3 Learning Something New

Madara was woken up by Reiner early in the morning, it was still dark outside. Madara gets out of the bed the man said he could have. It was the bed of one of his deceased sons. Madara walks out of the room and then outside to see the man with a book on his hip.

"Now before we do some magic, let's get this workout done first," The man said as he started to stretch. Madara did the same thing Reiner did for the next three hours. They mostly did cardio and exercises to strengthen the body, but Madara for confused when Reiner handed him a blindfold.

"Why are you giving this to me?" Madara asked as he took the blindfold.

"Do you remember what I told you about yesterday? To always be wary of your surroundings. Now, put that on and focus on sensing the mana around you," The man said as he vanishes from his spot.

Madara puts on the blindfold and takes a deep breath to focus on his surroundings. At first, Madara was sensing nothing but weak flows of mana, then before he got hit, he felt a considerable amount of mana.

Madara was able to sense his mana at the last minute. If his range and reaction time was better, he would have been able to dodge or attack the man.

After a few hours of this training, Madara progressively got better with his range to sense mana. Even though his reaction got a little better, it wasn't as effective as being in a real battle or some training that focused mainly on reaction speed.

"You did a good job," Thr old man said as he looked at the bruised Madara with a smile.

"Are you going to show me the magic now of what?" Madara said getting impatient because he had been waiting a long time and he was stalling.

"Impatient one, aren't you?" The old man said as he starts to center mana into his hands. Madara activates his Sharingan and copies his action.

Madara figures out how to mold his mana into flames, as he starts to focus mana onto the palm of his hand. A small orange flame appears above Madaras hand. He was a little mad about the size, but with practice, it would get bigger.

"So what is your magic?" The old man asked as he inspects the flame in Madaras's palm.

"It's copy magic when I saw you use that fireball, it felt like second nature when I tried using it," Madara said.

"So does that mean you can use any element you copy and is it temporary?" The man asked curious about Madara's magic.

"I believe so, and I don't think it would be temporary," Madara said.

"Well, let's not worry about this now you have a lot of training to do," Reiner said.

"More training? We just finished not even 10 minutes ago," Madara said sighing because he knew he wouldn't be able to get out of training.

"Not the training you think, I will teach you how to fight and then I will get you a weapon of your choice. How does that sound?" Reiner said as he started doing do weird poses and utilizing a different type of breath.

"What are you doing?" Madara asked as he saw that Reiner's stomach moving while breathing instead of his chest.

"Before you fight, you must learn to breathe, so watch me closely," Reiner said as he took a deep breath. He then closed his eyes, then starting punching and kicking the air at speeds Madara couldn't follow.

Something that amazed Madara was that with every blow, he could see the air shift from the force. The other thing is that Reiner had not taken a single breath since he started.

After 10 minutes, Reiner finally stopped and let out a breath. To say the least, Madara was more than surprised, he had never seen someone do what he just did in any anime he saw.

"Kid, just shut your mouth something might fly in It," Reiner said with a playful smile.

"Tch,"

"This technique was taught me by my father, neither of us was able to master it in our years now I'm passing it down to you," Reiner said with a bit of sadness on his face talking about his father.

'It probably won't be a good idea to ask him about his family until we get closer," Madara thought as he was following what Reiner was telling him.

"First, breathe with your diaphragm and hold you breathe for thirty seconds," Reiner said which Madara did no questions asked.

"This technique is made to boost your senses, strength, speed, endurance, and vitality. You will continue to do this every day from here on if you do not, there will be consequences." Reiner said as his voice got serious when he said consequences.

"You will run, eat, sleep, and train all while doing this breathing technique. The reason I am telling you to hold your breath so you can build your capacity. If you manage to master this technique, this breathing technique will become second nature to you permanently boosting your overall." Reiner said as Madara let out the breath he was holding.

Reiner looks at Madara who was breathing heavily and grabs his shoulder. He then knees Madara in the stomach with so much force he coughs up blood.

"As I said 'consequences'," Reiner said as he let Madaras body drop.

Madara gets up with some difficulty, he then begins to do the breathing technique again.

"Good," Reiner said as Madara continued to do the breathing technique for an hour straight without messing up.

"Ok, that's enough for today," Reiner said looking suspicious. Instead of falling into his trap, Madara continued to use the breathing technique.

"You learn quickly," Reiner said with a pleased look on his face.

"Yeah, but I don't want to be hit unless I'm stronger enough to take them," Madara said shaking his head. He was considering if his methods of teachers were just abuse.

"Ok, for the next few hours we will do some heavy sparring then to end it off you will run until I'm tired," Madara was prepared to receive a brutal beating from watching him earlier, but he didn't use the breathing technique.

"There will be times where you will not be able to use magic so you must be able to fight," Reiner said as he began to throw kicks and punches in the air, using his whole body when he struck. Madara didn't waste the opportunity to copy his movements when he finished, Madara could now use the same style, Reiner was using to an extent.

"Now, lets us begin!" Reiner shouts as he dashes toward Madara who doesn't wait to get hit, instead he runs toward Reiner with his lust for battle leaking.

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