After the free day, they all return to train again the next day. Because yesterday they continued thinking about the treasure they could not rest very well. They passed the day thinking about the treasure, even if they were eating or before sleeping or anything.
Principal Black standing in front of them was looking at them and then she silently turned her back and went to her desk and took an old book. Then she asked:
"Do you know why the most of the knights or magicians are stuck in the 3rd Star?"
Noah, David, and Sabrina did not know why, they only knew that almost 90% of the knights cannot cultivate further than 3rd Star and magicians too.
Then Max higher his hand and said:
"I know."
"Then tell us, you do not have to be shy."
"I read in the library, that to breakthrough to the 4th Star is very different to the ranks before. There is a qualitative change and the last mortal chains break in the process. But you also change the way you cultivate; the Mana Breathing Technique will not work anymore. Every knight and magician need to develop a unique breath technique, that works only for the creator. From the 4th Star on, every knight is dependent on his breath technique, if he creates a good one, he will cultivate further and breakthrough to higher ranks. But if the breath technique is bad, then you will be stuck forever in the 4th Star rank."
Principal Black clapped lightly and said:
"Correct, very good explained."
Then she continued:
"This is also the reason why most of the 3rd Star magicians and knights cannot cultivate further. They are unable to create an own breath technique. So, they cannot breakthrough to 4th Star rank. But if they are too lazy and create a breath technique that only allows him to breakthrough to the 4th Star rank, they will be unable to cultivate further, because they cannot change the breath technique. If they did, they would explode."
David heard attentively and then he asked:
"I am in the peak of 3rd Star and I feel like I can breakthrough in every moment. What does that mean?"
Principal Black smiled and nodded, then she began to explain:
"You are in the moment where you should begin to experiment with new breath techniques. At this point, you can experiment as much as you want, but there is the possibility of hurting your meridians. Therefore, I told you to stop practicing the Mana Breath technique, because it is bad for your meridians and useless."
"I understand, thank you." Said David after the explanation.
Then Principal Black asked:
"Do you know how long it took me to create a suitable breath technique, that allowed me to breakthrough till the 6th Star knight and gives me the possibility to ascend to an 7th Star knight?"
Max, Noah, Sabrina, and David had no idea, but they tried to guess.
"I think two years." Guessed Sabrina.
Then Noah guessed Noah: "Maybe, three years."
David said then too:" Three years are too much; I think one year."
The Max said: "I think more than five years. From the books I read, it is written that it took many years to create a good breath technique."
Then they looked in direction of principal Black after they guessed with each other, and they saw her smiling like every time.
"I needed ten years to develop and create my breath technique. You must know that usually only men in their thirties become 3rd Star nights and you cannot compare yourself to others. I was a genius too, but I was 23 years old as I became a 3rd Star knight. You all are only 16 to 17 years old and are already at the peak of the 3rd Star rank."
It was true that they were shockingly fast. For Noah was that understandable with the system, but the other three were absolute monsters. They were unfairly talented compared to others.
"So, from now on I will give you a detailed training plan about how your day will be. I will tell you know how your day will be from today on. You will wake up at 5 a.m., you will train for 8 hours every day and develop your body to the impossible limits. After the training, you will go to the library and learn about everything you can, and you will begin to develop a new breath technique till its night. Of course, you will have breaks to eat and rest. I will give you the exact plan later. Ah, every 7th day you will have a free day."
They all nodded and agreed together, this time even Max would train physically with them.
But Noah was a little upset, he did not need to develop a breath technique. When he enters a new rank, his Mana will increase only while he trains till, he reached the peak of that rank. Then he needs to kill beasts and get their EXP to jump to the next rank.
He can even jump to the next rank without training, if he has the EXP, but he will be weaker than the others. That is why he waits until he reaches the peak. He learned about this as Sabrina was kidnapped and he had to jump to the 2nd Star knight, he was weaker than David in terms of strength. But as he become a 2nd Star magician after reaching the peak of the 1st Star, he felt that he was even stronger than in the beginning of the 2nd Star knight.
Because normally a 2nd Star knight was much stronger than a 2nd Star magician, so being stronger as a magician was bad.
Then he said: "Master Black, I have to tell you something."
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