Revisiting the ‘Agastya Parvam’

Ben now had a target in his mind. He eagerly thought of certain things and thought about how he should develop the skills for a long time. While thinking he fell asleep.

The next day he woke up with renewed freshness. He had a martial art to develop. Ben went approximately 8Km into the nearby forest. It could not be called a forest as such. But for some reason there were no houses in that area and it had a lot of trees and animals that were harmless. It spanned an area of about 30 Km. Ben went near a clearing he had seen. Then he began to meditate for a while. Then he started. First, he performed the skills form the 'Agastya Parvam' individually. Then he began to combine skills. Strikes from 'Vyali Mardanam' was combined with movements from 'Sharabha Chalaanam' and the interval between these movements and strikes were combined with 'Airavatha Stanam'. This was a very rudimentary way, but for a first time it was enough. Ben also tried to combine breathing into this along with movement of aura both internally and externally along with the manifestation of claws. But it did not work. After 2 hours he stopped and then contemplated. He had some ideas in mind.

He rested for about 30 minutes and then resumed the practice. This time he did not do anything except combining the skills from the 'Agastya Parvam'. He tried to find the optimized combination that would be suitable for him. This went on for about 4 hours. He also did the external utilization of aura. Internal utilization was very difficult at this point. After the 4 hours he rested for another 30 minutes. He resumed again. This time instead of aura he was using the visualization and breathing along with the fighting skills. Also while he was visualizing, he visualized the avatar practicing along with him in the middle of the boundless universe, while breathing according to the ' Vasishta Vachanam'. This method could be said as a success. The breathing pattern when he used this could be said to have encompassed all the breathing methods in the fighting technique. He could seamlessly integrate the breathing methods mentioned in 'Agastya Parvam' with the breathing in 'Vasishta Vachanam'. He did it for another 2 hours. After that he got a call from his parents and he got an earful. 'Even if I become a martial entity, I will probably be afraid of my mother. Ha such is life' Ben sighed. He soon went back home and got another earful again. He was tired from all the training and yelling and he quickly got to his bed.

The next day as usual he went to school. The subjects were taken one by one. Ben chatted with his friends during the interval. It had become a bit difficult to chat with them because they all wanted to know about the Knight realm and progress in it. Ben had a tough time because of this.

Ben: Come on guys. Leave the martial knight part alone. When you people go for implantation, they will tell you.

Rais: There is no harm in knowing things early.

Ben: You know that I am under oath right. I cannot divulge any info. I will be prosecuted.

Jim: It will be between the 5 of us man.

Saarsh, Roshin: Yeah, yeah between us only.

Ben: Guys understand this, if I explain it to you in a haphazard way, it will affect you. A slight mishap can cause immense problems in your path. That is why I am not explaining it. Otherwise all these would have been public information now.

Ben explained it a bit loudly. Everyone in the class could hear it. Ben's friends also understood the seriousness of the matter to an extent. Then they did not ask about it anymore.

The subjects were taught one by one and the last period came. Which was the martial class. Everyone went in and assembled. They had to practice some amount of marching and other exercises before they started the individual practice. After that was done Mahaansh called out Ben: "Ben, starting from tomorrow you don't have to come for classes. That includes martial classes as well. This is for the next 6 months of school. You only have do the works assigned, monthly martial assessments and exams and the final tests. Of course if you want pointers you can come during the martial class or you can ask me directly. The same goes for other teachers as well." Ben was ecstatic. Others were jealous. His four friends were glaring at him. When Mahaansh turned around Ben showed faces at them. How could a Martial Lord not sense it? Mahaansh took Ben by his ears and took him for training or more specifically a beat down. And from the room they heard a lot of noise.

Luckiliy for Ben he did not have to come to class to hear the taunting of his friends. He began his earnest training at home. He first trained the techniques without the use of aura. He began to seamlessly integrate the various techniques in the 'Agastya Parvam' along with the various breathing patterns and methods. For the next few weeks he trained without his aura in the fighting skills. During these times he was researching the materials on the application of aura and the structure of body connected with combat. He checked how muscles, bones, nerves, blood vessels and meridians interact with each other in when in motion or in combat. This helped him to develop an idea to develop the internal and external utilization of aura with respect to the fighting skills he was learning. He continued like this for over 6 weeks.

After this Ben had figured out an optimum combination of fighting skills that could be utilized. Although it was not perfect, a group of combination skills were made which involved movement, striking and defensive skills. He used movement skills to move forward quickly and he used striking skills to deal damage and defensive skills to take damage. All these were practiced as a form of shadow fighting without any opponents to test it. But it was not without benefits. Even without using aura it was benefitting his body. He worked 8 hours a day and for the rest of the time he did work for his school and also did meditation. As a Martial Knight his strength and stamina were on a different level. He could work much more than normal people. It would not cause him long term problems due to over working but would benefit him in the long run. Even though this was the case, it was not easy. His body was aching for the first 4 weeks. Only in the last 2 weeks did the pain subside. There was one more thing that Ben noticed. It was about his energy level. His aura had increased, he was sure about that. In addition to that he felt 2 things. One is that his control over his body increased. All these moves were incredibly difficult to pull off. The only reason Ben was able to combine these was because he had been practicing the moves for a long time and also because of the martial seed implantation. Thus after executing these difficult moves his control over his body increased. He felt this control extended to a micro level rather than confined to macro level. Ben also felt a mysterious force in his body as well. He could not understand what it was, but something was aiding his aura, some force.