed, Paul and Mark saw the dummy shiver and it's hollow eyes brightened. Raven held it's head and aimed it at the excited Paul.

After staring at him for a while, Paul saw the dummy's eyes turned red which was also the signal for Raven to release it's head. Paul watched as the dummy took a very familiar stance and charged at him with red eyes.

”Shit!” Paul grimaced as he was caught unprepared, he was too late to raise his shield and the dummy's punch landed square on his face. It didn't stop though, it readied another strike aiming at the other side of his face, luckily Paul was able to move his shield in time but he didn't expected that the dummy will kick him afterwards.

Mark shivered as he Paul being beaten up by a training dummy, he glanced at Raven and saw that he was still wearing his fiendish grin. All of the hairs on his body stood up as he realized that Raven had already activated dummy that was holding a wooden sword and he just released it's head.

”Damn! You're a demon!” Mark spat harshly while glaring at Raven, but he soon had to concentrate since the dummy already arrived at him.

Raven laughed maliciously, he placed both of his hips. ”This will be the fastest way for you to learn. Remember the Foundational Arts and the stances, that would be the key to prevent the dummies from hurting you.”

Raven turned around and started his own training as well. Unlike them, he won't be training against a dummy not because he didn't want to but because he had to make his body remember the Foundational Fist Arts first. He also planned on using the Basic Leg Arts as well but he would do so at some other time.

This time around, he pushed the gravity suit to emulate 4 times normal gravity, which made his body curl in heaviness. He placed a determined expression and straighten his back. He went into a horse riding stance while both of his arms are placed in his waist. He held this stance for a solid minute before performing a straight jab.

Hu!

The sound of air movement echoed, he slowly placed back his right arm on his waist and waited for a solid minute, after which he punched again. Raven repeated this actions multiple times, soon minutes turned into a whole hour, and an hour turned into hours.

Raven's clothes had already been soaked in sweat, his arms were tired and shaking, nonetheless his body is still standing straight and the fiery determination on his eyes had never faded even for a second during these training. He had long since forgotten how many straight punches he threw and no matter how many he did never mattered to him. His thoughts were simple, observe how his body reacted under pressure and perfect this one movement. Nothing else matters, not even the fact that he was hungry, well he can't even recall when he felt the sensation anyway.

His punches went through a transformation as well. When he started, his punches will only make a soft sound each time it was thrown, after hours of unceasing effort, each of his punches now produce a clapping sound which will definitely hurt if it landed.

Throwing one last punch, Raven concluded today's training was over. He let out a long exhale and stood properly. He turned off the gravity suit and took off his upper garments, he also unzipped the suit up until his belly and left it hanging on his side. He took out a towel on his spatial ring and a gallon of water. He emptied the whole thing in one go and took out some snacks as well.