Red Blood Apple

Westerdragon Forest

Arcus walks through the forest. His eyes remain alert for prey. Today it's time to hunt because the food stock is gone. He walk through the bushes and watch around because he could also collect the wild herbs to eat. Time passes, Arcus has not found any animals to hunt.

There was a sound from the bushes. Arcus immediately get aim to shoot if it is an animal. A rabbit jumps out of a bush. Arcus is ready to shoot and pull the bowstring and release the arrow. The distance is only 20 meters. He is confident to shoot right on target.

'Wissh' Arrow flies towards the rabbit and pierces the body until the rabbit dies.

"Finally after a long time, I get an animal. Why lately it is very difficult to find prey? What's wrong with this forest? "

Arcus takes the corpse of a rabbit and searches for another prey to hunt. During the hunt he also discovered wild herbs.

"This is Red Grass, it's useful for treating minor injuries. This is also Bloppia Leaf, useful for treating flu when boil it and drink it. "

"I also have to find fruits to eat. It's all because result of hunt is few this time." Arcus is looking for wild fruits to bring home.

In the middle of the hunt, he found a strange tree that size is not large and only as high as adults. He saw the tree bear fruit like a pear but the skin color of the fruit was very red like blood. He try to remember the name of the fruit from his memory, he knew it from his mother. "Well, I seem to know this fruit."

"Aaaahhh, this is Red Blood Apple. When people eat this it will clean their blood. So this is called Red Blood because the juice of this fruit like blood and it will replacing impure blood with more pure blood. It's very useful to train the body for martial artist. "

"I'm very lucky to find it here. This is rare because many need it so the amount in the forest is very few. "

When Arcus is picking the fruit and putting it in his bag. Without realizing it, there is an ape looking for fruits to eat. The ape was about 4 meters tall and had a thick red hair all of it body and red eyes too. It's hands are large and like stone fist, anyone who is hit with the fist may be destroyed. The ape saw a human being picking up it's food. It immediately shout and run towards the man because of anger.

"ROAAARR"

"Damn, why there are such big ape here. I have to run." Arcus ran to find a safe distance to shoot with his bow. He know that he is not strong in close combat. Because he only practice with his bow while his knife he has just for cook or cut animals.

The ape keep chasing after Arcus who run not far from him. Arcus utilizes terrain in the forest to trick the ape. He also tried to shoot his arrow as he move because he had been practicing even though he was still not skilled.

'Wissh' arrow fly but still miss the ape.

"Why it miss the ape?" He try once again after running and make a distance between him and ape about 50 meters.

'Wissh' This time still miss because the monkey saw the arrow moving towards it and it dodge so that the arrow miss on target.

Arcus run again and keep running. The ape get angry because the man dare to fight him but do not dare in close combat. Arcus continues to move while still shoot if there is any chance.

Some time later, Arcus's arrows managed to hit the target, but when the arrowhead touched the ape's skin, the arrow did not penetrate the ape skin.

"What?? Why can not penetrate it skin? I have to try again."

Arcus try again even though few arrows hit the target. But the result remains the same, the arrows can not penetrate the ape skin.

"In that case, I can only run from the ape. Ughh, it was a bad day." Arcus understood that the resistance he was doing did not work. He could only run until the ape could not chase him anymore. He runs up to find a small cave that can only be enter by his small body. He knew the ape was so big, so he could not get inside the cave.

'Come on, quickly. Soon I can reach the cave and I will be safe.'

Arcus enters the cave and goes into hiding. Apes who saw it, yelled and tried to get in but could not because the body is too big. It tried to put it hand but still could not reach the human. The ape finally wait for human because it know that the man will be out.

"Hufft, it looks like I can not get out of this cave. I'd better stay here till the monkey leaves. "

"That ape is very strange. I see it for the first time in the forest. Normally I can pierce any skin with my arrow, but this time it's different. Why the ape is so powerful "

Arcus finally try to walk deeper into the cave. Apparently this cave is quite spacious although the entrance of this cave is very narrow. he take out his food to eat from his bag. The food that he had only a few rabbits and fruits he picked.

"With this I can survive for a few days. I can not stay here for long. I will come out until the apes get out of there. "

Despite being inside the cave he keep practicing with his breathing technique. He feels that he is still very weak because he can only escape from the ape.

'I have to get stronger.' Arcus feels his inner force is easier to direct to his muscles. This cave is like making it easier to train his body.

"It's not what it used to be. Why if I practice here is easier than at my hut. "

He continue to train his body. He feel that if he practice here then the progress of his training would be twice as fast.

He finish his training because he was hungry. "Too bad I can only stay here for a while."

He take Red Blood Apple for him to eat. He knew it was very useful to train his body to clean his blood because the breathing technique he had was only training the skin and muscles.

After he ate the apple. He feel his body hot and sweat pouring down his body. The skin becomes redder. Suddenly he feel pain in his body.

'Why with me? Why so pain? I have to bear it. I must get stronger! '

Arcus endured the pain, during which he did not make any noise. He can only endure to become stronger. Without realizing it after the pain disappears, he loses consciousness and falls asleep.

In the body of Arcus, the new blood begins to replace the impure blood to supply energy for the body. Blood is very important for the body because the blood flows throughout the body and very useful for the flow of energy throughout the body so that all the cells in the body can work. martial art will train the blood to be more pure and useful for regeneration of the body.