8 Training

Nate woke up pretty early next day, he was quite excited to start his training.

He had some breakfast that his mother prepared and then he went to the backyard of his house and started to telepathically talk with Baal.

"So Baal, how do I start training my Observation Haki?"

"Observation Haki is a convenient ability, when mastered to its peak its kind of similar to Wisdom of Solomon." stated Baal "First you need to meditate within the ring while I release my presence, you will try to sense it. It will not be easy will take some time. You also need to start working out your physical body."

"Training Haki is fine since I can do that within the ring, but how do you expect me to train by body while being grounded." asked Nate.

"I will use my lightning to refine your body." said Baal "It can only be used for the initial refinement as its efficiency gradually drops with its usage. Its also quite painful since you have to let currents flow through your body."

"Fine, I can use it to temper my body till my father comes back and I get to be free. I can also ask him to forge a weapon for me." said Nate.

"You will train your Haki in the mornings and temper your body in the evenings. Also try to comprehend the Mystic Art, it will be useful to you once you have mastered all three types of Haki and starts to fuse them." instructed Baal.

After the talk Nate started to meditate within the ring, and a huge pressure descended on him. He knew it was Baal but he couldn't sense his presence and didn't know where till came from.

This continued on for few hours and Nate was mentally exhausted as the pressure bore downed on him. He was relieved when he heard his mother calling him for lunch, if he had to face that pressure anymore he would have passed out.

Lilly had noticed his weird actions sometime ago but didn't mind it since he was a kid and he was just sitting there with his eyes closed.

After had his lunch Baal told him sleep for few hours since he was mentally exhausted. He drifted as soon as he hit the bed showing how tired he was.

Baal woke up Nate after few hours, the sleep had helped him greatly and his mind was completely clear.

"Now we will start your body training." said Baal "Make sure to pay attention, it will also help in your Haki training. Feel the current when it flows through your body and make sure to bear the pain."

Nate said he was ready and started to concentrate after few seconds he felt it, the current coursing through his body numbing his veins. It was electrifying and painful, he almost screamed then felt his body paralyzing numbing him of any outside sensations, and the pain lessened but the horrifying feeling of having his limbs and body paralyzed left him with dread.

He swore to himself that he would rather die again than continuously suffer like this. After what felt like eternity, he felt his body and then pain returned. He went through this in cycles for few hours but Nate felt like it was years.

"It will be hard on your first refinement but you will eventually get used to it" remarked Baal "And it also helps in tempering your will."

Nate was too tired to comment. He couldn't move his body as it laid their shivering.

After few minutes he felt like he could finally move his limbs but it felt like they were filled with lead. He dragged his body to the bath as he perspired lot of sweat and filth from his body during the training, glad that his mother hadn't seen him while training, he soaked in warm water feeling life returning back to his body.

He had dinner and went back to sleep as soon as he finished. After all going through that hellish training while being a three year old child was quite demanding.

In a blink of an eye three months passed, today was the day Nate's father was returning back from his trip and Nate was excited to meet him.

His daily training was showing his result as his physique become much more lean without excess fat and even though he was only three years old looked much older. He stands at roughly 115 cm almost at the height of a six year old having grown about 20 cm in three months.

He has made some major improvements in his Haki training too, he can now sense other's presence in a field of 100 meters in diameters though he need to concentrate and can't be distracted.

As he was waiting at the harbor for his fathers arrival, he noticed a ship sailing towards there island in the horizon.