Chapter 6: Train me please!

"Do you really have to go?"

Several elders and children from the Chingtsé village were gathered in front of Goku who was carrying a huge backpack on his back. The older ones looked a little sad but a few had a proud smile, but the opposite was true with the younger ones, they were crying, although they met Goku much later, since several of Goku's old friends left when they fulfilled their age. age to the city, however no one expected that the boy with the monkey tail would one day also leave.

"Do you really have to go to training?" said a girl on the verge of tears

"Can't you stay a little longer?" said another in the same state.

"Don't worry so much, yes or yes I will come to visit you as soon as I can, but maybe seven years to train is not enough, so I better hurry up" said the boy, but suddenly Master Lu arrived, he had something to give him. to Goku.

"I know they don't last long, but I still want you to use it," he said, handing him a new cane, this one was red.

"Thank you very much Master Lu!" At that moment the boy saw that a very special person approached him: "Grandma!

"I also have to give you something before you leave, dear," said the woman. She gave him a vest that was almost golden in color. "It's for you to remember us, remember that we will always wait for you with open arms, my dear little monkey.

"Grandma, don't call me that in public," said the embarrassed boy while they rubbed his head.

"You have grown quite a bit, and although I don't want to accept it, you still need to grow even more," said the lady with a somewhat sad tone. "I don't know if he will be here when you have become a real man, but I hope I can see him, good luck Goku, don't give up

"Of course not"

The boy gave his beloved grandmother a hug, as if it were the last time he would see her, and when he said goodbye to everyone, he left the village with a slow step on its roads and bridges, remembering the moments when it was even more child, like the times when he innocently believed he was playing with Hilichurls or when he met certain friends from outside the village, he was going to treasure them in his heart.

When he was at the edge of the river that separated his village from the Minlin region, he took a breath and refreshed his mind with the wind that passed over the waters. After having his time reflecting, he flexed his legs and with a determined look he took a huge leap across the entire body of water. She was in the air for a long time, it seemed like she was flying, but she was just falling carefully. She drew her legs to her chest and landed without any problem. She already found herself in Minlin, and with that in mind she went in search of the preserver of the clouds.

The boy stayed at the top of a cliff, unfortunately he did not know where this Adeptus was, he did not even know what it looked like, but then he saw that the place had several Hilichurl camps, and then an idea came to him. that he knew it wouldn't work, but that the training officer would still do it.

"Do you know where The Cloud Preserver is?!"

Goku shouted the same thing to every Hilichurl camp that he destroyed, several were devastated by the force of the boy with the monkey tail. Those indigenous people did not know what they were facing or they had simply heard myths of the beast that destroyed a Lawachurl with its own hands, in any case they were facing his downfall.

The boy encountered some large Hilichurl, including abyss wizards, but none were a match for the boy, they were all crushed by his new staff. However, he was unaware of the individual who was watching him from the shadows.

The young Yelan was doing the mission that was given to her hidden in the bushes, it was true that she did not like her job, but she did have a great interest in that boy just as it had been a long time since she had exposed herself to danger, however, Goku exceeded all her expectations. That boy was more powerful than one could imagine, she had never seen camps be destroyed so quickly in a row, not even she herself could do that, it was really exciting to see, although of course, she knew that, if that boy wanted to attack her, she could make an escape strategy while immobilizing him, it was not that complicated, besides that she did enjoy this job slightly, seeing the tribes turned into rubble was a great spectacle. However, the young woman did not realize that a certain Mitachurl was going to fall on her, it was too late when she saw his shadow and her eyes made contact with his.

In a few hours all the Hilichurl camps in the northern area of Minlin disappeared, leaving only ruins and rubble as if a hurricane had passed through, the place had simply been freed from that plague, but the young man obviously did not find the answers to what he was looking for. No one told him, but he hoped he had some clue.

While he was sitting in one of the destroyed camps, he looked at the immense mountains that seemed to have no end in the whole place, but it was what was expected, he had heard a lot about that region in his village when they told him that he was going to go there. , now he felt amazed by those views from below.

