66 Surpassing Current Limits

-The Next Morning-

"I have gathered you all here today for only a single reason. Thanks to that group of three, we were able to gain over thirty new warriors who trained in the old ways of our village."

The Chieftain had gathered all the warriors that were in the village into the training grounds, including all the guards and his personal body guards and disciples.

With over two hundred warriors of all ages gathered into the training grounds, the rest of the villagers waited to hear what had occurred. The last time so many warriors were gathered like this, was when a full-scale raid on the Spider Queen's territory happened all those years ago.

"After discussing some plans with the group's leader, our village was gifted several books that have techniques and training methods for every basic elemental affinity. Testing out some things myself, I realized that my power and understanding has increased dramatically."

"The warriors who trained in the old ways, were able to come up with their own training methods for their elements, but they lacked a proper foundation due to that city taking all of the information and education all for themselves."

"Right now, the plan is to mass produce the contents within these books so that you can all have enough copies to make training easier and more efficient. However, that will still take some time. We will need you all to line up and to tell my assistant your elemental affinity. Those of you who do not know, will immediately take a test."

"After we understand how many copies we will need to make, all of you will start splitting up into small groups based off your elemental affinity and you will be matched with a group of rescued warriors. Even though their training methods are nowhere near as effective as the books, you will all be able to start your journey as those of us in charge figure this all out."

Hearing the Chieftain and seeing the excitement on his face made all the warriors present, feel a new level of warmth. They all cheered on the Chieftain as he started to leave the training grounds to allow his leadership to take charge of the situation.

In a single day, all the warriors in the village were able to begin learning about how to specifically train in their element and everyone was feeling more confident in not just the Chieftain, but the rest of the village's foundation concerning their strength and battle prowess.

After night settled in, the warriors retired to their huts and this was when the rest of the villagers understood what happened. To hear that there would not be another raid, but rather that the warriors of the village's strength would bring a new era to the village made everyone content.

Constantly losing their children during battles against the bandits and the Spider Queen, made the villagers feel anxious. Now that they calmed down, hope started to appear in front of their eyes as everyone laughed and cried tears of joy with one another.

The first step to gaining strength as a society, was to allow those who were already showing potential, to continue to grow. Only then, would the village be able to see a shift in their overall foundation as every day moving forward would give birth to one strong individual after another. For many generations now, the village was their home, and now, their home was able to overcome any and all threats!

-Three days later-

"As I have mentioned earlier, we would be distributing copies of each book to every warrior here depending on their element. Unfortunately, there is more material for certain elements, but that does not mean that not everyone here is able to train hard and surpass the rest."

"Now that you are all able to train individually, the daily training regimen of every warrior here including myself, will be changing. Everyone here will be working together in your groups that share the same element as you to grow and build with one another."

"Not every individual will learn how to use these books in the most effective manner for themselves and their training, therefore group discussions will be a daily occurrence. Share all of your findings with your fellow warriors and let us all grow together."

"I had plenty of time to train now and I have discovered my own secrets to my lightning element. In truth, even though I would want nothing more than to keep the information for myself and reign supreme, for this village to truly prosper, we all need to give up such hateful thoughts and add to what we discover into a new library."

"Those who can write very well, will be responsible for creating more volumes for the village and any warrior who falls under the elemental affinity that each new volume created matches, will receive said volume once complete. We are the beginning, and we must start this off the right way for the future of the village."

The Chieftain had a tough time planning this speech, but after speaking from the heart to all the warriors in front of him, he saw a good sign. At first, all the warriors simply looked at each other before pondering. Slowly but surely after some time passed, looks of determination appeared in everyone's eyes.

In a poor village such as this one, every citizen felt extremely close to each other and wanted nothing more than the success of those around them. When someone has nothing, if they are innocent, they will be happy for those who succeed where they failed or have yet to succeed. However, there will always be those with ill intentions. That would be a battle for another day.

As the books were distributed, each warrior started reading the contents within before slowly sitting down and closing their eyes to concentrate. Each book had extremely basic training methods and techniques, so no matter how below average each warrior's understanding was concerning their element, they were still able to absorb the information and apply it.