The orcs who saw her were whistling, cheering, and laughing showed no respect or admiration at all by Anna's heroic arrival.
She ignored them and continued to walk through the orc line. So orcs were approaching, so were giving way, and so were blocking her like the huge orc whose fist was as big as Anna's head, Vakgar.
Vakgar and Anna looked at each other but neither of them moved. The orcs who saw Anna and Vakgar stand off cheered cheerfully.
Vakgar's lips curled up showing his long and large lower fangs. His sinister green face looked scornful and his red eyes looked at Anna from head to toe as if appraising so delicious sumptuous at.
Anna didn't move and just stared straight into Vakgar's eyes without any fear. Seeing Anna who wasn't scared, Vakgar got even more excited and pointed at Anna's sheathed sword with his chin.
As if to say 'can you really use it, Beautiful doll?'.
Anna's lips curled up and grabbed the handle of her sword and said "Do you want to know?" Her blue hazel eyes shouted a challenge.
The atmosphere beca more lively, the orcs beca very happy with this brave beautiful doll. They wanted to see Vakgar destroy Anna and turn her white skin to blue.
But the fun stopped after hearing Moku's clapping, "Okay, enough playing around! We don't have much ti, let's start practicing!"
Anna, you have to practice basic moves first before you can join the orcs!"
"Yes, Ku!" the orcs answered firmly, Anna just nodded and walked past Vakgar.
Vakgar gave way and rejoined his ranks.
"Put on the load on!" a voice commanded from Moku
The orcs then mounted their respective weights. Currently the heaviest amount of weight they can carry is almost half a ton, which is by Goku who still holds the title of the second strongest orc after Moku in the tribe.
Because of the weight he was carrying, every ti Goku stepped his feet would sink into the ground and leave a trail as deep as 2 centiters.
And the weight just keeps growing over ti, it might only take 2 months or so for Goku to have to lift more than half a ton of weight.
Moku didn't put up his weight, physical training beca useless for him at this ti. If he is required to lift weights then Moku must lift at least 3-4 tons.
This will only sink his feet and lead to a funny scene where he just stands still like a hot nail slowly sinking in the middle of a pile of cheese.
Anna looked at the weight the orcs were carrying on their backs with wide eyes. She had never seen an exercise like this before, she didn't understand what the point of lifting such heavy weights was.
"Anna, you have to put on so weight too." Moku's voice snapped Anna out of her shock.
"Huh? oh .. yes" Anna answered.
She looked at the mounds of timber there and took so. Then tie them to her back with ropes.
"How much should I bring?" Anna asked.
"As much as you can" Moku replied curtly.
Anna just nodded and added a few more twigs. She felt a pain in her shoulder and her back hunched over.
"Anna, every day you have to increase the weights you carry even if it's just a pebble" Moku told.
"Huh? eh!" Anna gave up her intention to increase the weight and began to reduce it.
The orcs who saw Anna lighten her load giggled, especially Vakgar who laughed loudly and said "weak,, the white doll is weak"
Even though Anna didn't understand the monster's language, she still knew that Vakgar was calling her weak. Anna's face turned red and she gave up on trying to reduce the burden.
Moku saw Anna struggling to stand up and keeping her body from swaying, he rembered their conversation last night that made Moku allow Anna, a pregnant woman, to join the orcs' strenuous training.
....
[Last Night]
"How?" Moku asked and put his body forward.
"You once said that orcs respect warriors. This is also the reason why you asked to duel with you.
If I win that duel the orcs will let go free because I have defeated you, the strongest orc in this tribe.
Is that true?" Anna said with a smile on her lips.
"That's true. Then?" Moku doesn't understand yet.
"Then how about we show the orcs that won can also be strong warriors?" asked Ana.
"That's a good idea, but none of you can beat even if I relent, the other orcs won't buy it.
Then if you want to fight with other orcs then you have to choose Goku or Boku as your opponent.
You can't beat them barehanded and after they learned silat with , their weapon skills have progressed a lot, for now I even doubt if you can beat them Anna" Moku explained honestly.
"I don't an to win the duel with you or the other orcs, I an to show that we girls are warriors too.
