6 Start Of The Training (1/2)

Three days after Astris's speech, the training planned by him and his father started.

Those concerned by that are children ahead of 5 years old, and less than 17 years old. From what I understood, the reason for that choice is beyond that age, it become more harder to make progress since it require to have a good foundation at from youngest age.

The establishment of the foundation for a Ki pract.i.tioner come more quickly if one train at the youngest age. It's not impossible to cultivate beyond youth but it become more difficult to make progress, and has for consequences to be unable to move beyond it's current realm;

It's currently the afternoon, 14 clock. We are outside of an old farm field, which has been specially designed for training. A few bench could be seen on the side of the field, and in front of the field, was the door that led inside the farm and ahead of it, was a podium made of wood and painted in white, specially made for today.

A dozen of adult were talking near the podium, their const.i.tutions are robust, and in that group could be seen the chief of the village, Fernandez Kozal, the only Expert of the village.

”I'm so excited ! The chief of the village will make us Ki pract.i.tioner!”

”If I work well, I could become a Knight and protect my mom and my sister of any problem !”

”Guys do you know what kind of exercises we will be doing?”

”No idea”

The children near me are talking. They are actually a few dozens of them. They are quite excited to know that they will be trained by the chief of the village, and most importantly, that they may have a chance to be recognized and supervised by a Knight.

They also all came in practical outfits for sport, which are simply loose clothes made of resistant fabric since they know the training will start today.

Even though I'm near those kids, I'm not training with them since I'm too young. I'm out of the field, on the side with my mother. My father is an itinerant merchant, so he's usually not in home. Hence, it's my mother that fill most of my needs. Beside my mother, there is also the parents of each kids here.

I'm actually in my mother's arms. That act is be a bit embarra.s.sing but in her arm, I've a better vision that when I'm standing up alone. Also, my appearance is that of a kid, so I don't feel that much embarra.s.sed in her arms.

A few minutes later, the chief of the village climb up to the podium accompanied by a few busty adult and elders.

”Varos, do you see that? It's the chief of the village. I think you already saw him but not that clearly before right?” my mother whispered near my ear.

The chief of the village is quite tall, over 1.95 at least. His body seems full of power too. He's seems to be over 40 I guess, with sharp brown eyes as well as his hair, which are very short. He wears a white s.h.i.+rt, with a black pant and long boot.

Overall, I would say that the quality of his clothe are cheap, but they portray perfectly his personality, straightforward and confident of himself, with a slight smart side. I wouldn't say he look handsome, but he looks confident for sure.

He looked at the kids and then at their parents and said ”Welcome everyone, I'm Kozal, chief of this town. As you all know thanks to my son and a.s.sistants, a Knight will be coming in a few years train a few of your kids, but the primary reason beyond that is for the the selection of the most talented juniors of this nation. As a Knight, he will have the right to recommend and acknowledged a few children here that will have the chance to study in one of the official academies of the country, and could even become in the future a National Knight which will serve the nation.

To prepare ourselves for his coming, we decided to train the younger generation in order to unveil their potentials. Those concerned are kids beyond 3 years old and younger than 17 years old. The goal behind it is not to find the strongest kids here, but the most talented ones. Those who are talented enough may have the chance to serve the king in person, do no forget that.”

The villagers and the kids listened with attention to his speech. Not even a fly could be heard.

Kozal gazed carefully at them, took a long breath and began to talk again with a stronger voice ”For now, the field will be divided on three part, according your ages. We will start today, the first part of the training will only be about physical and stamina enhancement.”

”Physical enhancement? But shouldn't it be better to train the kids directly how to feel or manifest their Ki, or make them learn a few techniques?”

”That's right, we don't have enough time for regular exercises chief!”

”Chief, couldn't you simply skip that part?”

The parents seems to be confused and slightly disappointed by how Kozal is handling the training, and seeing the confusion of their parents, the children began at their turn to complain.

”Silence!” He shouted with a powerful voice. All the noises and complains were shut down. ”Indeed, we will need at a certain point try to make them manifest their Ki but before that, we need to enhance their body first. If the body is correctly trained, then manifesting their Ki will be easier, and using it will be more proficient than if their were not trained before that. Ki is a fabulous a.s.set that can be used by us humans, but if used incorrectly, it will be a double edged knife. If the body can't handle it's own Ki, it will only result of self injury”.

The crowd seemed a bit awkward and appease after hearing that.

Seeing the crowd a bit ashamed of themselves, Kozal resumed his speech ”I understand your disappointment, but we can't precipitate the process, it's vital for your children. I won't be the only one to the supervise the training too, as you see, near me are a few envoys of the n.o.bility.

They are Regulars, they have great knowledge about Ki and they are here to help me to supervise this training” Kolvac said while looking at his right side and then at his left side.

Regular? Is it a new realm? From the way Kozal is speaking about them, they doesn't seems to be stronger than him, in fact, from their build, the way they are standing and their presences, they seems to be only a bit stronger in term of raw strength than the strongest villagers if we forget Kozal.