The days seemed to pass slower than normal, as day by day we pushed ourselves more than we thought possible.
Our arms were shaking as they moved a spoon of soup closer to the mouth yet it is only 10 am but after almost a hundred slow push up in the frozen wasteland at high gravity it feels as though it might be less painful to just amputate these limbs. The feeling of the frozen metal pull up bar still lingers on my hand, although we are not doing high volumes of fast repetitions we make up for it with intensity and control to ensure perfect muscle contraction and full mind engagement in training .
After 10 it's time to switch biomes, today it's in the lightning rock forest. Although we r not deep enough yet to be bathed in direct lighting strikes, even at the outer area there is an unnatural amount of static that continuous pickles the whole body, the deeper you go into the forest the higher the voltage. The biome made up of a mountain area of blue-black rocks that seem to store a tiny bit of electricity. It is lifeless, continously crackling sound thunder, littered with oddly shaped ridges, random caves and and occasionally lakes concentrated with lightning. The sky is always dark with rain clouds that seem to only produce thunder and rain.
We can change the gravity of any biome at will and constantly switch around which biome we train in thus we are always pushing past our limits. After 2 pm it's weapons time, I discovered that archery was almost instinctive and had an easier time comprehending the arts. I helped Nina when ever I could and although less skilled than me, she was doing fantastic. Training was made up of constantly swinging our swords while adjusting and correcting our forms, target practice and continuous repetition until everything was second nature .We spared against each other daily, constantly challenged ourselves, pushing further, sharing our individual realizations, comprehension or ideas ;and correcting any mistakes we noticed in each other . We spent more time in the biome we called scotching winds. This biome was a desert terrain. It was ridiculously hot and the brown sand seemed to turn it into an oven, the wind was ferocious eradically blowing as though trying to rip you apart, often the hot air turns to scalding wind blades . In this environment our will and instinct was honed as we had to react fast enough and attempt to cut the wind blades. Fortunately the environment was more challenging the deeper you went into the territory so although we came back covered in cuts and blood in the early days we could survive long enough to get stronger before moving deeper. For archery we mostly went to the rain forest area as it was the only place with animals - moving targets. Nina had a tough time at the beginning as obviously the idea of killing anything just for training leaves a bitter taste especially if the animals had no threat to us but as we are both aware of the nature of this world we got used to it.
At night it was meditation. We have already established mage sight and have a stable core so it was time for a new energy. We decided on ki. This decision was reached due to the difficulty of our training, injuries were unavoidable. It helped us save time recovering and we could grow in strength faster as our bodies were recovering so quickly. A lucky discovery was that although we are meditating ki, the mana core also still grows abiet way way slower.
Our bodies were constantly remodeld and evolving with the constant removing of impurities they now functioned more efficiently in every aspect food was digested faster with all the nutrients absorbed ,we felt freer including nentally, even our looks were improving getting more refined and have a majestic air of royalty. I have to say though... "DAMN!" they leg workout did wonders for Nina's ass!
It was a continuous struggle to improve, and as time passed it only got harder. Broken bones, torn muscles and punctured organs were occurring frequently.It was hard, it made us better and changed our mentality. It made us feel proud when we grew knowing that even though we have an massive advantage through the wishes, every bit of power we have is our through had work and can not be taken .As they say a family that struggles together stays together - Nina and I grew in our relationship , we learnt new aspects about each other and always stayed together .There was a shift in mentality. Initially we were a bit insecure due to this extraordinary new world, we kinda felt we didn't belong. I doubted if I could really have the power to protect Nina or will she be forced to spend her life hidden in our world. The insecurities we had were obvious, I mean we were just nerds in our past life and both of us rarely in interacted with others . Finally all stupid ideas we shed, replaced with pride and excitement as we wait for the day we tackle this world - with this was the metamorphosis from our old selves to....