Wake, go for training, faint after just one hit, get rushed to the health center, and repeat.
This was what utsuro experienced every seven hours in his training with Barney. The goal of the training was simple... Don't faint after just one hit.
But this goal proved impossible with Barney's ridiculously insane strength and speed.
Utsuro stood in the ring hesitantly as he took a deep breath in and infused his aura into it. One second he was there and the next he was not.
Utsuro appeared in the same mountain-forest terrain and Barney as usual, appeared exactly thirty feet away from utsuro.
"For real, you are the worst teacher I've ever seen, I've been doing this stupid thing for 13 days, this is the 14th day and I've not learnt anything" utsuro complained.
Barney just remained silent and prepared to attack.
He dashed towards utsuro and in the blink of an eye, he was directly in front of him with his fist a few centimeters from his face.
But something unusual happened. Barney felt slower... Don't get me wrong, he was still as fast an anything but somehow slower.
Utsuro quickly dodged to the left but he a fraction of a second too slow.
Barney's fist grazed utsuro's face, completely tearing off the left side of his face.
Overlapping face muscles, tendons, veins and an eye socket were visible as blood gushed out like a waterfall, painting the surrounding grass thick red
Utsuro screamed in agony, putting his hand in front of his face and falling down to the ground. Once again, he was rushed to the health center.
When he woke up, the first thing he saw was Barney's face. "Congratulations boy, you passed my test". "And I learnt nothing" Utsury replied, getting down from the bed and walking out the room.
Barney smiled in satisfaction and said "you have learnt to correct your mistakes... At least your body has" But utsuro of course didn't hear this.
The human body had a mechanism of automatic correction and muscle memory.
After a lot of trail and errors the human body could adapt and slowly correct it's faults based on it's previous failures.
This was what had happened to utsuro some minutes before and this was why he was able to barely dodge Barney's attack with just a small wound.
After being almost deleted from this world multiple times in the same manner for fourteen days straight, his body had come up with a way to defend itself in similar situations. This was Barney's goal from the beginning.
The next day, utsuro jolted awake in cold sweat. He had recently been having nightmares every night, but paid no attention to them, after all they were just nightmares... Or so he thought.
The attendant had brought the clothes he would wear to the evaluation earlier in the morning and placed them neatly on the decorated table.
The clothes were made from a rare material that utsuro had never seen before. Every single part of the clothes were woven from strange, transparent, durable threads.
As they were put on by utsuro, the threads reformed and reshaped to fit his size and the threads slowly changed from transparent to a black colour
[You have equipped a (common) grade object]
[Anthropos' loom: woven from space and time itself. With it's eternal loom, it's threads shall know no end]
[Your physical and mental state improve]
The armour felt extremely light... It was as if he wasn't wearing it at all.
Havens bell rang, announcing the arrival of dawn. "It's five already? " Utsuro ran outside the room then down the hallways to the Hall on the first floor to be met with millions of people, both male and female wearing the same armour but different bright colours and Christmas addressing them.
"Your evaluation will commence today and then progress for three days before you are assigned to your various academies. "
Utsuro looked in shock. They really wanted to evaluate millions of separate individuals in just three days? That was unbelievable.
Shortly after, the ascendants were led to the training ground. The training ground really was big,but didn't look like a training ground at all.
There were countless rings carved neatly beside each other on concrete ground and that was it... Nothing else.
"Your evaluation will be divided into three separate parts. Each one of you will step into different rings and teleport. The rings will shuffle you and pair you randomly with your opponents."
"After defeating your opponents, a ring will carve on the ground, that is a sign that your opponent has truly been defeated... The rings will not carve unless your opponent has been completely knocked down. "
"Note, this is a friendly spar, no over-offensive attacks, techniques or skills shall be permitted... Do you understand ladies! "
"Yes sir! " Every individual, both male and female shouted in unison.
"Then, let the evaluation commence! " Christmas announced loudly.
Immediately he announced this, the rookie ascendants hurried to their chosen rings and infused their aura, glows of different types and colours illuminated the open space as the rookie ascendants began to teleport one by one.
"This is gonna be one hell of a show" Barney said as he looked towards Christmas who used the power of his runes to project what was going on in the various different locations of the rookie ascendants.
...
Utsuro appeared in a volcano area with hot molten lava flowing in abundance.
"Seriously? Of all the places to pick.... This? " Utsuro then sensed a strange aura behind him. He looked to the back to be met with the caster's eyes, burning hot with enthusiasm.
"So you're the one I need to defeat... Please accept my challenge! " Caster shouted with determination as he got into a battle stance.
The lava swirled with caster's every movement as he raised his right hand up and slightly forward and he left hand down and forward but not as forward as his right hand he began to emanate a burning red aura which felt hot even from utsuro's distance.
Utsuro on the other hand just maintained his posture and raised his right hand towards caster while putting his left hand in his pocket.
After a brief pause, they both attacked at overwhelming speed, building momentum as they ran towards one another.
Finally, they were within range. They both jumped towards one another, each exuding intimidating aura, both wanting victory.
They both attacked, with fury in their fists.