By the time I looked at the time again it was already noon.
I pulled down my mask and looked up an the ceiling while contemplating. My mind drifted to how I didn't actually need to use the mask anymore, the air here was fine and wasn't filled with metal dust from machinery which would slowly kill.
I looked down again and pulled my mask back up. I didn't exactly know why I put the mask back on, but it just felt right to do so.
Axmon's voice sounded in my room. "Attention, ensure you are inside your room and wait. You will be given clothes which you are expected to use from now on. After which you will go to training hall B."
It was less then two minutes later that my door opened. I saw Axmon and a cart of clothes his assistant was pushing. Axmon simply looked at me and then threw the clothes at me, expecting me to catch it but after grabbing my clothes out the air but before my door closed I asked. "Can I keep the mask on?"
Axmon turned back to look at me and to my surprise said. "I'll allow it." Then closed my door and walked away.
'Why are things going well?'
Even with the example 3 set for what level I need to get to, everything seemed to be going really well.
Remembering that I had to go to training hall B I switched into my new clothes and started to walk over.
Axmon was going door to door in order which also happened to be the light direction and therefore I would have to walk through the heavy direction.
'Even if I wait for them to pass its not like I'll be late.'
Even though I thought this I still bitterly walked all the way around the heavy direction to arrive at training hall B. I knew I had to take every advantage I could, which included getting used to the room and how to train roh inside early. That couldn't stop me from complaining within my own head though.
'Hate this.'
Walking into the room I saw 3 already inside. She was sitting on the ground in the corner of the completely white room meditating.
I sat a fair bit away from her and did the same. I noticed immediately the sheer difference in how it felt, just being in this room made getting to the tingling part very quick.
'roh is the Arabic word for soul but the actual roh is not the soul, its a sort of energy the soul creates in some way. roh has no real inherent properties, its how we shape our will that causes our roh to change. What confuses me about this room is that roh is not an inherent energy source around us, it comes directly from us so how does this room effect our roh? Applications like the roh test we had done made some sort of test, there might very well be a way to transfer roh which is what the tests do.'
I was actually quite proud of myself for remembering that from my research earlier.
After a moment I noticed I could actually feel what felt like slight patterns of how roh moved within my body. I couldn't understand the full picture at once but I could feel the roh and traveling up my arm and to my fist, then it circle back around towards. It moved very similar to blood except for the fact it was continuous. completely unlike the rhythmic beating of my heart which is what my blood used to use.
'So what did my roh use to move?'
My focus waned slightly to which I noticed the room was full and that Axmon was talking, but I only heard the end of his sentence "-Like these two. Despite the fact we had all walked into the room they didn't even notice."
I saw someone point at 3 and whisper as if no one could hear him say. "Isn't that the girl who just goes into the gym randomly and beat the life out of the punching bag and then leave? She's damn scary."
Axmon didn't react to and just simply let his booming voice speak over them but none the less I was very surprised to see he was very lax as compared to many of the teachers I had ever seen, he hadn't even hit anyone yet let alone sent them into the altitude 'training' centre.
I almost had flashbacks to those torture sessions they sent me to almost every chance they got.
At the corner of my vision I saw 7 and 9 looking straight at me while covering their mouths trying to restrain their laughter.
'come on really guys.'
I stood up while surprised I could still feel roh within my body, not very well mind you but every step was definitely progress, I hadn't hit a single roadblock yet. That at least was great news, gave me hope I could keep up.
Axmon noticed I had stood up and said. "It seems 4 here has gotten used the very fundamentals of sensing roh within their body, to help with roh manipulation moving forwards he will get this."
Axmon reached into the carrier he had used for our clothes and pulled out a full body suit which looked weird with its many parts with obvious technology.
Axmon handed it over to me "Go to your room quickly and put this on." He then turned around and said. "As for the rest of you sit on the ground like 3 over there and try to sense the feeling that was given to you in the-"
I didn't hear the rest as the door closed as I walked to my room and changes, I could very guess that what he was doing was simply telling them to do what I had already done. One thing I did notice is that 3 was indeed the girls name and I was not the extremely weak one, she was just simply an absolute monster.
I put on the suit and walked back to see the entire room sitting down meditating, except for Axmon of course.
He turned to me and said "You and that suit will be used as an example later, for now just keep doing what you were doing."
I did as he said and found a place to sit and started meditating again. The suit itself didn't seem to do anything to my roh, so I just kept trying to get a grasp on how roh itself felt.
Opening my eyes again for a moments I begun to ponder.
'Is it possible to sense the roh of others around you?'
This idea left me stumped, I genuinely had no idea if I was possible or not. So I tried it, I tried sensing the roh of others. For a moment I thought I had but I quickly realised my mind was playing tricks on me.
'If I could sense the roh of all beings around me that would make it impossible for me not to notice anything which is alive or more accurately had a soul.'
"Number 4, be ready." Axmon's voice jolted me out of my mind but Axmon just addressed the room instead of just me this time. "This is going to be a small demonstration, the suit which 4 is wearing. This suit monitors the flow of roh inside your body and gives a small electric shock when the flow doesn't follow whatever it is configured to."
'Oh no, I shouldn't have put on this suit should I?"
Axmon clicked a button on his phone which caused a constant but mild pain, much like the pain of having worked your muscles too hard which I was already fairly familiar with today.
"This as you can probably see isn't too painful at the first sensitivity, the higher sensitivity you go the better aligned the flow of your roh has to be to what the device is configured to. Currently its on body enhancement, you will also be given one more food token this week because of the downside of this enhancement."
I half expected Axmon turn up the setting just to give me a fright but he didn't do that so I simply got to it.
Concentrating on sensing my roh again didn't give me any ideas as to how to actually change the flow but the slight pain given would both tell me when I am doing good an incentivise me to do so.
"Sensing roh and then manipulating it won't take too long once you get that first spark on how to do it. Once you can sense roh to a satisfactory degree you will be given one of these training suits. Now continue to meditate, that is all for now." Axmon explained then promptly walked outside the room.
So I looked at someone who seemed to always lead me to some kind of progress, which of course was 3.
She was still sitting in the corner, her breathing powerful and controlled but somehow still silent despite how heavy and quick her breaths were. These were things to keep in mind but not really all that useful.
But I picked up on something else which gave me an idea.