CH-7- Deep Hound Punch and ..Kick?

The 10 days of Liam's training with grandpa Faux has come to an end.

"So it's time to part"

Liam seems a bit sad. He had grown somewhat fond of Faux.

"Oh! don't make that sad face. If destiny allows us me can make an acquaintance again somewhere in the future"

This farewell was already stamped the day they first met and there was no way around it.

Not wanting to see his cute 10 days disciple sad he cheered up his mood.

" I had a really good time with you Liam."

"Umm.."

Liam looked like he has something to say

"Say it"

"I'm sorry. I.. I doubted you when we first met"

Faux found it funny

"hahaha! Don't sweat it. Well time to say goodbye then"

" Yes. And thank you grandpa Faux. For everything"

Bowing deeply he showed his respect.

Nodding he started walking away.

Looking at his retreating back he felt reluctant.

Soon grandpa Faux's image was nowhere to be seen.

"huh!".

Sighing he looked at his surrounding .

" We made quite a mess."

The spot where Liam was standing was the center of 200m radius circle which was leveled up by him and grandpa Faux training.

The whole area around has been cleared up.

"Guess I am on my own then"

He started heading towards the camp.

Grandpa Faux has gone considerably far into the forest and was heading somewhere.

"That kid. He gave me one suprises after another. He already managed to reach the bronze stage 2 of dragon scale skin. His meditation speed is compared to a genius. If no misshappenings I can meet him again in the future as a dazzling young mage of this era.

He even got me worked up sometimes during our sparring. I was also even forced to execute magic to enhance my speed, not that I even used 1 percent of my power but still heads off to you kiddo.

Hope to meet you soon Liam. Very soon"

And he disappeared .

Liam sitting inside the tent was taking a rest lying down raising his right leg over the left.

He was now already at novice apprentice stage 4.

His body has gone considerable change in both strength , speed and magic.

His body has started to look more ripped and dense than before though the size of his body remained as before due to the moon beauty body.

Liam had gone very rigorous training with grandpa Faux in this 10 days without a stop, so he was forbidden to train or meditate today to stabalize his body.

After breaking through to the novice apprentice stage 4 he found that he didn't require as much sleep of food he did before to sustain his tension of training training.

Increase in mage level enhance one's body's capabilities. The higher level mages can survive days without any sleep or food.

"Ah! I remember father giving me 'The deep hound punch arts'. Lets go through that"

The deep hound punch arts was given to Liam by his father when he left home to train himself.

He had totally forgot about that due to the last 10 days.

He scrambled through his stuff and took out the manual from his backpack.

He flipped the pages and started exploring it.

(Deep Hound Punch. A technique to channel a thick amount of magic to your hands and release it the moment your punch connects and release it with a thrust. Try to suppress the point of magic release to increase the pressure of the punch at a particular point.)

Basically this explains to gather a certain amount of magic to your hands and release it upon the contact.

"hmm sounds interesting, well no work today so sleep through the day it is"

With this Liam lost himself in a comfy sleep. The stress he accumulated during the previous days let him dive into zzzzzs within a minute.

The whole day flipped out to the next with Liam with his eyes closed and murmuming in his dreams.

When his sleep broke it was not the next day yet.

There was still some time for the Sun rays.

Liam standing nearing a big tree was ready to test out the new technique.

Slowly magic was being concentrated in his fist turning it a bit blue. It was due to the fact that he was using his ice element. In future when he discovers his other elements it may give out a different colour.

"ya!"

He threw out a punch to the tree

"Dhup"

At the instant when the punch connected Liam tried to compress the magic and release it at the point but all the magic dispersed with an instantaneous smoke.

There was an imprint of of fist left on the tree but this was not thanks to the technique but due to his base of novice apprentice stage 4 and the dragon scale skin, the technique itself has failed.

"I didn't think it would he so hard to grasp the way of compressing the magic. Let's keep grinding then"

The sun has woke up by now and it has been two hours.

Liam has been continuously hitting trees for straight 2 hrs.

His hand were all red and bruised. Blood was dripping from Liam's hands.

"ha!, ha! ha!" He still kept punching no matter the pain.

Till now 5 trees had been ruined due to his punches. This one was about done as well.

While breathing heavily he finished his final punch on tree.

"YAH!."

"Dhussss!" The tree's spine been broken it collapsed on the ground.

"I think I'm starting to get it now. One last time"

Moving to the other tree, he gathered his magic one last time.

He took a deep breath , keeping his focus all on the target.

"yaaaaaaaah!"

With all dedication the last punch was released.

His hand totally penentrated the tree.

Liam's whole arm was inside the tree fist fist peeking out the other side.

Finally he could compress the magic to a particular point.

Though he hasn't totally mastered the technique. The tree did collect some collateral damage out of this technique besides the area of the punch.

Liam flattened his back on the ground. He was out of juice for the time being.

"Didn't knew, huh! huh! this technique huh! would reduce me to such state"

After gaining his strength back he kicked back up.

"Compresseing magic hmm.

Umm,then can I"

An idea started brewing in his mind.

"Yes! To it"

He wanted to do the same with his kicks as he did with his punches.

5hrs passed by.

Liam was still kicking the poor tress.

His legs were totally swollen. He was not able to to do it. Leave compression of magic, gathering the magic in his legs and releasing it proved to be much more difficult.

"Why ? ough! is it so difficult to do it. The punches were much easier."

He was racking his brain for a solution.

"Ah!". Liam seemed to have recalled something.

" Yes , how can I forget it?! I have read it when I was a child. There are total of 100 magic release points in the body spread throughout. Each fist contains 15 points evenly spread out. But incase of the legs there are 21 in each feet.

The difference doesn't sound much but it clearly is making quite a obstacle.

There are less points in the hand compared to the legs thats why it is easy to control the

punches but making it difficult for the kicks.

The flow of magic and compression won't be easy in the foot"

What Liam thought was totally on point.

Due to availability of less points on the hands its easy to control the release of magic but as the legs concentrate more of them it's harder to keep them under command.

" I'll keep trying though. I can succeed if I keep trying. I'm sure of it.

Time went by and it was the 18th day of his training phase.

Liam kept pounding off tons of sweat as usual.

He meditated, practiced his martial arts and swordplay at a daily basis , and kept refining his magic techniques day by day.

His dragon scale skin was already at the bronze stage.

Grandpa Faux had explained him that the dragon scale skin consisted various stages-

Bronze stage, Silver stage, Diamond stage, Advanced stage , Profound stage and at last the master stage. Each more powerful than the other.

Being at the bronze stage he could already lift a load of 70 kgs easily.

His body was much durable than before and maybe he had grown 0.01cm in height.

"hyah!" He was practice the technique he named

'Deep Hound kick'

He swinged his leg mercilessly on yet another tree. This time his leg sliced through half the tree trunk easily.

He was now getting a hang of it.

Relesing , compressing and thrusting of magic from his legs now seemed a bit easy but it was not totally perfected.

Liam stared up towards the endless sky.

"12 more days"

Only twelve more days were left till the family gathering battles. He decided to work even harder in these coming 11 days then head back to his home.

"Uncle would be home too by the time I reach"

Liam's uncle, the elder brother of his father Liman and the patriach of the Cloudhart family

'Trek Cloudhart'.

He was off to the neighboring city to attend to some critical matters promised to come by the beginning of the family gathering battles.

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Time waits for none and Liam was no exception.

It was already the 29th day of the 30 Liam had decided to train within.

He was wrapping up the tent and his stuffs ready to head back to the city.

"Here I come. Ready to hold your jaws ladies and gentlemen"