At one point his stomach growled, he hadn't had lunch and he was spending a lot of energy, luckily he looted the raw food that the Hilichurl had, but he didn't want to eat there, this time he wanted to get a little cocky, so he decided he would look for his ideal place. .

The boy ran up the slope to one of the mountains, when he arrived he realized how high he was, literally the clouds were below him. Goku could only say "Wow" when he could see all the tips of the mountains around him and the sun shining above them, however, he had a mission.

The young man went from mountain to mountain jumping agilely, he looked light as the wind, just as sometimes a breeze propelled him from below to continue on his path. Unfortunately, all the tips of the mountains were too small to settle on, he could not find what he wanted in all the wasteland of peaks.

A few minutes passed until his eyes found themselves marveling at his ideal spot. It was a large plateau, there were several trees with red and brown tops, but the most striking thing was the large lake that had an island in the middle, and there seemed to be some kind of decoration on the ground, like huge spiral slabs inside the lake. who were heading to the small island. Simply a hidden paradise.

In one part of the esplanade he quickly set up his camp, a red tent the size that two people could fit in, on the side he placed his cooking equipment as well as the rest of the luggage and the very hungry young man quickly lit the campfire.

While cooking some chicken and meat he saw something unusual in the center of the island. It was a stone table with about three benches made of the same material. Goku waited for his food to be ready and jumped there. He was not a very sophisticated person, but he was happy to have found a place like that, so why wasn't he going to take advantage of that beautiful decoration in the middle of nature? .

"May I know what you are doing here? Child"

A feminine but imposing voice scared the boy, he jumped with his food in hand and left the table only to run into the being in front of him a few meters away. She was a heron, but very tall, she was purely white in color, but with blue lines all over her body. Her figure inspired wisdom and serenity, but at the same time great power, the boy was fascinated by the creature.

"Answer child, what are you doing in a place where only my friends and I sit and dislike the delicacies we prepare?" said the heron, spreading his wings threateningly.

"Ah! I'm so sorry Mrs. Garza! "I thought this place belonged to no one," said the boy.

"Oh no? Did you not read what is written on the table?" said the animal and the boy did that, he remained with his eyes open.

"Oh right! I didn't realize it! Sorry about that!" The boy said, bowing in apology.

"Don't worry anymore, since you're a child I'll let it go, I'm surprised how a young man like you has come this far, I'll let you camp peacefully tonight, but let this be the last time you commit this mistake" said the bird even with an authoritarian tone.

"As you say! Thank you very much" but before the little one returned to his tent, he turned around because he remembered something important. "True Mrs. Heron, if it's not too much trouble, could you tell me where the Cloud Preserver is located?" "I've been looking for her, but I couldn't find her anywhere."

"You're seeing it right now," the bird said simply.

"Really?! Where?!" said the boy looking everywhere, after a few seconds he realized "AH! You are the preserver of clouds! "It's a pleasure to meet you!"

"So you were looking for me? Tell me young man, what matters bring you to my home?" the Adeptus said calmly.

"I was just wondering if you could train me to be stronger!" said the boy.

"Train you. Why do you think I would train a kid like you? Do I have the face of a teacher?"

"But I only have seven years to face ah…"

"Don't make excuses boy! I am not some martial arts teacher who gives classes to anyone who comes. Even when you, who invaded my abode, believe that he can be trained?"

"But you have Ganyu as a disciple, so I thought I could also be your disciple," said the boy with a sad tone.

"Of course...! Wait, did you say Ganyu? Are you a friend of my dear Ganyu?" The Adeptus said with a sweeter tone.

"Yeah! I met her in the Chingtsé village, she was very kind and she let me play her horns" said the boy remembering those memories of yesteryear.

"I let you touch his horns?! After millennia... Should I let someone blow their horns? "You must be a very good friend then," said the Preserver, who could not believe that.

The Adeptus knew that Ganyu let her horns be touched for a long time, however, that boy knew her well and spoke honestly, it was incredible, but something that also seemed unusual about the boy was that adeptic aura that surrounded him, she thought that Maybe he was half Adeptus, so he took his wish into account.

