"Before we start your second part of the training we need to go somewhere first", Diana said.
Rapier silently nodded then they start walking.
On their way there Rapier didn't say anything making Diana the first one to speak.
"Looks like you've changed, huh?"
"What do you mean?", Rapier responded
"It's just you don't talk that much recently"
"Hmmm...Is that so?"Rapier said while looking down his way
"And that's when I'm starting to like you and that attitude of yours...Hmph!", Diana said while looking away from Rapier and pouting
Rapier saw Diana's behavior and looked at her with disgust.
"W-what the fuck?"He said while walking away from Diana and looking at her with disgust and disappointment.
"I-It's not what you think!", Diana shouted while blushing and looking away from him.
Rapier thought, "Woah! A blushing dragon that's new"
While Rapier smiling and looking at the embarrassed dragon they walked like that till their destination.
"Here we are", Diana spoke.
A large golden-leaf tree surrounded by a body of water appeared right in front of him making him stunned by the looks of it.
"Let's go, shall we?" Diana said
Rapier nodded and they start walking towards the bottom of the tree.
At the plot of soil where the large tree is stationed a small stone platform is in front of it. Diana pointed at it and said...
"You go sit there and I'll start the process"
"...", Rapier stood and looked at the stone plate and said...
"May I know what are we gonna do?"
"Why? Are you chickening out now?"Diana said while grinning widely.
"No...It's just that I must know everything I go through right?", he said
"It's nothing special really...but in the future, this will help you greatly that it could turn the world upside down", Diana said while looking at the leaves above.
Rapier thought, "From the looks of it it's not like she's joking either".
"Got it, I'll do it", He looked at Diana with serious eyes.
Diana smiled and Rapier went and sat on the stone plate with his legs crossed. Then Diana dripped a drop of her blood into the stone plate making red runes appear and surrounded Rapier.
"Kid...", Diana called him
Rapier looked at him.
"...Brace yourself", Diana smiled hoping that Rapier can overcome the trial.
Then a golden drop of water or rather blood came from the leaves of the tree then falls unto Rapier's head.
The golden blood spread through Rapier's body making his veins glow golden and an unimaginable pain surfaced Rapier making him cry out loud.
"Argh!"
"Kid! You must endure this one!", Diana shouted
Rapier clenched his teeth denying the pain he is going through.
It went on like that until 30 minutes passed and the pain seems to drop its lethality making Rapier calm down a bit.
"You have to be successful on this one", Diana said
After 1 hour the process seems to be completed and Rapier looked like he ran the Earth continuously without rest, sweating too much. Then a large pillar of light shined through the sky meaning that Rapier succeeded.
"You've done well, making it this far", Diana congratulated Rapier
"Seems like it", He replied then eventually collapsed.
Diana sighed and smiled, "You rest for now"
The others came to the large tree to see what's going on.
"Did you-", Amiera asked Diana
"Yeah...and he succeeded at that too as you can see", Diana said while looking at Rapier's sleeping face
"Why would you gamble like that without telling us?!", Amiera shouted at Diana
"..."
Diana didn't talk for a while and after some time talked,
"You see... It's not that I don't trust you guys... I just trusted him, I trusted him that if it's the King maybe he can do it", Diana said while looking at Rapier with somewhat sad eyes.
The others went silent and the Griffin sighed, "Then at least talk to us first, it's not like we'll prohibit every move you take. Though it's unbelievable that a normal human body can take a drop of the tree, even us had the trouble of cultivating it in our body and eventually failed".
"Let's just hope that if it's him then those things wouldn't happen again", Diana said while looking at the sky.
[2 days later]
"Ergh!", Rapier waked up in a flower bed.
"Looks like you're up", Diana spoke while curled up like in a sleeping form
"...Yeah", Rapier replied in a low tone.
"Are you okay?", she asked
"Yeah", Rapier replied with confidence while checking his body.
"Then, Are you ready for the next one?", Diana asked
"Yeah, Let's do it", he answered then clenched his fist
Before Rapier realized they were on the top of a mountain where the Griffin, Amiera, lives.
