Chapter 108 (1/2)

Chapter 108

Chapter 108: Ones Closest To Gods

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“No! I said left foot out at a forty-degree angle Your center of gravity should be aligned with your right heel since that is your pivot foot, do you understand, stray?” The instructor had just cracked his whip to get me in proper position as he went around the class

Grittingmy left foot to comply with my instructor’s flawed technique If I hadn’t, it would only iven since eren’t to be fed until everyone had perfectly gone through the stances and forms from the day’s lessons

Days at this “institution” had consisted of eight hour co, which I found somewhat flawed, then meditation to nurture our ki centers for around ten hours after The re and sleeping Students whose centers had developed enough to learn ki techniques were separated froroup and placed into specialty classes depending on their aptitudes

Those that were not able to awaken their ki centers were to be “relocated”, of which I had later realised that it really meant ‘to be disposed of’ For i the ti two hours after actually only iven to sleep to unlearn all of the garbage that the instructors had regarded as martial art and train in my own techniques

The only useful inforht us were the vital spots in a human; the weak points Their techniques were a brutish, senseless way of trying inflict daard to how the opponentas one follows the proper steps, the user will reach their target and inflict pain on him or her Like I said… senseless

I hid the fact that h to learn ki techniques for as long as possible sinceI knew that once I advanced to the higher level classes, it would give me less time for me to train on my own My one stroke of luck at that ti upon a ki technique book for hiding the user’s presence I had engulfed the words in that book like it was fresh water in a barren desert The technique rade one, but I had practiced the technique to such a degree that it provided me with the ability to sneak into the library where they held all of the ki techniques

Now that I think back, I probably wasn’t that tall in ht to ten hours a week because of howthe techniques I kneould’ve been useless for me to try and learn all of the techniques, so I had narrowed it down and studied only the ki arts that wouldrun

I’ve realized that, while the library had been secured, it wasn’t really heavily guarded; the reason being that, even if a student were to have trespassed inside, they wouldn’t have been able to figure out on their o to learn the techniques Much like thethe user’s presence, the other ki technique on that no orphaned child or teenager would’ve known

That o off on to learn the techniques were the crudely drawn pictures that showed the necessary steps in learning and using the ki art

It didn’t strikeback on it now, it would’ve been easy to discern that I was nothing short of being a prodigy Just by studying the pictures of thethe steps for the ki art, I was able to grasp how the ki was supposed to flow inside my body to properly execute the technique

The first ki art I had learned after breaking into the library was a series of ki enhanced footwork techniques that I had practiced until the soles of my feet almost showed my bones The technique looked like a tap dance sequence without proper ki flow, but once I had ed to input the proper flow of ki into the appropriate appendages at the appropriate time, I was able to evade, reposition, sneak behind, basically teleport within a li that ki art, the technique I mastered and fine-tuned to make it even better, to defeat the saood reason

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The look on his face when I hadneck, I can still vividly recall His wide, astonished eyes shaking as his ether words to form a petty and convenient excuse that would allow him to save so, the foot technique that I had mastered and made my own left e, etc

However, when I had come to this world, there was little use for it once e to use the technique that I had once relied so heavily on and it seemed so much simpler to just conjure a wall to block whatever projectile was hurled towardsso abundant and all, I had never needed to regulate and control my mana output

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It’s a how the human brain recalls moments of the past All the rained even deeper into the hippocaly ancient memory of my previous childhood times had been suddenly evoked as if my life flashed before my eyes just as a simple loeep fros sie another sharp jab that dislocated ht shoulder I was all but defenseless as I shi+fted glances between the ree and my severed left arm that he had in his hand

Windsoreatly di would these wounds be if It actually happened to me?

The one responsible for my currenth,” he said as the world faded into black And, like that, I ake again with all of my limbs attached and unbroken

I immediately crumpled to all fours and hurled the remainder of my last meal as I heaved for breath My vomit immediately dissipated in the s in I wasn’t sure if I et because of the ical liquid that I was surrounded in or because of the profuse aed froed to choke out in between gasps

“The human boy has admirable willpower How much time has passed, Windsom?” the same deep and controlled voice as the one that had broken most of the 206 bones in my body asked calmly

“About five minutes have passed out here,” Windsohly an hour has passed for us in there” The lean man with a shaved head remarked in a way that was neither disappointed nor proud, just arded the two asuras’ conversation with a weary curiosity while wiping voain,” I de back up in the ht me in the middle of this sacred pool