Sense, Planning & Training

"AAAGGHH!! MY EEEYYEESS!!"

To the east of The Kingdom of Fiore, in a forest, a bright light flashed followed by a piercing scream rivaling that of a pig being slaughtered.

When the light faded, you could see a boy around three years of age rolling around on the ground holding his face.

After a while he stood up and started looking around. He was the epitome of perfection. His face was so good looking that any girl who saw it couldn't help but fall for him.

"Damn that stupid god. Don't let me get my hands on you or else I will let you have a piece of my mind. What if I had gone blind, couldn't he have given a warning!!

After getting my sight back I looked around me to figure out where that stupid god sent me. And I realized there was nothing but trees around me, so I must be in a forest. Probably a medium to large one too. How do I know that you might ask? Well these trees are freaking huge. I can't even see the top of them.

"Haah, well I need to find shelter and a water source first of all. Food can come later since even if I can't eat I can survive on water for a while."

I started walking around trying to find a place to stay and a lake or something. And about half an hour later I most probably used up all my luck, as I was able to find a waterfall which was connected to a small lake and right next to it on the side of a cliff was a cave which could fit about three people in it.

I entered the cave and saw that it was a bit dusty but otherwise livable. I clean the place up and gathered some dried leaves as a makeshift bed

After that I went to the lakeside and drank some water and sat down under a tree to rest and think about my training schedule.

"First of all, my powers. Is it like qi in dragon ball or chakra in Naruto, where I have to sense it in my body? If so then I might be able to use those meditation arts from my previous life to try that. Guess my otaku-ness is useful when it comes down to it, huh. Well let's give it a shot"

I closed my eyes and used a meditation art from my past life to clear my mind and then focused on my body. I kept on tying again and again, trying to sense it until about four hours later I felt a warm flow around my stomach area. It was for an instant but I felt it.

So with a renewed vigor I focused on my stomach area and this time it was much easier. Maybe it's because I had my focus spread out earlier instead of pointing it in a single place. Even though I was able to feel it freely now, I was still unable to move it.

"Hm, well I can think about how to move it later since I now know where it is. Let's try space power next."

*growl*

"Ah, guess that's the signal saying go and find food first."

Since my stomach was crying for food I decided to look for something to eat first. After all, a man can't think on an empty stomach. So I went back into the forest and I was extra cautious and sneaky. I didn't want to end up meeting a magic beast and become its food.

It took a long time to gather some fruits which could last a few days as I was going around some magic beast I encountered. Although I say encountered, they were far away. As it seems they don't really feel like keeping their voices down. Well, it helped me avoid them so I wasn't complaining or anything. And it's not like I didn't want to eat any meat but except for the magic beasts which I don't want to fight without any training there weren't any normal animals around so I had to be satisfied with fruits for a while.

After making my way back to the cave with the fruits I gathered I put them in one corner of the cave. By the way, there were too many fruits to carry by hand so I used my shirt to carry it like a bag. After that I ate my fill, enough to satiate my hunger.

Now where were we, oh yeah, the space power. Technically, space and time are of two different properties. And since I wasn't able to sense it in my body that means I have to do it from around me since it's practically everywhere. And let me set this straight. My powers aren't space and time itself, it's control over them which I have to practice myself. So it's not that OP. well, at least not yet.

Anyway, let's begin. I repeated the same thing as earlier and tried to sense the essence of space. And it was very easy, as I was able to sense it after around twenty minutes. Space was everywhere so it was a given that with my control power over it, I was going to sense it.

Different from the time power, I was able to move the space, albeit very slowly. This gave me more questions and I think it is because space was around me, separate from my body. It must be depending on my mind to control it. As for the time power, since it is inside my body and it is connected to me I'm guessing my body must have a set requirement to be able to move it. If I am able to build up some physical strength by training, maybe I can move it as well.

Ok, now that I know where my powers are and what to do to gain control over them, I think I know what to do to my training schedule. From morning to late noon I will work on my body doing sit-ups, push-ups, frog jumping with weights and weight lifting. And then until evening rest to recover. And I will train my powers from evening to night and then sleep. Perfect.

Now, as I will have to go into serious mode soon, let's go to sleep and mourn for the next three years of hell. Haah, I guess this is the price I have to pay for going into serious mode, kuh, no choice huh. I'll be back world. And when I do, all the beautiful girls will be mine. MUHAHAHAHA.

