day 18

I lost;

I tried to cross the limit of 10,000 but before I could reach 7000 , I couldn't dodge all the mud balls, for every strike of mud balls, it weight increased by 2 times, if first time was like a feather then the other time is like a real stone, it is good thing that the attack was on my thighs other than some bruises, I have no other injuries.

The most difficult problem, I am facing right now is if I could cross the limit of 10,000, my stamina rapidly starts depleting as time passes on.., the only solution I can think of is not to do extra movements, but it is easier said than done, if it is just one or two attacks without extra movements I could handle it well, but here even if the time interval is there of 5 seconds, I can't completely and successfully dodge these attacks. 5 seconds may be a lot of time for imagination, but the speed of imagination is far greater than reality.

It is a kind of sad thing that the the things we expected to go in the right track deviates from the original path, but we have only one choice of moving forward. Life is a like a game, for most majority of the population, life only gives few choices or the ordinary individuals perception only only shows them them the limited choices. if an ordinary student A fails in his his high school, he has to take the examination again, there is no other choice, even if he is not cut out for the school curriculum, well, it is the way of life, there are some road which have yes or no deviation, nothing more or nothing less.

I have to think of a method where my energy could be minimally and efficiently used, and the only solution I could think of is to calculate the direction of attacks in my mind, before the attack even happens.

It is easier to do physical body exercise than mental exercise, and I have been planning to use the muscle memory to cross this trial. If there were no limited tries, that is, it is far easier than using my brain.

Visualizing the same attack pattern in my brain could show the path till the 7000, and if there is no change in attack pattern I believe I could even cross the 10,000. visual mapping is same as active imagination, mortals who doesn't practice their mind generally feel lethargy in the beginning, and I am feeling the same, it is imagine for five minutes and above that my mind starts paining, I wish I could use [status ] now maybe I have got some attribute point and could have used it for my [intelligence].

Mana have a positive impact of developing a practitioner's mind, no matter what type of lethargy it is, it reduces the time of rest when the work is not heavy as proportional to the mana, I have to take a rest of 20 minutes for every 30 minutes of visualization and it is continuous, for an ordinary mortal the day 1 in their mind training would be very much exhaustive, they would turn lazy as their mind can't comprehend more than its capacity they would need a days rest for them to continue the mental training.

Since there was nothing better to do, I cultivated silently without much wasting time on my visualizing technique, i tried to remember every action I have made till the 7000 attacks, and repeated it over and over again, even though it was 7000 attacks, there was only 10 attack patterns, I could get a gist of it, but it feels cloudy even though my mind's telling me it's only 10 I am unable to completely see through it, and I believe when I could see through it, I could make more counter measures.

Day 20-

For two days straight, other than visualizing and drinking water, I haven't thought about doing anything else. I could completely see through the patterns now, and I have made countermeasures too. Now there is only practice to do and I believe it is better to do it on the trial ground.

[number of tries left:2]

I stood on the round ash colored platform and waited for the countdown to finish, the mud balls started to rain in the same pattern as the same one as the last time, First five patterns of the attack will focus on the upper body, two on the head and 3 on the chest and stomach, it could come front, back, sideways, but with slight movements I am able to dodge it. The problem comes from the last 5 patterns, they all aim at different parts of the legs, and movement of the legs breaks the whole equilibrium of the body, and stretching of leg muscles needs more energy than my waist muscles.

The solution I have thought of is to be standing on my tip of a feet, though it is more energy consuming I could tilt my body in any position I want, rather than starting it from the very beginning, I will do so once I lose my focus,

I lasted without using my trump card till 5000, of the mud balls and since I have attacked once, I don't want to increase the weight of the mud balls anymore time, I used the tipping position of my feet to dodge almost all of the attacks, some might attack at my tipping foot and that would be the only time I could potentially lose some balance, but 5 seconds were enough for me to change into the tipping position again.

I crossed the 7000 limit. I really want to be happy right now but I have no time to be happy as the ancient saying "it is best to be happy when everything is over", but the happiness of the situation did lose my focus. I failed again.

day 21-

[number of tries left:1]

I feel calm, there shouldn't be any suspense now, either I would completely pass or there is nothing else, I am going to completely pass and that's it.

I focused on the round platform again. The completely obvious patterns of mud balls started to attack me from all the sides. After the 7000 mud balls, I started to lose my energy, albeit a little, but my focus never wavered till I heard the music of my victory.

[ding! ding! the first trial passed!]

'phew'

I thought I had to do 100,000 though it is currently impossible for me, but I passed. Should I celebrate drinking by drinking 3 liters of water? Ai, I think it is best haha.