Into the Light by Christopher Johns

Author:Christopher Johns [Johns, Christopher]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Mountaindale Press
Published: 2019-02-01T07:00:00+00:00

Chapter Seventeen

“AGAIN!” barked my trainer. I swung my now weighted great axe for what seemed like the thousandth time that morning in a series of chops, hacking motions, and double handed twists.

It had been three days of doing this training. The muscles in my arms, shoulders, back, core, and legs screamed in agony. By the end of this round, my strength rose another point. That was four points total. Then after this, we went on a run, one mile with one hundred pounds attached to my body.

See, the Monks had these ingenious little weights that wrapped around a limb, kind of like the ones I’d had made for Kayda. These weighed thirty pounds on each of my legs. A twenty pound vest was strapped over my chest, and ten pound weights went around each wrist. My dexterity had gone up four points as well. This was the final day of this portion of the training, and I was honestly looking forward to it. Jaken was right there with me. His load distribution was similar, but his weights were heavier at two hundred pounds. His strength had gone up by three, but the Monks had been drilling him to increase his dexterity, so that went up six points.

Balmur had been undergoing similar training but more specialized. He was throwing weighted knives as fast and accurately as possible for hours at a time. Then when he was out of knives, he had to endure walking over hot coals, hotter than even his resistance to fire would halve while being bombarded with blunt arrows. The poor Dwarf went to sleep with healing salves on his bruises, nightly. His dexterity raised by three points, his constitution by three, and his strength by two.

Kayda had grown quite a bit with her training. Her weights had been increased; they now weighed eight pounds apiece rather than five. Her strength had gone up on the flight here by one point. Then during the three days of hellish training, her strength and dexterity had gone up by another four in each. They fired the same blunt-tipped arrows at her as they did Balmur, the poor dear. She weaved in and out, carrying items with her claws, then eventually a bucket filled with a little sand. She was growing stronger and larger by the day. She was now bigger than any bird I had ever seen in my own world. They were feeding us a lot to keep us in top form but her most of all. Must be bird people.

After the end of the third day training our physical traits, we switched to train our mental ones. Jaken was taken somewhere to learn meditation and to help him gain some wisdom, and I was taken to train my magic and see if I couldn’t raise my intelligence stat.

The training actually wasn’t what I thought it might be. As soon as I came into the room, I was told to sit and crack a book. I read theorems on different types of magic by people whose names were completely foreign to me.

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