Training

"gooonnng goonnng"

Loud sounds of gongs spread out through the dorms

Hearing them candidates rushed out

And what greeted them was several cadets standing in a straight line

"Line up!!!!" one of the cadets commanded at the top of his voice

And almost immediately all the candidates did so

"follow us" one of the cadets said as they turned around and started jogging away

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After a while of jogging a slope slowly became visible and the cadets went straight for the it

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Soon enough there were inside a valley

The valley looked like it hadn't had a speck of water dropped on it for years.

The candidates could feel their mouths dry up but they had no choice they kept on moving

There in the middle of it all was a large building with characters that said

"Battle stage" at the top of the building.

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Inside the battle stage

"woooooo woooo" they could hear the screams of several people though they couldn't really stop to look they could make out the uniforms on some

They were cadets

Upon closer inspection the eyes in the background looked like those of hungry wolves looking at a pound of flesh.

Frank and the other candidates soon came to a stop in front of several more officers

"Attention!!!" one of the cadets screamed..

"Welcome candidates, today There are a few cadets of the Fire-bird military base who will take you on the basics of what it means to be an infantryman of the Fire-bird army. Pay close attention....." the cadet spoke casually seemingly not interested in the whole thing

Frank and the others waited for about an hour until all the military officers left the premises, then a cadet marched forward and said

"As long as you stay in these barracks, you will refer to me as "DADDY" and only that because I gave birth to you. Yes, it was me. I was the one who f*cked your mother and gave birth to you pieces of trash. As long as you stay in these barracks, you will treat me with the same respect you give to your DADDYs. Is that clear?"The cadet shouted but.

"...," he was met with total silence.

The candidates just stared at him blankly.

This pissed him off

"Is that clear maggots?" he bellowed

At this point he was trembling in sheer fury because he had been met with silence once again.

He was about to lash out again when he heard a voice, and it was, predictably, the jack.

"Wouldn't you piss your pants if I called you my father?" Said the jack mockingly.

"F*ck you who do you think you are, maggot," the cadet exclaimed.

He moved directly to Jack's face.

"F*ck you. You should be glad to call me your daddy drop and give me 50

You are all trash

all of you, drop and give me 50. You are all my trashy sons. I am not an impartial father. If one gets punished, you all get punished. "

He screamed at the top of his voice. But when he saw the fatty jack going exceptionally fast. He kept on increasing the push ups by 50.

"Give me another 50."

He was boiling with anger.

"Another 50"

...…

Time went by slowly

"Attention," sounded the new cadet. He was a guy with pitch black and long hair tied with a golden ribbon. He went ahead to say

"You will all be assigned instructors to your already made teams. Work hard this month because at the end of the month you will be tested" the cadet said flatly.

The cadets quickly chose their teams, frank, jack, joey and jake were the last team to be picked

So the cadet from eailer took them under him

He had a golden ribbon tying his hair

He was called wang ben

"follow me" wang ben said as he started walking forward

To frank and the others surprise, we were descending.

Time went by and it felt like we had descended a flight of 1000 stairs.

All of a sudden, the cadet stopped moving.

There was a training hall in front of them. At least it looked like it. The cadet went in, so they also got in.

"sweat?" frank asked himself as he used his hand to rub his forehead

Turing to look at the cadet frank noticed that he was already shirtless, but to his astonishment, he wasn't sweating at all.

"This is to be your training hall from today. You will be here at dawn and leave after the sun sets. You will get a routine for the duration of your stay that you must follow. Do you have any questions? " Cadet Wang said

Frank and the others were already sweating at this point

"how could this be a training room?" they thought to themselves

"I'm sorry cadet Wang, but this isn't a training room. This is a boiler room. Look at the pipes. No way this is a training room. This isn't a good environment for training. Please reconsider. I promise I won't act arrogantly anymore," said the fatty jack.

"Shut up!! you aren't qualified to call me senior yet, you're just a candidate," said Cadet Wang.

He was annoyed by jack's constant talking

He then added, "plus this is where I train. This is my personal training room."