"So this time I'll pressure you physically and mentally, we'll start with your body first"
Diana thought, "I don't think he checked his stats since then, and look at those numbers... Then let's give him a surprise"
Diana went silent for a while and, "...I think this will do"
A large mountain upside down larger than Mount Everest appeared above.
"O-Oi Isn't this too much?!", he shouted at the dragon
"Hmmm? I don't think so... Just try to carry it use whatever means you have", Diana replied giggling
Diana disappeared and the mountain is about to fall unto him.
"Tsk", He clicked his tongue and prepared
He raised his hands then enhanced his body with Qi.
"H-Huh? What's this?", He confusingly looked at the aura he's emitting.
From a two-hand carrying stance, he changed his form into preparing a one punch, making The Hikite or Pullback and did it unknowingly.
The mountain came very fast and as the very tip was about to hit Rapier face he punched the mountain's tip and just from the light punch the 12.9-kilometer mountain turned into tidbits of stones and clouds of dust making it rain with stones and Diana immediately cast a wide range of air magic causing the stones to go towards the sea.
"Huh?", Rapier was so shocked like he didn't know what just happened.
Diana flew towards Rapier and spoke,
"Check your stats, Kid"
He immediately chanted, "System Call"
Name: Rapier Theosevís
Race: Demi-God
Class: Galaxy-Calamity King (Semi-Unlocked)
Stats:
Level: 12,023
Exp: 91,325 / 122,300
HP: 1,245,298 / 1,250,392
Magic Capacity: 390,747.5 / 390,747.5
Qi: 292,673 / 390,747.5
Strength: 781,495
Magic Power: 390,747.5
Qi Strength: 547,046.5
Mana Level: Rank SSS
Cultivation Level: Divinity Realm
"Yo-You didn't do anything weird to this while I'm sleeping right?", Rapier asked Diana while shivering.
"Why would I do that?"
"Didn't you just saw what kind of power you have right now?", Diana replied in a funny tone.
"And what's with the Demi-God Race?!"
Although Rapier's enemies are the Gods who killed him, he didn't felt anything bad when he saw his race as Demi-God, He felt that if this is what would help him achieve what he wants then he wouldn't mind becoming a god.
"So this is the effect of Knowledge Fruit and Stat-Growth fruit... And I just noticed it now although my body is not that buffed my muscles are firm and looks well maintained, I guess this is the effect of Time-Physique Fruit"
He touched his face a little and said,
"I don't know but my face is still somewhat a 16-year-old boy"
After that, he went silent for a while and faced Diana,
"Ok, Let's do the next one!"
*Grooowl*
Diana stared at him with a wide smile and said,
"How about we eat first?"
They went down the mountain where they are and met the others cooking lots of meat.
"Is there a birthday party going on right now?", Rapier said while looking at the meat being prepared
"This 'birthday party' is for you though", Emma responded
"What?", he replied
"We figured out that it's been 10 years since you ate the eternity fruit so we guessed you'd be hungry by then", Chloe, one of the fairies, answered
"Yeah, Yeah and Lady Amiera and Lady Eleianore are the ones who hunted them down", Rose added
"Woah...That's nice, By the way where's Sophia?", He asked
"She went gather some fruits since she can't hunt on her own she figured out that the fruits are the only one she can give", Eleianore answered
Rapier smiled and at the exact moment, Sophia was running towards them carrying a basket of fruits.
Then they all prepared their food and ate happily. While eating, a random thought appeared to Rapier's mind.
"Are the 3 of you able to transform into a humanoid form?", he asked the 3 big ones, the Dragon, Griffin, and Phoenix.
"So you are also satisfied with beasts in humanoid form huh?", Diana said while grinning
"Humans really do have a weird fetish, right Eleianore?", Amiera added
"Yeah, you can't really know what goes into a human brain, so perverse", Eleianore uttered
Then the 3 of them looked at him grinning evily.
