HARD TRAINING (3)
Syton took Riki's challenge of staring contest. But in reality, Riki was only trying to intimidate Syton to force him in joining their guild.
Riki gave up and sighed, "Come on! Why don't you just join us?"
Syton awkwardly scratched his neck. He was having a double thought if he should just tell him about what he have discovered before on regarding the New Rion guild.
"Hmm?" Riki asked again when Syton didn't answer.
Syton forcefully smiled as he said, "Well, I heard that your guild are currently suffering in a huge debt"
Riki got stunned.
After some seconds, Riki shook his head and tried to defend his guild. "But we are the top 7 guild!"
"Yeah. But it's not even at top 5"
Riki haven't given up yet, "I'm one of the strongest braver!"
"uh-huh"
"Join us and I'll help you become stronger!"
Syton couldn't take it anymore so he asked Riki directly, "Why do you even want to recruit me?"
Riki looked around and he noticed that the other members of the guild that was also inside the guild house was watching them argue.
Who wouldn't be?
Riki forcefully dragged Syton inside the guild house and kept asking him to sign as a member of the guild. Of course, others would be curious at the person that Riki desperately wanted to recruit.
Syton sighed. "Fine, I'll temporarily join the guild. But, I won't stay that long."
Riki's eyes twinkled as he showed a triumph smile. "Sure, sure! But I'll make sure that you'll be joining the guild as an official member in the end"
"So could you now tell me why you're interested in me?" Syton asked again.
Riki purposely ignored Syton. He called out the guild master of New Rion guild instead.
Riki waved his hand at the guy behind the counter. "Hey, Hershey! Come here! Remake this membership contract! Syton said he'll join as a temporary member. You could think of it as a trainee of the guild"
After that, Riki turned to look at Syton. He clenched his hands in front of his face as his arms was resting on top of the table.
"As you said, I'm interested with you. Why? It's because I saw some potential in you"
As if on cue, Hershey came towards them and gave the revised membership contract for joining the guild.
Syton received it and read the details.
"I don't just teach or train anyone. But since you're an interesting fellow, I made an exception for you. Of course, the main quest is also a primary reason why I'm willing to train you" Riki continued.
Syton stopped reading. He looked at Riki confusingly. "What?"
Riki pushed the membership contract and encouraged him to sign it. "I'll train you in exchange of you joining the guild. So, no one could see any reason to complain"
Syton blinked before he could finally grasp the situation. Apparently, Riki received a main quest relating to him. It looks like Riki is trying to cover up the reason why Syton was trained by him was because of a quest but it's because he is a fellow member of his guild.
"Why?" Syton asked since he could not understand the reason why Riki is going through all this trouble just to cover up a quest.
"Main quests are not that easy to find. Some people find it unfair when someone finally have a quest and its an easy one. So, they'll try to sabotage it as much as possible if they could. Of course, they couldn't harm me but they could harm you. That is also why most of the Bravers tries to hide their main quest from everyone whenever they got one. There are a lot of bad guys even here, you know?" Riki explained.
Syton nodded. "Then, do you know the reason why I'm included to your quest? We haven't even knew each other, not until earlier."
Riki shrugged but he still gave an implausible answer as if he was only answering for fun, "Maybe, you're gonna be someone who'll save the world?"
It was supposed to be a joke, but Riki doesn't knew that he just told a prophecy which later will come true.
"That seems fun, but I don't think I'm interested. It's true that I want to be the strongest, but I don't like to become a hero. It's troublesome. Maybe, I'll give that role to you instead" Syton said as he also replied to Riki's joke.
He finally signed the contract afterwards.
Riki smirked, "Since you're officially a temporary member, you'll be helping some of our members to do some subquest so we could finally pay for our debts. That'll be also your payment for the training lessons you'll be receiving from me"
Syton gave a sour face as he complained, "Ahh, do I really have to?"
He pouted, trying to act cute. Unfortunately, he miserably failed trying to be one.
"Our training starts tomorrow. I'm warning you though, it'll be not that easy. Also, I'm a busy man so I'll only check up on you twice a week. You're already a grown up man, so I think you could behave by yourself." Riki continued ignoring Syton's complaints.
"Ohh, poor me!" Syton said.
He even put the back of his hand on top of his forehead, trying to act as if he was in despair.
Riki suddenly remembered something, "Are you gonna join the upcoming Brave Challenger Game?"
Syton finally listened properly. He shook his head, then smiled. "I need to build up my stats properly first. After that, I'm gonna look for my own weapon. I also need to learn my own path of the sword."
"Path of the sword, huh? That's gonna be tough. You might need 2 years for that"
Syton shook his head. "That is only if you're lost. Of course, I already know what path I'm gonna take. I only just need to experiment it and study it really well"
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Just like what Riki said, Syton's training was definitely not that easy. He needed to run 50 laps in a day for 3km. Of course, he easily ran out of stamina.
Because of this, Riki gave him a 10 brown potion for stamina. On the second day, he only receives 7 potion. On the third day, he only receives 4 potion. On the 4th day, he only receives 1 potion. On the 5th day, he receives none.
When he couldn't finish the 50 laps, he will be forced to do an additional 15 push-ups for every lap he missed on his original 80 push ups a day.
Next, he needs to swing a sword for 100 times.
Then, Hershey will summon some dera for Syton to defeat. At first, Hershey only summoned one rank 3H dera, which Syton barely defeated.
Hershey and Riki was surprised. They didn't expect him to defeat it, but Syton did after 2 days! It was because Syton took advantage of all the resources he have in his hands. He even used Hershey and Riki as a shield before he faced the dera with a surprise attack.
On the fourth day, Syton almost regrets that he defeated the 3H dera the other day. It's because, Hershey summoned two 3H dera.
Every day, Hershey will summon an additional dera. Sometimes, it even have a higher rank.