You explained to that warriors are not about talent or swordplay, but an unyielding spirit that will not be extinguished even when walking alone and being hit by various obstacles.
I will show that I am a warrior to all the orcs.
I will join your training and receive the sa treatnt as the other orcs!" Anna said her brilliant idea.
Moku's mouth fell open, he felt that Anna had gone mad, "That's a bad idea! What exactly are you thinking?!
The orcs' training was designed with their endurance, fast tabolism, and regeneration abilities in mind. You as a human don't have all that!
Following the training of the orcs is tantamount to suicide for you! After all, You are pregnant! strenuous activities can harm you and the fetus in your womb!" Moku tried to resuscitate Anna.
"Moku! I can't believe you of all people underestimate !" Anna was offended.
"I'm not underestimating you but I'm just telling the truth" Moku shook his head.
Anna stood up and sat in front of him. She held Moku's hand tightly and looked into his red eyes seriously.
"Moku! As your woman, you have to trust a little. I won't do anything stupid that could harm myself or our baby.
I have a plan and a hypothesis, if this hypothesis is true then this plan will also work. Trust ! I'm not crazy! I promised to give birth to our first child.
If you really think of as a warrior then believe I will keep my promise!" Anna promised.
Moku was silent, once again his logic told him that this was a bad plan and could harm Anna and their baby. But there was a voice in his heart to believe in it.
"Okay, but only for one month!" Moku believed his heart.
....
[The Morning]
Moku saw that Anna was able to maintain her balance, even though the weight she was carrying made Anna almost unable to move. Moku just kept quiet and waited for her to be ready.
While on the other hand the orcs had already done their training. Even though they started training at the sa ti, the orcs' individual abilities gradually beca more visible as the training beca harder.
So of them have reached the second level of breathing techniques, but many are still stuck at the first level of breathing techniques.
This was not because of the lazy orcs but because of the inborn talent they brought with them. Just as humans are born with various hidden talents, so are orcs.
Many of them had overflowing power but couldn't channel it so making their movents required more energy.
Just like Vakgar, who has the second strength and body size after Goku, is still stuck at the first level of breathing technique.
He had a hard ti concentrating his overflowing energy and channeling it into a single attack. As a result, when using breathing techniques, Vakgar's movents beco slow.
This also happened to several other orcs who were still stuck in the first level of the breathing technique.
Exercise at this level is in the form of paired formation movents. Two orcs will walk in pairs to form a circle.
Opponents are like mirror images, they will have the sa steps and movents but in opposite positions.
The movent of the Tagak footwork is a fundantal and very important part of silat, because the essence of all silat movents cos from these six steps.
In each step there is an initial movent to start an attack, dodge, parry, or lock. Because it is very important to be able to harmonize the energy and understand it by heart.
Their steps and movents are a combination of the steps of Tagak footwork. Just as now Swa and Torgan are imitating each other's movents.
Starting from the water step—valley step—lightning step, then the combination changes to a wind step—mountain step—fire step.
Swa throws a punch at the fire step, while Torgan moves to parry. But their movents look very slow and heavy.
Swa pushed his fists like he was pushing tens of kilograms weight, the sa thing happened to Torgan who raised his hand to parry. This is due to the lack of smooth movent of energy they channel to the limbs that they want to use.
BAK!
However, the mont Swa's fist touched the outside of Torgan's hand there was a loud crash sound like two wooden blocks colliding.
The result of the collision almost broke both of their hands. This will not happen if the energy blast is done in the right way.
The orcs who managed to enter the second level of the breathing technique had different training. The combination of moves, punches, parries, and dodges becos increasingly complex.
This is because they have been able to detonate their respective energies and are learning how to implent it in a combination move.
Likewise, the three forms that Moku used in the Palaka duel with Goku were a combination of Tagak footwork and practical techniques or what Datuak nan Sabatang commonly referred to as 'Picking the Fruit'.
Picking the Fruit is to use reason and logic while studying the physical properties of the human body and where the weak points of the body itself are.
By using all limbs that can be moved, Picking the Fruit has two concepts, naly that all limbs must be utilized and in any position they must be used as much as possible to defend and attack.
Moku returned his attention to Anna. Her pale face showed that Anna was almost at her limit.
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