66 Time To Train (2/2)
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Later that day, he gets the same treatment in school, and worse in his class with Ahito. Faust lost to his older brother, Barkha, in the test in front of the whole village.
He with the whole class including his homeroom teacher are laughing at Faust for his nonsensical spouts from the last two years that he will be the top one among the ones that are chosen to go to the mainland.
He comes home with the same feelings while feeling down, he goes on to see the piece of paper that Caitlyn gave him. He changes his clothes, wraps his hands in bandages around his fingers and wrists like the tapes that boxers put on. He also ties an axe on to his back and get ready to sweat blood.
”Faust, let me come with you today.” Gus tags along with Faust just as Faust is about to head out.
Faust without replying anything, heads into the woods with Gus following behind him. He reaches deep into his self-built training ground.
The grass have been cleanly cut in a twenty feet space like a ground of oval shape, a heavy three feet stone is placed in the middle which is rectangular in shape.
Another boulder like stone is placed a few feet away from that which is 5 feet tall and 4 feet thick. It seems like Faust has been using it as a punching bag.
There are wooden dummies with stones wrapped in soft cloth have been placed. There are also stones of different kilograms. Starting from 5-8-10-12-14-16 according to their shape and size are placed in the middle.
*”He is training really hard huh, I wonder if his bones are withstanding practice on rocks, that is the most risky training to go against the hardness of a rock with the hardness of our human bones. Unless we have good bone density, it is impossible for a person. But Faust! His bone structure and density are built to make him a fighter.”*
*”Even his smaller blows could do much damage if it lands perfectly.”* Gus thinks as he sees Faust practice.
Faust on the other hand is searching for a bad infected tree to practice his skills. Gus notices and realises what he was about to do.
”Oh Faust! Try to practice your tree falling without the axe.” Gus utters to Faust, who is about to go look for a tree.
*”Huh? What is this old geezer saying? Has he lost his mind?”* The thoughts of Faust when he first heard Gus.
”Watch me and learn” Gus says as he approaches a tree. ”Hmmmmm!” He gently, yet carefully observes the trunk of the tree by touch it slowly at every inch.
*”This is good ”* he thinks, landing a barrage of three punches on three sides of the trunk of the tree.