"Well, since you are a friend of my little Ganyu, I will consider your training and see..." The Preserver was too intelligent, she could make plans in seconds in her mind, in that little time that she was thinking she quickly put together the training from start to finish. from the boy "How many years did you want to train boy?"

"Seven!"

"Seven? Mh, there aren't many, I can handle that" said the bird who then managed to put everything together "Good! Since I can see that you have great internal potential… I want to test you."

"Really? Fantastic!"

"But remember, boy, this is not your training, but your admission exam, which will serve as practice," he said, stopping the boy. "But first, what do you call yourself among men, boy?"

"Hey?"

"What's your name?"

"My name is Sun Goku!"

"Well Sun Goku, your first test will be to bring twenty geo dragon bones, you will have to hunt them down and then bring them to me, I'll give you six months."

"Six months? That long?"

"That's right, but if you give them to me sooner, the better."

"I understand... but I have never seen a dragonfly. What are they like? "the boy asked confused.

"Really? Identifying them is too easy, they are reptile-shaped beings, but they are covered in rock, they are all over Minlin, especially at the bases of the mountains. They are elemental creatures rooted in the Geo, however, you will have to be careful with the adults, they can be imbued with different elements, so be careful in your hunt" said the bird "Oh, and you can leave your camp here during this whole ordeal." , for the moment you are welcome"

"Thank you very much, Cloud Preserver! "I won't let her down!"

Sun Goku ran away from the mountain excitedly in search of those lizards. Already on the ground he could see the great size of all the mountains and peaks, without a doubt it was almost impossible to see where they ended, but even so the boy began to look for clues of those creatures, and for his good luck, he was faster. to find that the Preserver herself.

He could see about three lizards that seemed to be slightly larger than him, they rolled around like they were armadillos, it was fascinating for the boy to see such creatures for the first time, but he was even more surprised to notice the presence of a larger one. It was too big, bigger than a Mitachurl but less than a Lawachurl, it walked slowly and looked at the little ones, Goku realized that they must be his babies, that made him have somewhat mixed feelings.

"I see why you say it will take six months... I have to find the courage to wipe out an entire family! That is!" the boy concluded wrongly.

He spoke very loudly, thus causing the four beasts to turn towards him. The young man with the monkey's tail had no choice but to also prepare for battle, he already had his staff prepared for anything.

On the other hand, a sore Yelan was following the boy's trail again, although this time he was tending to his wounds, having a Mitachurl thrown at him was totally painful, by a miracle not a single bone was broken and the beast vanished. after crashing into her. Fortunately, she had the boy's footprints, she knew that he went up the mountains and then down, and the further she walked the trail was fresher, she was getting closer to her. However, she heard a loud roar that seemed to be in pain, only to then see up as a shadow approached her, this time in the air he saw an adult Dragarto that was approaching her.

After about forty minutes after long searches, the boy had what he had been asked for, although he would have had them ahead of time if he had not blown one out.

With a large pile of bones he climbed the mountain of the Preserver of Clouds, she was looking at the sky until she saw him. She stood dumbfounded for a moment as the boy slowly walked towards her.

"Wow, I think my perception of time has gone a bit wrong. Has 6 months passed so quickly?" The Heron said he didn't see the bones.

"No... I don't think it's even been an hour, Cloud Preserver."

"I see…" said the Adeptus, looking at the pile of bones in surprise. "It was faster than I expected, I estimated that it would take at least two weeks. "You are not an ordinary boy, Sun Goku."

"hehe, it's true. "So… Will my training begin?"

"Patience boy, your exam is not over yet, I must tell you that this is a three-year plan."

"Three years?!" He said in disbelief the boy.

"Do not despair, child, these challenges were not planned to be done so quickly, but as I see, you must be older than I had calculated before," said the preserver. "These tests will become more complex, so consider it as a kind of test." training, since your body and mind must be prepared for the techniques that I am going to teach you. Do you understand?"

"Understood, Preservative," the boy said, still somewhat doubtful, but he understood. "I hope your tests are a good challenge!"