"What are your names?" cadet Wang Ben suddenly asked.

"I am called Jack."

"Joey"

"Jake"

"Frank"

"Okay, these are handbooks that explain the basics of hand-to-hand combat in the fire bird army. The book is called "Fire bird Dance" Cadet Wang then said

"let me explain how this technique is used....." the cadet wang ben explained .

"Now watch what I do. Follow me according to the book," said Cadet Wang as he proceeded to punch out and later followed with a series of movements.

Time passed

"Okay, that's it for today, guys. Go back to your dorms and be here tomorrow at dawn, am I clear?" said cadet Wang.

"Yes sir," they echoed.

"You're dismissed for the day," said cadet Wang.

Frank and the others left the battle stage and slowly ascended the valley, then they jugged to our dorms....

But

On the way to their dorms they noticed a silhouette moving with a few candidates towards the dorms.

It was the screaming cadet.

Seeing him frank and the others decided to slow down so that he wouldn't notice by the cadet.

But they were just unlucky

"hm?" The cadet turned around and looked right at them.

He then proceeded stopped and ordered the other candidates he was with to move on, with the exception of one guy who was clad in gray robes.

"Good evening, senior cadet," frank and the others spoke in uniform when we got close to them.

But He only nodded and directed his gaze at the fatty jack.

He then said, "Well if it isn't my arrogant son, tell me , why are you so arrogant even though you are trashy? Do you take pride in your trashiness? "

"We all know who the trashy one is, senior," said the fatty jack.

"It seems like I'll have to show you who is trashy Then, I am your daddy After all, my duty is to teach you so you don't go astray," said the cadet.

The air around us seems to tense up and all of a sudden frank felt like a huge rock was placed on his head. This pressure seemed to be coming from the cadet. It felt like if he took a step, he would go unconscious.

They all seemed to be going through the same thing except for one person

Jack

"What a great cultivator applying pressure on non-cultivators. It's wonderful to think such a despicable person ended up in the fire-bird army." Jack looked visibly pissed. He was glaring at the cadet angrily.

As he was saying that a voice suddenly resounded

"Hahaha, young kids these days are always so hot-blooded," said a voice in the distance.

As soon as the voice sounded, the pressure disappeared.

Frank and the other all turned and noticed an old man with a handful of books.

"Good evening, sir," said the screaming cadet while saluting.

"Luke, when did it become okay to bully candidates during the assessments? You seem to have grown wings," asked the old man.

"I apologize sir. I got too excited because we have such outstanding candidates this time," cadet Luke replied.

"Oh, so that was the reason , you were very excited? Maybe we should channel that excitement into some more important work," The old man had a sly look on his face.

Cadet Luke looked terrified when the old man said that

The old man, on the contrary, looked very delighted. He said, "Go to section 4 and pick up some fire ore and bring it to my office before midnight."

"Sir but..."

"No buts, excitement should be used for productivity unless you aren't excited. Are you lying to me, Luke, are you really not excited?" The old man said

"No sir, I'm very excited. I'll head to section 4 immediately," said Luke in a trembling voice.

"Good good." The old man then turned to us and said

"You head to your dorms early to bed early to rise. Maybe someday when you join the army, you might help this old man do some important work."

"Thank you very much, sir," jack said in a bow.

Frank and the others could only imagine what would be the important work he was talking about.

The old man jumped and disappeared,

Leaving only cadet Luke and the candidate he was originally with. Cadet Luke seemed very embarrassed.

"What a disgrace," said the candidate,

looking at cadet Luke with disdain. "I'm leaving. My senior brother will be very disappointed. You lost face today."

"But young master Yun, that was a teacher; there's nothing I could have done," said cadet Luke.

"Whatever," said young master Yun as he walked away from the cadet.Luke watched him in embarrassment. He turned around and left too.

A while after he left, the old man reappeared in the same spot while looking at the top of the student's dorms. He jumped and appeared on the top of the building and said

"Who's there and what are you doing in Firebird Barracks?"

But

he was met with absolute silence.