Lonely Boy

Westerdragon forest, Stonelake continent.

The morning sun shines brightly through the crevice of a trees. It smells of dew in the early morning. The sound of birds chirping and squirrels jumping between trees. A boy run down the path. He run very fast like he was chasing something. A composite bow in his hand and a quiver on his back.

He is Arcus, a boy who lives in this forest. This morning, he is hunting for animals to take home and eat. Arcus lives alone. He was an orphan, his parents were killed by bandits who attacked their village. Both his parents protected him from attack, then his mother took him away to the forest near his village. They ran, but bandits managed to chase after them. Finally, Arcus hides in a cave, but his mother diverts bandits and ran away from Arcus's cave.

Arcus hides for 3 days. He came out of the cave after it was safe. He tried to get back to his village but the situation was in turmoil. Houses and rice fields were destroyed, corpses everywhere. He was looking for his father, but he did not find him. He only found his composite bow in the ruins of his house. He just returned to the Westerdragon forest.

This morning, Arcus hunts animal and he sees a deer drinking by the side of pool. He tries to aim and shoots it, but he fails to keep his mark. It finally escaped, cause knowing the situation was in danger.

"Damn, I should not rush to shoot"

Arcus run after it.

'If i practice often, i would not like this'

Deer run through the forest, and stop when the situation was secure. But it turns out, Arcus still aiming behind bushes.

'This time I should not fail'

Arcus aimed very carefully, he tried not to make a sound that would scare the deer.

'Wisshh'

Arrows are release and stab right about the body of the deer. The deer fall and wailing. It finally die.

Arcus approached the deer and took it back to his hut. Although he looks skinny but he can lift more than 20 kg. Because he practiced breathing technique to train his body.

Arriving at the hut, he cleaned his body. It is already afternoon. He cooks his hunt for him to eat. His activities every day in addition to hunting, which is to practice. He was determine to take revenge on the bandits who killed both his parents and attacked his village.

He open a paper containing breathing technique. He has learned this technique ever since he got it in his house ruins, 2 years ago. Now he is 12 years old. The technique he studied was called Great Muscle Breath Technique. It is divided into two stages of training the skin and training the muscles. By breathing according to rhythm, it will direct the inner force to change the skin as hard as copper and muscle as strong as steel. Each stage is divided into 4 stages namely initial, middle, late, and peak.

"I've been in the peak stages of training my skin and just a little more I can get into the muscle training stage."

Arcus breathes in rhythm and directs inner force to train his muscles. Sweat run down his head. The room temperature becomes hot because train the body uses inner force also takes energy from environtment. He practiced for quite a while.

'Boom'

He smile. He manage to direct the force in to his muscles until he finally enter the initial stage of muscle training stage. At this stage, he also turned into martial art disciple. Breathing technique is a way to train the human body. The person who trains his body is called martial artist.

"Finally I can train my muscles. So this is martial art disciple. I can feel my power increases. With this step I was getting closer to take revenge. After the martial art disciple, there are still martial art warrior. I'm also still in the initial stages while martial arts are divided into 4 stages namely the initial, middle, late, and peak. I can do it."

Arcus finally breaks after a day of hunting and training.

The next day, he practiced archery. He loves bow and arrows because this is the only memory of his parents. He was taught by his father, how to shoot well because his father was a hunter. He practice pulling the bowstring with all his might. This is useful for increasing the speed and strength of the arrows when released. Then proceed by shooting the target with a different distance.

"After entering the stage of muscle training, my power really increases. Now I find it easier to pull this bow. "

"Well now is the time, shoot the target, I'm often in a hurry and finally fail to shoot right. Now let's focus."

'Focus'

He tries to shoot at targets ranging from 20 meters, 50 meters, 70 meters, 100 meters and 200 meters. He always shoots 10 arrows to each target.

'Wissh' 'Wissh' 'Wissh'

"Huft, this time how the results?"

He approach the target he had made. He uses the target material that is the tree he has marked.

"This time starting from the target of 20 meters and 50 meters, I can hit it with all the arrows, for 70 meters only 9 arrows, while 100 meters only 5 arrows and for 200 meters only 2 arrows. This result is better than yesterday. Looks like I'm getting stronger. I have to keep practicing until I can shoot better. "

"Then I will practice shooting with being move. If I can do this, I can shoot while chasing someone. "

Arcus tries to practice shooting while moving. He tried to target 20 meters and 50 meters.

'Wissh' 'Wissh' 'Wissh'

"It is also difficult to shoot while moving. As I move, I lose focus so the arrow is not on target. I also have to adjust my movements. My movements are still rough and irregular."

Arcus train until the day was over. He does this every day to get stronger. He will also go hunting if the stock of food is going to run out. He is also looking for wild herb that exist in this forest.

His mother is a herb gatherer and he often helps his mother to find wild herb in the forest to eat and made into medicine. Until he also understands which plants can be eaten and which plants are poisonous.

A few days later, the stock of food in the hut ran out.

Morning.

"Time to hunt"