Chapter 69: Infinite training

A silver shield with a golden crest in the middle resembling a sun with eight rays scattered all around the silver platter. I started running even faster and blocked the shots coming straight at me. I was able to run away from the falling rays, right before they hit me. I was able to get away from those projectiles. Overcame my fear, fear of dying. I got away from it and now I was just running straight forward to face the thing. Not scared, not at all. I was just a few jumps away from it and the weapon he was using changed into something that resembles a large scythe, he made a great wind up and swing, the scythe incredibly large and hard to avoid, my legs were at the point of giving up. Exhausted to the point where I felt the muscles pulsate. A cramp was about to come forth and cripple me for a short amount of time. I pulled through the pain and jumped over the swing when I landed back, pain. Pain just thundered through my body.

But there is no way that I would give up at this point. I went closer once I regained my balance, looked at the being. It's so bright my eyes are almost not responding when I am that close to him. The shield changed again to my usual sword, two handed sword. I made a thrust and this time I got a direct hit onto my opponent right in the chest. But it seemed as if it didn't care about being pierced by a sword… It changed the spear into a dagger and stabbed me right in the back.

I woke up in the cave, in a nice and hot environment. No pain was inflicted on my already fragile body because of the previous endeavors with pain. That training… The thing I thought, probably very normal to survive a wound to the chest at those levels of play. Play? More like certain death… It just pains a man enough to screw with him but I was able to pull through that weird thing. I lost anyway though, not scared anymore. Is that the thing Estel was talking about? Training in my own mind as if it was just real training outside of my mind? A recreation of feelings of pain, scare, and others like those. But still exactly like that.

I was able to create that thing in my own mind, feel all of the things I would in a real life while being asleep, and all good. I just woke up without any pain and anything negative, no, I woke up and already feel that it changed something in me, like… Something a little warmer appeared inside me. Is that because of the way the shield looked? It had a great golden sun on itself. Is that the warmth I feel right now? That crest manifested inside of myself?

Interesting… That weird white fog made me a lot stronger. I feel it already in my bones, much more effective than doing it with Bog and Marcus, Estel is the only one close to that weird glow. But he also has one life… I can't fight him endlessly if he has just one life. A very weird thing to say but god doesn't have lives. God is infinite, God is not going to die easily in a fight. Even when fighting demons, witches, or other cursed things in the world. It will be a fight worth watching and the show wouldn't be short as well.

They are sleeping, it's the middle of the night. I don't want to sleep with anything to do. I will head back to training with the weird being… Try to master more. If in one fight I got to use a shield, maybe, but maybe. I will be able to master a lot more. Well, not a master. But be able to wield it in a fight just like that. Fast, ferocious, and deadly to the brim. I closed my eyes, imagination pumped back up. The fire's sounds disappeared once again, the thing appeared in front of my eyes. The same glow in the dark, the thing started. We went into another brawl with now much more to lose. The consciousness left… I was fully focused on the fight, at least trying to scratch the thing more than before.

I didn't feel the flow of time inside, I probably was there for several hours at this point. Fighting with almost no break, several hours of fighting. My imaginary body is already in shreds, almost unable to do anything. I opened my eyes, it was morning, the sun bathed the entrance with its rays and my own heat also increased by the crest. I looked around the rocky room, they were still sleeping. Now I have to retract what happened in the training… I don't want to forget about the lessons I've learned from there.

I fought probably around 50 times during that time with some breaks while just sitting and trying to find any weakness to that thing. But how can I find weakness if I myself am so flawed… I just can't yet. All of its moves seem just so perfect. I can't find a single flaw in them. Why? Because I, am flawed myself, much more than that thing. Maybe it isn't flawed? I don't know. But I wasn't able to change the weapon into anything else than sword and shield. As I fought that thing, only once, just once, was I able to hit it twice. Out of 50 attempts, only one gave me the chance to do critical damage twice. The 26th attempt. That one I was able to do that kind of damage twice. Right at the moment where I was about to get stabbed by the dagger, I dodged it that time and in the same motion, I was ready to wind up just in time. Made a slash right at its side… But the body was too tough to cut through. I only hit it with the blade. If that was a normal human I would win, but it wasn't a human, that was just a weird thing that took me away. It killed me, I wasn't able to react to its movement because of exhaustion. It slashed me in half… And I didn't wake up. I just woke up back in there.

Sitting and looking at the glow, it wasn't moving back there. I was looking at the motionless sun, just not existing at this point as an enemy. But as light. Huffing loud, really loud, and very intense at that. Hard to do anything while being so destroyed. At least it gave me some rest… I was doing the previous 25 attempts without rest so all after were just pain. Clear and utter pain… I pulled through and went for another 24 ties but wasn't successful in any of those. All were just the same. The finishing line was the dagger… All of the fights went the very same way with the arrows making me go where I always did. It felt frustrating, it felt like an unending cycle where it all just goes the same. I felt no improvement there.

But there was a thing that improved, my ability to not give up. It got better, god filled my heart now and the only god knows what lingers in my mind. Even though he still hasn't spoken to me once, I know that he wants what I want. Change the world, the flesh he left. His own life that he gave up to give us life. And we are wasting it.

I was able to grasp more from the being itself which was intriguing. What was it actually? A man? Devil? Or is it the way God wants to communicate? What was that? I will probably learn once I defeat that thing, at least once. It would give me information, I am sure of it!

I left the cave to welcome the fresh breeze, loud gasp, and a reminder from nothingness. The animals won't attack us… They still don't believe that they will be there, the animals I spoke of, they think I am crazy. But I know what I am talking about. They will attack, many will die, blood will be spoilt. And god, will be happy. The animals doing the job I will do later but on a much larger scale. Much, larger. I took the flint knife, looked at it. I wanted to take my own life with that weird, small, and still very sharp object. I cut off a part of the meat from the animal's corpse. The fire was still breathing but almost at the edge of just dying out completely. I took a lot of wood, made a triangle out of it, and started blowing air inside to enlarge the flames and make a new fire. It worked! I was able to create another fire and very slowly I started cooking the cut. The last part of ribs from the boar, put them on the fire in a way to not burn it too much.

The smell was very nice and smiles appeared on all of their faces, once again. Marcus woke up first and looked at me with a smile, pretty weird. We are here for a second day and it already feels like a routine. Scary how easy you can get used to something, anything that is better than the bad things you lived through. Even just a little better...

The prison, the cave, the cold winds with no fire, a wooden wall defending us from the cold. Fire. No fire in the prison. What does it mean? This place is a lot better than the prison itself. In theory… We could stay here forever and just live in this place. But we want to escape, we won't be able to escape from here. Just as he said, exactly as the general of this place said. We can't escape the mountain, we would die from cold, from exhaustion from climbing. Our bodies are going completely numb to be direct. So we have to go away, especially two days from now. We will start the escape plan… I hope they are still alive. I want to get away from this place and try to get the relic I was supposed to find according to the devil's map. A devil relic in hands of the tool of god… I will have to pray for my soul.

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