... Tuesday, Day 8 ...
I had been doing endurance training for a week.
According to Karen, I was behind in endurance and not ready to continue training. So this week I only worked on endurance.
For me, for a human, an eight-year-old boy, it was incredibly hard and torturous, but I had to.
Training from morning to afternoon, then hunting for dinner was miserable and it was hard to sleep, enduring the itching and burning of the wounds.
Life was very miserable and brutal, but I still had to listen to Karen because she was the only person I could trust and if I didn't listen to her, bad consequences awaited me and I could fall into the hands of other savages who would certainly not treat me well.
It was true that Karen was their friend, but since I was not their friend, in their eyes, your friend was not our friend.
And on the one hand, my human instinct is greed to survive, that is, even though I had a bad life, it was incredibly bad, but on the other hand, I still want to live and if I wanted tocommit suicide, according to the church, good consequences awaited me. I will not.
On the one hand, in this world and in the next, the world of death, if I am a bad person, I will be tortured, but as the church explained, we all go to hell even for a moment of doubt, but they themselves, despite a thousand sins, will definitely go to heaven.
Their God was really good.
Regardless of all this, now I was supposed to go to the second training in a week, something that Karen Roche emphasized so much and said was one of the honors of the savage.
That is, war!
Karen: Well, Alex, your body is ready, it is not perfect, but it is better than the first day when you could not even do ten simple swims. But now we come to the most important part of a savage's life. If you really want to be a savage, you must learn It well.
Hand-to-hand combat is something you humans have never been superior to us at. But on the other hand, you defeated us using intelligence and tactics and modern tools.
(It was good, she admitted that we were superior in intelligence, at least this proud savage woman)
... But you must know that knowing the principles of war is no reason to use it against the innocent and weak.
.. Oh, you're not like that?
... I don't know if you know It or not, but I am the opposite of many savages and even you humans, and my principles and honor do not allow innocent people to be my targets, they are not my opponents, but cruel people are my real enemies. You will definitely realize this In the future.
Hehe, it's funny that you say you have principles, you have honor, but now this is nonsense. You're completely forcing me. You're weakening me. Don't worry, I don't see the future. I'm sure with all this hard training, I'll die in a few weeks, not days. You're a wild, principled, honorable woman!
After saying that, it was clear that she got angry and approached me and put her hand on my shoulder.
... Look, Alex, I don't feel like fighting with you. I told you the first night, you could have gone with the flow and returned to the church, but you even forced yourself to choose this path and agreed to listen to me as the boss.
And this is regardless of whether you want it or not, or even think I'm cruel and shameless, but you (he squeezed my shoulder so hard that it hurt) have to be what I want, a real wild man with hard training, even If you die.
And he went inside the hut. I fell to the ground in pain. I thought to myself, what's wrong with him wanting to do this to me?
When I felt something fall next to my hand.
I looked and saw a sword and a shield.
Karen, ignoring my pain, easily walked past me and stood a few meters In front of me.
Well, let's start with the sword. First, I'm not like you humans who want to teach you with a wooden sword like little children. I fight with a real sword like a real savage. You have to defend yourself and attack because you have to, if I hit you, you'll die and for your own survival, you have to stay alive at all costs.
He motioned for me to get up!
Despite the limitations of my strength, it was still difficult to make any movement, but I had to and I had to get used to it.
He motioned for me to pick up the sword and shield.
They were both very heavy and I lifted them a little when...
Karen attacked very quickly and suddenly! An attack that could have killed me with that murderous look of hers.
She attacked with her sword and this is where Azizah's desire to survive came into play and made me put my shield in front of her sword.
One blow from her sword was enough to throw me back a few meters and my sword and shield fell from my hands.
But Karen was not fooled and started attacking again.
I quickly dodged and her sword landed right next to my head.
And she hit me hard in the stomach which made me throw myself back.
And I landed next to my shield and Karen attacked again and I raised my shield again to defend myself.
With her blow, my shield broke in half and I was thrown back again. Now I was ready to die.
Karen slowly came towards me and put the sword In front of my face.
... If I wanted to, I could easily kill you with a little gesture. But remember what I said. My principles and honor will not allow weak people like you who don't even know how to defend themselves. I will kill them.
And he turned.
But you know this, without knowing that in war, an enemy like me doesn't wait. He's not like me. He will kill you without a moment's hesitation. It doesn't matter to him whether you are a savage, a human, or, as you say, an eight-year-old boy who can't stand hard things.
There is only one thing: he Is more important, and you must die anyway, in any way!
And now what do you owe the most, why don't they do anything to make life the way you want it, why do you have to live like this, but Alex doesn't...
Not you, not me, not anyone else in this world, this is certainly not the life we want, but we have to, we are doomed, we have to live this life, we have to endure it or we will be killed.
