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Chapter 2 - Training Lover

I trained without stopping for what felt like a lifetime. To be exact, three hundred sixty-three days had passed since I first stood up on that spotless white floor.

During that time I'd done nothing but the basics — push-ups, running, pull-ups, sit-ups, the kind of routine any gym rat back on Earth would recognize. There was one strange thing about it, though: I never got tired. Not once. And when I trained, it felt so addictive that I could barely make myself stop once I'd started. The strangest part was time itself — when I thought three days had passed, exactly three days had passed. I only knew that for certain because of the massive timer floating in the center of this gym-like void.

[ 999,999,999,999 Y, 2 D Left ]

[ 999,999,999,999 Y, 1 D Left ]

Looks like another day had gone by. Impossible to tell by the light, since it was permanently, blindingly sunny in here.

It's not so bad, I guess.

"System, show my status."

[ Name: Lukas Gigonos

Age: 23

Titles: 'Someone From Another World'

Job: 'Training Lover'

Strength: 231

Endurance: 121

Speed: 254

Mana: ∞

Wisdom: 34

Skills: 'Unlimited Potential' 'Unlimited Magic' 'Can't Level Up? I Just Need To Train' 'Unlimited Appraisal' 'Hide It' ]

My strength and speed were climbing fast. Endurance and Wisdom, not so much. Seriously, why did I have to punch myself repeatedly just to nudge Endurance up a single point?

Well, whatever. Let's keep training. It genuinely feels amazing.

Ten more years passed.

By now I could run faster than a Lamborghini could dream of — somewhere around four hundred kilometers an hour, if I had to guess.

"System, show me my beautiful stats."

[...]

[ Name: Lukas Gigonos

Age: 33

Titles: 'Someone From Another World'

Job: 'Training Lover'

Strength: 1,042

Endurance: 562

Speed: 1,432

Mana: ∞

Wisdom: 55

Skills: 'Unlimited Potential' 'Unlimited Magic' 'Can't Level Up? I Just Need To Train' 'Unlimited Appraisal' 'Hide It' ]

Am I dumb? Fifty-five Wisdom after ten years of training? Seriously?

Anyway — these stats have grown a lot. I can't wait to push further. No point wasting time complaining.

Another nine hundred years passed.

It's already been nine hundred years?! Why did that feel like a few days? Haha. I think I might actually be losing my mind out here.

Let's just check my status. It should have grown quite a bit by now.

"System, status!"

[ Name: Lukas Gigonos

Job: 'Training Lover'

Age: 933

Titles: 'Someone From Another World'

Strength: 10,542

Endurance: 7,892

Speed: 13,562

Mana: ∞

Wisdom: 150

Skills: 'Unlimited Potential' 'Unlimited Magic' 'Can't Level Up? I Just Need To Train' 'Unlimited Appraisal' 'Hide It' ]

That's a serious jump. Guess even my "otherworlder's knowledge" gives a decent Wisdom bump.

L-Let's keep going.

Somewhere around year nine hundred and sixty-seven, I stopped counting the days on purpose. It wasn't that I'd given up — quite the opposite. For the first time since I'd woken up on that white floor, I wasn't afraid of the number on that timer anymore. A trillion years used to sound like a prison sentence. Now it just sounded like a very, very long gym membership. I could work with that.

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