Back in the training grounds, Noah, David, and Sabrina were standing in a line and in front of them was Principal Black.
"So, how do you feel after running for more than 12 hours?"
The first to answer was Sabrina:
"Master Black, if I am honest, then I cannot remember that we run for so long."
Principal Black smiled and nodded, then she looked at David and Noah wanting to her their answer too.
Noah then said:
"I can only remember that after a few hours running, I lost conscious and my body was acting alone. Then I remember waking up today and I had pain overall."
"Me too."
Principal Black then asked:
"Why do you think that your body continued running alone, even if you lost conscious?"
Noah, David, and Sabrina frowned and began to think about the answer, but they could not find out why.
Principal seeing their confused expression, began to explain:
"As knights, you have to know that your muscular memory is almost perfect and is more than evolved. There are cases where some knights were practicing swords techniques and after a time when they lost conscious because of the exhaustion, they continued swinging the sword and practicing. Therefor normally it is said to the students, that they should not practice till they pass out."
"But that is wrong, then exactly that subconscious training is the most effective, even if you suffer pain for a few days. For example, you passed out after running for six and half hours, but you continued running for almost another six hours. That means that your body can endure twelve hours of running, but your conscious can only handle with the half of the time."
"From today on, you have to run every day for twelve hours and you can only stop with this training when you run the twelve hours without passing out. Do you understand?"
The three of them shout:
"Yes sir!"
Then they began to run around the training grounds. Before they concentrate themselves at running, David said to nosh:
"Noah, I never heard something like that. In the Edelgrade House I heard one time that the knights are only allowed to train for a couple hours, to not exhaust and hurt themselves, but I did not know about the subconscious training."
"If she said so, then something is right on it. From where I come, there were a lot of knights who talked about this issue, but because nobody trained so hard, nobody knew if it was true or false."
What Noah said was true, in the future being a knight or magician is like a status sign. Because the weapons were very developed and everything was under control, the people did not train anymore to be strong for themselves and the society, but they trained only to get a social status and wealth. That was one of the reasons why the knights and magicians were so ridiculous week.
For example, the strongest knight in his time was a 5th Star knight, compared to this time, even an academy principal was a 6th Star knight. And in this time, there is even stronger people.
Then Sabrina shout:
"Stop talking and run, I do not want a bad image with Master Black."
"Yes. Yes, boss!"
Then they began to run faster and faster.
Now to Max, he was in the library in his sea of books.
He was very concentrated and deep in the books and writing notes.
"So, magic is about the power of imagination. As stronger the imagination as more and stronger spells I can cast. The only burden is the Mana Core and the amount is it."
"Let's if I cast fire ball without the spell, it will be smaller, because I am not accustomed to it."
"The mana is neutral, but the body has more affinity to some elements than others, that why we can use some spells better that others."
Max was talking the whole time with himself alone and practicing his spells and comparing it with the books and what he knew about it.
He was true genius, then what he was saying were normally the conclusion of many experiments done by older magicians.
"What if I can neutralize the body affinity with the element and make my body neutral to all elements? Is that even possible?"
"I am dreaming big, whatever I will try to cast fire ball as a magician with water affinity."
Then he continued studying and practicing, he also stopped using the Mana Breath technique. He felt like he had to organize his mind at first.
And so, the first week passed and everyone made a big progress in their training.
Noah achieved to run for more than 15 hours without passing out, that was more than expected. That means that he improved a lot and not only pushed to his limit.
David also improved, but not so much as Noah. He could now run for 13 hours without passing out. He was so proud with himself that he could not believe it either.
Sabrina did not improve by running more, she could only run for 12 hours. But she was the fastest among the three of them. She could run more distance in the 12 hours than the others thanks to her agile constitution.
Max also achieved a breakthrough studying. He began by trying to cast fire ball without the spell, but that did not work well. So, he decided to practice with water ball and after a whole week practicing, he found out that he could cast water ball without a spell, that was as strong as the one casting with a spell. It was even a bit stronger.
Principal Black seeing their progress was dumbfounded, she never expects that they will progress so fast. Yes, it very fast even for her.