Max wrote the first turtle hermit lesson 1000 times while he cursed 10,000 times.
In his heart Max had still not understood the way of the coward, hence he looked down on the lesson even though he followed it out of obedience.
Sebastian on the other hand wrote it with the intention of learning it, he was more than convinced with the old turtle's strength and wanted to be a devoted disciple.
A handwriting difference could clearly be seen between leaf one vs leaf one thousand, as while at the start Max and Sebastian wrote it with conscious effort, after writing it about 200 times it became a mechanical code in their brain, which turned into a doctor's prescription like writing after 500.
Miracle on the other hand wrote directly from her nails, using one of her legs and her writing was much more consistent than the other two, however, she looked the grumpiest about it.
3 hours later, Kremeth came back and checked the work of the three and after being satisfied that they had all completed the task, he decided to take the kids out for a practical lesson.
Kremeth had made a comprehensive plan to teach his disciples over the next 2.5 years and he wanted to focus on 3 key areas.
1)Skill mastery - He noticed that both Max and Sebastian had many skills but 80% of them were stuck on the basic mastery level.
The children clearly did not understand the importance of mastering the skills that he knew and it was a big agenda for Kremeth.
2) Functional skills - All three of his disciples needed to learn functional skills like 'Evade' , ' Retreat ' , ' Counter ' , ' Parry ' and ' Vanish '
Although these were the most basic skills for a warrior to have, they were like learning how to walk and talk.
Any warrior without these skills was incomplete and Kremeth wanted to teach these techniques to his disciples and bring it to at least a ( master ) level mastery.
3) Mentality - It was the mindset that finally differentiated the extraordinary warriors from the ordinary ones.
Everyone who could rise up to the power level of a god, was an excellent warrior in their own rights.
Such warriors had little to no flaws in their fighting style and they were not easy to trick or defeat through deceit.
It was only a warrior's mentality then that allowed a few to rise up to tier 8 while others could spend centuries trying to go from a tier 6 god to a tier 7 one and still fail.
The way of the coward was not designed by Kremeth to transform his disciples into literal cowards that only ran away from battles all the time.
It was a mentality that was designed to help them suppress emotions like pride, anger and bloodlust, while teaching them the importance of being cautious and never underestimating an opponent.
Pride was what became the fall of most god's, a rigidity that made them inflexible, unable to be moulded into new roles and it was exactly this weakness that Kremeth tried to eliminate in his disciples early on.
Because an opponent that could never be baited into traps, an opponent that thought with his mind rather than emotions, was an opponent who would always be superior to his emotional counterparts in battle, an extraordinary god amongst ordinary ones.
For this, he was prepared to be hated, he was prepared to be looked down upon, because he knew that the day his disciples truly understood the merits of his ways they would respect him.
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( Meanwhile Rudra )
" We will reach the target galaxy in 14 minutes sir, we expect a response legion to be deployed in 22 minutes ". A soldier reported to Rudra who was enjoying a cup of fresh tea with his friend Fatty.
" Fatty, how many pieces do you think the incoming ships will blow into? " Rudra asked as fatty sipped his tea and mulled over the question.
Fatty Kalash had very sneakily mixed explosive rigged control panels amongst a machinery shipment going to the thunder nation to revive old decommissioned ships after the recent loss of battleships caused by Rudra's mayhem.
It was also partly the reason why Rudra had decided to attack the region of Thor's galaxy that he was attacking today, as it was the ones where the old ships had been deployed to.
" Four - Five if they are the awful old starships with the command centre at the central joint.
Two for the modern battleships, but I don't think there will be many of those as they are usually still in active duty ". Fatty replied as Rudra nodded to his answer, it was about what he assumed as well.
[ This is the thunder nation, northern command centre speaking- You have entered the thunder nation territory and are no longer in free universal space.
Your consignment is above the permitted threshold, so you must identify yourselves and your purpose of entry otherwise you shall be neutralised ]
A radio transmission warned every ship heading into Thor's territory as Rudra felt amused by the threat.
Picking up a transmission device Rudra replied with arrogance " This is Thor's father speaking, Our purpose to enter is to shove my earthly balls in Thor's mouth.
Stand down or you shall be obliterated ".
Rudra looked at Fatty for appreciation over his speech as Fatty gave him a big fat thumbs up.
Rudra felt satisfied with his response as he began to quickly put on armour.
The first response team should be on its way now, and with this response it was clear to both sides that the time to talk was over.
It was now time for a good old fashioned space war, and right as Rudra expected within a few short minutes hundereds of starships and about 4 dozen modern destroyer ships tearing through space in a lovely arrowhead formation.
Rudra let them come very close beforei picking up the tra mic once more as he said " Elites, enjoy the fireworks ".
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/// A/N - Bonus chapter for our dear tree in discord growing over 555 Feet!
It's a Christmas miracle you all! Let's go! ///