Result

Time passed and Wind's first training session finished. He laid on the Endurance room's floor while gasping for every ounce of oxygen in the room. His throat and lungs felt as if a fire raged through them. All of the muscles on his body were screaming from pain; his limbs endlessly trembled after the tremendous effort.

It had taken him most of the day, but he had executed Fell's order to the letter. Thus, he had run one hundred laps in the room without taking any pause, he had taken his body through a journey that he shouldn't have been capable of accomplishing. But he did it, and without stopping once nor asking Fell to take a pause.

Although his brain was foggy and he felt like every single organ in his body was going to fail, a crooked smile could be seen on his reddened face, and pride filled his heart as he had accomplished something he never thought he could do. Thankfully, he knew that he was monitored by Fell and that gave him the opportunity to fully focus on his training. If not, he might have killed himself if he overdid it.

Fell didn't think that the youth in front of him could complete the one hundred laps in a single sitting. But he was pleasantly surprised when he saw that Wind's posturing wasn't completely false. As soon as Wind began acting like a soldier, it seemed as if a battle heartened general took over his mind as he completely focused on accomplishing the task at any cost.

"Can it be his particularity as a Soul Cultivator?" he thought while lifting himself from the chair in the observation room. He stepped out as he began making his way toward his student. "AI, did you record the changes that were happening to his body?" he exclaimed while thinking about the changes that began occurring in Wind's blood essence. "Yes", a robotic voice resounded in his head as a long list of data appeared in front of him.

He traversed the entire training floor while gazing at the large numbers. "Just like I noticed. Even if his blood essence seems less vibrant and even looks like it's going to disappear, what is left is truly much more concentrated…", he thought as he executed Blood Detection? The red blood dot that represented Wind's blood essence appeared in his mental map. The dot was so small that it seemed like it was just part of Fell's imagination. But its color and the sensation it gave to Fell showed that it had truly strengthened.

He finally arrived in front of the endurance room and stepped inside. As he entered the room, he saw Wind laying on top of a huge puddle of sweat. The color of his skin had gone to transparent pale, and his breathing was haggard and irregular as if it was going to stop at any moment.

He calmly stepped toward the young official. His hand rose toward the space between his eyebrows. A small light flashed in front of Fell's face and a pill appeared between his fingers. He took a bottle of water out of his spatial pocket, and with slight pressure from his fingers, the pill cracked and turned into powder.

After mixing the powder into the water, it transformed into a light azure-blue colored liquid. Fell's crouched on the ground as he patiently examined Wind's condition. His face turned serious as he used his senses to check the inside of Wind's body, his eyebrow rose as he noticed that most of the young official's muscle seemed to have been broken down by a steamroller.

"Maybe I was too harsh…", he softly exclaimed while lifting the youth's head. He inclined it a little bit down and poured several mouthfuls of the azure-colored liquid in Wind's mouth. The young official sucked on the bottle as if it was the first time he drank something. His eyes glowed from bliss as he felt the liquid humidify his dried-up organs.

Time passed slowly as Wind began recovering some strength. After half an hour passed, he finally seemed to regain consciousness about his surroundings as he noticed Fell a few meters from him. A short memory flashed through his mind as he immediately denied what he had heard before.

"No brother, it needs to be hard. Difficulty is what makes the journey worth it!" he exclaimed as his weakened mind had caught Fell's doubtful words earlier.