4 Chapter 4 - Dangers of the Island and Beginning Training

On an isolated island, you can see a small figure running after an even smaller figure with high speed. This figure is obviously Dante, who is running after a black rabbit which at first he thought would easy to catch a rabbit with his current speed, but he was so wrong. Dante has been chasing this small but fast rabbit for 15 minutes but to no end. But he has noticed that this rabbit isn't a simple rabbit, because he could feel some magic energy from that rabbit every time it jumped, which didn't answer his question but instead confused him more because this isn't normal.

After putting away his pride Dante sighed and thought, "It is getting late I should quickly wrap this up, if this rabbit shows this speed then it is reasonable to think that the monster on this island are stronger, or maybe this whole world in itself has stronger beasts. I can't confirm anything yet, I should first increase my strength.". While running Dante, raised his right hand to properly focus on the target, although he can use his abilities with hand gestures or any other action because of his inexperience and using his ability while in motion he used his hand to increase his accuracy, and said "Friction Manipulation: Decrease, Gravity Manipulation: Increase". And with this jumping rabbit slammed on the ground and before it could recover Dante appeared and caught it.

After lifting the rabbit to his face, Dante said to the rabbit with an irritating expression, "You little monster, how can you run so fast. You are a really annoying target to catch. I will eat you even slowly to satisfy my annoyance hehe". But soon Dante heard a loud roar which sent all the birds because of the sheer killing intent in that roar, quickly snapping his head towards the roar trickles of sweat ran down his back. "What the hell, what type of beast could make such roar? Is it a dragon? oh no! Is it Acknalogia?", thought Dante frantically because he is not yet strong enough to fight Acknalogia.

Not wasting much time for his death to arrive, Dante ran back towards a single location which he hoped is possibly safe from an entity that strong, but while running a lot of thoughts were running through his mind. "Who is that beast and how is it so strong? I don't know if this is normal, is it possible that my entry into this world changed its fundamental laws and increased the power level of the world. Now that I think about it, there were a lot of fanfictions where because of MC's entry the world's overall threat level or strength increases, one could call the difficulty level of the world.", thought Dante while frantically running. To increase his chances of escape because he could still feel those predators like eyes at his back, he used 'Friction Manipulation: Reduce Resistance, Gravity Manipulation: Decrease Gravity, Velocity Manipulation: Increase Velocity Forward'.

Although his speed increase quite a lot he still couldn't feel safe, until he saw his safe zone to which he ran with everything in his legs, so much that the ground slightly cracked under his leg strength. When he was around 30 meters away from the region he felt a life-threatening danger behind his back and a sharp feeling against his back, so without wasting any more time, he jumped diagonally while entering the region in one leap, but what scared him the most was three sharp wind like attack which left three slash marks on the ground even inside the region, which surprised him even more as the ground in his safe region is even denser and durable then outside.

But he still couldn't rest easy because there is still a chance that the beast could enter the safe zone given its strength. So, Dante was still on his guard waiting for any sudden attacks but to his surprise even after 5 minutes nothing happened, he still didn't dare lower his guard, intently looking at the way the attack came from focusing all his energy in his five senses, but after another 5 minutes of no activity, he released a sigh of relief. "Looks like the barrier is stronger than I thought," said Dante to himself, while still sweating a bit. But when he looked at the ground where the attack landed he was shocked because there was no more destroyed land but an unscathed land in view. Thinking that he might have been hallucinating he looked a little further where the safe zone ended and saw those marks ending at the entrance of the safe zone, to which another thought entered his mind. "This place can fix itself!" exclaimed Dante loudly.

To test his theory, Dante complemented his strength with all the abilities that can boost his strength and punch the ground, with a BOOM, small cracks appear on the ground and a 4 inches deep fist mark appeared on the ground. After doing, Dante realized how stupid his action was because the reaction force of the punch made his arm bleed a little and tremble in pain, to which he sighed a little, "I could have reduced, if not completely removed, the reaction force. What an idiot I am!" thought Dante to himself, while still observing that fist mark he made. And surely, as he expected the ground slowly reverted back to its original state, "Yes, with this can train without worrying about destroying the ground." thought Dante while clenching his fist but soon realized he had something in his other hand.