"And they will be, so I hope you are prepared, but for now take a break until tomorrow" said the woman "Come, I will give you some Mora to have lunch at the famous Wangshun Inn, you deserve it for exceeding my expectations and being a future disciple who keeps his word"

"Thank you very much, Madam Preservative, you are very kind!"

"No problem, boy, everything for a future disciple and friend of Ganyu, may luck be with you."

After an hour of travel, the boy managed to reach that inn. He had seen it many times when he went to the port of Liyue and he had also boarded it but he had never eaten there since he was more attracted to the Wanmin restaurant, although it was a shame. that I won't be able to go to that place for several years.

Goku sat on the terrace above, he really liked heights as well as enjoying the views, this time he ordered meat rolls with matsutake and noodles with mountain delicacies. The taste was very good, it almost resembled Chef Mao's, they were tied, so he could quite enjoy it along with the beautiful views in front of him, however, something interrupted his meal.

"At last! "I found you!" said a very familiar female voice behind the young man.

Sun Goku turned around instantly and ran into the person he knew who it would be. It was none other than Keqing, this time taller than the last time he met her since she was now 10 years old, just as she had her small sword sheathed along with her purple clothes. She had a triumphant smile, but at the same time very agitated.

"After hours of traveling, I found you!" The girl said, walking towards him until she sat in the seat in front of him. "After going to Chingtsé Village all day only to find out that you weren't there, it was a stroke of luck to have asked someone at this inn if they saw a child." with a monkey tail

"Keqing?! "I haven't seen you in a while. Why were you looking for me?"

"Isn't it obvious?!" The girl slammed her palms on the table as she stood up and looked the confused boy straight in the eyes. "Train me!"

"Hey?"

"I want you to teach me that! What you did! I want to be as strong as I also want to face a God!"

"Hey? But why?"

"Don't you understand? We humans must be proud of our achievements, that we will not be able to depend all the time on the gods, recognize that we have a secret and even better potential. And you demonstrated it! the girl said the last thing with euphoria "So I also want to be just as strong! Please train me!"

"Well... I'm also training, but..." at that the boy remembered that he had to prepare for the tests, this could help him "Okay! Like you trained me long ago! "I'll train you too!"

"Yes!" The young girl jumped with happiness.

"But first I finish eating, though... Do you know a place to train? Please don't let it be Minlin!" The boy said thinking that if the Adeptus saw her with someone else she might bother her.

"Mmm... yes... I know one close by for you" said the girl smiling.

The young Yelan, in pain and with a damaged arm, managed to find again the trace of the boy who had given her so many problems. Despite that, many in the inn were surprised by her ruined appearance, she had all of her clothes in tatters and bruises with scratches all over her body, yet she was still standing, she was not going to stop.

It helped him to ask the tenants where they saw a boy with a monkey's tail, they said he was on the terrace, so he went with difficulty there. When he was already at the top he decided to be careful and see what he was doing in a public place like that, however when he arrived he found nothing, he stood on the railing to see where the boy should be, until he That saw a figure jumping in the distance carrying a girl, the guy who was going at an unspeakable speed had a monkey's tail and was heading towards the Chionji Estuary, the girl had to go down again. This time she wouldn't just stay and watch, her patience reached the limit.

After clearing the area a little with their legs and launching Hilichurls, Goku and Keqing settled in Mingyun Town, which not many years ago was inhabited by the mines that were in the entire area, however these were left without flowers, so it was completely abandoned, thus allowing the two children to be left alone.

"Now Keqing… um… What do you want me to teach you first?"

"What you did!" she said excitedly with eyes like stars.

"But what?"

"That ball that was shining! That you shot a lightning bolt and exploded a bunch of Morax God pillars!"

"Oh that! Mmm, that's hard to explain..."

"How difficult?! You did it! So I could do it too!" the girl said upset.

"It's something I've had since I was little... I'm going to tell you! But it's a secret! Don't tell my grandmother when you see her!"

"I won't tell him anything! Just talk!"

"Well, well…" said the boy, calming down and sitting down, the girl did the same. "Since I was very little, I could feel… erm… an energy from people."

