Body Tempering Technique

But Mark had no choice but to send his clone to attempt to retrieve the weapons from the tragedy.

That was all the wealth he had accumulated, despite coming from a lucky encounter.

So Mark finally sent an unarmed clone out of the school to attempt to receive the weapons.

This time he only split into 3 clones, each with a quarter of his strength.

One was naturally to retrieve the lost goods, while the other two and Mark would spend the time absorbing the crystals.

As for the idea of sleep? That had completely left Mark's mind.

This attack was like a wakeup call to him. He needed to get stronger, quicker.

Even a passing wolf could eliminate him if he wasn't careful.

The night passed quickly like that. The clone sent to retrieve the weapons didn't dare take action during the night so it camped outside waiting for the morning to take action.

As Mark woke up he let out a murky breath and withdrew the clones. The power coursing through his body awakened him completely from his drowsiness.

He also realised he would be able to pass entire nights without sleeping and just absorb energy when he woke up.

However, that wasn't important right now. He quickly dressed and left for the first proper lesson of his school life.

He was far from the first to arrive, when he arrived at a large gymnasium.

Long mats were placed in a circle with a larger mat right in the center.

However due to the hundreds of students attending there were multiple layers of mats. Mark had found that all of the elite students who had arrived, sat within the center circle while the ordinary students consciously found their seats in the outer rings.

While they were waiting, Mark, with half of his strength, felt a terrifying presence enter the gym.

It was easily comparable to the Lunar wolf, maybe even stronger.

All the other students naturally felt it as well. However they were far from as calm as Mark. The pressure was like a mountain pressing down on their shoulders.

They each felt fear from the bottom of their soul as they saw a shadow slowly walking up to the mat in the center.

But when they looked up they were stunned. What they expected was a terrifyingly domineering man or an ice cold woman.

However the man that sat in the center was below 5'7'' with femine features and long hair.

If it wasn't for the clearly flat chest and slight manly features, their gender might be indistinguishable.

As the man sat down the pressure dissipated as well.

''This is our teacher? Is he capable?'' One of the ordinary students with a slightly better build whispered.

'Psssh'

But before he got a reply, everyone heard a heavy thump from the location of the voice.

Mark turned his head to see the student who talked with a small needle embedded in his skull.

Mark shook his head, a warrior's dignity was not to be provoked even if you were a student.

''What?''

''How could a teacher kill him?''

''I think i'm going to be sick''

The rest of the students on the other hand… were not so calm. With the exception of a few elite students the rest were retching or whispering with panicked voices.

They had never seen such a dismissive murder so close.

''Alright since all of you are here, we will begin.'' The instructor however didn't even give it another glance as he said with a gentle voice.

No one could connect him with the dead body still fallen next to some cowering students.

''My name is Nick Mackintosh and I will be your instructor for today.''

''We will be teaching you the basic body tempering technique. Despite it being the most basic technique, it exercises each part of your body allowing you to get incredible strength even if you can't become a warrior.''

This undoubtedly caused all of the ordinary students to have excitement clearly visible on their faces. After all, they don't have a super high chance of absorbing spiritual energy at the moment. But maybe that can change right?

After all, it was proven that a strong physical body increases the chance of absorbing spiritual energy.

''Each of you will open the books in the hatch in front of you and read through each exercise. Described in the book is the perfect performance of each position. The closer you get to that the better the effect.''

''After you have each read it, I will do a single performance allowing you to see a practiced posture before you will each do it and I will point out your flaws.''

''If you have cultivated some spiritual energy, after learning the techniques, if you move your energy around your body it will increase the effect of the postures.''

Nick added as a side note. After all in his opinion a few members of the elite class might be able to use it eventually.

As Mark listened and reached out to a small latch in front of the mat and pressed his watch against the small screen.

The floor flipped open to reveal a brown printed book, similar to a traditional school textbook.

On the first pages were small introductions to the body tempering techniques before it finally came to the postures.

Looking at the bizarre but slightly familiar postures Mark was stunned. These were clearly similar to old workout postures that he was already doing, however there were some clear differences.

It was as if working out all the muscle groups had been compressed into five simple movements.