Priorities

Around an hour after my shower, my uncle entered my room.

'I guess he's going to give me some leeway on that new rule of his, or at least I hope.' I thought as Ka'dar approached me and sat on the floor in front of me, he then gestured for me to do the same.

Once we were both seated on the floor, he finally began to speak. "When we last met in this room, I disclosed some information about Ki. Although today, I'm here to do much more than share information, I've come here to make you my Bronze Disciple."

'Can he really make me his disciple if I haven't even passed the entrance exams? Does his position inside of the Golden give him such freedom? Or will they just write me off like those other members tried to, well, I guess I kind of forced them to.'

"Alright, well before we begin you must know which form of Ki you will be mastering first. Like all others who have been taught by the Golden you will first learn Ki Enhancement, in other words the first form of Ki." After he finished speaking he removed a small blade from his pocket, one rather similar to that of the other Golden members.

However this blade was far thicker than the other members, I could only guess that the other member's blade focused on swift attacks rather than strength like the one before me. 'Only if I had decided to keep those weapons instead of laying them under the trash inside of that dumpster!'

"When you gather Ki inside of your body, you store it close to your heart. Remember Ki is the product of gathering world energy and igniting it with your lifeforce, don't worry as long as you continue living your life force will replenish itself naturally or during your meditation."

"This then brings me to another part of the process, meditation. This is the act of gathering world energy inside of your body. Now once you can do all of these basic steps we will complete Ki's first form of empowering your weapons to make them stronger and such."

"How exactly am I meant to know when I'm gathering world energy, and what does it feel like so I know if I'm doing it correctly?" Ka'dar then began meditating and drawing energy from the world, after five minutes or so he opened his eyes and placed his hand on my back.

"I'm now going to slowly enter world energy into your body and you tell me how it is you think it feels or is." After he said those words, I could then feel a sort of refreshness entering my body.

However once he stopped pouring the world energy into my body I was left with stress of that energy freely roaming in my body. And also an unlasting desire for more world energy, if I had to express it in another way, then it would be nothing more than a mindless hunger for more.

"I Guess whe-"

"Wait, I forgot that you don't know how to compress the world's energy down to a smaller and more powerful form, if you don't do it now then it will only bring you stress until it delivers a cruel sharp pain all over your body!"

'I have to compress this energy, well, when I think of compressing something I ultimately think of something growing smaller but stronger. Like something going back to its very roots. In other words if I chase this energy down and force it into one spot it should do the job.'

And just like that I had compressed world energy into a small white orb.

"YOU'RE A NATURAL!" Ka'dar shouted from behind me, loud enough to make me lose my focus and have to restart the compressing method all over again.

"Now I'll have you repeat this process over and over again until day break then we'll sign you up to take part in the entrance exams. Which I think are going to be held in a few months, and in those months we should be able to get you, at the very least to a level required to pass."

And after what felt like a long hard time, day break finally came and I had somewhat gotten used to the feeling of world energy.

Although I was told that we would be holding off on actually creating Ki until a month before the exams, Ka'dar said that I needed a stable foundation before I could create Ki and even use it to enhance common day items.

Anyways after a long rest, I awoke to find my uncle sleeping on the couch on my far right. I quickly completed one of my daily tasks, and made my way downstairs only to find my uncle trailing behind me.

[Ki needed: 39]

"Good morning."

"Good morning indeed, where are we headed?"

"I was going to get something to eat."

"Good, good, I could use some food," Ka'dar replied.

'Like I thought, this is going to take some getting used to.' I thought before sighing out loud.

After my encounter with Ka'dar I completed my last daily task and we set out to sign me up for the entrance exams.

[Ki Needed: 36]

Our walk to the sign-ups was the most ordinary part of all my experiences since I was trapped beneath that rubble. There were many open stores with rundown appearances nearing the sign-ups booth in front of a Golden Stationing Quarters.

When we approached the man behind the booth, It was as if he had no idea who Ka'dar was. At the time I thought that maybe the man's position was so low that he couldn't interact with those closer up in the ranks.

Which makes sense, however after getting the information and signing up for my entrance exams, I'm beginning to think that maybe Ka'dar might be leaving something out. Maybe this is how I've always thought about people or most likely it's because I'm gathering more and more clues as to why I shouldn't trust the Golden and its members, least of all the one leading it.

Although, we were told that the entrance exams will take place downtown somewhere near the destruction downtown. Also that it would take place in a total of three months beginning on the first of next month.

And with all that settled, Ka'dar and I returned home and resumed my training. We stuck with the same training exercise up until officially one month had passed leaving only two more to further strengthen my training.

And in that month, only one memorable thing took place. I had finally completed the needed Ki requirement, and with the first one, it brought me a heavy feeling of stress all over my body. Just like when I would store far too much world energy as a mistake from drawing it from the world. After that pain had subsided I was left with these messages.

[You have finally reached the required Ki amount needed to level up!]

[You have at last leveled up!]

[Spirit Level: 2!]

[Hurry, you're almost there, only three more levels to go until you reach your first ever evolution! Trust me and all the smoking hot girls around the world when I say that you'll love it!]

And with only ten more days left until the end of this month, I've earned another level up. Although getting Ki only through daily tasks and not being able to increase my stat points has been a total bummer. However, my uncle says he has two pieces of good news, and I hope one of them is having him stay off of my level three spirit behind.