Chapter 6 _ beginning training

When i met grandpa again and told him he was as moved as i was and told me that we needed to begin the plan as soon as possible.

“and so kessy you need to start preparing as well. I thought that Nicole had about 3 years left but now i don't even know if she has two.”

“which means you must begin your elemental training and reach the first rank as soon as possible to be able to have any part in the plan”

I nodded but i was writhing inside as i knew that reaching the first rank was the simplest and most direct task, but it was also the most difficult one since prior to it one was basically a normal human but when I take that step I would have already distinguished myself from ordinary humans no matter how strong or how athletic they are.

And to be able to do that i have to make my body surpass human limits in all aspects

Usually such a task would take decades if not more, but fortunately my family isn't really a usual one.

“prepare yourself and tell your parents that you're going to be absent for almost a year. More importantly prepare your self mentally as this one year maybe the most torturous one you may ever go through in your life.”

“yes grandpa” i replied without any hesitation.

Before, I might have hesitated greatly but after all the sacrifices mom did for me i wouldn't be even an animal if i did.

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At home.

“WHAT!!! No way!!”

“dad i don't know what happened between you and grandpa in the past but i do know that for mom you should put down your pride.”

“what does that have anything to do with you being absent for a year with that old man?”

I hesitated a bit but finally told the truth

“I.......want to begin my elemental training.”

“Are you crazy? It requires decades of hard work to break past the first step, even i only broke past it a year ago and your mother......still haven't broken past it yet and you prefer spending the time you have left with Nicole training?”

“ Kessy i know you're a sensible boy and wouldn't do any thing without reason so tell me why you want to do this.”

I was stumped by that and didn't know what to do, dad needs to spend whatever time we have left with mom in case.......in case me and grandpa fail but i won't be able to convince him otherwise.

Sigh I guess I need to play the idiot card huh.

“dad I promise it won't be later than a year. Grandpa said i need to start when I am very young or else my chance to break through in future will be much lower, and i also want to make mom a bit more happy by seeing me work hard.....”

I saw him hesitate a bit and knew that i should hit the iron while it's hot.

“plus i won't be able to do anything at all to help mom so i should try to make her proud one last time before......before she......” at that point the grief on my face was genuine.

“sigh i really don't know what to do with you child but you will come back when it's time for you mother to give birth or you will suffer the consequences” with that he glared at me.

“YESSIR!!!” I was so happy i forgot to keep my grieve filled face.

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“And so we are here......NOT, where the heck are we grandpa!!!?”

“ohh this is our family forest.”

“WHAT! WE HAVE A FORE......nevermind i should have expected it so what are gonna do first?”

I asked but the response i was expecting took a bit longer than expected when i saw how hesitation filled grandpa's face.

“kessy......are you sure you wanna do this?...i mean you have no idea what kind of torture awaits those who want to become elementalists.....its a neverending path of torture and hard work in fact and the first step is extremely diffucult for most people...i.....i really don't have the heart to put you through so much torture at such a young age, you may appear much older and at a perfect age ti begin training but you are still boy who isn't even a decade old”

I nearly couldn't stop myself from rolling my eyes at his words the old man still wants to test my will huh.

“don't worry grandpa i don't know about later but i am definitely not going to regret doing this for mom”

I spoke with sincere determination filling my eyes.

Grandpa smiled and said

“that's my grandson you really didn't disappoint me well....let's start your first journey to hell” with that he grinned with an almost sinister smile.......i may be hesitating a little now.

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Four weeks later...

“come one boy run for your life” an old bastard said while sitting on a not so sturdy tree branch and looking at half naked boy running in desperation from a brown bear.....yup it was me TT_TT

“i ...want ....to...go...HOOOOOMMMEE”

The old badie grinned and said “ohohoho what happened to the ohh so steady determination you had huh”

To that i replied in the loudest voice i could muster “i threw it up with the poisoned berries you gave me the first day!!!!!!”

“hohoho nono your still so energetic in the mourning seems like you could take more”

My OCD kicked in and i couldn't hold it in but i quickly regret it afterwards.

“IT'S YOU'RE!!!!”

The old man had nerve popping out and squinted eyes as a result “ohohoho you really seem like you could take more huh”

“NO I CAN'T!!!!!!”

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Night time...

I was sprawling on the ground lookung deader than dead but i still had enough energy to crawl to the wonderfull food grandpa was cooking.

“grandpa is it done yet?”

“stay patient boy good things come to those who wait.”

I pouted and said in a way that i thought was cute “pweeeease”

“normally that would get me but you should look at your current reflection in the river”

I looked at the puddle in front of my and damn i looked ugly.

