Training rooms.

Training rooms.

Chapter: 22

Richard and Sniffy changed into their trainings outfits and came out of the changing rooms with an excited expression on their faces. Both wore simple black sports gear which consisted of pants and a shirt.

Richard was proud of himself, since he was able to control his body enough to not need any help when he changed his clothes, he only ruined one or two outfits but counted that as a win. Sniffy would surely able to fix them up in a jiff.

Sniffy went to the rooms that are meant for magical training and Richard got into the first gravitation room.

He stepped through the door and stood in the same room that they had been in earlier with Kyle. Richard then in front of the control mechanism, that was a meter-long pillar made out of stone.

On it could be found the numbers ranging from 1 to 10. He did not want to make any mistake by judging his powers wrongly and thus get injured by being overconfident. Therefore, he started with the number 2 and the room changed its atmosphere. The air in the room changed different, but Richard could not make out any difference and just felt that something had happened.

The gravitational room was about 20x20x20 meters and it was completely empty inside except the control mechanism. It also was bright lit the room. The source was coming from somewhere unknown, since there were no lights or something similar to it.

Richard felt the change in his surroundings and his body got much heavier all of a sudden. His weight changed from 40 kg to 80kg in an instant. The difference put some strain onto his body and he fell into his thought.

'I feel somewhat heavier, but apart from that. I am completely fine. I will try to train a bit and hopefully my body will be easier to adjust within this increased gravitation.'

He was then walking to the middle of the room and immediately felt the difference, Richard did not need to use as much concentration to control his body as he used to beforehand. He got a bit more serious and walked faster but lost control again and flew right at the wall in front of himself. At the last moment, right before he impacted into it, he was able to raise his hands to diffuse his momentum.

Richard then made contact with the wall and was able to put power in his hands, at the right moment to slow down. But what he was not anticipating was not the he was not able to put the right amount of power into his hands and bounced right back, after he impacted with the wall.

Shooting into the opposite wall, with his back facing it, he then crushed down right into it and proceeded to slide slowly down. He then let out a cry of pain.

Lying on the floor in the training room and searching his body for any injuries he might have gotten, but found nothing apart from a bruise on his back. These walls were really unforgivable and the hardness of them was incomparable with anything he had ever felt.

He was surprised that he was only in pain and had no broken bones after this stunt. Richard then began to think again.

'It looks like my body is a lot stronger than I have imagined, I did not receive any broken bones or cuts and I am only a bit bruised. Let's try to turn the gravity up again, after walking around for a few minutes, to get used to this newfound pressure.'

In the gravitational training room could now be seen a boy walking around with a completely concentrated look on his face. The boy was doing this for about 15 minutes and got faster at walking around. He was now being a lot faster than at the start and then walked towards the control mechanism and turned the gravitation towards 3.

'The pressure changed again, I can now feel that it affects my muscles and bloodstream in some manner. It feels like a am now needing to put more power to keep my body from getting hurt. My blood runs now faster than before and I suppose it gets the needed energy to protect myself through that.

But it doesn't feel like this is too hard right now, I will do a few laps around the room and then turn it up a notch.'

He thought and was now breathing faster and it was comparable to a person that was just walking up some stairs. Not out of breath, but in the need of a bit more energy.

Richard then did the same thing like earlier and went around for some time to get used to the increased pressure. But this time he did not try to let go of his forceful control his bodies strength and just walked around.

'It's not a nice feeling to flop from wall to wall only to be hurting all over. Therefore, I am not doing letting go of my control again, until I am sure that I will be able to not crash into anything.'

The arrow that stood on the 3 was then moved to the 4 and the gravitation changed again.

Right now, Richard felt his body under even more pressure and his breathing and blood flow spiked up to work against it.

He was now walking around the room with an excited look on his face, because he did not need to control his body as hard as before. It was a nice feeling of living through this pressure. It was affecting his whole body and he liked this exhilarated feeling very much.

At first, there was some discomfort due to that increased gravitation, but he got used to it in about another 10 minutes and he his breathing stabilized on its own.

After that he repeated the process again and again. Now he was able to withstand the gravitation multiplication at 7 times and was breathing heavily. Richard thought that he did not hit his limits and pushed the arrow forward to the 8th level. His body was working hard on stabilizing at this force and his blood was flowing like crazy throughout his body.

To switch to the 8 level may have been a mistake when he felt the new pressure affecting his body. Richard could not withstand the pressure and was pressed flat onto the floor.

