Chapter 263: Eight Children
Yu Ying soon brought in the eight children to the wooden house, and had them line up in front of the Shaman.
“Shaman, I’ve brought them over.” Her soft voice rang out.
“Good.” Su Bai raised his head to look at those eight children, each having their own characteristics. “Do you know why I asked you to come here?”
Ya stood in the middle, blinking his yellow eyes and confidently saying. “The Shaman wants us to become Totem Warriors.”
His appearance looked no different from ordinary people, except for a pair of pointed ears that made him look like an Elf.
Su Bai’s eyebrow twitched, impressed by how quick he was on the uptake.
He became interested in this yellow-haired child and asked, “You’re Ya, right?”
“Yes!” Ya responded, his yellow eyes lacking the liveliness typical of children, showing more of harsh survival instincts.
“Where are you from?” Su Bai asked.
“My Tribe was destroyed by the Black Snake Tribe,” Ya’s face remained expressionless, “I now belong to the Flame Dragon Tribe.”Su Bai’s black pupils dilated slightly, thinking that this child had high emotional intelligence! He smiled and asked, “Do you want to become a Totem Warrior?”
“Yes!” Ya responded without hesitation, different from his usual cold demeanour. There was eagerness in his eyes.
Su Bai looked at the second child and asked, “What about you? What’s your name? Do you want to become a Totem Warrior?”
The second child was stunned for a moment, and after realising he was being spoken to, kept nodding and stammered: “I… Lu… I… this… want!”
The child called Lu was half a head shorter than Ya, about 1.4 metres tall, with eye-catching red short hair and large round red eyes. He had a long, thin red tail that was not particularly thick, looking very much like a lizard’s tail.
“What about you?” Su Bai continued asking the remaining children, and each one was willing to become a Totem Warrior, each with their own unique characteristics.
One child had a small horn on his nose and looked rather foolish. He was called Jie Ba because he stuttered when speaking.
There was another child, the only girl among the eight, with orange long hair and orange eyes. Her face was still childlike, round and extremely cute. She had some orange scales under her eyelids, which gave her a unique appearance, and her name was Lin.
Su Bai looked at the eight standing in line, each with different expressions on their faces, and asked: “Since you want to become Totem Warriors, you’ll have to endure hardship. Can you handle that?”
“Yes!” The eight responded without hesitation.
“Good, go back and rest well tonight. Training starts tomorrow, and it will be very tough. Be mentally prepared.” Su Bai solemnly said.
“Yes!” The eight responded again.
Su Bai waved his hand, dismissing them, and said to the Chieftain. “Chieftain, you’ll need to arrange someone to guide these eight children.”
“Shaman, what are your arrangements for them?” Yan Jiao curiously asked, since the children had not reached the age for being accepted as Warrior Trainees. Thus, it was not realistic to train them now, given the high intensity, they surely would not be able to handle it.
To determine if someone could become a Warrior Trainee, they typically had to wait until they were thirteen years old.
Even after becoming a Warrior Trainee, they needed to train for a period, as not all Warrior Trainees could become Totem Warriors.
“Start training them tomorrow at half the intensity of how Warrior Trainees usually train. Gradually increase the intensity over time.” Su Bai instructed.
Children needed to start training early. Currently, Su Bai was thinking of creating an assassination squad, and these eight children appeared at just the right time.
With just a year or two of training, even if they did not awaken as Totem Warriors, they would still be skilled enough for simple missions. After all, what they lacked now were combatants.
“I understand!” Yan Jiao nodded, beginning to feel somewhat sympathetic towards these children.
Training them at half the intensity of Warrior Trainees was still not easy for them to accomplish. The training intensity for Warrior Trainees was already very high, as it was in preparation for them to break through to become Totem Warriors.
These children were at most twelve years old, with the youngest being nine. They would definitely struggle with daily high-intensity training.
However, from their expressions earlier, he knew they were already prepared…
“Look at which of the remaining children have potential. Let them train together as well!” Su Bai remembered the other children.
“I understand,” Yan Jiao nodded.
“Later, I’ll give you some methods for training them. Have these children start training according to these methods first, then switch to Warrior Trainee training methods after some time.” Su Bai added.
He recalled the military training methods from Earth. He wanted to train the children’s physical strength and stamina first before attempting to train them as Warrior Trainees.
“Alright, what about them learning how to read and write?” Yan Jiao wanted to know if these children could also learn how to read and write.n/o/vel/b//in dot c//om
“Let the children I taught first teach them what they’ve learned first. They can join in when I want to teach them new content later.” Su Bai arranged.
“I understand!” Yan Jiao turned and left the wooden house.
After seeing the Chieftain leave, Yu Ying poured a cup of water for the Shaman and asked, “Shaman, how will you train these children?”
The fox eared girl had also seen these children’s expressions and knew they were prepared for anything. However, they were really still too young.
Previously, the Tribe only selected Warrior Trainees starting from age thirteen. This was the first time they would start training at such a young age.
“The method of training is very simple. It is to purely improve their physical strength, stamina and reaction time. It won’t be very difficult in the beginning.” Su Bai softly said.
While it might not be difficult for Warrior Trainees, these young children would definitely find it tiring to some degree. Moreover, this would allow these children to get ahead from the start. With a good foundation, their chances of awakening would greatly increase.
Yu Ying nodded with partial understanding, as she was not knowledgeable about this aspect. She just returned back to weaving linen.
Su Bai took out Wolf Tail Grass Paper and a pencil. He began drawing, thinking about obstacle courses, climbing, weighted running, crawling through mud pits, and so on.
These were all daily training routines from Earth’s military, designed to train people’s reaction time, stamina, physical strength, agility, and more.
Half an hour later, Su Bai put down his pencil, took out two pieces of paper, and said, “Xiao Yu, come here for a moment.”
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