Adopted Soldier

"Finally you are number ten . From this day forth you are now my subordinates and I your commanding officer . When you wish to speak to me, you must first ask for permission . Also when you speak to me, the beginning and end word you should be using is Sir . Understood?" Even though Alex was still talking in his usual indifferent tone, the pressure in his words were real . Now knowing how frightening Alex’s level of strength was, the ten men didn’t dare to not follow his orders anymore .

"Sir Yes Sir!" The ten men answered in unison .

"At this point forward, I will train you into a powerful force . The training will be torturous, it will be demeaning, and it will be painful . You might wish for death as the training goes on . You might think that my training is hell, but trust me when I say, hell is a paradise compared to what you are about to go through . Still no matter if you are in the verge of dying I want you to stand up and continue on, If I order you to . Do you people understand?"

"Sir Yes Sir!"

"If any of you disobey an order, I will dislocate each of your joints, and I will leave you like that for about ten minutes, then I will put them back just to dislocate them again . That’s what you going to get for the first offense, for the second offense the punishment wont be as kind . Do you people understand?"

"Sir Yes Sir!"

"That’s good to hear . So let’s begin training now . all of you follow me . "

. . .

Alex headed out of the warehouse and to the back . There in the open area behind the warehouse was a customized pool that had a depth of twenty feet .

"All of you put your hands behind your back . " When the ten men heard Alex’s order they followed it without hesitation . Now Alex proceeded to tie their hands .

"Okay then will start simple . All of you will jump into the pool, and while your hands are tied behind your back . I want you to swim from this end to the other end and swim back . " The ten men looked at the distance Alex was talking about . This pool was around sixty meters long .

"Well then begin . " The ten men hesitated at first, but when they heard Alex’s voice telling them to begin they had no choice . The ten men all jumped into the pool . They tried swimming without their hands and as expected it proved more difficult than they thought . While they were still having difficulties swimming, Alex added something as they surfaced every now and then .

"Oh right the last one to reach the goal will be the lucky one to start off the next training course . No rest for the losers . " Hearing what Alex said the ten men started to swim faster . When the first one finally got to the other end, and was ready to swim back, an arrow suddenly whoosh passed him .

"In real combat you never know when the enemy will strike . So you got to be ready at anytime . Don’t you worry I will not hit your vitals . "

Does that mean you’ll try to hit any other part instead . Alex continued to fire arrows at the ten men, but of course he wasn’t really aiming at them . He was simply aiming close enough that they think they were going to get hit .

. . .

It took them a few minutes but all ten men were able to swim back . As they got out of the pool, Alex untied them .

"Number seven front and center . " The heavily panting number seven stepped forward .

"You are the last to finish, so you get to start off the next training . Follow me . "

. . .

Alex brought the ten men into the area of the warehouse they haven’t been to yet . This area was like an open field, and in it were six hoops . Alex then handed each men a loaded rifle .

"Okay number seven, while holding that rifle I want you to run and jump through those hoops . " When the ten heard what Alex said, they felt a bit relieved wasn’t this easier than the swimming with their hands tied . They were felt relieved too soon . Alex approached the hoops and lit them up, now they were flaming hoops . "Also since you guys got wet, I better dry you up . "

"Begin!" Number seven didn’t want to do this, since a loaded gun and flames don’t really go well together . Still he had no choice and he started to run . Number seven who was running while jumping through flaming hoops, felt an extreme adrenaline rush . Midway through the run he stopped being scared .

The other nine also experienced the same thing .

"Okay now that the warm ups are done, time for the real training . " When the ten men heard what Alex said, they almost collapsed in fear . That was a warm up!

"Follow me men . "

. . .

The next location Alex brought the group was in the forest, near the warehouse . Alex and the group walked deeper into the forest . This time the ten men had backpacks each having different stuff inside .

Once the group was deep enough into the forest Alex spoke .

"Okay then, now I want you men to get back to the warehouse from here . You will set out after five minutes . This training will test how you will cooperate with each other . Let me warn you before hand, I have planted land mines in this whole forest . If you can’t remember the safe path we took, then you got to figure a way to find the land mines and pass them safely . Don’t worry the land mines I planted aren’t strong enough to kill you, but they’ll still hurt very much . You will feel like your flesh is tearing . Also if you people don’t get back to the warehouse two hours from now, I’ll start shooting you from afar . Don’t worry I’ll be using rubber bullets . "

When the ten men heard what Alex said, they wanted to say something but couldn’t . What the hell is wrong with this kid! No this wasn’t a kid, this was a demon! How the hell was this training?!

"Okay then, timer starts now . " Alex retreated back to the warehouse, while the ten men looked at him in a daze .