He was lying there on the floor next to the mechanism and got slowly used to the changed force. It did not feel nice, because his body was under so much strain that it felt like it would break apart in the next few minutes but that did never happen. His blood was forced to a new level and flowed fast through his body to support his cells with energy.

After lying there for a few minutes, Richard got more acclimated to it. He then felt that he could let go of his forceful control and was able to stand up.

Standing up took him much more strength, than he had thought and he needed some time to get up and to stand on his feet properly, but they kept wobbling.

Richard then began to walk around the room and was able to change to running and jumping. Not needing to suppress his bodies strength anymore was kind of a freeing feeling for him and he fell into thought.

'The pressure on my body is immense but it is kind of an exhilarating feeling, if I ignore the pain I am under. I don't need to control my bodies strength anymore and like it very much. I think that I will get used to my newfound power in this room a lot faster, than it would have taken me anywhere else.'

Because of the pressure his body was under, his blood was circulating really fast through his body, which in turn caused sweat to appear all over himself to help and cool him down. Dripping from his body and falling onto the floor, but it was immediately vanishing when it touched the floor.

He then ignored the feeling of the amount of weight the room put him under and began his routine exercises. He did some laps around it and after his legs were too sore to continue, he got on the floor doing push-ups, pull ups, curls and so on. After his routine exercises were doe, he then started to turn it into shadow fighting and training his jiu jitsu for a time.

Richard continued this for the next half an hour and then he was completely spent from all the workout and went to the control pad and deactivated it.

It felt like all the pressure in the world had vanished and he was feeling the strain of his workout lessen a lot.

'That actually did help me a lot, now I don't need to focus all off my capabilities on not shooting myself of the ground and I can walk around rather normally again. Let´s see if Kyle is back and how Sniffy is doing.'

Richard thought this, while he went to the door which he opened and stepped out of the room.

He then looked around the building and found Kyle and Sniffy sitting at a table with a lot of food on it. He then walked towards them and took a seat besides Kyle, after which he started to speak to them.

"Thanks for the food, that's exactly what I need right now, my body feels like it's completely spent.

It is a now lot easier to control after the training. It is the perfect place to regain my control. Thank you for bringing us here."

"No trouble about that, that did not cost me anything. I am more interested in how many times of the normal gravitation you could handle."

Asked Kyle as he put some bred on his plate, on which he put some marmalade.

The table was full of tasty food and there were many sorts of fruits and cereal on it. Sniffy poured him some orange juice and then they started to eat. Richard replied after he put some apple into his cereal.

"It seems like a can only handle the 8th level comfortably. That may not be my limit but I can train there while I do not need to control my body and force its powers down. My body is under a lot of pressure during the increased gravitation and I feel every inch of it scream at me, but I am able to train in this condition and love this feeling of being under such pressure."

Kyle was amazed by this fact and said in a surprised voice.

"Wow 7 times already, and this on your first try. I do know many normal vampires at your age and they can only handle the 5th level and that only for a very short amount of time. It seems like I have underestimated you. Honestly, I did not think you would be able to get past the 4th level.

The strain puts onto the body is immense and normal humans would die at the second level in a few minutes, because their organs would just fail them. I am quite impressed. I am looking forward to our sparring match."

"Hehehe, that means I am at least as strong as vampire kids in terms of my body, nice. By the way, how was your training Sniffy?"

Richard answered, after he thought that he should be a bit stronger than normal vampires of his age. Moreover, he will be a lot stronger when he is able to control his strength properly and then he could try and add magic too.

He wondered what would happen, if he let his magic circulate throughout his body in that condition. Remembering the times, he read cultivation novels in his last life and how they circulated their energy throughout their bodies for a major power boost. Richard was getting quite excited at this thought but knew that he needed to regain the control on his magic.

Richard saved the thought to experiment on that later. He remembered the last time, he tried to summon his mirror in his room and did not want to put his life on the line right now, when he was not able to properly control his magic.

Sniffy then told them what she did in the magic training room and what happened there.

A bit of a time ago, Sniffy walked into the training room and closed the door.

She then stood in front of the control panel and activated it. Immediately, there was some flash around the room and Sniffy was then encased inside a magical barrier, which was shrinking rapidly. Sniffy began to panic and thought that this might do something to her, but regained her bearings after she saw it stop right on top of her skin.

The barrier enclosed here whole body and it was like she now wore a second skin above her own. It had a hard to describe color.

It was see-through and it looked like there were countless little stars inside it, that moved around in an unpredictable way. The stars had colors blue, some tended more towards green, here and there she spotted some red ones.

