"What should I do first?" Leo mutters to himself as he is thinking about what kind of training he should do first.
"Hmm, I never have toured the island, so let's do that first!", Leo picked his spear up, preparing himself so, even if he met some danger, he could defend himself.
As he did that, he took a deep breath and then started—Running.
With his current physical stamina, he won't be tired even if he runs for 100 kilometres, with his 7 stats in agility, his max level of speed had already broken through 500 km/h, exactly 504km/h.
That means normal training, not only would it not help get him stronger, but even his stamina wouldn't go down, even 1% below the 💯.
So—Leo had another plan, that is to run around the outer region of the island at his current full speed.
After reaching the beach, he took a deep breath, then—started running on the sand, this made him unable to display the speed he should have, but he wasn't surprised by that, since this was what he planned from the very beginning.
Running on sand usually needs more strength than normal running. Sports Players, who usually need to train their jumping power, Like basketball ball players, usually run on the sand as it strengthens their legs. Running on sand also depletes stamina faster. So as Leo had been running now he was losing stamina at a faster speed than usual.
As he was running, Leo had come to another realisation, {I knew, that I would lose some speed as I ran on sand, I also knew that my stamina would be depleted in a faster way than usual. but even so, I never thought that my speed would be lower, than its max level by a whole 50%.}, Leo although he was surprised, wasn't confused by that.
The reason why he couldn't display his 100% was:
First As he already knows, running on sand.
Second and the most important is wind resistance.
Wind resistance that came as an opposite action for running, that he needed to overcome, if he wanted to break the shackles drags down his speed.
Whoosh~
As he ran, his figure was only a blurring shadow from the point of view of the trees, that are, on the other side, of the beach from his speed.
even though he wasn't bringing his full-speed potential, he was already running at a speed close to 300km/h. a speed that would put most cars to shame.
After less than half an hour he was already breathless, and his stamina was at its ends, which should not have happened with his high stamina level, but because of the sand and wind resistance, he wasted a huge amount of stamina that shouldn't have been depleted, even if he runs for a long time continuously.
he was inhaling and exhaling painfully, his legs were quivering slightly as well, even so, he didn't stop since he knew that he only needed to run for a little more to see the end of the road, achieving the goal of running around the whole island.
As he was squeezing the last drops of stamina he had, thoughts such as giving up, or "I have already done my best, let's take a rest " had come to his mind but all were denied by him as he persisted and ran, his perseverance and calm skill were not there for nothing, helping him go through these hurdles and temptations.
When he was at his rope's end, about to pass out, he said "[ Indifferent ] On."
A fascinating thing he found about the Indifferent skill, he obtained before, Is that it not only helps in dulling his emotions, but also cuts his sense of pain, or more specifically ignores it. So as he was using this skill now, his eye shone with a blue light, looking very cold and Indifferent.
His breathing was still ragged, pain was still there. even so, his face didn't have the look of struggle as before, rather, his face was like that of a machine, unmoving and emotionless.
Leo now Had discarded the concept known as pain, even if only temporally, as he ran with all the energy his body still had to offer.
As He ran, his stance was slowly being corrected.
When he was 2 km away from his hut, he heard the sound of his leg bones snapping a little, even so he didn't stop running until he halted at the door of his hut.
As he did that, his skill was turned off, on its own, feeding him unbearable feedback that he couldn't help but gnaw on his lower lip to not cry out.
"Ahhh!"
Even so, he couldn't help but scream a little at last, otherwise, he would either cut his lip or crack his teeth from his bite force.
{Although I want to drive my body to its limits, I may have gone A little bit too far, I should have done this later when I got used to pain enough, but as they say, "don't cry over the spilt milk", what happen had already happened}, with my back to the ground, and my hand behind my head supporting it, I enjoyed the wind that is coming from the sea, even though my bones cracks I wasn't paying any special attention to it.
{ After a nourishing meal I would return to my best condition, because of the high nourishment value this island food had, and most importantly today I had the body of the lion I had hunted before who will surely be outclassed what I had eaten since I came here, but— }
"Lion, huh? I heard that lion meat is not delicious... but anyway I need to eat quickly before someone ambushes me. With my physical status now I can't fight, I would lose to the weakest beast on this island easily. So as the saying beggars are no choosers "
After preparing the lion's meat. I took a piece of it then hardened my resolve as I put it in my mouth, and Contrary to what I thought it was very—"Delicious!!", As I was very hungry, I ate like there wouldn't be tomorrow. Eating, eating and eating, until my stomach had become pregnant.
After I finished all the lion's body had to offer, I was assaulted by sleepiness, without having even the time to go to sleep in my bed, I slept immediately like a log on the ground.
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When Leo opened his eyes in the afternoon, he found himself staring at the ceiling of his handmade hut.
