Chapter 187. No Turning Back (4) (2/2)

‘He only trains people who truly have the desire to becoonna pick them out and train them for real’

Theybecauards tied their shoelaces, their eyes alight

“Is anyone gonna give up?” Specter asked

“No!” they shouted with confidence

Four hours passed They had been hiking for six hours now Even Arthur, the best out of the Watchguards, was starting to pant

‘If I’es and non-co only out of pure inertia, not because they willed it Their lungs burned as they ran whilst staring at the ground They didn’t even have the strength to look up

“”

“”

You couldn’t even hear the They were barely able to breathe in any air, and all they did was repeatedly exhale They said that when humans exhausted themselves until death, all they were able to do was breathe quietly

‘Let’s see…’

Specter finally looked back and scanned each Wachguard with sharp eyes, checking every detail down to their breathing and the tension of their es? It’s just as I expected…’ </ees and those with non-cohters Even a the 5 Heroes, Skaya had the least staroup into t’ </e “Halt”

Once their legs stopped after uards could think about was sitting down

ether…’

‘I came this far, I can’t collapse now…’ </enashed their teeth as they tried to endure, but willpower alone wasn’t enough to keep their bodies upright They fell to the ground, one by one Their bodies felt very comfortable as if they were in heaven And once they sat, they wanted to lay down, and once they laid down, they would want to sleep

et up’ </es with their fists, they showed no sign ofIt was the first time their bodies refused to listen to them, and they started to panic as Specter approached them

“Are you so exhausted you want to collapse?” he asked

“N-no!”

“We can get up I-if you just give us a mouards couldn’t s They even started to wonder if they would be able to ain

“No You’ve reached your limits” Specter declared as he scanned thees

“Then… Did we fail?”

“Will you not teach us anyry It was so unfair Specter could see their feelings in their faces They had a burning desire to keep going, but their bodies wouldn’t listen

‘How cute’

Of course, Specter knew about this After all, he had already esti “Congratulations You’ve all reached your limit and surpassed it”

“?”

They had already reached their limits thirtyon willpower alone

ive up’ </eh; not a single one had dropped out

“Rest Toain,” he said kindly He asked River to open the Moving House, and personally helped uard inside Now, there were ten people left in the Wailing Mountains

“The non-cohters should be able to go for at least twice that long, no?”

“Yes, sir” Their voices were loice as long meant they had to run for at least six more hours It was a ridiculous expectation Even if the non-coes didn’t have as h that it was double the non-coes’ stamina

‘It’ll probably be too ht But they had to do it In his short 26 years of life, the world hadn’t always been kind

‘Whether they like it or not, there will come a time when they have to move’

In order to prepare for that, they had to oil their gears ahead of tiret is the fastest motivator, but Players knew that this was nonsense

“Let’s go”

With Specter at the lead, nine Watchguards started to follow hilum faces

After ten hours, Specter stopped in the middle of the dark hill Arthur’s head lolled like a zo at the ground, so he didn’t even realize that they had co the same bliss that the non-combatants had experienced earlier

“Does it feel nice?” Specter asked the collapsed Watchguards, sitting on a nearby rock

“Yes… It does It’s i your liuard had reached the lih exercise to digest from the very first day

‘Sorry But we don’t have uards was important, but Specter himself also needed tian that he would only spend teeks on them

“Since we came all the way here today…” He pointed, and their eyes followed his hand “Next tiet to the peak of that uards realized so They already knew it, but it hit them once more

“Your skill will stack like stairs You’re not gonna reach the top of the mountain in one day or one session”

They tried to catch their breath as they listened Their bodies were heavy, but they also soht had been lifted off their shoulders

“Whether you have natural talent, good skills, good skill books, or good equipet stronger even faster, no one is born that way” Players heard this all the tiuards had never understood it as much as they did today “Time is on the side of those ork hard”

With that, today’s lesson ended If the Watchguards learned anything frorow even faster

once it gets a little tiring’ </eh Specter’s case was special, he hunted and trained until he wanted to die He hadn’t gone that far after his return, but he never slacked on his training He had tried his hardest when training with Booster, and when he had fought the knights at the Winter Castle Even now, he was still trying to ht

ht’

Tomorrow, everyone would be bedridden from muscle soreness They probably wouldn’t even be able to stand Of course, that meant they wouldn’t be able to train either

‘We can’t have that’ </euards wouldn’t be incapacitated when the next day arrived After such a hard training session, he had to take care of his students