lvin pushed the door open to be t with the fantastic setting of the physical conditioning chamber.
The hall was large enough and so was able to house various training equipnt placed at strategic positions, with corner walls demarcating each of them.
There was a simulated, tall surface erected at a closet by his right corner.
’A climbing wall,’ he surmised.
His eyes darted further, and he also found stone lifting blocks with adjustable weight, which would be good for building muscles and loosening fibrous entanglent; resistance cables that looked like they were made from enchanted fibers; balance beams; and even an agility obstacle course.
All these tools were indeed very important for a physical conditioning trainee, but that was not what lvin had co here for.
lvin had co to train for flexibility.
He ca to master how to raise physical awareness for his body so that he can be able to transfer power from his core to various other parts of his body. Doing that was going to be beneficial, as a skilled whip user shouldn’t focus on moving the arm alone but also the hips and torso to add speed.
Then, there was also the need to stabilize his footwork and balance. He needed to learn how to coordinate and perfectly ti his movents and build stamina and endurance.
But most of all, the whip creates large circular motions that travel from the shoulder to the elbow to the wrist. Hence, lvin was going to control the whip mainly through wrist snap and forearm movent, plus he needed to establish stable shoulder mobility.
Putting all these into consideration, lvin didn’t think the tools he had seen earlier were going to serve as the main boost to achieving them. Hence, his eyes settled on a towering structure erected in the middle of the hall.
It was a horizontally lined pole structure, built from a collection of woods and reinforced planks, rising sharply toward the never-ending ceiling of the hall. Above the structure, on both sides, were hanging orb-like objects, floating paradoxically from one end to another, changing their positions by the second.
That was the best equipnt for beginning his training, since it was going to cover both flexibility and weapon engagent.
lvin sighed in relief.
"Let’s get started."
Closing the door behind him, lvin turned to a corner that should lead him to the dressing room. But upon setting his eyes on the way forward, they widened in utter disbelief.
There, sitting innocently on a bench, was an ash-brown-haired girl who was currently, quietly munching so snacks.
This was the weirdo Selene had talked about while he was still at the library, and for so reason, he was tempted to think this was the special case girl Principal Edrin had talked about. The girl, who, according to the principal, had left a similar impression, just like him.
But none of this was troubling enough to have kept him frozen at the spot.
It was the fact that lvin recognized this girl too well.
He remained frozen at a spot that he didn’t realize when the girl moved from her sitting position and was currently waving before his eyes. After so ti, the wave of hands from the girl was able to call lvin back to reality.
Standing right in front of him, everything beca clear. Her pale lavender-gray eyes that were calm and reflective, light-brown skin, and the embarrassing feature among other – her height.
She was currently acting weirdly before lvin without saying a word. She extended the hand currently occupied with the hamburger she was munching earlier, as if offering it to him, but lvin didn’t move; he just stood dumbstruck.
However, the girl seed to have misjudged the silver-haired boy’s action as a result of shyness. So, she didn’t pay lvin any more attention or comnts but passed by his side toward the door, leaving an afterimage for him to stare at.
As she left, her smooth and finely kept hair, adorned with silvery undertones, flew down her back like spun silk.
Once she was gone, lvin shook his head to regain himself. Then, his chin flushed red in realization.
’Does she think I’m hungry for her snacks?’ he thought, recalling her actions earlier.
"Most of all, why do I feel like I have t this girl before now?"
***
With the girl’s absence, lvin had changed into the training attire of compressed white shirts and trousers and headed to the structure.
Upon reaching the structure, he wasted no ti. With a fluid motion, he leapt onto a small, protruding climber and, with montum, launched himself upward until he landed on top of one of the poles. Then, he carefully began moving from one to the next until he reached the end.
lvin counted each to-and-fro movent as one, and when he had moved three tis on the poles, enough to regularize his standing, the main challenge was going to begin.
