It was still morning when Austin collapsed from exhaustion. He slept for whole day Making mark look after shop. Mark was little angry as he had to serve his employee instead of the other way around. He decided to pull a prank on Austin and made night mare potion it was a volatile liquid drug that induced fear and hallucination on the target who smelled it too much.

“looks like I should not play with him too much.” Mark was just digesting new found changes in Austin’s behaviour when he heard a sound.

“Boss!” Mark suddenly yelped with funny sound and quickly hid the potion. Trying to hide his embarrassment with coughs.

“ sorry boss I was not in proper state earlier. Please forgive me.” Austin gave a deep bow and Mark also apologize for asking personal questions and startling him. It was his fault actually but with how prideful he was and how Austin would react to truth how can he say the truth?

“ Alright now it’s already night time I am sleepy you just go and repeat the cycle and sleep.”

“boss I have few questions about meditation should I circulate the mana around my internal organs as well? It hurts so bad and I was not sure If my organs will remain in 1 piece so I avoided that earlier.”

“That is what you should do I knew you would figure it out so I didn’t say anything before circulate it towards the organs after your muscles and bones are tempered. And don’t hurry the process you will die if you do. If I had any knights, swordsmen or melee training manuals it would be perfect for your body tempering but mages are not fighters so I don’t think you will need those mages focus in core absorption more than body so focus in your core more. Goodnight”

Austin wanted to bang Mark’s head against the floor for not telling him such vital information but what could he do? this mad man was his only hope to become a mage. He sucked it up and went back to training.

He wanted to follow Marks advice but how can an assassin like him ignore his body and focus only in core. He continued his training slowly and completed a cycle. He started another Cycle but didn’t have energy to complete the cycle which ended with him suffering a backlash. Austin screamed with anger and pain from all the cramped muscles and pain. “ fucking psycho why didn’t you tell me about the backlash are you taking some kind of revenge from your previous life?” Austin screamed while lying on the floor unable to move.

Mark suddenly woke up and dryly laughed realising his mistakes he was going to help Austin with health potions but decided against it and went back to sleep. “ looks like nightmare potion was unnecessary after all. But who are you to call me a psycho ? I am your teacher and boss enjoy the pain till morning and learn some lessons.” Mark created a sound barrier and slept comfortably while Austin kept screaming and cursing Mark which turned into plea for help but Mark didn’t hear it.

“ I will have my revenge some day you mad man. Arg... is this my karma from past life? But I didn’t even get to torture him properly. I will have my revenge some day karma or not but what can I do?” Austin gave up shouting and thought of various ways to take revenge bun none of his ideas will work on Mark ‘lets think of something tomorrow. He slept in the same spot unable to move back to his bed.