#4 Training

Next morning when Ren woke up he felt energetic, so he went running. When he run for about 1 hour he was little tired so he went back to his "base". Well it was only fireplace and few things around, not even tent since he didn't mind sleeping on trees. Ren was already used to it thanks to living in wildness for 1 whole year.

Right now he was 6 years old kid so most important for him was flexibility of his body since he was kid it would be easier to train than in his previous life when he started later. First month Ren only did some yoga, stretching, meditation and jogging. After 1 month his flexibility was quite good, at least it was on level he could tolerate to train with.

Next 11 months he was focused on meditating, studying and slowly absorbing Nature energies. He didn't try to absorb more than 1 energy, because he thought that without even mastering 1 it is impossible to absorb 2 of them, well maybe it was possible but it would lessen your speed in comprehending for sure, maybe even lessen your future potential. Plus if one was too careless and absorbed too much of energy even of 1 kind one's body could even explode into bits. Body must be ready for absorbing them, and that can be done with training or in Ren's case growing up. He was after all only 6 years old and he could not store all these energies in his tiny body even through he trained a quite a lot.

First energy he choose to comprehend was Death energy. Why? Because he was greatly interested in it and he also wanted to be able to sense Life energy. He got to know that Death energy was extremely useful for assassination, because it enhanced his sensing ability. In past he was always relying on his instinct and sense of danger. But now he was able to even sense fly that was around 10 meters from him. Of course it was only in his perfect focus that drained his mind, tiring him down. But for assassination he didn't need to sense a fly if he used it for human being he could feel them probably 20 meters from him and even through walls.

One must have choose where to store Energy or more like to make a base for it where it will be spreading from and Ren choose his eyes for Death energy. By activating Death energy now he could see everything in slowed time but it was only by 5%. Rest of those 11 months he spent focused on mastering Death energy.

Today he was 7 years old and he made new "friends".

'It seems that Death energy attracts crows, not like I complain since they are only thing that doesn't attack me on first sight'

One of the crows was especially more interested in Ren and always sat on his shoulder and sleep there. "Are you having a good sleep buddy? Just to remind you it is still mine shoulder." Said Ren casually. Crow seemed to understand him and tilted it's head and then nodded.

Ren was pretty surprised crow could understand him. "You aren't normal crow are you? I will call you "Shadow" since it seems you aren't planning to fly away any time soon"

It seemed like Shadow even wanted to pout for his new name. Not like it could do but Ren somehow sensed it's dissatisfaction so he replied coldly "Yeah, I don't have good naming sense so if you don't like it you can fly away." Shadow could only look at Ren with "puppy" eyes and sit quietly on his shoulder.

Another year flew by quickly and this year Ren was focusing on his actual body and tempered it with his Dark energy, he also wanted to temper it with some poison but he learned that his body was actually immune to poison. Shadow was always near him and Ren could feel that their minds were being connected. They could use simple communication between each other through mind. Ren already tried to use him as a scout and it was successful. With Shadow he could explore dangerous places or enemy base without even going there himself. This was extremely useful for him and he started to think about Shadow as his "partner-in-crime".

Ren was now 8 years old and he was probably already as strong as his old self. It was already 2 years he spent in wildness if we exclude time when he went to village for more spices and other things.

Ren's strength rivaled to that of High-Class 3 danger beast. If he was in battle to death he was confident to kill Low-Class 2 danger beast but anything stronger is impossible.... not because of his skills but because of his weapons. They were all rusted and no one took care of them for years. Ren could only do basic sharpening and that was all. He knew that in Tatsumi's village there was blacksmith.

'Should I go there and steal some good weapons? Nah, Tatsumi's plot armor is too strong and he would somehow discover me and I don't want to meet him yet'