Back at the first pole, he relaxed a bit so that his mind and body would resonate in harmony, and after letting out a deep exhale, he resud his movent onto the poles.
He jumped to the next pole, then the second, then the third, but nothing happened. But as he was leaping onto the fourth pole, its size suddenly diminished, almost pulling lvin down below, but his instinct kicked in.
His hand shot forward, and with a seamless motion, he perford a front flip that led him with a projectile motion as he stepped onto the next pole.
A flicker of panic surged through him. If he had known the tricks played by the equipnt beforehand, maybe he would have done better.
But it was already too late to reconsider. After all, whatever challenge posed by this process was not going to harm him but mold him into sothing unimaginable.
He cald his breathing and moved steadily in rhythm onto each step. Passing the challenges of poles that either magnified in size, shooting further upwards, or the reverse.
As soon as he reached the end of the structure, lvin didn’t waste ti like in his previous movent. Instead, he perford a footwork he never imagined he could have.
His hands flung upwards as he landed on the last pole on the tip of his right foot, then balanced it with his left leg as he turned swiftly in the left direction. Not losing montum, he leapt onto another pole and continued.
Then, without warning, one of the floating orbs shot toward lvin.
Without hesitation, his shoulder twisted, his body flowing in a seamless motion that was built in minutes as he stepped onto the next pole, evading the projectile with precision. In anger for dodging one of their mber’s attacks, other orbs began to shoot from different directions.
It was ti for whip practicing.
lvin summoned his whip and took them right on, evading the ones he could and crackling his whip to crush the stubborn ones.
He was able to hold up against this new developnt, his shoulder twisting fluidly, his body flowing in perfect synchrony as he swung the whip... evading both the shooting orbs and the endangernt of having the whip’s tip kiss his skin.
A smile tugged at his lips. He was enjoying every last bit of the training. He wondered if other newbies like him perford with such seamless motion.
More to that, his speed seed to be increasing, his mind and body working in synchrony to stabilize his movents simultaneously. Cool wind whipped against his skin, liberating the feeling of wariness that wanted to elope him. He had never felt so free; he couldn’t deny it.
This led him to wonder if any of his system features were behind the sudden simulation of his body movents. Even he never expected to achieve perfection in one go.
’I will revise my stats once I’m done,’ he thought.
Just then, he heard the wind split beside him, a sharp whistle that only ant one thing: sothing was coming. Within seconds, a pale-looking orb shot from the side.
lvin didn’t hesitate.
With practiced grace, he perford a backflip, his leg calmly stepping onto the next pole behind him, his purple eyes tracking the passing orb as he connected it with his silver whip, slicing it in two. However, this fluidity wasn’t ant to last.
His mind had been disrupted earlier with external thoughts; hence, lvin wasn’t able to evade the attack of the orb from behind as it bashed him. The force of that attack was unimaginable for a small-sized orb, as it sent him off the pole.
However, lvin didn’t let this mistake of his shatter his entire composure. Resonating with the mont, he dismissed the whip, descending as he landed lightly on the stone floor, and let out a calming exhale.
Sweat stread down his face, his muscles suddenly flailing out of exhaustion as his legs gave out and he collapsed monts later on the floor.
’Ahh. How co I never felt this while in motion?’
Only then did an unfamiliar voice sound from a corner of the hall, prompting lvin to raise his head and see who it was.
"Excellent."
The voice belonged to the girl he had t earlier upon entering the hall. She had returned and was now sitting back on the bench.
Struggling to get on his feet, lvin ventured forward and soon joined her on the bench.
"Here," the girl said, handing him a newly packaged hamburger and a can of chilled water. "I thought you might need it."
lvin didn’t reject the offer. His hands moved with their own minds as he collected the snacks, sowhat lost in the mont.
"What?" the girl asked, looking uncomfortable under lvin’s sweeping gaze.
"Nothing. Uh... I just realized sothing."
"..."
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