Intro into the world of power

Inside of the dorms

"that guy is a pain in the ass," said Jake mockingly.

The cadet luke was really annoying.

"Yeah, I have met people like him. They are a pain in the ass and hard to get rid of," said Joey.

"Thank the gods a teacher was there to save us today," replied Jake.

"We have to be very careful of him. He's going to want revenge after what happened today," said Frank, looking really worried.

"If anyone dares to bully you, call your big brother Jack, and he'll set them straight," said the imposing fatty Jack.

"You were very imposing and brave, brother Jack, you stood up to that asshole ha-ha," Jake laughed.

"By the way, brother Jack, you said something about cultivators. What's that?" Frank inquired.

It had been bugging him for a good minute

He wanted to know how cadet luke had done what he did to them,

"Well, strictly speaking, he probably can't be called a real cultivator," said Jack

"What is cultivation then?" asked Frank.

"It's a wonderful thing, brother Frank. Don't worry. I'll tell you about it," said Jack.

He then proceeded to tell frank about the strong people of this world. In this world, they were people who controlled different types of power. They could control fire, water, air, earth, and soundwaves. and many more. these people were called cultivators.

The art of cultivation is one where an ordinary human being trains their body and soul to learn how to use qi energy to manipulate the elements.

He also boasted about his father being one of those cultivators and how powerful he was.

He told us of a story of an incident that happened in the royal capital where one of the cultivators, an official in the kingdom, went mad with fury and started destroying buildings in the royal capital.

His title was Towering Zen, and at the end of the day, members of the royal guard intervened and subdued him; no one has heard from him since.

He explained that the world has different realms of power and each realm is divided into 9 levels. At the beginning, the body refinement stage, the energy condensation stage, and then the energy circulation stage. The others were the ones he didn't know.

"wait a minute why don't we know anything about this?." asked Jake with a look of astonishment on his face.

"ehhhh," The fatty jack scratched his head.

Clearly he had said something he shouldn't have

The truth was that the powers of the kingdom kept a tight lid on it most ordinary people go their entire life without knowing even some officers live without knowing the reason for the incredible things some of their comrades could do

frank could only stare at him while thinking about his words.

" So this world has such strong people? One day, will I become one of these people? Would I have the chance? But then I looked at Jack. He seemed so confident would I let him leave me in the dust because ?

I want to be strong. I needed strength and at that moment i decided to put all my power into becoming one of the strong men in this world. I had to become a cultivator."

Frank resolve to attain strength became more solidified

The fatty kept on talking about how great he was that night.

At first, frank and the others were into it

but soon it became boring once again and they all slept off one after the other. The night was long, so we all had to sleep for tomorrow is another day.

The next day

They stood outside the door of the boiler room

Senior Wang emerged. He was shirtless as usual, and it seemed like he hadn't left the boiler room since yesterday.

"Perform the exercise I showed you yesterday," said cadet Wang. We immediately started the exercise while Cadet Wang sat and meditated.

This practice went on day in and day out for a week.

Until

"Your instructor is busy, so this week I'll take over from him. He'll be back next week, that is if he makes it back alive," said a bald cadet.

They had just gotten to the boiler room on a faithful day and there stood this cadet

"Did something happen, sir?" asked Frank.

"don't worry about it he just went of a mission," The bald cadet didn't pay much attention answering casually .

"Do cadets have to undergo missions too?" asked Jack.

"If you want resources, you have to go on certain missions with no risk, no reward," the bald cadet answered.

Jake was about to ask another question

when he got cut off by the bald cadet.

"you guys ask too many questions shut the hell up." The bald cadet added flatly not caring for how it sounded

"But senior, I just wanted to ask your name," jake looked kind of embarrassed.

"Oh, I don't have a name you can call, so just call me cadet knuckles," the bald cadet replied.

"Sir, yes sir! "They all yelled in uniform.

"Fatty versus What's Your Name? Pair up" cadet knuckles suddenly said.

"huh?" they all looked confused

"I want to see what Wang has been teaching you this past week, pair up," cadet knuckles explained

Cadet knuckles then drew a circle on the floor of the boiler room and said Jack and Jake should get in and fight.

As soon as they got in they started throwing punches at each other,

But suddenly cadet knuckles started laughing hysterically.

"What in heaven's name are you doing? Is that how you fight? Has Wang taught you nothing? " cadet knuckles asked

He then took off his shirt and walked into the circle and pointed at Jack and Jake and told them to punch at him as hard as they could.

They didn't hesitate to punch out, but the cadet dodged. They looked astonished. They kept on punching out, but the cadet kept dodging.

"isn't this?" the fatty seemingly realizing something

He changed tactics

"Good!!! That's it use the firebird dance, "said cadet knuckles."

"integrate the fire-bird dance more with your intent"

"Good good."

After a while

"Okay, you two, it's your turn to face me," said the cadet.

Frank and Joey jumped into the circle and lunged at the cadet.

Frank struck with his fist and Joey with his feet,

But the cadet easily blocked it and punched out

before you knew it 20 punches had been exchanged Frank and Joey were going steady when the cadet stopped the battle.

"Alright, take a rest. We'll continue in an hour," said cadet knuckles.

But

Soon the sun started to set and cadet knuckles didn't seem to want to let frank and the others go.

The fatty seemed to be grumbling, but there was nothing he could do, they had to keep on sparring.

During one of our breaks,

The cadet knuckles went out and came back with large amounts of meat and water. He tossed it towards them and said

"Eat up, you're going to be here for a week as per the request of your instructor Wang."

The fatty didn't seem to be paying any attention as he gulped that large portion of meat, but the rest of us could only look at cadet knuckles with wide eyes

"for a week?."

"Are we being held hostage?

"How can we stay here for a week? It's too hot, plus we would have to spar nonstop for a week. Why don't we just fall over and die then?" they wanted to protest

But to no avail

Only then did they notice the glint in the cadet's eyes. He seemed to be enjoying this very much.

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They kept on arguing but

Unknown to them, a raid of massive proportions was currently going on in the village of spikes and the surrounding villages,

military officers were currently marching out of the barracks in mass

Strange people appeared in the skies of the barracks commanding the deployed troops. The night was going to be a bloody one filled with massacre.

Lots of ordinary people would die, and it would be one of the most defining nights of Frank's life, but he was absent to even witness it.