"An energy?"

"See I told you it's weird?" Goku said scratching his head "That energy wasn't something I could see, or hear or anything, but I just felt it... or well I feel it..."

"Really? And from what people?"

"Well... All of them! Even animals and plants! Even the Hilichurl, feeling that energy helped me find them, and sometimes... that energy is greater in other people than in others" explained the boy "It feels more intense when it comes from some people than in others, and normally those are more strong, as an example... I feel more energy from a Lawachurl than from a normal Hilichurl! "Oh, an exorcist has more of that energy than the grandparents in my village."

"I understand, I mean, the stronger he is, the more of that energy he has."

"Yes!... but it's actually the other way around, that energy gives more strength. And sometimes it's overwhelming, like Morax. He had a lot of that energy! It was huge! Bigger than all the citizens of the Port combined!" She said, stretching her arms as if to give an example. "But sometimes there is nothing, like with the guardians of the ruins, I think it's because they don't have life."

"Wow!" The girl said in wonder. "But... What does that have to do with the sphere of light?"

"It's just that... "At that point the boy looked around to see if there was anyone nearby, but they were alone, he still put his mouth close to the girl's ear. "That sphere was that energy."

"That?" The girl's eyes were wide open.

"I thought I could make that energy more intense so that it can be seen, I used mine since it is the one I control the most." At that point the boy put his hands in front of the other, as if he were carrying an invisible ball. "It took a long time, but I had to calm down and be focused in order to expel that power."

Suddenly a sphere of not very intense light formed between the boy's hands, the girl couldn't believe what she saw, she was scared by it, but at the same time she was fascinated. She stared at it without taking her eyes off the sphere.

"And the more energy I gave her, the more powerful she became, as you saw in the Rite of Descent."

"It's... incredible," the girl said, but she looked more nervous than excited now. "Do you think I can really do it?"

"Well... I've never seen anyone do the same thing, but... wait a second."

"Hey?"

The boy closed his eyes, he was concentrating, this time not to make a sphere or something like that, but he was remembering.

Goku could memorize that "energy level" of other people, he remembered that of Morax, of his neighbors in the village and also of the Wangshu Inn. He compared all of them with the energy of the girl in front of her, he felt hers, and realized something.

"Well... I don't know why, but your energy is bigger than ordinary people" said the boy smiling.

"What do you mean?"

"If I compare you to a Geo-Army soldier or other people, your energy is higher, but it is much lower than that of an Adeptus" said the boy "But just like them, you don't... um... bring it out"

"What are you talking about?"

"I say you can use that energy like me, you have enough" he replied with a smile.

"Really?! YESSSS! Tell me how I make that sphere!"

"Well, first, you must be concentrated, but very concentrated with your hands," said the boy while Keqing made the same pose with his hands that he did before. "You must try to expel it, you won't feel it yet, but you will if you you concentrate Ah! But you must calm down, not enough to fall asleep, but you must relax."

"Good..."

They stayed on that exercise for a long time, the girl was concentrating, but still nothing was happening, it was being difficult for her, but Sun Goku reminded her that she should be patient and told her that it took him a week to get the hang of it.

"Hey Goku... What else can you tell me about that energy?" The girl said as she continued with her training.

"Well... I've noticed that the Adeptus's is different..."

"Adeptus? Have you met any?"

"Well yes, there is the Preserver of the Clouds, Morax, a Yanfei girl, and Ganyu, a goat girl," said Goku, but Keqing didn't say anything about it. "They have... um... an energy that seems to be more. .. pure... but at the same time very different, it has something more"

"What do you mean? How different?"

"Um... it's hard to say... Ah! They are like water and milk, both are liquids, but their taste is different when you drink them, that is something the same as what I feel with the energy of the Adeptus" the boy responded proudly.

"Wow…" said the young woman who was still concentrating on forming her sphere.

"I've also used that energy for other things, like punching or jumping higher. Look!"

At that, the boy made a jump, he went very high, perhaps about 5 meters, but after landing on his feet he made another one, but with almost the same force of impulse, however this time he reached approximately the size of the nearby mountains, It shocked the girl, although later the boy couldn't fall very well because of that, crashing face-first into the ground.

