A week had passed since the core awakening ceremony, it was a sunny day with a bit of clouds in the sky.
Azaska was changing into his robes, and after changing, he ate some breakfast but only ate two to three bites as it was recommended to not eat much to use the core at full potential. He got out of his house and sat on a carriage that took him to the Holy Academy.
Reaching there, he found George who was waiting for him. He greeted George and asked if they were in the same class.
'No idiot, everyone is taught personally by a Divine Soldier of the same core,' George told Azaska.
Azaska nodded as they walked inside the academy to see 20 rooms. Azaska's room was the 2nd room. He walked inside and saw a blackboard on the wall, a wooden floor, a painting of some saints, one table and two chairs, as well as a 150 square feet caged room which was probably for training.
The table and the 2 chairs were like the parent-teacher meetings that Azaska had in his previous life.
There was already a 21-year-old man sitting there who was going to teach Azaska. He had a cool and stable aura around him.
'Sit down,' the man said.
Azaska sat down as per the man's instructions.
'My name is Saint Noah. I am an advanced Ice Core Rank 2 Divine Soldier, I am the one who shall be teaching you and helping you to reach Rank 2, obviously it all depends upon you how much time you will take to reach Rank 2, it can be a month, a year, or even ten years.'
Azaska nodded hearing this, originally his goal was to become one of the six Gods of the world. Because ever since he had been reborn, his heart had a desire for power, strength, and to reign above all.
'Today, I shall be teaching you how to maintain your Twiss inside your core and prevent leakage,' his teacher said.
Azaska, hearing this, had a very confused reaction, wasn't it normal for Twiss to leak from your core?
'Oh I'm sorry, of course you won't know. Well, this is kept secret from most people, and even ordinary human Rank 2 twissers, only after reaching Rank 3 they are told, but Saints are to be told from the very start. You see, the Twiss inside our body is made by the soul so that the body can age. If you don't allow the Twiss to come out of your body, you will not age.'
'But wouldn't it make you immortal?' Azaska asked.
'Certainly, but it is impossible for a person to suppress his Twiss 100 percent inside his core, as you have to sleep and do other activities, and even with full concentration people can only suppress 85 percent. Now you might be wondering what my age is, well on looks I am twenty, but originally my age is forty-one.'
Hearing this, Azaska got completely shocked. If a Divine Soldier is forty-one, then the Gods might be more than a hundred years old!
'I am ready, teach me as much as you can. I will reach the peak and become an Immortal!' Azaska said.
Saint Noah, hearing this, laughed and praised Azaska for his strong will and dreams.
'Then I think we shall start, firstly close your eyes and imagine a ship that is flowing on a sea with strong waves.'
Azaska did as he was told and suddenly a cold air started to come out of Azaska's nostrils, covering Azaska's whole body like a big balloon.
'I see you are quite talented, now imagine that you are holding the whole sea in your hands, now make the sea peaceful through your imagination.'
After Azaska did this, the whole balloon-like cold air slowly went inside his nostrils again, making everything normal. Azaska opened his eyes.
'Now you have to imagine that you are making that sea in peace all the time, that is how you will suppress it inside your core, don't take it easy, I am telling you if your imagination is disturbed at a high rate, making the boat sink, and yes the boat exists in reality inside your core, so your mind was actually inside your core, sigh, what was I saying—oh yes I remember, if your imagination is disturbed at a high rate it will make the boat sink and cause mortal danger. Actually, the boat is your Twiss and the sea is your life.'
'If the Twiss remains safe, it is suppressing, the percentage of Twiss that is suppressed automatically comes inside your head, if life moves too fast it causes Twiss to drown.'
'Like the sea's waves can't be stopped, life can't be stopped either, but it can be slowed.'
Azaska understood what his teacher was saying, so he did not ask many questions.
'Practice it all day and in a few days you will gain perfection over it, and only then I can teach you techniques and take you on missions, either way it depends upon you and your will.'
'You can take your leave now, and return when you can suppress your Twiss at least 50 percent,' said Saint Noah.
Azaska stood up and got out of the room, seeing that George was still inside his own room, he decided to wait for him. He sat on an empty bench seeing it was sunset.
He got into his core again and started to maintain the peace inside the sea so that the ship remained floating. However, he forgot to ask why there was a cold air balloon covering his body when he got his mind inside his core. But he thought he would ask it the next time he came to the academy.
Azaska had forty years of wisdom (twelve years in this life while twenty-eight years in his previous life). So he learned faster than normal people.
He sat there for 30 minutes trying to maintain the peace inside the core and he had already suppressed twenty percent of his Twiss!
All that was required for the core to be at peace was concentration, because the sea had to be moved at a specific rhythm. If the sea was moving too fast or too slow, it would cause disturbance in the core.
'I guess twenty percent is good, I am not able to suppress more than this,' Azaska thought.
After some time, George came from his class and both started to talk.
Here, Azaska learned a new thing, every core is different from the inside. George's core had a mechanical domain, with gears floating endlessly in the air. Also, there were many potions moving forward and backward repeatedly. The potions sometimes froze, sometimes turned into a gas, and sometimes a liquid, all of this happened when moved at a specific rhythm, he had to concentrate so that the potions always remained liquid.
They talked till it was night and finally went to their home on their carriages.