Chapter 258 Run ten more rounds
The sun was burning brightly above the heads of the individuals who were running around the boundary set up inside a forest to do their morning exercise.
Kyle looked bored as he ran with a group of youths. He groaned.
"I thought we were gonna undergo a 'hellish training'. What the hell is this? Not to mention hellish this training didn't even make me tired!"
Kyle's words flowed with the wind entering the ears of the nearby youths who glared at him with resentment!
They cursed him under their breaths but didn't dare to say anything out loud to make him angry because they still remember the beating they got from Kyle when they tried to intimidate him.
In the end, they silently gulped their anger and decided to treat him like thin air.
Regius rolled his eyes at Kyle as he followed behind the others.
After the tenth round, all of them arrived in front of a huge boulder. A middle-aged female elf with blond hair was sitting atop the boulder. She looked at them with a smile.
"Good! First, we will do breakfast then you all can start training with your weapons."
After her voice drifted in the air, almost all the youths collapsed with bated breaths. They wiped the sweat from their foreheads with tired expressions.
The blondie-haired instructor's eyes trailed at the youths before stopping at Kyle. She narrowed her eyes, Kyle looked clean with not even a drop of sweat on his body. A far contrast to the others who looked like they had just bath under the rain.
She hummed sweetly.
"Kyle?"
Kyle looked up at the instructor who had been training them for the past few weeks. He had to admit that she was a good instructor. Also, it seems she prioritizes everyone's life because in between training she would give them a lot of tips about how they should run away if the situation they faced was too dangerous. After all, life was the most important.
Kyle noticed her faint smile and gave her a nod but her next words made him speechless.
"You are indeed the strongest in this team. That's why I have decided your training will be doubled from now on. Alright, now go and come back after running ten more rounds around the boundary."
Regius looked at Kyle blank expression and laughed out loud.
He stood up and cheered for Kyle to run.
"Come on! Bro, you can do it!"
However, the instructor's chilling voice made him shrink his neck with a shudder.
"It's seemed Regius also has a lot of energy left. How about 10 more rounds for you as well?"
Regius immediately grabbed his ankles and slumped down with a groan.
"I am sorry but I think I can't stand up anymore due to exhaustion."
A few laughs echoed around him. Even the instructor looked amused at his acting.
Kyle sighed and left to run another ten rounds around the forest boundary. He was running when Bia informed him about Nine conditions. He sighed with relief.
'It's good he is fine. I almost jolted out from this place to see him when you told me about his severe condition.'
Kyle listened carefully to Bia's explanation and he grumbled inwardly when he found out Nine would not be going to the Secret Realm.
'Hmm, I wanted to see him and the others but it's fine his health is more important.'
He noticed for some reason Bia's voice sounded hesitant. Kyle's brow knitted together. Was she hiding something?
'Bia? What happened spill it out. I can sense the strangeness in your voice. Did you lie when you said Nine is out of danger?'
Kyle stopped running and waited for her answer. After a minute, Bia sighed and told him the thing that she was hiding. A stunned expression appeared on Kyle's face as he listened to Bia.
'So Nine has a special ability that gives him the power to see the future?'
He blinked. Indeed it was a terrifying ability but what astonished him most was the fact that Nine said Alec would kill him.
After a few seconds, Kyle chuckled out loud.
'I am close to (B+)-Rank. I remember Alec was (C+)-Rank. Moreover, the gap between our strengths is only going to widen further in the future. So, it's almost impossible for him to harm me. Also, from the amount of time I spent with Alec I don't think he would just simply stab his friend out of nowhere.'
He mused inwardly and started running again. However, the thought roamed around his mind. He didn't believe the things Nine saw were hundred percent correct. After all in this world, no one is omnipotent enough to know what exactly will happen in the future because the future is ever changing.
With every action Kyle took his future will change accordingly. Just like how if he didn't enter the Royal Academy he would have never discovered the secret within his body.
Kyle hummed and after a long run, he went back. The instructor seemed displeased because even after ten more rounds there was barely any sweat on Kyle's body.
She clicked her tongue and gestured for Kyle to eat something before going to train his weapon art with the others.
Kyle's days in the elven forest were passing peacefully.
The only problem was that the blondie-haired instructor seemed to have guessed his strength because, after the first week, she increased the pressure on him twofold.
If the other kids needed to run ten rounds around the forest, Kyle had to run twenty rounds. If they practiced their arts for five hours Kyle had to practice it for ten hours.
Amidst all the pressure, he stopped lazing around and worked hard. Also, his relationships with Yue, Regius, Sinon, Niamh, and Faith strengthened because of the time they would spend around him.
As the day when the kids had to leave for the Secret Realm drew near Kyle broke through to (B+)-Rank in the middle of his training.
The blondie hair instructor's mouth was opened wide when she found out Kyle's true strength. Not just her almost everything was astonished. He was already so strong at such a young age what would happen in the future?
For some reason, almost all the people who witnessed Kyle's strength had a nagging feeling that he would become a terrifying existence in the future. That's why without Kyle's knowledge the other kids secretly regarded him as their leader. Even though the leader did not do anything for them his mere presence was enough to make them excited. After all, he was the strongest among them all.
After another week, the 200 individuals gathered in front of Anlee who arrived to pick them up. They were finally leaving for the Secret Realm.