8 hours later, Max was in his room. His limbs had completely healed. He didn't need a cast anymore.
'I should complete the daily quest now' He thought
"First up, I need to lift 100 Kilograms, Sounds easy," Max said to himself as he started heading towards the training hall.
An elevator ride later Max was in the training hall, the training hall was made of metal, the same grey one that the entire dome was made of.
The hall was littered with exercising equipment. It was also empty, or so it had seemed.
"Hey Omega" a familiar-sounding voice called out to him from behind, Max immediately turned to see who it was and just as he had expected it was Sigma.
"Oh, hey sigma" Max smiled and shook his hand
'Inspect' Max thought he just wanted to see if Sigma's name would show up and sure enough it did, along with a few other surprising details.
[Name: Jake Fitzgerald]
[Race: Human (contracted)]
[Energy: 1,000,000]
[You are currently in contact with Jake Fitzgerald, would you like to absorb all energy?]
Max immediately pulled his hand away, he didn't
Even accidentally think about absorbing Sigma's energy.
"Uh, you okay? you were zoning out" Sigma asked
"Uh, sorry, I was thinking about something" Max replied, scratching the back of his head while giving an innocent smile.
"Well, anyway, what are you doing here? I thought you would be resting" Sigma interrogated
"Hm, Just came here exercise. Speaking of which, This place is really big, can you tell me where the weights are?"
At first, Sigma was bewildered by the fact that Max was ready to exercise after duking it out with Delta.
"Sure, follow me" Sigma led the way and Max followed, a short walk through the massive training facility later they had arrived at a place stacked with different types of weights.
The lightest one had the number 200 written on it.
"How much can you lift?" Sigma asked with lifting a one-ton weight with one hand, Flexing his muscles.
"I don't know. HUE only made me train using my body I wasn't given any sort of equipment" Max responded while picking up a 200 Kilogram weight, surprisingly to him, the weight felt like nothing.
He heard a beep in his head and a notification lit up in front of him
[Quest: Lift 100 Kilograms complete]
[Remaining tasks: Run for 10 Kilometers, absorb 100 Megawatts]
"Oh, yeah, I forgot," Sigma said while remembering his time spent with HUE.
"Do you know why he did give us any equipment?"
In response to Sigma's, question Max shook his head in denial.
"I didn't know either, but according to Gamma, it was because a person could easily kill themselves using a heavy weight or something along those lines" Sigma explained, he was now holding a 1.2-ton weight.
'I guess that's possible. I would've gone insane as well if it wasn't for HUE constantly bugging me' Max thought
He walked over and picked up a one-ton weight, Max wanted to see what his limit was.
Max grabbed it with both hands and proceeded to lift it, although it was much heavier than the 200 Kg one, it was certainly something that Max could lift comfortably
"Here try this one" Sigma said while handing him a 1.5 Ton weight
"Thanks" Max responded while taking the 1.5-ton weight. It was heavier than max had expected it was taking quite a bit of effort for Max to lift it.
"Nice... Doing that takes quite a bit of effort" Sigma's facial expression radiated jealously but he tried his best to keep it under wraps.
"Wanna try lifting a two-ton one?" Sigma smirked while asking.
Max looked at cool as ever and responded with a simple "Yeah sure"
Max grabbed the barbell and started to lift it off the ground, it was MUCH harder than Max had thought, but much to Sigma's surprise Max had actually managed to deadlift the thing.
Sadly Max couldn't hold it in place for long enough and ended up letting go. The weights dropped to the ground making a loud *CLANG* sound
Sigma was left star-struck. His mouth was gaping wide open.
"THAT'S YOUR BASE STRENGTH?" He let out an almighty cry
"Damn..." Max had started panting heavily and his body had started hurting. Maybe because he had just recovered.
"Whoa, you're strong. You sure your ability isn't super strength?" Sigma looked at Max with great suspicion.
"No, don't think so" Max responded
After a bit of talking, Max asked Sigma where he could find a treadmill.
Sigma like before led Max to a treadmill. This wasn't your average treadmill. It was much bigger and probably had a much higher top speed.
Max immediately hopped on and asked him what speed he used the treadmill at
"I usually set it to 40 Miles per hour and that's hard for me to keep up with" He responded, at this point, Sigma knew that Max was more athletic than him right now the only redeeming quality he had was his ability
"Oh then set it up to 30 Miles per hour" Max requested
Sigma set up the treadmill for Max and it immediately started to move, Max was able to keep up with relative ease.
After a while, Max heard a beeping sound in his head and a notification popped up in his head.
[Daily Quest: Run 10 Kilometers completed]
[Quest remaining: Absorb 100 Megawatts]
Reading the quest Max decided that it would be best if he finished this quest in private and started to head towards the apartment.
"Hey! Where are you going?" Sigma called out to Max
"I'm a bit tired, plus my... Bones, yeah my bones hurt" Max still hadn't gotten used to making up so many excuses
"Oh... sure. See you tomorrow then" Sigma responded he could feel that something was off about Max and got back to working out
Before leaving Max turned back and yelled "I'll see you tomorrow then!"
'Gotta make an ally' Max reminded himself
Another elevator trip later Max was in his apartment and while heading towards his bedroom he kept inspecting things to see how much energy they had
[Object: Chandelier]
[Energy: 0.5/Minute]
[...]
Upon entering his room his eyes immediately turned towards the massive wall-sized TV.
'Inspect'
[Object: Television]
[Energy: 12/Minute]
Scanning the room Max inspected every single power outlet he could see to find the one that gave him the most Energy
[Object: Power Outlet]
[Energy: 18/Minute]
'Bingo' Max thought
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Author's Note: If you liked this chapter please do leave a review or heck drop a power stone hehe