She was finding this barrier really beautiful and got lost, while at looking at herself. She looked all over herself and found this magic wholly encased her body. Sniffy then jumped around and marveled at the fact that it was impossible to shake off. It even enclosed her every strand of hair on her head.

Following that, she soon stopped her antics at observing the magic barrier and got ready to cast some magic.

Her first try was to conjure water out of the surroundings. She wanted to just conjure a blob of water in front of her and succeeded but the water that appeared was much more than she had anticipated. It filled the entire room till her ankles were fully enclosed by water. She then thought that this was a really weird feeling of not getting wet but to stand inside water and found it much more marvelous than to stand on the normal floor.

Shrugging off the thought of playing around inside the water for a bit, because the feeling of being inside water but nor really being inside water was fascinating her. It should be quite fun to try out some stuff but she put it away for the time being.

Sniffy then cast the same spell again and this time without snipping her fingers. It felt a bit weird to her not to do it, but she thought that it would look a lot cooler if she was able to do it in both ways. With or without snipping her fingers, that will give her a more mysterious look. If people only thought that she would need to snip her fingers to cast magic and she could do it without that. She smirked at the thought of how she could use that fact for her own enjoyment and to mess with some people.

The spell worked not as good as the one before, but the water in the room got more and more. 5 tries later, she succeeded in casting it in the same intensity she could do with her finger snip and could now try to work on her control.

She now stood knee deep in the water but worked without any stop on the same spell. Not feeling any difference by the amount of water she conjured, she then pondered what she could change.

'Hmmm it looks like I need to concentrate a lot more on what I want to do, the last times I tried to conjure only a cup of water, but got so much more than that.'

Concentrating more on her body while she was casting the spell, she now felt something different. It was the same feeling she got earlier this morning when she wanted to repair the damage in the hotel room.

'Is this my magic? I never really felt this, its like something is moving inside my body and then out of it to do my bidding. Can I influence the amount what I send out? I guess that must be the reason why this much water is created. When I send out too much magic, then more water gets conjured. If I try to regulate it, then the water I conjure should get also less.'

Sniffy then got back to work and tried to regulate her output of her magic. She never succeeded once but got a much better feeling of it inside herself.

The room was now filled with so much water that only Sniffys head was visible and everything else was completely immersed inside it. She got so immersed inside her own self, that she completely forgot to look at the water level. She only got out of her mind at the moment the water level was so high that her lips were touching it, it was a weird feeling seeing this much water inside the room but not feeling any of it.

'Whoaw... that scared me a bit there, what would have happened if I am complete immersed inside the water? Would I still be able to breathe? Even if there should be no air there at all?

To die in a training room, that is supposed to be completely safe is not the way to go, but I need to try it out, if the magical barrier allows me to breath under all conditions.'

Her curiosity getting the better of her and being sure that it was what she wanted to do and she also would not be in any kind of danger right now. Since the water level was not high enough for that, she then steeled herself and put her head underwater.

Opening her eyes, after she had closed them in front of the water, she now could see normally and was amazed by the feeling how water looked in such close proximity. It had a clear blue - greenish hue that she had seen on lakes outside in the forest, on a nice sunny day. The water inside the training room was absolute clear.

Not one thing of impurity could be seen inside it and it was beautiful.

Awed by its beauty, Sniffy lost track of time and forgot to hold her breath any longer, she then realized it only a few moments later and was shocked that she had no troubles breathing at all.

Seeing that it was safe and that she wanted to look at the water for a longer time and not in such an uncomfortable position, Sniffy proceeded to conjure more water. In no time at all it was so much that it got up to the ceiling. She was now total encased and surrounded by the water and walked around inside it.

She then began jumping up and down and felt a new feeling of lightness. She jumped a few centimeters but flowed up some more and after the energy she put into her jump dissipated, she then got back onto the ground in a slow manner.

Feeling that she could now bounce a lot more freely inside the water and not being under any kind of breathing problem, she jumped around for a long time and enjoyed herself a lot. She could even swim around inside it, it was a whole new experience to swim around water, while seeing everything clearly and without getting wet. She loved every moment of it.

After a long time of playing around, she had had enough and she judged it was time for Kyle to be back with their meal. She then got back to the stele and deactivated it. In the exact moment when she pushed the button, all the water alongside the barrier around her vanished completely.

Sniffy then got out of the room and saw Kyle getting in from the main entrance. They then set up a table and some chairs and got the meal placed on top of the table.