"Forbidden Art: Serious Mode No Jutsu"

And so, our MC became serious and went straight to sleep.

"Well now that I know how I can tap into my powers, I need to get some rest to get into my best shape for when I start training tomorrow,"

After covering the entrance of the cave with some bushes, I laid down on the dried leaves in order to sleep and it wasn't long before I drifted to sleep.

Next morning, I work up pretty early. The sun was just about to come out and I was feeling completely refreshed. After washing my face and mouth at the waterfall I ate some fruits to energize myself.

I went out and stood there in a daze. Damn, in which order should I train. Hm, ok, let's start by jogging and stretching, after that sit-ups, push-ups, weight lifting and then frog jumping with weights. I will build up some strength first before training some basic fighting stances.

I saw those stances and training routine in a YouTube video once. It was a before and after video and at the time it was quite popular for its type of videos. And from the video itself and the comments of people, I know it works well and that the basic fighting stances were well developed over the years. It was also very versatile which is another plus factor.

And so, I started jogging. It was really hard. I mean there is no big enough clearing to jog. The space in front of the cave is enough to do other exercise but not jogging. So I had to run around the forest. The hard part was dodging the trees while maintaining my speed and also not to overuse my stamina.

It took a lot out of my stamina even though I tried to conserve it. But I also knew that it was needed. After that, I started stretching so that I don't get cramps in the middle of my training.

When I actually began my workout it was nearing noon, almost 10 o'clock on earth time. I spent most time on jogging and a little over twenty minutes on stretching.

I started off with sit-ups and set a goal of 50 for now. If I could complete it without too much effort, then I will do 75. But I guess that was impossible since I have a body of a three-year-old. I could barely do 35 but I managed to dig deep and finished 50 sets. I was laying on the ground panting out of breath for a while and after five minutes I continued.

Next is push-ups. I set the same goals as last time and just like before I was exhausted once I finished. After another five-minute break, next was weight lifting. I used some heavy stones which I found near the cave and started lifting them up to my chest area another 50 times and then lifted it above my head for another 50. It was very dangerous to lift it above my head like that but until I am able to find something to cut some tree trunks to use it instead I have no other choice.

At last, using some vines, I tied rocks to my back, legs and arms, and I started doing frog jump. I frog jumped in circles for 10 rounds an d after a five-minute break, I once again did 10 circles and finished off my training for the day.

It was around mid-noon when I finished with the training. And after cleaning myself and eating I rested my tired body for a while. Although I'm in serious mode, I have to say that I almost gave up midway. But the smiling faces of my future wives pulled me through.

When it became evening, I who had dozed off at some point woke up and began to try and control the space around me.

But before that I tried to move the time power in me and I was surprised to find out that I was able to move it a tiny bit. This confirms my thoughts. I need to have a strong body in order to move and control the time power inside me.

So since I can't do anything much with the time power I completely focused on my space power until I have gotten more physical strength.

I began meditating and trying to move the space surrounding me in a whirlpool like manner with me in the center. It didn't move an inch first but slowly started moving very slowly. It remained at that speed and it didn't become faster no matter what I tried. Well, it doesn't really matter right now, as I want to be able to control it more than move it at a fast speed at first. When I am able to move it by will alone no matter how slow, that means I have gotten really good at controlling it. So first of all, I started compressing it around my fist which took almost half an hour or so, leaving me sweating through my clothes.

My fist felt heavy like I was carrying a lot of weight but I could still move it around although not with the usual speed.

I walked out of the cave and stood about five meters away from a tree. After getting into the fighting stance I punched out the space clad fist towards the tree. I felt the compressed space power on my fist stirring and then moving away from it and flew out towards the tree. When it made contact with the tree, it completely blew out not only the target tree but also the surrounding trees of around three meters from it with a loud bang.

I was stunned with my eyes wide open. I never expected it to be so powerful. If I used it on a normal human, they would be blown to pieces with blood and pieces of meat flying around. I have to get the power conversion in check so that I don't go killing people unconsciously.

"COOOOLL!!"

And so I started training on my control over my space power back in my cave and then went to sleep after that. Tomorrow will be another hard day of training.