This is the second day we are waiting for the carpenter, we are again training with Akira. But this time is special, Oka joined in as well, and now we were training with one of them at a time.

  “Ok, listen up you two. We have to get this started as soon as possible. For today we will only be doing endurance training for you two.”- Oka spoke in a loud voice. She pointed to 2 sacks of vegetables

  “Ok, so we need to carry that sack of vegetables or run with it?”- Hana slowly walked closer to the vegetable sack poking it.

  “Yes, you need to do 150 ps across the mansion with this sack on your back, every 150 ps I will add more weight to the sack. It should be easy for you two to gain endurance since you have the Exponential Gain skill now”- Oka gently picked up the sacks of vegetables and gave one to each of us.

  “Ok, so, when do we start?”- I asked while looking at the heavy sack that I must run with.

  It probably weighs over 200kg.

  “Now, and go!!!”- Oka shouted while holding her hand up.

  We started to run ps with the sacks, it isn’t easy to carry them on your back this distance.

  The first 10 ps were easy enough, 1 ps are 1km and 150 are 15km with the sacks. That’s a lot of km considering the weight of the sacks. Even the bonus strength that monsters have is limited.

  The next 10 ps are getting harder to pull off since we are running out of stamina. It seems that our average is about 2km of running with 200kg on our backs.

  “Well, that was better than expected. Now, rest for 30 minutes, and then you will run again, every time you stop to rest you will have to start from 0 ps. Understood?”- Now she has done it. How are we going to do 150 ps around the mansion and we have to start from 0 if we fail? Give me a fucking break!!!

  “Yes, we understand”- Hana rapidly covered my mouth with her left hand.

  “Great, starting from 0”- I rapidly fall on the ground, I wanted to nd on the soft grass, but I nded on the ground and hit my head on some rocks.

  “Be more careful Hikaru.”- Hana pulled me over into the soft grass to rest. What happened? Why are we so weak?

  !Answer: You are experiencing new challenges you never dealt with before, and that’s why you are weak, you were never prepared or trained to deal with those challenges before. You are only prepared to deal with a small handful of challenges and not all that is to come.!

  “Well, I hope we get used to these challenges quickly, otherwise we are screwed. I didn’t imagine becoming stronger will be this hard”

  !Becoming stronger is always hard. It will be much more than just evolving to get stronger, sure, that might py a role in it but it’s not the only way!

  After 30 minutes we restarted the ps. The skill Exponential Gain helped us a ton, we can see improved results in mere minutes of rest. This is overpowered. We managed to run 15 ps this time before colpsing. Even progress of 5 more ps per run is good progress. I think that the more we run the more we can grow using this skill, I don’t know if it has some sort of limit to what it can do but until now it had been useful.

  6 hours ter. Using Exponential Gain we managed to a new record of 100 ps, it seems like the limit of this skill only increases by 5 ps each time we stop and rest, there must be a way to evolve this skill.

  !Answer: To evolve the skill Exponential Gain first you must obtain the Legendary skills Molecur Regeneration and Self-Regeneration!

  “Ok, you 2 made good progress. Ok, more now! Keep it up”- Oka walked slowly toward us, she is holding 2 ptes of smoked beef sad with sauce for us.

  “Thanks, Oka”- Hana grabbed the ptes, and she gave me 1 pte.

  “Thanks, Hana”- We both started to eat off the ptes, we needed that food, we had been training for 6 hours, but we did gain a little bit of endurance and stamina out of that. But now I am thinking, will it be enough to carry us to the nation of monsters?

  I don’t even know what to do or say about this. Everything seems futile and in vain again, every attempt that I do or everything I try feels like I am hitting a brick wall.

  Just what the hell am I saying right now? I just need to work a little and I am ready to give up on everything again. Well, maybe I should just give up, this dream wasn’t possible from the start, no matter how much I work on it, but I do have, Hana, Akira, Oka, Fumiko, and Ayame that believe in me and want me to achieve my dream. But how am I gonna do that? I will need to kill so many innocent people to do that.

  “Hikaru it’s ok. I can hear what you think. You shouldn’t bother with it too much”- Hana spoke to me via the telepathic network.

  “Thank you. I don’t know what I would have done without all of this time Hana”- We finished eating and got up.

  We continued to retry the loops and then we finally reach 10 loops, after like 4 more hours or so.

  “Congrats”- Oka cpped her hands cheerfully for us.

  “Now, you 2 should go and get some rest, tomorrow you are going to the monster nation to build houses with the carpenter.

  We finally managed to do this training as well. It was very hard today, Akira didn’t interfere at all in Oka’s training, he just watched us. I don’t think this is the only training that they will put us through. Hopefully, we can train more to become even stronger than we are now. And then we will be able to become demon lords.