Hellish Training

A few days have passed since Reiner's final test. Madara passed the test, but something unexpected happened while he was resting. The surrounding mana around him started to seep into his body rebuilding and making it stronger.

When Madara woke up, he noticed that his muscles were a bit more tone than the last time he saw his body.

"Well look at me," Madara said as he looked in the mirror flexing his muscles. He was honestly surprised by his body's sudden change, he wasn't complaining because he looked good.

Madara walks out of the room to see a bowl of hot food that had a piece of paper beside it say; "Eat up".

As Madara was eating, he sat back and thought to himself that he was really in an anime world with real magic. He could only dream about doing something like this when he was on earth now look at him, living his dream.

Madara could only cherish these moments because he knows that all of it would come to an end sooner or later.

When Madara finished eating, He went outside to see Reiner sitting in a lotus position.

" I want you to run from that rock to the lake one hundred times," Reiner said not even opening his eyes to look at Madara.

"What?! One hundred times, that's 1,200km, how do you expect me to do that?" Madara said question if he did something to piss off Reiner or him he was just being a dick.

"I didn't ask what you thought about it, NOW RUN!" Reiner shouted at Madara who only felt a little angry as to why he yelled at him, but he was smart he knew whatever Reiner was telling him to do was to better himself.

Madara ran full speed for thirty minutes straight no breaks, he was wondering how his endurance increased so much, but he could only feel a sense of joy while running.

After two hours, Madaras legs started to feel heavy and his chest started to ache, but he kept running if he missed out on this training now he might not get a chance to get it back.

After three more hours, Madara finally finished as he felt like he was going to pass out if he ran any more. He was drenched ins sweat and his legs felt like they weighed a ton.

When he walked back to where Reiner was, he hadn't moved an inch from when he last saw him. Madara felt like he was going to fall so he tried his best to stand straight.

"Give me one thousand pushups," Reiner said. In Madaras eyes, he was a mad man, but Madaras legs hurt not his arms so he got done and started to do them.

Last time, he could only do fifty-three before his arms were feeling heavy, but now, he was pushing five hundred before his arms started to feel tired and heavy.

Madara didn't stop because that would show weakness and he didn't want to have any. Even when his arms were screaming for him to stop and when his arms felt like they were going to burst, he kept going because he had a goal, a goal to be the strongest.

After Madara was finished, he stood up and tried to stretch his arm, but with the slightest movement, his chest, and arms who have spasms. Madara only smiles because he knew that he was getting closer to getting stronger.

"Give me one thousand sit-ups," Reiner said with no change on his face, but on the inside, he was impressed by Madaras change and how he was able to do everything he said to do.

Madaras body was screaming at him to stop, but Madara had one thing on his mind, Strength, and the rush of engaging in battle.

After about two hours, Madara finished his situps. One thing he remembered to do was always use the breathing technique until it was second nature. Madara has gotten better at utilizing this with some difficulty but in those few days, he has gotten further than any other person that would ever try it.

Reiner finally gets up from his spot and opens his eyes to see Madara drench in sweat, along with the slightest movements that his body was making.

"Now, the last two parts of your training today is you getting a deeper and better understanding of your mana. I noticed with your fireball that If you had proper control you could have used less mana and still made the fireball bigger and caused more damage than the one you made," Reiner said as he motioned Madara to sit.

"You must feel the mana around you, you must draw in that mana and make your own. Once you grasp it, tame it and never let it go," Reiner said as he walked around Madara fixing his posture.

Madara begins to focus on the mana around him, as he begins to feel more powerful from the mana entering his body. A bright white aura surrounds Madaras immature body as the aura grows in mass and power.

Madara was having trouble trying to control this much mana at once, but he didn't give up because he knew he would be able to do it.

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In an underground lair or cave, A man with no hair, one eye, and pale skin were injecting something inside a human who was strapped to a table. The humans begin to morph into a small creature, but due to lack of sunlight, it wasn't able to fully transform.

That's when he sensed the large amounts of mana in the far distance. He could tell it was from the forest because that's where he would drop his creations off.

"It looks like I've found my new test subject, but there mana is still underdeveloped. Just wait for me. I have a feeling this will be my best creation, but they won't go down without a fight so I must build my army." The man said with a maniacal laugh.

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Controlling his mana was like riding a bike for the first time with no training wheels. He was sort of lost because Reiner's instruction was a bit unclear, but he was going to work with what he got.

"Imagine you putting all your mana into a ball and hold that mana there until you know it's not going to move freely. Once you've done that have your mana continuously flow throughout your body. Like a light bulb that stays on 24/7. Once you've done that you will be stronger than ever." Reiner said giving Madara some better instruction and a bit of motivation.

Madara had his eyes closed the whole time, as he was trying to look deep within himself to get a better understanding of himself and the mana inside him.

After hearing those words, Madara took a deep breath and the area around him turn white. When he opened his eyes, he felt like he was sitting in an ocean of mana that was moving by its free will.

Madara takes a deep breath, as he starts to direct the mana into a ball the size of a basketball. Since Madara was trying to 'tame' all this mana at one time, it was difficult because this was his first time trying something like this.

Madara took a large portion and put it in the ball, but couldn't control all of it so when he was better at controlling mana, he would come and tame it.

With that ball, he redirected it through his entire body and commanded it to flow through him consistently.

On the outside, Reiner saw that the wild free aura start to lessen as he felt a large portion of mana become concentrated then it starts to flow through his whole body.

He could still feel the wild free aura, but he knew if Madara was able to control this amount of mana it wouldn't be a problem when he masters mana control.

When Madara opened his eyes, the first thing he noticed that the fatigue he had was gone and his body felt stronger. He could only than himself and Reiner, but he knew once he masters 100% of his mana, he will be even more powerful.