"Are you OK?" Keqing said.

"Ayayayay! Yes... it happened to me the first time, and it also helps me in many things, thanks to that we got here and I can also control how much energy I need."

"Anything else?..."

"Yeah! Sometimes you can feel how much strength or energy a person is using, that's why I saw that Morax did not use one hundred percent of his power" said the boy with his index finger raised, as if he were a teacher "Ah!" ! And if you use a lot of energy, the faster you can get tired and you will get hungrier."

"That's why you're a bottomless barrel…"

"Hehe well yes"

They stayed for another hour with that training, Keqing was trying hard, but it didn't seem to give results, however, he didn't despair, he remained firm with the same sitting position even trying to make light, but it took too long. After another hour the inevitable happened.

"Hey? Hey! You're doing it!" Goku said that he thought he saw something light up in his palms.

The girl did not respond, she continued concentrating and after a few seconds she was there, the sphere of light energy was there.

"I did it…" the young girl couldn't believe her eyes, she was really acting that out, she really had the power to defy a God.

"You did it, you did it!" said the boy, jumping with happiness. "It really turned out amazing! Even I didn't do it that fast!"

"I see... it's... simply incredible" said the young woman, hypnotized by the light.

"Yeah! And soon you will be able to do this!" said the boy, forming a ball of light similar to the one in the Ritual of Descent, but smaller. "With a little more…"

"I FOUND YOU YOU LITTLE BASTARD!"

A young woman with a menacing and haggard appearance emerged from the bushes. Her clothes were torn because another Mitachurl had fallen on her on the road while little Goku was clearing the village. Her face expressed total anger while a water dice was forming in her hand, she was going to take that boy once and for all to civil matters, for her everything she saw resulted in the young boy being a threat, unfortunately he appeared in bad time

Because it was getting dark and the light was low, any child would have believed that it was some monster or crazy woman from the mountains, and in this case Goku was just any kid. The boy fired the energy ball directly when that young woman appeared, not out of fright, but because she had distracted him, and Yelan couldn't do anything due to the speed at which she approached him, it simply hit him squarely.

There was a not very small explosion that was strong enough to uproot the nearby bushes and scare away the birds that were flying by. The young blue-haired girl flew far away until she passed over the mountains that divided the village and the Yaoguang coast. The two boys were stunned.

"What was that?" Goku said confused.

"I don't know... maybe a treasure thief who wanted revenge," Keqing theorized.

"Mmm, it must be" at that the boy turned to the girl "Well! Next week you could come, right?"

"Of course! "I'll see you next week at the inn, okay?" Keqing said smiling.

"Yeah!"

The girl ran away from the place as a form of training while the boy was left alone watching her leave. He really liked that girl, however, he now had more important things to attend to.

Goku on the way to his camp thought about what he would talk about with the preserver the next day. He must have asked her if she knew about that energy, surely she did, just as he wondered if she could help him perfect the use of it. But at the same time he was intrigued by how he was the only one who used her, maybe they did it in a different way, he had no idea, but he would surely find out at some point.

On the beaches of the Yaoguang coast the crabs came out of the water to go to their burrows at night, they dug the sand to make shelter, however, one very curious one found a certain being similar to a worm, he pinched it but soon a lot of sand began to fall.

Yelan had woken up from that puncture, it hurt a lot since it was right on one of her several bruises, although she was already a walking bruise. She sat up with difficulty as she tried to remember what happened.

An energy ball had been thrown at him.

It was true that the young woman sought danger, it was the reason why she worked for the Seven Stars, everything else was simple and boring, however, this time she realized that she was in a lot of danger today, she got up and limped away. On his way to the port of Liyue to give his report, he only hoped that his next job would not be to follow that same child.

Well people, this was today's episode, in which this arc of Goku's training finally begins, I hope you liked it and enjoyed it, more adventures about Goku's training will be on the way, so I hope you enjoy of these first episodes about the young man's childhood and adolescence. See you until the next update and I hope you have saved for Natlan.