Chapter 11 Teacher's Training

After a few minutes, the duo delved deeper and deeper into the forest, eventually they came upon a small clearing. "So how will we begin?" Jack asked curiously.

"Attack me." Madara replied. "What?" Jack said, not sure how to respond. Suddenly though, he felt a fist hit his chest, as he shot backward, crashing into a tree.

"In battle you take every opportunity, imagine questioning your opponent, you're disappointing me." Madara said as he walked towards Jack, he didn't even activate his sharingan.

"Come on, if you can hit me once, I'll call you the strongest being in the universe." Madara, stated, provoking Jack. Hearing this, Jack chuckled. "You say that, but you can probably move at light speed, you can definitely move at lightning speed though." Jack said as he got up from the wreckage of the tree.

"Where had your arrogance gone? I thought you had an Epic ability?" Madara declared, Jack had had enough. Immediately he tapped his neck and placed the ring on his hand.

Suddenly he charged forward, as he went full power. The ground under him left in a mess as he ran forward. In less a second Jack reached Madara and began to punch towards him, but he simply dodged every attack with ease.

"Weak, weak, weak, weaker, weaker, weaker, jeez, how old are you 5? My daughter hit harder than you at the age of 3." Madara remarked. Jack paused upon hearing this sentence. Sadly Madara wasn't just going to let him stay still.

"BOOM!"

Madara swiftly kicked him in the side of his abdomen shooting him into another tree. "You shouldn't be confused by your opponents simple words, your mind must stay sharp and focused." Madara explained.

Suddenly without any pause, Jack shot up and charged Madara. His fist neared the man's face. Impacting it, or so Jack thought. Instead all his fist hit was a block of wood, while Madara himself disappeared.

"Always be on guard." Madara said yet again as his foot connected with Jack's back. 'This, this is bullying not teaching.' Jack thought, as he crashed into yet another tree.

"You really, really, disappoint me. For a man who acquired an Epic ability, you sure are disappointing." Madara uttered, as he gazed at Jack in disdain.

"With your ability, maybe I should have let you train yourself, with your shitty technique it would have taken you 10 years to make any real progress, regardless of your abilities." Madara stated before his hands began to move rapidly.

"Fire Style: Fireball Jutsu!" Madara said, before blowing out a huge ball of flames that hurdled towards Jack. Seeing this, Jack looked on in shock, before quickly, dashing to the side.

"BOOM!"

The area around where Jack was lying was up in flames, but luckily Jack had avoided the attack. "Good you can actually dodge." Madara chuckled, before rushing towards his student.

In a matter of seconds, fist after fist flew towards his student, almost every hit connecting with Jack's body. Bit by bit Jack's body was battered and bruised, but it seemed to regenerate faster than it was broken, each layer of skin becoming tougher than the last.

A few minutes later, Madara stopped as Jack crashed onto the ground, completely out of breath. "Good, this should have increased your durability a bit. Combat session over." Madara stated as Jack sat on the ground half dead.

"You're, a scumbag." Jack told him, as he simply chuckled. "Hahaha, after all I've done, this can be considered a nice deed." Madara replied as he also sat down on the ground.

As soon as he did so, Jack's foot tapped him. "I am the strongest now." Jack said, as he chuckled. "Mhm, the strongest ant." Madara agreed, albeit in an odd and demeaning manner.

"Whatever, you've got anything else to teach me?" Jack asked expectantly. "Of course I do, I was just teaching you a bit of hand to hand, now I am going to teach you energy control and how to gather your energy." Madara said as his eyes turned red.

"As I thought, your energy flows through the vein like patterns around your body, but it pools behind your abdominal eye." Madara noted, as he studied Jack's figure.

"It seems to be a bit similar to a cultivators meridian and dantian, but is overall different." Madara remarked. "I'd say you're currently filling up, about a thousandth of your current capacity." Madara continued.

"Put your armor back on." He said, hearing this Jack just did as he said, as his armor reformed on his body almost instantaneously. A few seconds, later, Madara nodded. "I see, the armor is basically calming your energy so it is contained within your body, and your energy veins. This will let you contain your strength, but a drawback is, that because of it the energy can't reach your muscles reducing your strength by a large margin." Madara explained.

"This can work though, due to the calming effects of your armor absorbing energy will be much easier for you. Eventually we can work on controlling your full power state" Madara continued, before sitting in a meditative posture.

"Copy me." Madara said, as Jack followed along. "Feel the air around you, and within it, the world's energy." Madara told Jack. "Now feel that energy entering your body through the palms of your hands and the soles of your feet.

After a few minutes Jack finally felt a reaction, albeit a small one. He felt a minute amount of energy enter through his hands and feet, and enter his body. It continued in a stream, as Madara watched him.

'This speed, its extremely slow, about half as slow as the average person.' Madara thought as he witnessed Jack. Although he managed to begin very quickly, the rate at which he absorbed was still immensely slow.

Madara didn't interrupt him though. 'Its best to let him train for now, we can solve the speed issue later.' Madara contemplated as he watched over his student for the next couple of hours.

Eventually Jack awoke from his state of absorption in glee. "My energy stores have increased by about 5%." He said happily, as Madara nodded.

'In the beginning growth is always extremely fast, but the more time passes, the slower it gets.' Madara mused as he gazed at his student. Although he started with an extraordinary power base, if this continued there was going to be a problem.

"Lets eat lunch, then, seeing as a its already around that time." Madara said as he brought out some food. "Thank you teacher." Jack said, as he accepted the food. After that, they had a hearty meal before going back to training.