chapter 23

I nod and feel really excited. After only two days, I'll receive so many things.

I then say to Quiron -- "Don't worry, I'll surpass everyone else and get ranked first in all the subjects before I finish my second year." --

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Quiron suddenly turns serious and tells me -- " Don't compare yourself to others. What you should be searching is to surpass yourself and become smarter and stronger, getting ranked first is something that comes along the way. Remember this, the only person you should try to surpass is you, over and over again. It doesn't matter if you get ranked first, second or third, what matters is that each time you do it better. It took me a long time before I realized this."--

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I'm curious and I ask him --" When or how did you realize it?" -- He looks at me and says -- "When I became the strongest martial artist of course. Who could I compare to? I was the strongest one. " -- When he finishes saying that he starts to laugh like a maniac. After being startled a few seconds, I start laughing as well. I didn't know Quiron could be so funny. When we stop laughing he says --" Seriously, remember this. It took me too much time, I would have become stronger faster if I knew this from the start. Is something hard to achieve and probably only around 1% of people can be like this in everything. I hope someday you could be one of that 1%. The fastest the better of course.

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After that we start practicing the same way we've been for the last three days.

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When we finish today's practice, I've been able to remember at least 40% of the time 8 objects. Even if its slower than I thought, progress is progress.

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I go back to my pyramid and after a shower I go to interplanet to search all I can about ambrosia and it's effects.

After a few hours I discover a few things I didn't know. They told me for each person it's different, but they didn't explain to me much about those differences. As I already knew, there are some people that awaken the power to control a specific element, like water, fire, wind, etc. But I now know that people that awaken water aren't able to turn it into ice until they reach a high level of understanding in it and drink more ambrosia. It works the other way too, people with ice won't be able to use water till later. There are other effects that can appear too, for example, a person that used ambrosia awaken the power to control the blood that flowed on his body. He could make all the blood of his arm go to his fists and other things. Surprisingly he could only control his own blood.

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I saw tons of different powers that people received and I couldn't help but feel excited and expectant towards the powers I would awake.

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Two more days and I'll discover it though.

Before I went to sleep I receives a message in my computer. It was from a classmate that I talked a few times with. He told me that Artemis was going to have a party and that everyone was going to be there. He obviously asked me if I wanted to know. It makes me nervous thinking about it, as I've never been in a party before and to be worse with this guys of aristocrats families, I don't know if I should go. My friend also tells me that I've been invited, if I wanted to go I could just go.

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I'm unsure about what to do so I go to sleep.

I'll think about it tomorrow.