Chapter 23: Progress

Klaus left the tent at midnight and walked towards the huge tree, after sizing it up he decided to test it's strength by picking it, he gave it a punch, but there were no vibrations, it felt like the tree just absorbed all the force from his punches and neutralized it, but Klaus wasn't deterred he took a stance and channeled all the strength in his body to wrds his core, then proceeded to punch at the tree with all his strength, but there was no changes the tree still looked solid, Klaus knew that he had to look for an alternative, he began to punch round the tree trunk listening to the sounds it produced to guage the area where he felt the tree trunk would be weakest, he eventually found a place where the sound that came from his punch sounded a bit hollow.

He focused on that area and continued punching it, at the point it started to seem like he was making progress the bark of the tree had behind to crack and fall off, he continued to punch with all his strength.

Bang.... Bang....

"What the f**k is making such amount of noise at this Godforsaken hour of the night" Chen asked angrily and left the tent to investigate.

Chen traced the sound to it's source and after walking for a while he could see the silhouette of a muscled man punching a tree, he pondered what insanity would prompt anyone to punch a tree in the middle of the night, he started to approach the person punching the tree, and soon discovered it was Klaus.

"What the you doing here bro, we are meant to be asleep getting ready for tomorrow's training but you are here making it difficult for the rest of us to sleep if you are having anger issues I suggest you deal with it during the day, rather than inconveniencing others when they are trying to sleep" Chen scolded

"You have slept through worse, so why are you bothered about me punching a tree at night, it's none of your business" Klaus retorted

" I might have slept through worse but that doesn't mean I liked it, and it became my business when your noisemaking exercise took my good night sleep away from me" Chen said and walked back towards the tent

"At times I really wonder what goes through his head" Chen thought

Klaus continued punching the tree and his fists were already covered in blood and pulp but he didn't, he kept punching and punching, at a point he had to take off his singlet since he was drenched in sweat, he had no idea how many hours had passed but he was proud of his progress, his arms were sore so he decided to take a short rest.

Feng came along a while later and saw Klaus laying down and decided to make fun of him but then he saw there was a large deep hole in the tree, though it had not been blown open but the progress was astounding.

"Are you giving up already?" Feng asked Klaus

"Give up? You wish. I am just getting started, I would most likely be done with this before sun rise and heaven help you, if you don't keep to your end of the bargain" Klaus said.

"There are no need to make threats, but in the event that I fail to keep to my end of the deal, you wouldn't be able to harm me in any way, I would literally wipe the floor with your ass, and this is me being modest" Feng said

"Where did you learn to speak like that, you keep changing my opinions on monks anytime you open that mouth of yours, I would like to continue with punching the tree now if you would excuse me" Klaus replied and went on to keep punching the tree.

It was morning again and everyone was up, but they could still hear the sound of two objects colliding forcefully.

"What is that sound" Bryan asked

"If you weren't sleeping like a dead man you might have heard it, I don't know what's up with Klaus but he had been punching a tree for over six hours now, it might be a phase but I am sure he would get over it soon" chem said nonchalantly

"It's time for meditation so let's get to it, seems like Klaus wouldn't be joining us today, he gave himself something else to do" Feng said

The group began meditating and practicing their breathing techniques and coincidentally by the time they were done they saw Klaus coming towards them.

"You can go check it out, I am done with it" Klaus said

Feng left and proceeded to where the tree was and was shocked to see a fist hole through the middle, he walked towards it and used his finger to trace the hole with a smile on his face.

"Seems like I have been underestimating this lot for a while now, it is time to amplify things" Feng thought with a smile

By the time he returned Klaus had already fallen asleep, so he asked the remaining members of the group to head towards the jungle and search for something to eat before they could continue with their training, after everyone was done eating they again proceeded to the hills where they continued to move the boulders up and down the hill, at the end of the day they were about to head towards the pond again but they were intercepted by Feng .

"I have some good newd for you, and you might want to hear it before heading towards the pond" Feng said

"Spill" Romeo replied

"Well from tomorrow we would be commencing a different type of training but we would still observe the morning meditations" Feng said

"And how is that good news, at times I think you need to have you head checked, everything and everyone in this island is just weird" Romeo shook his head and walked away

"What does this new training entail" Victor asked

"You would find that out tomorrow" Feng replied with a smile and walked away

"What a weirdo" prince said while they walked towards the pond to take a bath