Morning of the next day Leo first accompanied Stone to the barracks for shooting range where many kids around his age 6-15 were gathered for their lesson to start then came Lin Han to start the lesson couple of military persons came forward to get their wards started in archery he accepted them exchanged some pleasantry and then Stone came forward to Introduce Leo.
Stone: Han this is my son he wants to start archery.
Han: Come on Stone, do you really need such formality between us now.
Stone: Fine, just don't be soft on him just he is your nephew.
Han: You know, we are both instructors so I will teach my students with my standard. For as long as I'm teaching him I'm not his uncle but his master, Is that understood Leo.
Leo: Yes, master.
Then First Han gave a standard military bow to Leo and explained the difference to all the new kids then told them to take a stance to shoot the arrow then started his loud voice
"BACK STRAIGHT",
" NOT A SOUND FROM YOUR MOUTH",
"DEEP BREATH YOU IMBECELS",
"EYES ON THE TARGET",
"DO YOU NOT HAVE EYES ",
"KEEP YOUR LEGS STRAIGHT ON STANCE",
and so the barks of the instructor started for all kids and kept going for the next 2 hours while they were only allowed to shoot a couple of arrows but their stances were much better than what they originally came with.
Near noon Leo started his training with her mother who explained to him the different uses stages and importance of footwork "only by being agile will you be able to fight for a longer time and also able to get away in a precise manner", " the three stages of footwork are 'basic', 'advance' and 'one with the world'". in another corner of his training yard a 9X9 poles were arranged on ground with variable heights. All he had to do now was to follow to the directed pole his mother called and jump to that pole using the step his mother's instruction.
"This training will not only create a firm foundation in your footwork, you will have a firm footing and also you will advance faster than other people in your basic to advance footwork."
" front leap"
"left flip"
"right double leap"
"back step"
"left half-step"
"jump forward leap"
" front step"
and Leo goes, "oww" "ohhf" "puff" "baam" "thud"
with each fall, again to climb up to continue as his first stage houtian body had a fast recovery this only seems to prolong the already hard training longer as he could not even faint even if he wanted to. Though the progress did not seem to be obvious he did not complain a single time and continued practicing as he had seen his father, mother, sister and also maid sisters training so he also gritted his teeth and continued even if he falls and no to give up.
Then after 2 hours of pole jumping, he rested for an hour and then started his 2 hours of fist and kick the foundation training continuously on a dummy which will attack back if the force of fist or kick is not delivered properly, using series of gear and shaft this continued till his father came home and started instructing him on short spear
"short spear is a very versatile weapon, it can be used as a spear or by gripping halfway you use it as a half sword"
tossing him a pair of short spear made of black-iron
"so you will have to use them on the dummy every day 100 times with each hand on each move both spear and sword movements"
"only when you are sufficiently proficient in them will you use the technique"
then Leo started hacking and stabbing the wooden metallic dummy to practice accuracy on the marks drawn on a dummy with his newly acquired practice weapon.
And his daily life will only get a break on the evening for around 1/2 hour where he would roam the city market or just rest with Merry and Lisa giving him company.
'Struggle' seemed to be the only word left in the dictionary of Leo as he trained day in day out boring, repetitive daily life morning roars of instructor Lin Han, noon falling from poles to train footwork under Bluegrass, then punch, kicks and spear thrust with each hand separately.
As his regeneration was high it eased the pain but it still was a pain to do this boring action repetitively but what Leo did not notice was, that he was impressing his all teacher in all category with his perception as he did not know that his progress was fast and due to his soul core his perception got enhanced a lot and he didn't even realize it.
Days seem to be monotonous but the family of four were very happy and they seem to fall into a pattern as the training got more progressive. During this time Leo did a different activity some times where he would require the help of Dream as he would try to fight many similarly skilled puppets under control of Dream, so his progress was even faster in terms of skill and his instinct guiding him to move appropriately. all this activity was done inside his Dream palace where he would use a puppet that will have the strength and body equal to him so only his skill gets enhanced. The puppets will have a difficulty level of insight from basic to mastered dao path, set according to Leo's progress. Though now he could not even defeat a single basic level puppet his progress was visible to the eye after every fight session which he set only once a couple of weeks so he could also improve on his weakness in this gap of two spars.