A couple of years went inside the simulation. It was two days in the real world. Every hour in the outside world was half a month in the simulation. Rey was still studying the language and it was not going well. Max looked inside the simulation and was amazed at how dumb the kid could be. It could happen that someone took it slow, but Max saw that Rey was trying really hard, but the result was very insignificant. Rey did not have a lot of things to do. He tried to read and write but the progress was very slow. Max was starting to lose his shit. He got into the simulation of the kid and said: "Brat what the fuck are you doing? You are studying the language and basic math for two years and it's like you did it for two weeks. Are you ok? Is your brain fine? The old lady dropped you when you were young or something? When are you going to finish this shit!?"
"Master have mercy! I cannot do that. It's too hard." Rey said.
"Shut the fuck up! It's not something special to know how to read and write you retard! You will be here until you will study it to the right level you fucking donkey!" Max yelled. He lost his shit really hard and left to not kill the kid.
Two more years passed in the simulation. Max entered the kid's simulation again and found him still stuck with very basic stuff. When he saw that he did not talk again. He shot a fireball and evaporated the kid with the desk and the papers. When Rey respawned in a terrified state Max yelled: "Listen here you little shit! I will come here every time I can. If I see no progress, I will evaporate you again and again until you get tired of it and the blood from your ass will go up into your brain you fucking monkey! WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU DOING? STUDY!!" Max yelled and then shot another fireball that killed the kid again. When the kid respawned again Max was gone. Because of the fright Rey got his phase of studying increased a little, but it was still very slow. Max started to arrive to the simulation of the kid and kill him over and over again. Sometimes Rey had time to yell: "Master have mercy!". Most of the times Max yelled back "Shut up!" or something worse to the kid before blasting him with a fireball. The fireball was something Rey could not get used to. He got the point that Max was trying to make him pick up the phase, but he was already trying his best.
Three more years passed at the simulation. Max entered the simulation and yelled: "When the fuck are you going to finish study this shit? How much time can it take? How can you be so dumb?! I swear to God you are going to give me all the coins I spent paying for your education you fucking ape!" After that Max sent the kid flying up in the sky with the wind element to a height of a kilometer. Max told Rey that it would help him to see the bigger picture. The problem was that Rey fell from that height and smashed on the ground to death every time. When Rey pleaded for mercy Max always said that the kid could not see the bigger picture and that was the reason for him to fall every time and die. This continued for almost another year until the kid got it finally. It took Rey almost 8 years.
When Max saw that Rey got it, he was happy from one side and fuming from the other.
"Listen here you little shit. I thought Derek had problems, but I guess you are the record holder for the most retarded person I know in this world. Congratulations for that! Now you are going to study how to fight finally. After 8 years of "hard" work. A bot that will be your copy will teach you everything. Your goal is to learn from it and defeat it with the learned skills. I will program it to attack you every day to the death one time, so you don't get relaxed. If I don't see progress, you are going to die here more and more from your own copy." Max said.
"Master have mercy!" Rey pleaded. He did not try to argue with this guy. When he tried to communicate before it ended with Max losing his shit and blasting Rey until he cooled down. After a couple of times like that Rey only said one thing. For Max to have mercy. If he said anything else, he would get blasted to death for sure. He knew he was doing a poor job, but it was the best he could give. Rey was pretty mature now because he lived in the simulation for 8 years. He was considered an adult in this world. Of course, his visuals did not change, and he still looked like a ten-year-old kid.
"Shut up!" Max yelled and disappeared.
Rey sighed and began his training. He needed to study the swordsmanship skill and then defeat the bot with it. It did not go well. When Max saw that after a year of sparring the kid got only some fighting instincts but not actual technique, he entered the simulation and started to blast the kid with the pyroblast skill. The kid got evaporated with the bot. When they respawned, Rey got to see a huge crater until he got blasted again. After that Max tossed the respawned Rey with the bot into the nearest hill. The impact killed the little guy again. Rey felt chill run down his spine. His master was losing it totally. Rey said that he would get better. After killing Rey a few more times Max left. The same thing continued for six more years. It was a little faster than studying how to read, write and some basic math but it was still very bad. Max was going insane. He was in a psycho mode when he spoke with Rey most of the time.
Max yelled that Rey would get his technique for his knight training and go to fight to the goblin crypt as much as he can. After a month of training in the simulation Rey broke through to the level of a knight apprentice. His speed of cultivating was very high. It was the only good thing about him from Max's perspective. This brought the kid a lot of options in terms of the bronze equipment he could get. He went to the non-knight level dungeon to grind for bronze weapons. It took some time, but he got a full bronze set for himself and enough weapons for sale to pay his master for his troubles. He was inside the simulation for almost 16 years now. Rey wanted to get out of the simulation, and so did Max. Max told him to go to the blacksmith pavilion after he reunited with the church community and sell weapons for ten gold coins total to repay for all the shit Max experienced with him. It was more then he should have paid but Max did not care. He explained the prices for the weapons to Rey and sent him away. In this year Rey broke through to the second level of knight apprentice. After his breakthrough his level of improvement slowed down drastically. One of the reasons was the fact that the goblin crypt did not give him any experience so he could not increase his strength anymore. He could only use the breathing technique he got from the gaming club to improve.
"Little brat. Remember that you need to sell the equipment and bring me ten gold coins. You can scram now and don't come here until I call you. Now fuck off before I blast you!" Max said.
"Thank you master!" Rey exclaimed and ran away quickly towards the church.