continuing the process of running till he was down to 1 yellow energy then meditating until his blue energy had fully restored, converting that energy into yellow energy and repeating it again the day flew by
after having lunch and then dinner with his parents Dave got ready for bed, looking forward to seeing his gains for the day as he was hoping that there would at least be some kind of change which would feel better to see rather than checking it ever 20 minutes
his current stats showed an improvement from earlier in the day, his blue energy showing 0/11 which was only an increase of 1 but with how slowly he knew that his blue energy increased he was happy with anything
his yellow energy he was very satisfied with, showing 10/20 meaning his max yellow energy had increased by a full 5 points from his exercises that he was doing and today all he had focused on was running
he was also very pleased to find out that the system seemed to make it so that even though he only exercised his legs his whole body was becoming more toned, as if the exercises were affecting his whole body no matter what part of it that he exercised
"this system is the best, you're the best Gen" he exclaimed happily
"I am glad that you are happy Dave" replied Gen, a hint of pride evident in her voice
"I didn't really do anything but lets check my achievements" Dave thought, navigating to the achievements bar and seeing that there were indeed no new achievements as he expected
just before he was going to go to sleep he noticed something however, not an achievement exactly but something that caught his eye
'achievements progress, 25%'
"what't this?" he wondered in confusion
"unkown, but most likely related to the running you did today" answered Gen
"well we can figure that out tomorrow, because of how the system works my body doesn't feel tired but my mind does so I need to get some sleep, goodnight Gen"
"indeed, goodnight Dave"
the next morning Dave discovered 2 things, the first was that not only did his yellow energy recover over night, his blue energy did as well, seemingly not included as a achievement in the system as it was inbuilt as a part of it to begin with
the second thing that he discovered concerned him however, the 25% achievement was gone, seeming as if it wasn't there in the first place
"Gen, there was an achievement that was a quarter done yesterday wasn't there? I'm not going mad am I?" he questions
"affirmative, an achievement was partially completed, my hypothesis is that whatever the achievement may be, it is required that in order to unlock it you must fufill it's requirements in a single day" she explained
"that makes sense" Dave agreed "but how do we determine what caused a part of the achievement to be unlocked"
"my suggestion is to generate a pedometer and a stop watch that way we can figure out whether the achievement is based on amount of time running or whether it is based on distance" Gen suggested
"I've got no better ideas so let's do it, use blue energy to generate stop watch and pedometer"
"understood, 5 energy blue required"
"it's a bit more than I would like but proceed"
as such Dave's training of running till he was nearly out of energy, filling up his blue energy by meditating, turning it into yellow energy and repeating began again, making sure that he stopped the stop watch and took off the pedometer when he wasn't running, keeping on the achievement page at all times to make sure he didn't miss the moment that the achievement progress reappeared
a few hours later it finally happened, the 25% complete popped back up on the achievements page
stopping his exercise mid way Dave checked the pedometer, it showing that he had done around 16700 steps and the times showing that he had been running for around 52 minutes in total
"well now we know the step count and how long it took me to do this" Dave said, having sitting down and meditating for 2 minutes to gain a blue energy back which was enough to generate a bottle of water, something that he found didn't recover his energy reserves, the same as anything produced by the system which annoyed him slightly "but I have no idea what either of them actually mean" he sighed
"based on these numbers and taking into account desrepancies due to starting times and ending times not being entirely accurate along with additional steps being taken for the same reason, if we say that your average speed is let's you run at a speed of about 12km per hour it is best to assume that you ran around 10km" Gen explained
"10 kilometers" Dave parroted back "WAIT 10 KILOMETERS, DON'T TELL ME" he shouted figuring something out
he immediately proceeded to start doing push ups, failing after only a few due to not having recovered his energy which made him blush slightly in embarrassement, just glad that no one was around to see him face plant before recovering his blue energy and repeating the same process as earlier
a few minutes later he got back to performing the push ups, finishing 100 after another round of replenishment
turning to look at the achievements page Dave noticed that his hypothesis was correct
"IS THIS SYSTEM TRYING TO TURN ME INTO SAITAMA" he exclaimed in shock noting that the achievement was now at 50%
"well AI generators are quite famous for being used to create images of anime characters, it makes sense that it would include elements related to them" Gen told Dave in a way that it seemed like she was trying to convince herself at the same time
"well the reward for doing all this should at least be good" Dave thought as he replenished his energy again "time to earn this achievement, only 100 sit ups and 100 squats left to go" he said with a wry smile as he didn't know whether to be happy or annoyed at the systems apparent sense of humor, working towards the goal either way
by lunch time he finally achieved it
'100 push ups, 100 sit ups, 100 squats and a 10km run, every single day" requirements: perform 100 push ups, 100 sit ups, 100 squats and a 10km run in a single day, reward: +10 max yellow energy
"plus 10, this was definately worth it" celebrated Dave "wait there's more" he said realising he could scroll down on the achievement
additional rewards: +1 to yellow energy every day that exercises is performed, must be performed in a single session to earn rewards, no rests allowed in between exercises
"nice to know I now have a guaranteed way of getting yellow energy but there's no way I can do that at the moment, I can't even do all the running at once even with the +10 boost" he sighed, filing away this for later as his stomach grumbles
"food time" he said patting his belly as he headed inside.