"Let's go train!" Noelle elegantly wiped her mouth with a napkin.
"As expected of a girl, as long as she's cute, even eating can be this cute!" Asta joked.
"Idiot Asta, what are you talking about!" Noelle's face immediately turned red.
"I'm not talking nonsense; I was talking about Sister Vanessa!" Asta teased.
"Cough!" Vanessa, who had been chugging red wine straight from the bottle, couldn't help but cough after being caught off guard.
"You jerk!" Noelle immediately became furious.
"But Noelle, your Clover earrings look really good!" Asta said, looking at the small pink earrings on Noelle's ears.
"Is... is that so?" Noelle paused for a moment, then said, "I'll take it as you having good taste. Let's go train!"
"Alright! A new day starts with a ten-kilometer handstand walk!" As Asta spoke, he began walking on his hands. If one observed closely, Asta wasn't supporting his body with his palms, but was alternating between his five fingers. First, his two thumbs took a step, followed by his two index fingers.
This ultra-intense training not only strengthens each finger but also trains physical coordination; it could be said to kill several birds with one stone.
For an ordinary person, walking with their thumbs and index fingers might be possible, but using the ring and pinky fingers is incredibly difficult, as a normal pinky finger simply cannot support the body's weight.
AI Model: gemini-3.1-flash-lite
But Asta was already walking as if on flat ground!
"Sure enough, after forcibly opening the Fifth Gate, the 'Gate of Limit' yesterday, my body has broken through its limits once again. I should normally be able to open the Fourth Gate, the 'Gate of Pain,' directly now. This can be called a double leap! Practical combat is truly the fastest shortcut to improving strength!"
Asta couldn't help but sigh with emotion at this moment. Of course, more importantly, he now possessed a miraculous medicine like the healing spring water. No matter what kind of damage his body sustained, he could recover easily. That was the most important thing!
"No wonder Little Asta can unleash such terrifying speed and power; it has a lot to do with his diligent training!" Vanessa couldn't help but praise him.
"Alright, I'm going to start training too!" Noelle arrived at the training ground and immediately began training her precision.
"She's really motivated!" Vanessa propped up her head, lazily watching Asta and Noelle train, feeling like she could watch for the whole day!
"Weighted One-finger Handstand!" Asta had already begun to surpass his limits on the spot. He first threw a multi-ton boulder into the air, then quickly performed a handstand, and the giant rock landed right on his feet.
"Bang!" In an instant, Asta's right thumb had pierced into the ground. Then, his right thumb began to turn red at a speed visible to the naked eye. This ultra-high-intensity weight immediately brought Asta back to when he first started practicing One-finger Handstand.
Yes! This is the feeling! The soreness in his fingertip muscles and the tremors throughout his entire body—this is training!
"So, so strong!" Noelle opened her mouth in surprise. For an ordinary person, let alone weighted One-finger Handstand, even just supporting their own body with one finger would be amazing. Yet, Asta was currently training while carrying a giant rock as big as a small house.
"If only there were water here, I could tie a big rock to my back like in Dragon Ball and go swimming. That way, I could work out my muscles more comprehensively!" Asta thought regretfully. But then, seeing Noelle practicing Water Magic nearby, his eyes instantly lit up!
Perhaps because Asta's gaze was too intense, Noelle noticed it immediately. "Stupid Asta, why are you looking at me with that kind of look?"
"Noelle, let's have a collaboration that surpasses our limits!" Asta smiled.
"Let's hear it!" Noelle said, crossing her arms.
"I'll be responsible for digging a super river channel, and you'll be responsible for filling it with water. How about it?" Asta said expectantly. In theory, this was a very feasible method because Noelle's Water Magic was absolutely top-notch—as could be seen from the huge water ball she created during that magic runaway incident—so he would be able to do weighted swimming very soon!
"What kind of perverted suggestion is that!" Noelle said, shocked.
"I think it's fine. It's just the right way to further practice Little Noelle's control abilities!" Vanessa laughed from the side. To be honest, she was also amazed by this idea. Is he planning to build an artificial river?
"Then let's give it a try!" Noelle nodded, also starting to look forward to it.
"OK!" Asta immediately bent his legs, launched the giant rock behind him, kicking up quite a bit of dust, and then took out the demon-slayer sword to start burning with youth!
demon-slayer sword: Is this how I'm being abused, for f***'s sake?!
"So, so fast!" Noelle was shocked by Asta's speed. He was practically an excavator! In the blink of an eye, a small pit was dug. In another blink, the pit was so deep she couldn't even see Asta anymore. This is cheating!
"Noelle, it's your turn!" In less than fifteen minutes, Asta had dug a river channel eight meters deep, twelve meters long, and nine meters wide. This already fell into the category of a super swimming pool, but this level of buoyancy was obviously still not enough to support swimming with a multi-ton load!
And this was just the first channel. For higher efficiency, Asta planned to dig a total of four such channels and then connect them once Noelle had filled them up!
"Okay!" Noelle immediately focused her attention. As everyone knew, the more magic power accumulated, the easier it was to lose control. Noelle calmed her mind, then raised her hands above her head like gathering a Spirit Bomb, and a growing water ball began to gather above her head.
"Good Luck, Little Noelle!" Vanessa cheered silently. Asta smiled relaxedly, because human potential is infinite; once you surpass a limit once, that former limit becomes the norm!
Sure enough, Noelle quickly gathered a water ball even larger than the one from the previous magic runaway, and this huge Water Magic once again shocked everyone in the castle!
"Is magic power out of control again?" Yami turned over, yawned, got up from bed, and looked out the window toward the dense forest. Sure enough, he saw a huge water ball!
However, this time, although the magic power was just as turbulent, it was not violent; it was clearly still within a controllable range.
"Hm, these brats are doing well. They really are surpassing themselves on the spot!" Yami nodded with satisfaction and then rolled back into bed...
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