“oh my good my poor parents what happened to my face!?”

“oh the black eye was when you fought with the white haired gorilla”

“i hate harambe!!! Why did it have to bruise me like this....i just wanted to touch a bit of its furry comfortable body.”

“humph serves you right for trying to run away while i was taking a nap”

Ugh he was right

“any way after eating you need to begin training.”

“okay” i replied with anime tears.

After eating...

I tried to ignore the pain that filled my body and got into a lotus position and began to breath in a weird rythem.

Hah Hou i inhaled and exhaled, sometimes quickly sometimes slowly eventually i seemed to have found peace as my breathing steaded in a specific rhytem.

I kept on for two hours before i felt a weird feeling of something entering my body.....it was weird but comfortable and i began to feel itchy in the bruises that filled my body which began to heal with a noticeable effect.

That weird feeling was a certain invisible type of energy which my grandpa called elemental bits.

This type of energy can only be absorbed by people with the conduit gene who awakened to the first rank.

Yup you heard that right i already awakend the first step or more like i think i was born with it awakened.

Well maybe it has something to do with the peculiarities of my birth and my strange body, anyway i am now working on awakening to the second rank.

Something to mention is grandpa's wonderful face when he found out that i already could absorb elemental bits from day 1 was simply priceless.

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Four weeks ago...

“listen here kessy the first step is as i said the absolute hardest one and the reason for that is because the human body is simply not built to absorb elemental bits maybe it was long ago but unknowingly humanity has stopped being a part of nature and so has lost the chance to be able to absorb it.”

“ millions of years ago when our ancestor crashed on this planet it was full of nature and beauty and correspondingly elemental wholes which is a more powerful type of energy compared to elemental bits”

“all life on earth at that time were able to subconsciously absorb elemental bits and grow faster and more powerful that way, and the even more powerful beings could absorb a sliver of elemental wholes which only rank 10 masters are able to do subconsciously.”

“But after the various selfish activities of humanity the atmosphere now barely contains .01% of the energy millions of years ago.”

“and now we have to rely on the special breathing rhythm our ancestor left us or would have no way to cultivate elemental energy.”

“usually the first step is to forcefully get the body to absorb elemental energy but that requires years of trying and surpassing the human limit can also allow you to better sense the energy and be able to force it in your body”

“at the start the pain may be intolerable but with years of practice you learn to ignore it and focus on forcing it in your body”

After he finished he clasped his hands and said

“now then let's start i will teach you the breathing rhythm and you'll try to get the hang of it and then we'll see from there.

After that i was able to absorb the energy and when i told grandpa this was his reaction.

“WHAT!! T...THIS CAN'T BE!! EVEN GENIUSES HAVE TO TAKE AT LEAST TENSOME YEARS...I MYSELF TOOK 9 YEARS AND WAS NAMED THE MOST GENIUS IN A THOUSAND YEARS SO HOW?”

I grinned and showed him how my injuries heal after cutting myself.

His face fell and he mumbled

“n...no i...i refuse to believe this noo !!”

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Back to the future...

I continued to absorb energy but suddenly i felt my already slow absorption speed suddenly stop.

“phew so this is the bottleneck grandpa said i would have to face in my quest to second rank.”

“i should tell him already the..”

Suddenly i felt duzzy and before i knew it i was in a void like location with which glowed very very slightly green.

“WHA!!WHERE AM I ?? GRANDPA ARE YOU HERE?”

I panicly looked around just to find holographic sentence in front of me

System charged 1.1%

Seeing this my first reaction was confusion for a few seconds but before i knew it i suddenly felt extremely agitated.

“This...this can't be right? This could it be one of those systems that are in the brain or something? OH MY GOD YAAAHOOO!!”

I already forgot my earlier panic and felt so excited as i had already thought that i got no sort of cheat when i got here but this...this was was simply a gift that i simply despaired at the thought of not getting it.

“but wait 1.1%? This does it mean elemental energy? So that means all the energy i have been absorbing was gathered in this thing? Now i don't know whether to laugh or cry.”

“It seems I'll have to gather more energy huh. Well first things first i need to get grandpa to tell me the rhythm for the 2nd rank but how do i get out of h...”i suddenly felt the same dizzy feeling from before and voila i was sitting where i was before.

“so i just think about it huh” i tried it few more times until i felt too dizzy to continue.

“well lets go tell grandpa hohoho i can't wait to see his wonderfull face again hohohohoho” i walked joyfully to where grandpa stayed.