Chapter 177 (1/2)

Chapter 177 Chi-Hyun Effect (2)

Chi-Hyun’s torture continued under the guise of training The routine was the same every day, but the process wasn’t si that Chi-Woo always felt like dying, and after only four days since he came to this place, Chi-Woo was completely knocked down He didn’t so much fall asleep but lost consciousness, and when he opened his eyes in the hed hiet up, he felt as if his stos barely ed to support his body He hadof all was that he couldn't skip training even though he was in such a state

“You aren’t feeling good? Don’t worry It’s going to beco”

Chi-Woo looked at his brother in fear as Chi-Hyun approached to help him stretch personally

Soon afterward—Ahhhhhhh! A piercing screahout the hill near the capital

It had been seven days since Chi-Woo came to this place As they slowly ran out of supplies, Chi-Hyun told his brother that he was paying the capital a short visit and restocking

“It’ll take a couple of days I can get there in an instant, but I have things to take care of”

Kuaaaaaah A strange sound flowed out from inside the cave

“Even when I’m not here, this space would be oing to utilize it Whether or not you continue to train without my supervision will be your decision as well”

Kurrrrrgh Another grotesque, gritting sound answered hiht Chi-Hyun was keeping a zombie inside the cave “Anyways, I will come back,” Chi-Hyun said and left just like that

After a long stretch of tiered out of the cave His head drooped, and his ar loosely by his sides as he walked exactly like a zo a couple of steps outside, Chi-Woo collapsed to the floor Since nobody atching, all the tension in his body had evaporated

“Ah…” Chi-Woo thought he was dying He wasn’t joking He really thought he was going to die at this rate He wished he could just rest without doing anything for four days—no, two—no, even just a single day ‘…Yeah I should rest today since Chi-Hyun isn’t here’ Even training had its limits His body could be ruined if he pushed it too far, so resting for a day didn’t see hiht peacefully He felt so good that there was a slight smile on his face

“…” However, Chi-Woo’s serene expression soon turned troubled There was someone around When Chi-Woo opened one of his eyes, he saw Philip looking down at hi at him silently from his side

“…What is it?”

—Uh…well… No, it’s nothing

Philip shrugged

“What about you? Why are you staring at ned ignorance

Nevertheless, the two didn’t stop staring at Chi-Woo Unable to bear their gazes any longer, he got up while gru to do it Is that what you both want?”

“Ugh…uggggh…”

Philip and bun only replaced their intense stares with a sime Chi-Hyun had set up for him

“shi+t…” Chi-Woo collapsed before he could step into the cave “shi+t…” He groaned and closed his eyes He didn’t even dry the clothes soaked fro

Although Chi-Hyun said he would coer than he promised Chi-Woo didn’t know exactly how uess Then another week passed Since Chi-Hyun left, Chi-Woo hadn’t skipped training for even a single day and routinely finished the course Chi-Hyun had designed for hi had been endurable But as days passed, Chi-Woo’s body seemed to waste away His face thinned and paled, and he walked while only staring at the ground with a dazed look on his face It was as if he was ain its unconsciousness However, a human wasn’t a rit and guts

Philip looked at Chi-Woo, as now lifting barbells

“What?” Chi-Woo hesitated when he was about to do squats with the barbell resting on his neck After getting back into position again, he blinked his dull eyes hard For soht at all

“What…what’s wrong with this…?” He th increase by that much? Was that why this barbell felt like a cane? To make sure, Chi-Woo opened his user information and saw that his physical attributes were the sa the barbell up and down and felt his body suddenly tilt sideways

“Huh…?” He staggered, and his hands lost their grips on the barbell While it was noeightless, his arth In fact, his entire body felt heavier It was then Chi-Woo realized that he was seriously out of breath even before he started running

—Rest

Philip finally spoke after watching Chi-Woo quietly until now

“…Huh?” Chi-Woo responded after a beat What was Philip saying when he had always pressured him to train before?

—The fact that you can’t feel the barbell’s weight any

“Why…? Suddenly…?”

—It’s not sudden

Philip sighed

—Just rest for now Don’t think about anything

Chi-Woo sat still and nodded His eyelids felt like lead, and at soet rid of his perpetual fatigue His body kept tre from an unknowable chill

Chi-Woo entered the cave and flopped down Truthfully, Philip knew this was going to happen, but there was one reason he hadn’t told Chi-Woo—he knew Chi-Woo was in no state to listen, and ht Chi-Woo would only co burn-out firsthand rather than listening to him There was no better ht That day, Chi-Woo groaned the entire night

His excessive training had finally led to this outco up, it was all Chi-Woo could do to reroan No enerative and healing poas, it was useless against a long-teric could immediately heal surface wounds, but couldn’t fully cure a cold Perhaps things would have been different if his Divine Blood was higher in rank, but it was impossible in his current state

Recovery turned out to be a longer process, and Chi-Woo rey to ers most of the time, so all he did was drink a couple sips of water when he couldn’t bear his thirst at all…yet his brother was still nowhere to be found

“Ugh…” Like that, Chi-Woo suffered day and night

“Uh, ah…”

“Ahhhhh!” Suddenly, he burst out screaer and frustration at bay “Ah! Uhh! Ahhhhh!” While lying down, he yelled at the ceiling until his throat was raw In this unfa thinking that there would be so to it even without his brother here He did all he thought he had to do without any complaints But this was the result of all that? Chi-Woo couldn’t accept it at all

“No! No! shi+t! Yeah! I’ to call it quits!”

Philip stared as Chi-Woo yelled at the top of his lungs in a sudden burst of madness

—Whoah, whoah What is it? Are you okay?

The question seemed to calm Chi-Woo down a bit

“Ah…” Chi-Woo closed his eyes again “I don’t know…” As pain swept over him anew, he clenched his teeth and said, “If I really should keep doing this…if I a…”

Philip wanted to ask Chi-Woo if he expected training to be fun but stopped himself He knew Chi-Woo didn’tout of exasperation afterin this place for almost a month Philip understood how Chi-Woo felt A human’s willpoasn’t li-willed someone was, a downturn in mood was inevitable It wasn’t like the time Chi-Woo was in the cave underneath the Evalaya volcano Here, he saw no proe He had to repeat the same routine every day all day, and it was ied

He couldn’t help but feel exhausted as a human He needed to replenish as iven hi at all so far

—What can you do?

Philip sighed

—You brought all this to yourself

“…What? I brought it to myself?”

It was a reaction that Philip had expected

—Why? Do you think you did nothing wrong?

“All I did was do as I was told”

—Then is the person who ordered you to do this in the wrong? There’s a proble?

“Isn’t that the case?”

—No

Philip said fir

“Then what—

—Furtherical It’s especially perfect for someone like you

It was the first time that Philip spoke with such firmness and certainty, and Chi-Woo was rendered speechless

—When I read youryour tirew to another level It seeress in mentality you made that time has backfired It’s now poison to you

At that tier out of sheer survival instincts Since he was so intent on getting stronger, his er Even poison could beon hoas used, but in this case, his past experience at the Evelaya Volcano was deadly

—You know, there’s a reason why the word ‘standard’ exists

Philip ood idea to always try so desperately to reach a goal Even if he was getting impatient, there were times when he needed to calm down and slowly take one step at a ti really hard and doing well this whole tiht?

Chi-Woo still looked clueless, so Philip put th in his voice

—From my perspective, I don’t think so Do you knohy?

He continued without even hearing an answer