Now, if you are so unhappy, start changing the world the way you want it, establish a new order, but first make yourself strong, prepare yourself, because there are people in this world who are even worse than the church.
If you want to resist force, you have to practice, you have to know how to deal with it.
Now, you shouldn't just defend, you have to attack, because if you always defend, no matter how strong you are, you will still make a mistake somewhere and because you let your guard down, you will die.
Now, instead of thinking like a fool, stand up and fight and prove that you want to survive no matter what, and then prepare your sword, work with your mace.
Without any protest, I stood up and walked towards my sword and shield.
What was I going to say? Absolutely right. He said he could easily kill me, not just him, but everyone, and if I wanted to, I wouldn't go. I had to learn to fight anyway so I could survive In this world.
....
I raised my sword and shield and prepared myself to attack him again.
I fell to the ground again from the intense pain and exhaustion.
It was still noon and the first part of the training was still going on.
Karen was attacking without any mercy and I was only forced to defend myself and was doomed to defeat.
My body was full of wounds from Karen's attack.
I was already out of breath. I felt like dying many times today and until now.
...Who said the training was over yet? We just arrived at the main place. We just fought with a mace. Something that only a true savage can do. It's not like a sword anymore.
And he threw the mace at me.
... There's no point in attacking with a mace. Shields and defenses are only for attacking because you have to put all your strength into hitting with the mace. However, since you're new, I'll let you use the shield.
He was doing a favor for himself!
I couldn't even move the mace a little, let alone attack with it, but I had to with a lot of force and I raised the mace, but with two hands and no shield! Unlike Karen, who had it on his shoulder as if it wasn't, with one hand!
He started attacking again and I forcibly raised my mace which made him stand up and move forward but I threw myself aside with him and of course it made Karen fall back a little
He attacked again and again and each time I moved my mace back and forth with his attack until finally Karen's mace collided with mine and caused it to be completely destroyed! And I was thrown back again!
... Heh, it's over, you've failed again on the battlefield. Being clumsy like this doesn't mean you can't use your weapon well even if you make your enemy fall back but what about from behind? Someone will attack you from behind again even if it's cowardly but this is war and battlefield!
Now we'll try again, again and again, for months, until you can attack
And I got up again and again, and this time I failed again and again, there was only one result, and that was failure
...evening...
I was about to faint, my body was full of wounds, my head was hurting so much, I couldn't think or do anything anymore, I was so tired
... It's closed for today, you can rest
With these words from Karen, I didn't understand what happened anymore, and I just closed my eyes
... From Karen's perspective...
It was closed for today, everyone who had the strength was Alex, who was a child
He had really endured well so far, as a human being and a child, he had endured well
A week of heavy endurance training, and then today, when he had felt like dying many times
But all of this was necessary
When I felt something hit the ground.
Yes, Alex had fainted!
I disinfected Alex's wounds and infections and bandaged them with cloth and laid him on his bed.
I looked at his face.
He looked exactly like that woman and had some features similar to Antonina.
That is, both his morals and his face were the opposite of Antonia, who was cold and vengeful and completely obedient to orders and commands. He was not completely rebellious and vengeful. This is quite characteristic in his behavior.
But they both have one thing in common… hatred of being an executioner and being the son of an executioner.
Both of them were completely forced and unwillingly involved in this job, and each of them loved something else.
But this world was no joke. We all came to this world completely unwillingly, and I'm sure that if the gods had asked us at the beginning of creation about what we wanted to come to this world for, no one would have agreed. Except for a few who were nobles, I wish the gods had only created them. But then nobles wouldn't have slaves.
And who would want to do their work? Do it? I think we were created only to serve the nobles!
He slowly opened his eyes and groaned in pain.
When he saw himself in this condition, he was completely surprised. Well, I was right. In his opinion, I was a mindless, cruel savage who wanted to kill him with my training.
But I didn't want that and I have to make him understand.
Look, Alex, I need to have a talk with you.
I'm not what you think and I don't want to kill you. But you have to accept that in this world, if you want to survive, you have to be strong. If you don't, you'll end up like all those people in the village of Nikolai who died.
Whether you like it or not, you'll face death every day, every moment, and you have to be prepared to face it. Otherwise, you'll become like your father and your ancestors, a person who is no different from a slave and only has to kill to satisfy the needs of the court.
If you don't want to train, that's fine, but don't do it without knowing that you'll be pursued by the church at all times and wherever they find you. They won't understand. You want to kill someone, what do you enjoy? They only think about one thing, your death, because to them you are equal to an enemy!
Now, if you don't want to die and stay alive, the only way to save you is to become strong so that everyone fears you, not the weak, but the nobles and oppressors.
And then saying this, I came out of the kidney and let him think for a while.
End of Part 21