After stretching a little, discovering nothing wrong with his body, he went out to the river to drink some water.
After washing his face and drinking, he looked at the notifications that had appeared on the system panel when he was asleep.
[All physical stats have increased by 0.2]
"This one is the bonus stats I gain from eating the lion, hmm so his calibre can help me gain 0.2 stats, but what is the upper limit? 10? Putting that aside for now"
[STAMINA stat had increased by 0.5 from 4..8 to 5.3 F]
{This growth is within the expectation after all that training and the harsh conditions, even so, this will surely be the first and the last time I will gain 0.5 in status all at once through training, the more I get used to the train the less status I will get.}
[Endurance stat had risen from 4.2 to 4.7 F]
{Even my bones broke a little, if it didn't rise I should like that I would be surprised. Ha-haha}
[STRENGTH stat had risen from 4.2 to 4.35]
{Although it's the least risen stat, it surpassed, what I thought since although running on the beach can improve the explosive strength of the legs, but not to this degree, I at least thought so. Agility is the only stat that didn't grow in training, but it's no wonder since I couldn't even use more than half of its full potential.}
Growing stats came only through breaking through one's limits and physiological walls after all, as sometimes one's mental state can be a hindrance to the physical body.
Even so, the benefits of Leo's training this time can't be fully shown through the status window unfortunately, since running not only increases one's physical fitness, it also increases lung capacity and improves its function, it also strengthens the heart and improves blood circulation.
———Pov leo———
{Even though running had made me feel that I was about to die, even so, I liked that feeling of running as hard as I could while feeling my body, heart and breathing at their limits, this thought of mine couldn't help but make me question myself "am I perhaps one of those they call masochist?" }, But I quickly denied that even though I couldn't say I am sadistic as well.
After relaxing my mentality, I muttered, "Then let's do some push-ups next."
After taking a long rope I had made days ago, I went to a Boulder a few meters away from my hut. then I strapped it using the rope to my back. The Boulder was about 1T in weight. After that with the Boulder in my back, I start to do push-ups.
Just like when I ran before, I tried to do most of the push-ups I could do at the fastest speed I could while carrying the Boulder in my back.
"1,2,3..."
After going above the thousand, I give up counting, I only concentrate on doing push-ups.
A thousand push up is not a great number,
Even before the presence of the system, there were plenty who were able to do it, some even did several thousand.
So for someone with my physical status, even with the Boulder on my back, that number was nothing, After some time sweat began to drip from my whole body, while my arms then legs started to shake from the weight and exhaustion, I gradually slowed down my pace as I was doing push-ups.
I started to hear the sound of bones creaking like before and before long I was forced again to use [Indifferent] skill, as I was at my limit not in stamina, but my pain resistance.
While operating [Indifferent], I broke my shoulder bone, so even If I ate a lot later to recover, I was forced to not move so my shoulder would heal faster.
"What a hellish day had I put myself through", Night had already come so I called it a day as I went to sleep.
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After the night, morning came very quickly.
With that, I started another day of training, but instead of running or doing some push-ups, today I decided to— swim.
After I ate and warmed up my body a little,
I swam toward the deep part of the sea while holding my breath.
I swam until I felt the water pressure had Started to burden me.
After arriving there, I halted then started Thrusting my spear forward, as I started to train my basic spearmanship there.
Thrust, strike, cut.
I did these three fundamentals of spearmanship stances, thousands, or tens of thousands of times, until I ran out of oxygen in my lungs, forcing me to go to the sea surface.
I did that several times until my limbs didn't have the strength anymore, only then did I take a break.
After the afternoon nap, I woke up to train again, but not in any of the last three types of training but another.
Bajiquan is a technique that needs one to have powerful legs or in other words, a strong lower body to support its use.
Not only Bajiquan but nearly all combat styles need strong legs, so I did trainings that strengthen the lower body.
The most outstanding of those training is horse stance, But unlike normal horse stance, I held two huge boulders each one in one hand while doing it.
1h
2h
3h....
After three hours my legs, hand, and back every part that was used in this stance quivering, I put through this until I completed the 4th hour, but this time I didn't utilize [Indifferent], as I found that this type of train can help me reinforce my willpower.
Even if I had a very powerful body, if I did not have strong willpower, spirit and mentality enough to match it then it's meaningless.
And, Just Like that, another day of training had been concluded.
And so days had passed like this. A day running and doing push-ups, another day doing basic spearmanship deep on the sea, and horse stance, while also eating high vitality value food.
As the days passed, although I hadn't changed my training routine, I did upper the level of every training, so I would always be at my limits, so my training results would be higher.
Other than my physical status's growth, I also gained several new skills, such as, [ Flow reading (E) ] and [ Wind resistance (D) ]
And, without realizing, a month had passed, since I had arrived in this world.