I stayed on my spot for quite a while thinking about the Monster Tide, seeing Duke Auturus take a sigh made me realize that I had been taking the Monsters too lightly and not truly understood the threat that Monster Tide represents.

I have read about the Monster Tides and knew even cities razed by them within an hour, but I have always thought the city would be able to handle them and our real challenge would be the Orcs that came after but it looks like the danger monsters represent isn’t any less than the Orcs.

When I came to myself, I started to train right away, but I did not, I forced myself back on to continue reading the book till late and only slept when I finished reading it thoroughly.

I woke up quite late the next morning due to sleeping late and started my morning routine. After I was done with that I walked into the hall to see that lunch was already there for me, which I ate before heading to the small training room.

‘It is time to train.’

I would have liked to practice the Body Refining Method, but I did not have the materials, I had asked Sheila to help me acquire them, but she said it would be difficult.

In normal times, the city would have had everything I need, but now in the Wartime every resource in the city had been confiscated by the Military for the wartime efforts, so it will be quite difficult to get materials unless I had asked for the Ramons help which I won’t ask, at least for now.

So, the only thing I could focus on is the Moonwell Method and Secret Method. The first method I am going to practice will be the Secrete Method; after then, I will give time to the Moonwell Method as it is very time-consuming.

The 1st Level Asaels Way Of Body Manipulation gave the body flexibility and second Level control. It is preliminary control as the 3rd and 4th levels give one expert control.

But this preliminary control helps me harness the hidden strength of my body, the strength that never has been utilized.

If I can practice the 2nd Level, then I will be able to do it with that untapped strength and not use the strength I have even more efficiently. If I can do that then my strength will soar, sour beyond my imagination.

It may seem impossible to do it, seeing how it took me three days to complete just the 1st level of this method, and I am planning to finish 2nd Level in ten or so days.

It may seem like I have four times more time, but not when 2nd level is ten times more difficult than the 1st, and I am not saying it as I did not practice the 2nd level but the method itself saying this.

But things are different now; in the cavern, I had a fear of being captive forever, but now I have a fear of dying and will surely die if I won’t be able to protect myself.

The battle with Monsters and Orcs will be terrifying, and anyone won’t have a chance to save me if I fall into the danger, I will have to save myself if the danger came, so I want to increase my strength enough that I will be able to deal with all these dangers myself without anyone’s help.

I take out the Method from my storage and read the 2nd level part; the 2nd level is completely different from the first the 1st level, here one has to perform the moves very slowly, completely in sync with energy that circulation with.

The only difference it has with the first level that it also has fifty-two moves like the first two levels.

Two hours later, I closed the book and stored it inside my holowatch before walking to the center of the training room.

Taking a couple of deep breaths, I moved energy inside me, and my body moved ever so slowly but stopped after a few seconds as both of them had not sync perfectly. The syncing is very important; without it, I could not go forward.

So, I tried again and failed again, but that did not stop me, and I continued trying till I finally succeeded in my 31st try. As I succeeded, I did not let myself become excited as a small mistake could break the sync.

I performed the move slowly as mentioned in method, and three minutes later, I was able to perform the 1st move successfully and started on the 2nd move right after, in which I failed in a minute.

Without feeling disappointed, I closed my eyes through about the mistake I made before starting again with the 1st move, and like before, the 1st move went flawlessly. When I started the second move, I also performed it without any problem.

Zup Zup…

I started on the 3rd move and felt faint lightning coursing through my veins, showing me the strength that is hidden in my body; the regretful thing is that as the faint lightning appeared in my body, I was not able to control it properly and lost synch.

Unlike the first level where fire courses through my body, this time, it is lightning, and I have to control this lightning and move it according to the specified route. The first level was not this complicated as this one.

Feeling the lightning, I understood that practicing this method going to be very hard, harder than ten times as here I have to control the lightning, tame it so it will move by my will and seeing how uncontrolled nature of lightning is, I will have to work really really, especially if I want to finish it in the ten days.

After failure, I tried again, and again, I would always perform two moves successfully, but when it comes to the third move when lightning manifests, I always fail, but that did not deter me.

Three passed by as I continued without stopping, every time I failed, I would think about the mistake I made before trying again. First, it did not work, but as time passed, my efforts started to show the results, and I got the gist of controlling the lighting.

‘Yes!’

I shouted in my mind as I was finally able to perform the third move after hundreds of failures, and the most amazing thing is, I understood the basics of controlling the lightning.