Chapter 59:Activating the cells
As I slowly started to lift my heavy eyelids all I could see where rays of white light. After a few seconds, my vision started to become clearer. I could make out the white textures on the wall, the bar like lights on the ceiling.
Where was I?
When My vision eventually cleared I could see a shiny big round object in front of me, it was so shiny that I could see a reflection of myself. I was currently in a hospital bed. The shiny round object started to move, making me realise that it was a bold human head.
"Hey man, you're finally awake," Kyle said.
My head was pounding.
"Why am I in the hospital, wait why are you in the hospital?"
Kyle placed his hand on my shoulders and gently pushed me back towards the bed.
"Hey, don't move so soon man, An old man came running in here with you on his back, he asked us to call a healing mage as soon as possible but when we ran some test, you were completely fine."
"What do you mean we?" I asked
Just then the door opened and in walked Slyvia.
"You're awake!, I hope kyle didn't bother you too much he's been nagging all the female patients since he started here."
"You joined the medical club!" I shouted.
Kyle started to blush a little.
"You know I've always been interested in the medical field."
Giving me a wink and thumbs up as if we were speaking in code.
After looking around the hospital I realised that Kyle was one of the only Male students that had joined the medical club. I didn't want to doubt his words but perhaps he had an ulterior motive.
Slyvia then came over while holding a clipboard in her hand.
"The doctor said we could look after you while you recover since we know you and all."
"Am I all okay?" I had to ask for some reason my head felt like it was going to explode.
Slyvia looked at the clipboard and said,
"When you first came in here you had all the signs for Mana sickness, which had to be impossible. We called out for a medical mage but then quickly cancelled the call. When we ran a second test your body seemed to have all healed up. Most likely just a false reading the first time. You just need to stay here for a few hours and you're free to leave."
After resting for a few hours I was free to leave the hospital. When I got back to my room everyone was talking about there experience at their clubs. On the first day, it seemed like learning about Ki was the basics.
Kyle and Slyvia learnt about using Ki to activate the cells in a person body for them to self-heal. Martha had learnt how to infuse it into her arrow and same with Gary with the sword. All though no one had tried practising Ki yet, they had just learnt about it. After hearing my story of ending up in the hospital the others weren't so keen to rush into things.
The next day I went to the martial art club, this time the old man was waiting for me at the front gate. He quickly pulled me into the martial building.
"You could have died, you silly boy!" The old man shouted.
The old man continued to nag and complain until my ears felt like they were bleeding. Luckily the whole event with me made him forget about what had happened to him just before. I had thought hard about what to say to the old man in case he asked but it seemed like I wouldn't have to use it.
The old man had finished his nagging and we were now both sat down on the floor.
"I don't want to praise you for what you did, but it is actually amazing that you managed to gather Ki of that size on your first day. But you must learn the limits of your body. If I hadn't been there you might have never been able to use Ki again or worse."
The old man sighed then clapped his hands together.
"Now I'd like you to gather Ki like you did yesterday but make sure you make it the size of a fist, no bigger and no smaller."
For the next few days we had concentrated on controlling the Ki, we would do simple exercises of changing the Ki size and moving it around my body.
Finally, on the fifth day, I managed to Activate my cells using the Ki. The first step was making my cells harden. This would allow me to have a strong body and strong fist similar to the dark guild member. At the moment I was only able to use about a fist size of Ki to activate my cells. This meant My body hardening wasn't very strong if I was to spread the Ki around my whole body.
There was a reason why he had taught me to move the Ki my body. When using that body part we could just activate the cells in that area. If I was to punch with my fist I would only then need to activate the cells in my hand to make a stone-hard fist. If an enemy was to attack me with a blade, as long as I knew where he was going to attack I only needed to harden that area.
We started to do practise drills where the old man would strike me randomly on my body. The aim was to harden the area before his fist hit me. I got hit the first few times, causing me to cough out blood. But quickly managed to get the hang of it.
After five days of hard work, my basic Ki training was complete. The old man said that all I had to do now was focus on making the size of my Ki gradually bigger. As soon as my muscles started to hurt that meant I had gathered to much Ki internally.
What I wanted to do know more than ever was test out my Ki abilities and the perfect opportunity was coming up. Tomorrow was finally the day for the students to go hunting for magical beasts.