006: New toys

When I woke up, I was lying in the floor of the 'bigger' cage. near where I was, I saw a new weapon and another source of knowledge. 'This time they are knives, huh...' Furthermore, those weren't the only change in the room. Now there were targets in the walls, and needless to say, the exits were blocked, and the corpse of the bear remained there, somehow unrotten. "When are you going to read the book to begin the training? Hurry up, brat" I heeded to his request and began reading.

After some hours...

'Finished.' Now I finally begin training. Before, I said daggers. Yes, there were two sets of knives. 5 throwing knives and 2 daggers. The first thing we trained were the basics of melee using the daggers, using both, or one in the left hand or the right (by the way, I am ambidextrous). We spent the whole day training that (and cultivating to rest). But when the time to sleep came, no gas sipped in. Since it didn't come, I would keep practicing. But... I was hungry. I looked at the corpse. 'Do I really have to do this again?' I got closer to the bear as my hunger kept growing. I used the dagger to open its corpse apart and began eating "Thanks for the meal" (Author notes: Itadakimasu...)

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When I finished, there only remained a sixth of its original corpse. 'That was definitely a good meal'. After that, we kept practicing the melee techniques. That lasted for three days (including the first day). The two days afterwards, we practiced throwing knives. If until now Kuro was hard on me, now he sas even more strict. I had to hit the center of the five targets with the 5 knives in about 8 seconds at most. Well,I had 1.6 seconds for target, and thise 1.6 seconds further divided in picking the knife, aiming at the target, and throwing the knife. It was almost impossible, but at the end of the second day(2d day since I began practicing the throwing, if we talk about knife practice in general it would be the fifth day), I managed to do it. Barely, but I did it. In the sixth day, I would train my body and cultivate, but... "Do you want to know how to use that energy that you have been cultivating?(Shiro)" He meant my cultivation base. I was sure of it. "Yes" Let's see what I have been acquiring all this time. "Right now, you are at Energy Origin rank. First of all, Ranks don't mean strength. An Energy Origin Ranker might be able to defeat a Thread Refinement Ranker, or even higher rankers, but it's always good to have higher versatility. Until now you have been adding the energy to the primal origin, and we have been refining that energy into different lumps depending on their elements, that became different primal origins, one per element, but we want you to refine the first unattached dot. Allow me to keep explaining, Origin Energy rankers sort energy into dots. The first one for each element is the Primal Origin. A dot that can only be inside you, so it won't be extremely useful. From then onwards, the dots that you manage to create are 'unattached' and they can enter and exit your body, and you will be able to control them freely. Dots have possible actions: Absorb and Burst. Absorb simply absorbs the nearby energy. Burst creates an explosion, but don't worry, it won't destroy the dot, or deplete completely its energy in normal cases, it will only use the amount you want to be used. When you cultivate, try to remember what I told you, and don't forget, you must create it inside you so that energy is connected to you. If not, you won't be able to move it freely. Now you can begin." It was good to know so much, so after some exercise with our strict friend and trainer 'Kuro', I began cultivating, but before, I tried sensing the primal origins. When I sat down to try, it worked. I could clearly feel the lumps of energy. I began absorbing energy, but as soon as I did, I was really careful to leave it far from the origins, creating a lump of unrefined energy types (since I had to split them into their own elements once I gathered them) and when the lump was big enough, I began separating the different energies into dots. And it worked. First step done. And so I kept training since I already felt okay to keep the physical exercise. And when I got tired I would create another dot and divide the elements. And I did so until the night arrived... and a new trial was about to come upon me.