Once in the training hall, he decided to upgrade it.
[400 wood, 200 stone, and 1 silver coin consumed]
[Training hall upgraded! Next upgrade: 1000 iron, 10000 stone, 1000 wood, 1 Gold]
The training hall, which had previously had an area of 900 sq meters, had now increased to 8100 sq meters, a huge leap in area because now, he could put over a hundred people to train, and it would still seem empty.
He looked around to see if anything changed. In the corner he was closest to, he could see that there was some equipment there, weights, wooden weapons, and what seemed to be ribbons and paint?
'What use are those?' Verum wondered, and after looking around for a little and seeing nothing much had changed, he looked at the panel again.
'Why does this cost so much stone? At my current pace, it would take me... well only about 36 hours to get enough stone to upgrade it, but still. Isn't this a bit too much? Or is it for something that will come with the upgrade? I certainly hope so, it would be nice to have something to aid in training.'
He walked over to the equipment he saw, and a frown appeared on his face. There were only dumbbells and barbells for the weights. 'Seems like I will need to make my own body weights.' Thinking so, he walked out and called to his men.
When they arrived, they looked around in wonder at the training hall which, until recently, had been small, now, in comparison, it looked to be many times bigger. Verum let them gawk for a while because he was contemplating on how many, and how heavy, he wanted to make the weights.
When they were done looking around, Verum led them to the corner, and they were a bit confused to see rocks lying about in a pile, Verum had just gathered them from the warehouse and used one of his wagons to bring them here.
"Listen up, from today onwards, at this time, we will be training with weights to increase our power, later I will make you train in teamwork and strategies, as well as magic. For now just observe." Verum rolled up his sleeves, he was wearing the dress he had been wearing when he arrived in this world, and used Crafter to make the rocks wrap around both his arms, and his forearms, making them into weights that did not have any way to open them. He then repeated the process with his legs, making a total of eight weights on his body, with varying weights making the total extra weight on his body reach 20 kilograms.
His soldiers looked at the stone silently, and as Verum beckoned them forward, stepped up one by one to get the 'weights'. After being fitted, each one felt quite a bit pressured, with the only one who could still stand up straight being Jason.
"Ok, you are all outfitted, so now we are going to run around the hall, but before that," He said, and all faces present paled at the thought of running with the burden. "I need you all to learn this ability, observe." As he finished speaking a very faint green glow started to emanate from him, before quickly subsiding.
[Vitalize] [Lv:1]
[Heals 1 HP per second for 30 seconds]
[Increase HP regen by 10x for 5 minutes]
[Cost: 20 MP]
[Cooldown: 10 minutes]
"Did everyone get it?" When they nodded, he continued, "Use this when you feel like you are reaching your limit, it will help you to go further." After finishing, he immediately started running along the walls of the hall, seeing him, his men followed.
It had only been 20 seconds since he had started, and already his speed had decreased to 6 m/s from his original 14 m/s, all of his men were in even worse shape, with most of them being at 5 m/s, only Jason was barely keeping up with Verum. This continued for about a two minutes before some of them gained speed and started to move faster.
"Good, I see that you know to apply what I tell you, if you keep this up, soon you will be running for hours with these weights without breaking a sweat, keep it up!" Hearing his encouragement, they tried to move even further than their bodies would allow them. At this time, if someone were to look at them from the outside, they would see that they all were sweating quite a bit from all the running, but they all had determined faces, as if they could do this all day.
It took 6 minutes from the start before the first one stopped her jogging and just collapsed onto the floor. Seeing that they had decreased their speed below 4 m/s, this was quite a record, because it meant that everyone one of than had run for more than 1600 meters with a lot of extra weights, it was like running while carrying a 20 kg bag of wheat, not good for your pain receptors.
Verum was about 5 minutes in, when all of a sudden,
[AGI and STR +1] 'Nice'
Verum managed to go for about 8 minutes, crossing 3 kilometers in run distance, while Jason kept going for 10, surprising him at first, before he realized that this was probably the reason that he had more skills than his other men.
"Everyone, rest up. We will begin team battles after half an hour." He said to his men, who were now just sitting or lying on the ground, exhausted form their run. A smile appeared on his face as he looked at him panting and trying to cool down. "Other than training times, If you want to remove or attach weights to you at any time, come to me, however, don't wear weights outside of the castle, you never know when you may need to swiftly escape." Saying this, he removed their weights and they all felt much more relaxed than they previously were.
"Feel free to make your own teams, after all, I will not be the one who you will be fighting."