The next day, it was already 4 pm when Kent and Hermione returned from school. There was no fatigue whatsoever, instead a small smile hung on his face.
He found that the process of optimization was finished. Now he only needed to check it.
Suppressing his excitement, he with his sister Hermione ate their meal. After that he directly went to his room, saying he wanted to have a rest.
Locking the door, he sat on the bed. With a thought, the system panel appeared in front of him.
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Deduce and Optimize
Slot[1] (Martial arts that exercises and builds my body to its finest [Complete]
Simulation
Library
Download
Inventory
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Kent clicked on the "Slot[1]", a new page appeared. There was a download option below it, he clicked on it.
Unlike yesterday, the severe headache that Kent was ancipating didn't come, instead it was far milder.
'Did my pain tolerance go up?' He thought doubtfully, but soon it was replaced with excitement as a new set knowledge appeared in his mind. It included a set movement, the breathing rhythm, even the slightest movement of fingers were included.
'It's too precise,' he thought.
'Is it any effective though? But before that let's see how the simulation works.'
Returning to the previous page he clicked on the 'Simulation' option.
A new page appeared --
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Simulation
Simulate (Martial arts that exercises and builds my body to its finest)?
(Yes) (No)
(Back)
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Kent clicked on 'Yes', a new page appeared.
The next moment, his surroundings changed from his room to a grass field. As far as eyes could see there was only green. There was no trees, houses or mountains, just plain grassland.
Soon the system panel appeared.
[Simulation Starts in 10 seconds]
[10...9...8...7...6...5...4...3...2...1...0]
When the countdown was finished, Kent found that his body was moving on its own.
After few seconds, he realised that his body was moving according to the set of movements he just got. Even the breathing was not in his control. He could feel twitch of each muscle but couldn't control it.
So instead of resisting, Kent started going with the flow. It went on for about an hour until his body stopped.
There was no physical or mental fatigue.
'It must be due the fact that it's just a simulation,' he whimsily concluded.
In the last hour, his body repeated the movements about five times.
A new page appeared on the system panel --
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Manual Practice Progress: 0%
25% - (Beginner)
50% - (Intermediate)
75% - (Master)
100% - (Perfection)
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Kent understood the purpose of the manual practice. Although in the auto pilot his body would move according to the optimized movements but it was after all auto pilot. To realise the movements in real life Kent needed to master them on his own.
Kent closed his eyes, steadied his breath. Recalling his experience earlier during automatic simulation, he started moving.
It was slow at first as Kent had to keep account of everything including movement of fingers, wrist, elbow, shoulders, knee and also rhythm of breathing, even breathing using the abdominal muscle.
It was really difficult at first. But gritting his teeth, he kept going on. Whenever there was a slight mistake, a beep would sound in his mind and his body would go to auto pilot mode to correct his movements.
He didn't know how many times he failed, but he didn't give up. The circumstances didn't allow him to give up.
The knowledge of the terrible future had always been weighing on his mind. The emergence of the system did reduce some worries but still the main thing had to be done by him. He didn't have the luxury to slack.
Sometimes he thinks it would be better if he knew nothing of the future.
'No! I have atleast a fighting chance with foreknowledge I have,' he yelled at his lazy self.
Without any further distraction, he fully concentrated on moving and breathing according to the knowledge he had gained earlier.
As there was no fatigue and hunger, he gradually lost track of time. His mastery over the set of movements gradually increased until it reached perfection.
[Manual Practice Progress: 100%]
Getting the notification, Kent stopped. Looking at the screen, a huge smile bloomed on his face.
He exited from the Simulation panel. The surroundings again change back to his room. Looking at the clock, he found that only 1 hour has passed in real world. According to the time ratio of 100:1, he spent about four days in the simulation space.
Thinking about this, he was very excited. He wanted to practice the set movements in real life but remembering about how he pretended to be exhausted in front of his family, he gave up.
'Well, I'll start exercising from tomorrow,' he decided. Now that he had achieved perfection in the simulation space, he had a feeling that he would make no mistake during practice in real life.
The next morning, Kent woke very early. It was cold but the excitement that comes from doing something new overwhelmed the coldness of the weather. After taking care of hygiene, Kent changed to a set of comfortable clothes suitable for exercise.
In the backyard, under the dim light of the dawn, Kent started practicing in a steady manner. After a while he found that the set of movement had become an Instinct to him.
'So that's what system meant by perfection,' mused Kent as his movements become more rapid.
After doing 3 rounds of continuous movement, Kent stopped. He was very exhausted.
'First time exercising is always difficult,' he consoled himself.
Taking a five minute rest, he again started practicing. This time he could do only 2 rounds of practice. After that he had no energy to move around.
'I may have to optimize a nutritional drink tailor made for me,' Kent decided.
As far as he was concerned, it was not very difficult to concoct a nutrition drink with help of the optimize function of the system, he only needed to record information on biology and chemistry.
In fact he had already decided that he was going to record every "knowledge worthy" books from the libraries in the upcoming days. It might require years but he had time. He decided so because everytime he needed to find solutions to something new, he didn't need to run everywhere to collect data. Its far more convenient to have everything that you need, in your reach.
...
Practicing for another half an hour, Kent went to shower.
Despite the cold, his morning practice warmed him up enough to resist the chilly weather. The hot water from the geyser also helped.
During breakfast...
Mr. and Mrs. Granger was sitting side by side on one side of the square table, opposite to them on the other side of table, Kent and Hermione were sitting.
"Kent, why did you shower so early?" asked Mrs. Granger with a bit of concern.
It was early December, the weather had already started to get colder than usual. Mrs. Granger was worried that Kent would catch a cold. She knew that Kent was far mature than his peers, so she found it unnecessary to reprimand him.
"It was because I had become sweaty after exercising," answered Kent.
"Hey Hermione, wanna do exercise with me– *cough*" Kent almost choked on his food.
"Eat before you talk!" chided Mrs. Granger.
"Okay okay," said Kent as he drank some water.
"Hmm, okay," Hermione nodded in response to Kent's offer.
"Good," Kent smiled.
After being reborn in this world Kent had always been worrying about the future. As a result he didn't paid attention to Hermione. But still he noticed some peculiarities about Hermione, especially her maturity. He could clearly remember from the movie that although Hermione was brilliant but was never that mature.
'Well, the fiction also didn't have a brother of Hermione,' mused Kent in his thoughts.
"Whatever," muttered Kent as he continued eating.
"Did you say anything?" asked Hermione who was sitting beside him.
"Nothing," responded Kent.