Five Heroes
4. Exercises

That morning I was still asleep when a blaring voice woke me up and shocked me, "Wake up early" Andre said.

Not playing my surprise, immediately I washed my face, Andre stood in front of my bedroom door and said "Piter I give you five minutes to get ready, so I'll give you five minutes, me and Nico will be waiting for you in the rehearsal room he talks while he leaves me".

I had not had time to reply that Andre had disappeared, I hurried to change my clothes and took my sword subconsciously I had spent three minutes.

I ran out but how unlucky I was, when I was outside the palace there was no one, no Andre or Nico waiting for me there, "shit, did they test me?"

I ran to find where the training room was but I couldn't find it, I felt like I had been circling around like a fool, thirty minutes had already been the time I had spent searching the training room.

I asked the soldiers but they didn't know, when I thought Andre and Nico were just pranking me when the soldiers told me to keep looking,

"Damn it, what is this included in my training", I murmured in my heart because I was already getting upset.

Finally I tried to calm down I took a deep breath, I tried to focus my mind and concentrate fully.

Unknowingly I could feel the warmth of the soul of a living being, the soul was like a warm light, at that very moment I could see two souls that were brighter and larger than his other souls "it must be them", soon I headed to their location.

My footsteps stopped at a door where the door was made of stone, the door was quite high and also wide, I estimated that the door was quite thick.

I believe this training room is exactly like the houses of the royal inhabitants of this land, located inside a mountain hollowed out so as to create a room like a cave.

At first I tried to open the door normally but my physical strength was not strong enough to move the stone, I tried and failed I know they inside I feel their soul so bright I dare bet it was them.

A moment later I thought, 'if Nico can get in because he can penetrate anything like a ghost through his shadow journey, then Andre can enter because it will be very impossible if he is defeated by a stone, but I?, of course I am different from them, what can I do', I think and murmur in my heart.

Finally an idea popped into my head, I was planning to stick my sword on the side of the door, recalling when faced with Zeon when I plugged my sword indirectly the larva eruption out of the ground.

I took out my sword and took it out of its sheath as I plucked out I saw the sword was a little more restrained no longer as it was when I first got here.

Jleeb....

Without hesitation I thrust out my sword, I indirectly witnessed the red light glow following the straight line of the door slit, as the red line reached the top of the door I pressed my sword deeper and the blade began to turn.

Instead of the broken or bent sword creating many cracks in the door and all those cracks giving off a glowing red light, I'm sure the light must be fire.

Bruuukkk.

The door was shattered instantly, dust was scattered and boulders scattered, thankfully the shards did not hit me, a moment later when the atmosphere began to calm I saw Ande and Nico who were sitting quietly waiting for me.

"Immediately enter Piter you are fifty minutes late" Andre said in an emotional tone.

I was annoyed at his attitude, trying to think how I was not late, he did not tell me where the training room was, thirty minutes I was like a fool whose pacing was unclear direction and purpose.

Without answering his words I sheathed my sword back and I stepped into the room.

Now that I was really in the room, suddenly the door I just smashed began to unite itself perfectly again, It must have been Andre's actions.

"When you received punishment" in Nico's vague voice said.

BUUKK...

My stomach got a huge blow, I felt like I was about to faint from receiving such a powerful blow like this. I want to feel like I'm crying but I'm not going to do that, I'm no longer the spoiled child I was in the palace.

"Sial you're Nico, it hurts" I shouted out of emotion.

BUUKK...

Back I staggered, the scar on my left hand that was stuck in the arrow during my fight with Moris was now hit by a stone fragment.

"Related Piter we will not kill you, you only need to fend off one of our attacks, this is your punishment" Andre explained

It used to be my kingdom as the rightful heir to the throne. When I was ten years old I was already trained in the basics of fighting, by Perdi.

Then my father will train me at seventeen years, training with my father of course to sharpen the knowledge I have received from Perdi.

I put aside the pain that was on my body carefully I looked at the entire room, I installed my defensive horses.

Brakkk....

Like seeing the world spin ninety degrees I was thrown into the ground, 'fuck, Nico can get into the shadows', I cursed my stupidity that forgot that fact.

When I tried to get up, and stood up again Plaaaak. A stone hit my forehead, the stone was indeed not as big as just a bean but the speed from the hit to my forehead made my forehead as if it was hollow, 'this time Andre attacked'.

I realize now that they must attack in turn however this is not a fight just a practice, this exercise must be aimed so that I can survive in a difficult position, he said, I stood up quickly I mounted my horses.

"You can use your sword for now" Andre shouted to me.

I pulled my sword out of its sheath, and the instant the red light flashed out of my sword, I took a deep breath alright Nico this time will be from the position where you attacked me, I do not forget to keep watching around me, nor do I forget to pay attention to the movement of the shadow, because if there is a shadow that moves then it is Nico.

A few seconds had passed but there was no strange movement, I closed my eyes, I had to see where Nico's soul was at the moment, from my backside I saw that bright light must be Nico's soul.

I swiftly jumped forward, distancing myself from his strike range, and I slowly tried to swing my sword.

Shuuut... My sword let out a slash of fire as if I managed to injure Nico and slash him, but quickly the body of Nico who was about to be hit by my attack was covered by bone.

Praakk... The bone was cracked and Nico smiled and then returned to the position where Andre stood, I swiftly re-installed my combat ready position.

Andre fired one of his stone bullets, the bullet was right at the director of my neck, but I managed to repel the bullet with my sword.

"Instantly it was all our attacks, you managed to fend it off" Andre told me.

"Congratulations Peter, you can make this skull armor crack" Nico spoke while smiling at me.

"Today you're going to exercise Peter's physique. Physical exercise today is not difficult you just need to run around this room" Andre explained to me.