"What the hell are you all talking about?", he looked at them with contempt
"Well, I guess we can show you", Diana spoke
"Wait, never mi-", Rapier got interrupted by a blinding light making him cover his eyes
After the light dimmed, he lowered his arms and he saw something extremely stunning.
It is like three Goddesses descended.
Diana, she had long straight black hair shining with her pair of red-scarlet eyes, she looked like one of those succubi with long legs, fairly large breast in a revealing evening gown with snow-white skin.
Amiera also has some extremely enticing features with her shoulder-length wavy lob white hair with a pair of golden eyes in a white lite military uniform her skin is also pale white and smooth which looks nice to touch.
Eleianore, she is the most unique out of them her wavy fiery hair is what separates her from both, and her Golden-Amber brown eyes, with a little tanned skin in a casual dress made out of fire.
Rapier is stunned by their world-class beauty, he can't take off his eyes from them.
Rapier thought, "What the fuck?! They're all totally my type and what's more, it seems like they're around 24-28 which is totally on my strike point"
Rapier blushed and looked away making them tease him more.
"What? You just thought that we're your type no?", Diana said to Rapier with her face up close to Rapier's
"W-What are you-" when Rapier turned his face back their lips touched making Diana jump back.
"Now you're taking advantage of it huh?", Diana said while covering her mouth and her face beet red.
"Nope", Eleianore immediately answered
Diana, "Huh?!"
"You went and shoved your face to him you know? What are you a tsundere? It looked like you enjoyed that too", Amiera spoke to Diana mockingly while grinning wide
"Tsu-Tsundere?! D-Don't make fun of me! how dare you compare me to those types of girls and also I-It's not like I enjoyed the kiss or anything", Diana said while looking away from them and still blushing hard
""I-It's not like I enjoyed the kiss or anything~" said the one who thinks the other", Amiera teased Diana more making Diana chase Amiera
"Are they always like that?", Rapier asked Eleianore
"Back then... No", she answered
Rapier immediately knew something was off but he didn't press the question anymore and thought,
"In other words, Diana is the tsundere type, Amiera...she looked like a gentle big sister type who likes to tease too much, and this one, Eleianore...the Kuudere one", he looked at them in order then stared at Eleianore
"What? Did you also fall for me?", Eleianore bluntly asked Rapier
"Wha-", As Rapier was about to say his usual 'What', he got interrupted.
"We can do this too you know", Eleianore said while making a very weird gesture.
"Like hell!", he shouted.
After they finished eating and messed around. Diana and Rapier went back to the mountain.
"Okay, I'm ready for the next part", Rapier said while hitting his cheeks making them swell a bit.
"It's still not finished though?"
"What do you mean?", Rapier confusingly asked
"I said, you have to carry it and endure for 1 whole year, who said anything about breaking stuff?", she responded
Rapier looked dumbfounded and didn't know what to do.
"...So what now?", he asked
"First, Eat a Time-Physique Fruit", Diana answered
Rapier grabbed a piece on his storage and ate it after he finished eating the fruit.
"Restart!", she suddenly shouted
Then a large mountain suddenly appeared but it's far larger than the one before, it's approximately about 39-km in height.
But this didn't leave Rapier shocked, he smiled and started his two-hand-carry stance. When the mountain touched Rapier's hands the ground below him widely cracked, his muscles expanded like it was about to burst but he still can do it and didn't have any problem carrying it.
[7 Months have passed]
"Tch...This is harder than I thought", Rapier thought
" I admit that I have the power but endurance is what I'm lacking the most"
" I still have 5 months more but my arms are getting a bit tired"
He clenched his teeth and time goes on.
[1 year have passed]
"Just a few more minutes..."
"...Go!"
He gathered his remaining energy and applied Qi on his fists then smashed the mountain to dust and stones again.
Diana in her humanoid form came and used wide wind magic once again to fling them towards the sea beside them.
Then Rapier falls to his back breathing heavily.
"I've done it right? Ha...Ha...Ha"
"You've done well, kid", Diana smiled before Rapier closed his eyes.
>Chapter 4: Getting Stronger Finished<
Next: Chapter 5: Getting Stronger 2