CHAPTER 30
Tapping on his wristwatch to find a spot to complete his daily quest, it directed him to the training room for Aspirants to exercise in or practice their abilities.
Walking into the room, he was greeted by a state of the art equipment spaced out neatly and even giving enough space for movement.
On the side of the wall, the punching bag used during the testing could be seen.
The bar thingy was nowhere to be seen though.
But a shiny looking screen could be seen placed on the opposite wall to the entrance of the room.
Ray wasn't curious and wasn't here to explore though.
He needed to be done with his quest before it was time for their training.
So he immediately got down to the ground.
Arms spaced out, legs placed together and stretched down as he suddenly got down to doing push ups.
He went low, chest almost touching the ground before he lifted himself up again.
"... One."
He repeated the process again and again.
The faster and higher he counted, the more his chest burned. His breath grew a bit hoarse as beads of sweat clung to his face.
When he got to fifty, his arms were now on fire from inside as he was huffing and panting trying his hardest to regain his breathing to no avail.
He had never had a reason to exercise his body before.
I mean, who needs abs and a muscle toned body when abilities was the new norms. Unless your ability related to a hard rock body though.
"Fifty-five."
"Haaa… Haaaa…."
Sweat began rolling from his temples and body to the ground with a drop.
With every movement, his hands trembled, shaking and almost feeling like a lead.
'Come on. How long till I get to hundred? I feel like I'm about to die!'
"Sixty."
Even as he was in fiery pain, one thing about Ray was the fact that he was always determined.
Even if it meant him fighting a grizzly bear for those he cared about, he will do it. To him, this was just a small price to pay in order to protect Van.
'Knowing him, he would possibly look for an invention to create to protect him…'
"Seventy."
'... But I'm not taking any chances here. I can't afford to lose the last person I deeply care about and consider family so….'
"Eighty."
'Push Ray, Push!'
He hyped himself inwardly as he suddenly got a slight surge of strength causing him to began going up and down at an acceptable pace instead of the much slower pace of before.
His chest heaved up and down as he kept going, trying to keep his mind focused.
But no matter what he did, his mind always seemed to bring him back to the pain hence he decided to do one thing that might help him.
Think about some bastards!
Instantly, his vision changed. The images of towering ape-like creatures flashed through his mind specifically one and how it murdered his mother.
Instantaneously, Ray's eyes narrowed down to a slit as his teeth began grinding back and forth loudly.
The next moment, his speed increased drastically as he began moving up and down ignoring the burning pain in his chest totally as his mind was now zoned out and only locked on a specific Abberant.
A minute later, he was done with the push ups.
Without resting, he swiftly got down to squats and in a similar fashion, his mind was zoned out that in less than five minutes, he was done.
He then transitioned to sit-ups.
"Ten…"
'Kill, Kill, Kill. I must kill that Abberant. Kill!'
"Twenty…"
"Haaa…Haaa… Huff…"
'He needs to die!'
"Forty."
The speed with which he was performing his sit ups was crazy… for him though as within ten minutes of intense abdominal pain, he was done.
Now, his whole form was drenched in sweat as if he had dipped himself into a river.
They rolled over his body to the ground forming a small puddle. His hands were placed on his knees as he panted like someone who had ran two hundred metres race.
His chest rising and falling in a crazy rhythm as he remained in that position for five minutes finally steadying himself.
He rose upright and then glanced at his watch.
"5:52am."
"...."
"Shoot. I need to return back to my dorm and get ready for today's training session. I will complete the last quest later on."
He hastily grabbed his shirt which he had pulled off earlier and rushed out the training room running like his life depended on it to the field.
Actually, his life depended on it as failure to reach the training field before six, it would result in punishment.
He didn't even have time to take his bath as he was rushing to the field when he suddenly paused.
"F*ck me! My uniform."
With his teeth gritted, he swerved around and bolted for the dorms.
Within three minutes, he was inside.
Kai and Van were nowhere to be seen but he couldn't care right now as he hastily pulled his casual wears off.
"Luckily, I had an evening bath last night. That should cover up for me right?" He mumbled as he dumped his uniform on his sweaty body like that.
The moment he placed his jacket on his body, his watch began beeping causing him to take a glance at the message on it.
«Dirtiness detected on Aspirant's body detected, uniform would clean Aspirant's body now.»
'Oh wow.'
He couldn't admire this advanced feature for long as he needed to get to the training field as soon as possible.
He rushed out of the room at the speed of light hurrying to the field while occasionally glancing at his watch.
"5:59am"
"...."
"Shit." He cursed as he could feel his body getting refreshed.
The sweat that had gathered over his body was drying up at an impressive rate. But as he was running, more sweat began to drip down faster than the uniform could clean.
«System has detected a real dirty Aspirant this time around."
'The hell?!'
Skid—!
His boots came to a screech bringing him to a full halt in the training field as he could see some Aspirants gathered out front and all.
At an attention like soldiers.
"6 am."
'Right on time thankfully.'