Lord of Annihilation

Chapter 17: Lucius' Gym Training

The next morning, Reyna finished dressing and collected the drive. She was planning to return this to Lucius' and apologize to him properly. Once she got into the car she suddenly spoke up.

"Uncle Black, could you please help me find a student by the name Lucius?"

The man driving the car heard this and replied, "No problem Young Miss. I will find that boy for you. What do you want me to do to him?"

Reyna immediately replied, "Please tell me where to find him, I want to talk to him."

"Will do.", Uncle Black replied concisely.

Clenching her hand which was holding the drive, she thought to herself, 'I must make things right with him.'

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The boy in question, was currently treating the gym as his house.

Ever since Lucius' noticed the effects of the training on his body, he further increased his training difficulty to an even greater extent. Some of the other students in the gym saw this and had their eyeballs pop out.

"Hey is that even possible?", one guy asked in disbelief.

"That guy's been here since yesterday. I don't think he ever left", another stated,

"Holy! He increased the weights and gravity again!", another was shocked.

Lucius was continuously training his body without break. Every time he was tired or felt his energy weakening he just grabbed a vial of Nutrient Fluid and drowned. He did not take a break since yesterday and continued without pause.

After another set of exercises at 3.2 times gravity, Lucius noticed that his stockpile of Fluids had finally run out. Yesterday, he had spent all his accumulated credits to buy 42 vials of it and now it had finally run out.

A normal person could not ingest more than 3 vials a day. Anymore than that, one would feel extreme discomfort and pain in every single part of one's body. This is because of excessive ingestion of energy and the human cell's inability to convert them into a useable form.

However, Lucius' body seemed like an ever devouring black hole. No matter how much he kept ingesting, his body kept absorbing everything. He even stopped using his soul energy to help in digestion because he noticed that after the 20th vial, it wasn't doing much. His cell's rate of energy conversion was much faster than that of his soul power.

Seeing that he could not continue any longer. Lucius finally stopped and left for his room. He had been training for almost 24 hours and was smelling very bad.

Seeing him leave, all the others students collectively let out a sigh of relief.

One of them suddenly asked, "Have any of you know who he is? Is he from the army department?"

Another boy immediately replied, "I am from there and have never seen him before. If he was in the army, I must've seen him during the drills."

"He sure is very good looking.", one of the girls in the gym suddenly stated.

Hearing this, all the other girls also started discussing.

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'My body's strength is at a decent level now. I can increase my soul power's efficiency by 20%', Lucius thought to himself as he made his way home.

While running at his top speed, he was also making small actions with every inch of his body to test out the effects of soul power. Feeling his speed of improvement, Lucius was satisfied.

"Yeah, If you are not satisfied, even with this speed. I don't know what to say. Previously I used to joke about you being a monster, but now I sincerely feel so.", the omni-present voice interjected.

She then continued, "So what's next. You are currently broke and cannot afford anymore Nutrient Fluids nor can you go back to the gym. Not if you want to stay low."

Hearing this Lucius replied, "We wait."

"Wait? Wait for what?", she asked not understanding Lucius' plan.

"Wait for the focal point to meet us.", he calmly replied.

"You mean that girl, Reyna. You think she would meet you so soon.", Ka'lor'ah asked. While Lucius' plan was quite effective, she believed that it might take at least 3 days before they would meet with her. Hearing Lucius speak, she was naturally confused.

Lucius did not mind her confusion and patiently replied," Since I threatened Keith, he must've been feeling quite anxious. That's why he immediately sent those 4 guys after me. Once he retrieved the drive from me, no matter how confused he felt at the smoothness of the entire event, he wouldn't dare delay giving it to Reyna. According to my estimation, he must've given it to her yesterday when she was going back to her house. Since she received the drive last evening, she must have opened the drive immediately, owing to her curious nature."

"Ah! Then she must've seen the drive after the changes had been removed and understood the whole situation. Therefore, she would want to meet you as soon as possible.", Ka'lor'ah continued his analysis.

"As expected of someone trained by the great me. Such intricate planning, you sure have taken after me, my disciple." and then she continued with her shameless boasting.

After running for a few more minutes, Lucius finally made it to his room. He entered his room and immediately made it to the showers.

After intaking his 20th Nutrient Fluid yesterday. Lucius noticed a change in his body. He felt a kind of growing hunger come from the depths of his cells. He then immediately ingested another 3 vials, before this hunger was finally satiated. He then noticed that this muscles were more compacted and his skin was much smoother than before.

Although he still looked quite lean and slender. His body was now filled with much greater strength Lucius theorised that if he fought against Luther and his two goons again right now. He could take care of them, without even breaking a sweat.

Considering that it has been 3 days since Lucius had crossed over, this speed of advancement can be considered in as simply...monstrous.

Stepping into the shower, Lucius slowly washed his entire body. Before, since he was wearing clothes he didn't notice that his body had patches of brownish black filth.

It covered him in various regions of his body and was giving off a disgusting smell. Lucius calmly washed himself for a while and stepped out.

He stared at his body and slowly evaluated himself. Where there was previously skin and bones, were now filled with tightly compacted muscles. His skin turned another shade lighter and was completely smooth, devoid of any scars or creases.

'If I retake the test, i can surpass my previous result by a fair margin without using my soul power. If my employ my soul power. I can easily double my current score.', he thought to himself.

He then dressed himself and then walked out of the bathroom. Grabbing Ka'lor'ah in his hands and pocketing her, he walked out of his house towards one of the common areas.

'Now to meet with the focal point.'

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