A few hours later, what can be considered the following morning. Soverick and the other two were directed to an exercise room. They had a timetable on their wrist logger that informed them of their schedule. The schedule provided a detailed requirement of the activities within a certain period of time.
This timetable is just the recommended order in which their exercises should be carried out. It is good but not necessary to follow the schedule and the exercises can be performed in no particular order as long as they are completed within a certain time frame. There is freedom in how they go about it.
Each student will have different schedules depending on the level they are at. Soverick, Ghaster, and Litori just started so they are at the same level, they will have a similar schedule for now. Things will continue to change as they develop and grow, their performance will be assessed regularly by the AI and changes will be made accordingly.They won’t meet any living trainers yet until they reach certain levels.
If the current training is too difficult then it will be eased up, if the training is too easy then the difficulty will be raised. But they won’t be able to move on to another level until the fitness requirements for it as been made. A trainee can take things easy or endure difficult exercise regimes. Only fitness matters and the body’s reaction matters to how soon fitness can be reached.
Trainees are free to choose how they go about the exercises but stagnation will lead to a negative review and if this stagnation is a result of laziness then it might lead to expulsion. There’s hardly any need for that, only people who were forced to attend the battle academy will refuse to train or choose to be lazy. Children with an awakened bloodline don’t need someone forcing them to train.
Battle training is taken very seriously by battle sage monkeys and powerful origin gods instill this character trait into their offspring. All in all, if you don’t want to train you can go home. The academy might not force someone to train but they will not allow their resources to be wasted.
Soverick and his siblings met each other right on time in front of the door to Physical Fitness 101. It is here that they will spend their first few levels for the preparatory stage. The other one is Spiritual Fitness 101. They both cater to the preparation of the body and the soul.
Ghastorix chose to greet first. Because he had to be the first and because he wanted to be the polite one. It was killing two birds with a single stone.
“Good morning, Eldest. Good morning to you too my dearest little sister.”
Soverick glanced at Ghoto. “Good morning.”
Litori remained silent and focused on the upcoming physical exercise. She would like to argue that she wasn’t the little sister but actions speak louder than words. She would just have to show him who the little one is. She still didn’t retort when he opened the door and said. “Little sister, why don’t you go first.”
She ignored him and went into the room.
Ghaster smiled. “Prepare to be left behind, Eldest. I’ll be the first one to finish the preparatory stage and move on to the basic skills stage.”
Litori snorted while Soverick remained calm. “We’ll see.” Is all he said.
Physical fitness 101 room contained a circular track that is 4km long from the beginning to the end. It also contained special workout types of equipment and weights. The preparatory stage of physical fitness will start with some basic physical conditioning. For now, they will be made to start with light physical activities like a 10km race in 10 minutes, 50k weights lifted for a certain amount of times singlehandedly or with both hands.
The wrist logger will monitor their physical States and make sure they are within the safe limits that their body can accommodate. When they have achieved the minimum physical parameters such as minimum speed and acceleration, maximum weight limit, cardiovascular capacity, and stress tolerance, only then will be allowed to move on and start training in skills. Till then, their daily workout sessions will be tailor-made to their physical capabilities.
They started their intense training immediately. First, it was 10km in 10 minutes, then it branched into 10km in 8 minutes and 15km in 15 minutes. The difficulty kept increasing and the exercises more complex, with their bodies pushed to their limit.
Next came weight training and more after that. It will continue for months until they reach their goal of physical fitness.
They also met some other people in the Physical fitness 101 room, which meant that they hadn’t achieved what was needed of them to move on. It is not strange for these people to be left behind by the newcomers. For some, they will complete the training in months and move on, for others they will spend years at it. There is no set time limit as long as an effort is being constantly expended to improve.
Then there is the Spiritual training. Unlike the old days when old wizened men would coop themselves in, trying to learn spells or create them, knowledge of spells is easily transferable today. There’s practically no use for innovation or creativity, nowadays. No spell is unique anymore, plus spells lose their use at the transcendent level. What is unique and is worth training in is the spell crafting ability of spell weavers. So the spiritual preparatory stage involves achieving agility of the mind. It will remain relevant throughout all the stages of refinement.
Magic is cast when The Mind interacts with mana through the divine sense. Mana exists all around us and it represents infinite possibilities. The divine sense then wields mana into an intricate structure called a spell. So a spell is a possibility made manifest by the power of the mind. Mana could be fire, the mind wills it to be so through the divine sense, and mana obeys. The speed at which this is done is determined by mana affinity, Mind Power, and Spell Crafting Skills.
Spell Crafting skills depend on mental agility. The ability of the mind to control its processing ability and perform variable mental tasks with the least possible effort is called mental agility.
The mind is a very powerful thing but most of its potential is wasted. It might seem much more malleable and controllable than the body but it is also more fragile because of it. Injuries to the mind take longer to heal than injuries to the body. Mind agility will ensure that the flexibility of the mind can be taken advantage of and it is trained with various activities such as Thread creation, Thread Maintenance Stress, Thread control, Mind division and Mind Pressuring.
Thread creation involves simply creating a point of contact between mana and the mind with the divine sense. This activity hopes to improve the speed at which the creation process is done. It requires specialized sensing machines to determine the smallest progress. Faster thread creation times affect every aspect of spell casting. The difficulty of the training is increased with multiple creation points at the same time.
Thread maintenance involves the ability to maintain this point of contact between mana and mind without doing anything to it. This improves the ability of the individual in spell control. Not all spells have to be released as soon as they are constructed. So thread maintenance is necessary for delayed casting. Increased difficulty involves Multiple thread maintenance.
Thread control requires the individual to manipulate the thread of mana into different shapes and through different obstacles without letting it dissipate. It needs a high thread maintenance ability coupled with control skills. It is a very important skill for any spell weaving and becomes especially important for more intricate spells. Spells are possibilities made manifest but they need a combination of factors and elements for the mind to combine seamlessly before they can be cast.
Mind division is the ability of an individual to split the mind into at least two basal nodes of reasoning. In simpler terms, it is to achieve true multitasking. Not the multitasking where activities are paused for another and resumed later. It is the concurrent execution of thoughts. This is the foundational skill needed for multiple casting.
Mind pressuring is the ability of the mind to perform all the above exercises at the same time. The mind is pressured to expand by forcing it to create multiple threads, and maintain some while it controls others, then the mind is forced to divide and perform the current activities with the new mind simultaneously. It is the most difficult exercise to overcome.
Spiritual training is much more complicated than physical exercise but the room where it is carried out is smaller and quieter. The equipment for it are also more expensive. Spiritual Fitness 101 is filled with cubicles where each trainee will perform their task. The cubicle isolates its occupant from sound and vibration. The spirit is a delicate thing and training it requires no disturbance.