Lifting his hand, he noticed a rabbit with spinning circles in his eyes. "Oh! so you are still alive, but not for long. Because of you I almost died, you just wait.", said Dante with little anger in his voice. After some time, Dante carefully exited the safe zone but just to collect some wood from nearby to make a campfire to cook the rabbit. Not wasting much time, he quickly collected the wood and rushed back into the safe zone, fearing that the monster would target him again. After creating fire by increasing the friction between one plank of wood and a wooden stick as much as he could, Dante couldn't help patting his back while thinking "Great use of your brain and ability, Dante."

After having his dinner, Dante didn't want to do anything more today, so he went back to his cottage to sleep not before checking his little suspicion. He carefully, looked for the part of the cottage that if damaged won't compromise the structure of the cottage, and broke it. He wanted to see if the damage to the cottage, repair itself or not, and to his surprise and joy, the broken part slowly fixed itself. With a satisfied smile, Dante went to sleep in his bed before starting his training the next morning.

The next day, early morning, Dante quickly got out of his bed wore his clothes, and exited the cottage. Taking in a deep breath Dante was excited because today he is going to start his training which will help him survive in this world. Dante stepped off the cottage, with some light stretches, Dante has some ways to train his body and some of his ability while he trains his body. But what Dante needs is to train his other abilities which will be difficult, for now, Dante knows he can increase his proficiency in Gravity Manipulation, Friction Manipulation, and Inertia Manipulation while training his body as he can increase his weight and resistance while training to increase his training speed. And he is planning to move the small objects and then move to big objects around the cottage daily to increase his proficiency with telekinesis, all the while meditating to improve his energy manipulation and thanks to the rabbit yesterday he knows which of the energies he senses yesterday is magic energy.

As for abilities like attraction and repulsion, Dante plans to use them more during his hunt to improve its proficiency. Although he knows, even if he doesn't practice these abilities his proficiency will rise slowly as his Sage's Wisdom accumulates with his body but he felt that this way his ability will become natural to him all the while there will be a faster improvement. What he needs now is mainly to improve his body strength and other aspects, Monkey King's body has good muscle memory which makes it easy to train in techniques but as he doesn't have any it would be difficult. Thus, Dante can't help but ignore other Fundamental Force Abilities because to survive on this island alone he has to improve quickly.

To begin with, Dante increases gravity and resistance on his body as much as he can to check his limits and started doing normal workouts such as pushups, situps, squats, running, and a few others. But in only two and a half hours he was panting heavily. "It seems my control over gravity has improved since yesterday, as I can increase gravity a little more, same thing with resistance.", thought Dante while still catching his breath. Not wasting much time, he quickly sat down and meditated, and just like he thought, he could better assimilate energies in his body, and now that he noticed one of the energy was nourishing his body, while completely removing his fatigue. "This definitely isn't magic, so what energy is this? Is it ki?", thought Dante while meditating and enjoy the relaxing feeling brought by the energy.

After 40 minutes, Dante was completely recovered from his muscle pain and fatigue so he again started his training and he also decided to always have increased gravity and resistance on his body, this way he can train even when he is not. But he planned to release this restriction outside because he knows it will be dangerous to do this stupid thing. Dante continues his training until the afternoon when he felt that he is hungry and he can feel that this time a single rabbit won't do much. So, he meditating for a while but this time he recovered in 35 minutes which he has noticed before that as his body improves his energy refining speed also improves. Slowly, standing up and removing all the restraints on his body Dante felt this heaviness from his shoulder lift and felt that his body was half as heavy as it was with restriction with made him realized how quickly his gravity manipulation is increasing all the while amazed at his body's adaptation ability.

Feeling the large improvements in his body, Dante felt excited about his future improvements, but he still had no idea how to develop some physical techniques. Although he can use his abilities to fight in the future he doesn't want to waste his superior physique still contemplating, he suddenly had an idea in his mind, with which a smile appeared on his face. "If this works maybe, just maybe I can manage...."