I had not witnessed this cave, after I watched the surroundings I finally realized that this cave is quite wide and large.

"You can't use the Piter sword, you only need to run three rounds in forty minutes" Nico explained the rules.

At last the training began I started running around this cave, in the first round I was relaxed I could finish it in less than fifteen minutes.

But in the second round I took a little longer because my eyes sometimes blurred, 'what might I be exhausted', I thought.

On the third round I fell once because the ground I was on suddenly shook, 'they still put a resistance on me', I murmured inwardly. I'm not complaining and just trying to get this done.

Finally I finished everything with a time record of exactly forty minutes, I survived my thought.

Andre decided to rest, seeing my condition was very, very tired and the time was also almost noon, Nico decided to leave for a while he would hunt in the forest and Andre nodded in agreement.

Right at noon Nico came carrying a cleaned deer and some pieces of wood, and Andre made a stove and they looked at me, for a moment I understood I was smiling at them.

Nico drew up the wood he was carrying, when all was arranged I lit the fire and we burned the deer, with our jokes and laughter chattering.

the warmth of the smiles of the two of them was still the same as the first time I knew them but during training they were like different people, although their attacks did not kill me but the pain I felt was not a trick as a result of their blows it was a real pain.

We also ate the venison when it was ripe, after which Andre said "it's time for me to find water", this time Nico who lives with me, he said, it didn't take long for Andre to come back with a bag of water we took turns, then rested for a while and continued my training.

There wasn't much of my practice after the afternoon break, just the physical strengthening method, the strengthening of my horses, the strengthening of my horses, when it was almost evening they said the day's training was over and we both went back to the palace for dinner and rest.

The next day I went back to training, and I kept doing it, the longer I was training, the more I felt my physique was starting to develop, my muscles were starting to show progress,

The longer the exercise was also the harder I felt, but I no longer felt burdened my body had gotten used to, my physique had already reached the capacity of the difficulty, after six months, my physical training was finally over.

"The next six months we will train the aura and the science of using weapons" Nico said.

Broadly speaking and according to legend the weapons given by gods to selected humans were different even the weapons of the three of us were different.

This certainly determines how to fight and attack as well as the most comfortable position to make an attack, because the difference in weapons will affect the fight.

If Nico has a god weapon in the form of a sword made of skull and a little dark as if it were inedible with age, and I have a sword that inflames a red light like fire with a blade a little thick I thought, so Andre has a weapon in the form of a shield formed of hardened resistance and almost colored like iron, Andre's weapon is unique.

With a supportive physique, and the same type of weapon as me Nico taught me the basics of using a sword and controlling my aura.

Every now and then we meditate to focus and open up the flow of balance in my body, so that the aura I give off can be stabilized.

It's just that in training this time Nico didn't fully train me he only occasionally trained me, He said to us that he started to watch over his brother from behind the shadows.

Andre trained me how to attack and defend, not infrequently me and he trained as if we were fighting, he always told me to drop him, but of course it was difficult.

Among the three of us Andre has the most sturdy horses not easy to drop Andre and make him receive a blow he always swiftly block all attacks.

Without feeling five months have passed and I have not been able to make Andre desperate, as well as Nico. When I was training to play Nico I couldn't keep up with the speed of the sword.

But slowly over time the change began to feel, if in the beginning I was not able to compensate for the speed of the sword Nico then at the end" this I have offset the speed of the sword

Since then Nico has trained me less and less, besides the reason for watching over his brother he also came just to look around. Andre told me that when Nico's training was over, it was because I was able to keep up with his speed in the sword.

If the conditions of training with Nico were only limited to me balancing it, then it was different to Andre, he insisted my training would not be completed before I could land my crushing blow on him, he was planning to increase my training time.

Now is the beginning of the sixth month, ever since I started practicing using my aura and weapons, if in this month I have not been able to reach the conditions that Andre gave me then my training time will be plus two months it will certainly hinder our steps to leave.

Me, Andre and Nico that morning went back into the cave where we were training, different from before there was no training given to me today, because today is my determination, whether my training will be added or three more days we will begin our journey.

My test began, from the beginning since this test began Andre had taken his defensive position perfectly, for a moment I observed it and finally I lunged forward with a swing of my sword that ignited the fire.

But Andre swiftly blocked the attack and he began to clench his fists making the stone on his footstool harden gripping the ground tighter, making the horses more sturdy.

Then a few grains of stone floated towards me, I immediately dodged by jumping back, after which I went forward to attack Andre.

Today I think I can do it I will rise perfectly when I am fifteen, which is only three days away.

I let out my aura, I began to feel flames start to fill my body, and the air around the cave started to feel hot, red light glowing around me.

I advanced towards Andre straight towards my sword, aiming at Andre's stomach, but swiftly his shield blocked the attack.

Praakk... Our guns are clashing.

Quickly I swing my legs directing my kick towards the side of his stomach but the kick was successfully blocked again kemabli by Andre, he created the ground.

I retreated a few inches from him and swung my sword, slashing at his neck as the swing hit his shield I changed the direction of my swing.

Now that my sword was aimed at his stomach, in that unshakable situation Andre took off the grip of his leg which he had strengthened earlier, he leapt back.

I did not want to waste the opportunity, I quickly ran and gave him a kick right on his leg so that Andre lost balance and landed with a foot that did not tread perfectly.

BRUKK..

Andre fell on his back and I jumped onto Andre's body.

"Happy Piter this training is over in time" Andre smiled as well as Nico who watched, they gave me applause and some compliments, I also blushed in shame.

I'm happy with my results, I've completed a practice that is not easy, in one year less three days, there is a certain pride in me.

We left the cave, our journey was about to begin, we were going to do our next plan of gathering two other heroes.