Green Tea?

[Talent Unlocked: Elemental Water Affinity]

Meng Tian was completely immersed in a new feeling inside his mind. His blue soul waved his hand in a mysterious manner and blue dots of light started gathering towards its small chubby hand. They looked as though they were being generated by the darkness nearby. As the blue dots of light gathered together, they finally turned into a small water ball.

He was observing everything that was taking place inside his consciousness space. He did not have to do anything as everything seemed automated. What shocked Meng Tian though was his soul throwing the water ball into its mouth and burping. All of this happened in the span of just a second and Meng Tian woke up from his stupor.

He looked towards the crystal sphere eager to try it out. Principal Ren noticed his gaze and threw the crystal sphere into towards him. As soon as Meng Tian caught the sphere, a blinding blue light erupted from the crystal and cracks started appearing on it.

Principal Ren had already surrounded the room with his energy to avoid someone eavesdropping on their conversation. He immediately strengthened it and successfully contained the light inside the energy barrier. Meng Tian and the Principal looked at each other and then at the crystal which had cracks all around it. Fortunately, it didn't break apart fully.

But now he found himself in an awkward situation when looking at the Principal who started laughing boisterously after watching this scene. Principal Ren waved his hand and the room turned clean again. All the destroyed furniture vanished. The office was now mostly empty but clean.

He then pulled out some random furniture to fill up the room. He looked like an experienced man while finishing this particular series of tasks. He then looked at Meng Tian like a prized jewel. "Your affinity is water as well. And that too of such a high level... I will immediately prepare a new training regiment that will guide you in using the water elemental energy to refine your body."

Principal Ren waved his hand and the office door opened up. It had only been a few minutes and Teacher Tiao did not know what the Principal had in mind. She immediately came inside but Principal Ren took her and Meng Tian to the Force Testing Machine and asked him to punch it. Meng Tian complied and gave it his best which turned out to be 410 kgs.

This increase in strength is attributed to the water talent that Meng Tian had unlocked a few minutes prior. After his soul swallowed that water ball, his body began to undergo automatic changes and was implicitly being refined gradually. This was much better than whatever training regiment that Principal Ren had in mind.

Meng Tian was unaware of the actual reason for his dramatic increase in strength but he felt that the 10 Energy Points that he added from before to his Strength stat might have something to do with it.

All the three members standing near the machine were shocked from the results, especially Teacher Tiao. She never expected to find a monster in the school where she was working. She blinked a few times trying to open her mouth, but decided to keep it shut.

Principal Ren knew that Meng Tian had a monstrous elemental talent for water but he didn't expect that he already had the strength of a Martial Apprentice. This shock was much greater because he remembered just yesterday his punch strength was just 150 kgs. This improvement was impossible. No matter how he thought about it, it seemed like a miracle.

Principal Ren didn't dwell much on this and they went to the Speed Testing Machine. Meng Tian went ahead and started running. His speed was not that shocking stopping at 9.2 m/s. Both Principal Ren and Teacher Tiao collectively heaved a sigh because they were not ready for another record-breaking surprise.

The results were within his expectations and so Meng Tian moved into the Agility test room. Teacher Tiao was standing behind Principal Ren and was observing the test from the surveillance room. Because of his rapid improvement these two days, and the intensive dagger sparring with Principal Ren in the office room earlier, had shot up his experience in Basic Movement Technique to a 100 and it got converted into an active skill that can be leveled up.

Meng Tian used his Basic movement skill to continuously dodge 56 bullets upon which he got too tired to move and the testing ended.

The results: 410 kgs punch strength, 9.2 m/s top speed and an agility level of 56. He was just 16 years old and already moved towards the threshold of a Martial Apprentice (400 kgs; 12 m/s; 50 agility). He was, for the lack of any other word, a monster. Principal Ren and Teacher Tiao gradually grew numb towards Meng Tian's results.

His next test was for the basic movement technique which was to dodge the opponent's weapon at least once. After that, came the basic boxing technique, in which Meng Tian was at a disadvantage as he did not gather enough experience. He failed the test again but this time Teacher Tiao did not go easy on him like she did with the other students. So, his failure was a bit justified. Anyway, his Experience in boxing increased by quite a bit from this test.

[Basic Boxing Experience +30]

The final test was the Basic Sword technique. Meng Tian was very close to converting this into a skill. So, he was even more fired up. The challenge was to make the opponent take a step back. But for Meng Tian, the test was changed to fight as long as he could without being injured.

Meng Tian took the wooden sword and started off with a defensive position, holding the sword with both his hands in front of him. He tightened his grip over the sword handle and waited in patience for Teacher Tiao to attack. He was going to defend till his skill becomes a level.

Just as he thought about this, Teacher Tiao immediately rushed towards and slashed her sword at a moderate speed on his left, followed by a cold voice, "The enemy will not give you luxury to get distracted. You lose focus... You die..."

Meng Tian's reaction time had improved greatly over these two days and he used his full force to defend the sword strike. But the sword stopped halfway and changed direction to cut towards his head. Meng Tian was astonished at this exquisite movement as he focused on defending against it.

Although, all the explanation took some time, the swords moved very fast and Meng Tian started to sweat like a pig, trying to defend. He could feel his sword increasing in familiarity by the second. Teacher Tiao had been making him feel the pressure which she felt would be a good exercise for him. But she did not expect him to improve this fast. 'He... really is a monster'

So, she increased her speed a little bit and that proved to be the last push that helped Meng Tian gain enough Experience to level up the Basic Sword Technique into his Skills list.

[Sword Level 1 (Basic)]

Now, Meng Tian started going on the offensive. His body was dead tired from the high intensity sword movements. Hence, he tried to land at least one single move before he gets hit by Teacher Tiao. However, before his sword could even reach her, she burst with a sudden increase in speed and before he knew it, Teacher Tiao was already standing in front of him and he was sent flying before hitting the ground a few meters away.

It was only then that he started feeling an excruciating pain coursing through his chest. 'I feel that hit might have broken my bones if it was even a little bit heavy. I need to save up some Energy Points in the future. If I have enough of them, I might be able to keep on increasing my Strength stat which could instantly cure any injuries.'

He closed his eyes for a minute thinking about his huge food requirements. After about a minute, he finally got himself up from the ground.

Although his Sword technique became a skill, he still couldn't last very long against the experienced fighter Teacher Tiao. But his performance was already enough to astonish Principal Ren as Meng Tian's Sword level had already reached the Beginner level and progressing at a very fast pace.

Just as Meng Tian stood up, Principal Ren threw him a small green bottle. It looked like some kind of an energy drink but had no labels. "Bottoms up. It is a 100 milliliters of diluted advance rapid recovery serum."

Meng Tian didn't think much about the explanation and unscrewed the sealed bottle cap. He saw some green liquid which quite frankly looked like green Tea and drank it up. It was surprisingly very sweet and Meng Tian was immersed in this feeling, when suddenly a screen prompt appeared and shocked him numb.

[Energy Points +1000]