This Sucks !

"Crap he ditched me, it's cold and I was already tired, now I have to find my way back home".

"Hes lucky in my previous life when I turned 10, I started hunting with my great grandfather, so I know how to track some".

Tate turns around and looks at the disturbed leaves on the forest floor. "let's get started we got a way to go". So, one foot in front of the other Tate started walking back the way he came following the disturbed leaves and looking around from time to time to take in the area around him just in case this happens again.

As Tate exits the forest in front of the grass clearing Marcus reappears,

Fantastic job I wasn't expecting that to happen, Marcus Said.

"All the leaves we kicked up running around made it easy".

I see then next time I will make it harder. Ok enough for today go get cleaned up I'm sure yal will be eating dinner in an hour or so, remember to practice the sling in the morning.

"I will Marcus".

Early the next morning, Tate is out the bed heading to the practice area, he notices Marcus in the distance going toward the woods to hunt and Marcus must have felt his gaze because he turned around to look at him, they gave each other a quick wave and carried on.

15 minutes later, "Screw this stupid sling, I don't have the patience my stones are going everywhere I can't find them, I hit myself in the face with the leather a minute ago, I won't be able to hit jack squat with this thang."

"If only I could use plain magic this would be a lot easier, but I don't know if I'm ready to tell anyone yet."

As Tate is walking around picking up rocks that he can use he had an idea.

"I just had a brilliant idea, I will just do what I did with the rocks I threw at the rabbit the other day and will control the air around the rock in the sling, when I release the sling I can control the rocks flight path with air magic, I just don't know if I can control the rock in the sling as its spinning in circles in the air before I release it, time to practice I guess."

An hour and a half later with many struggles and a little cussing Tate figured it out, Tate basically formed an air whip that encompassed the whole sling so instead of him spinning the sling in the air, he would spin his air whip which replicated everything perfectly, if anyone was watching they wouldn't notice any strangeness in the way the sling moved, releasing the rock was the next hurdle that was a little confusing because he had to release part of the sling to let the rock fly, but once he got that down pat Tate was slinging stones a lot more accurately since he could discreetly use the air to control the direction.

Several hours later around 10:30 Tate is getting good with his accuracy and technique.

Marcus arrives back at the grassy clearing and watches from a far as Tate practiced with the sling, He couldn't help but be impressed as Tate practiced from different distances from the target as well as stances, Tate would even stand behind stuff and try to throw it around the obstacle to hit his target. Marcus noticed a nice swish noise each time Tate whip the sling forward. Hes going to be downright deadly with that thing in a week Marcus said especially after strength training it will add even more power.

It's a bit after lunch and once again Tate finds himself rolling onto his back panting for air after strength training when he hears.

Ding

Strength Level up +1

Strength Level 2

"That should make things easier, but I know Marcus will notice and make me increase what I can carry so no need to mess around I will have to get something heavier to do squats with next time, At least I will be able to lift and do harder workouts that should impress him."

A month passes by in the blink of an eye, its morning but the village is up, but that wasn't by choice Tate has got so skill at using the sling plus the strength workouts every time he twists his body and whips is arm forward to release the sling it's like he is whipping an actual whip and not a sling, as he releases the sling it sounds like a gunshot is ringing out in the village.

Tate, Marcus calls out we need to talk.

"Yes Marcus."

I want to talk about the sling, you're too good with it, we have been getting complaints about the loud popping noise that your sling makes and us hunters are also concerned you may make the prey run off.

"I'm sorry I wasn't thinking about any of that, I was so focused on getting better I didn't even think about the noise causing problems."

Don't stress about it now you know, also your good enough for this part of the forest you're going to be blowing holes through all your prey putting that much power into it, not to mention that noise is going to scare everything for miles, you could possible call some bad thangs and there are plenty of terrifying creatures in deeper darker parts of the forest that would scare you senseless.

"I will keep that in mind from now on Marcus."

Tate, I know it's still early but rest up after lunch it's time for the spear training that we have ignored so far.

"Sounds good"