1181 Becoming Stronger 3 (1/2)

At the outskirts of the Lily of the Valley, in a deserted mountain area.

A group of people parked their car just beside a small forest. Garen, Kong Xinxue, Nine-Tailed Fox, and the two siblings who wished to be trained, Yuria and Yurijie, a total of five people had got down from the car.

All of them were in the dark green camouflage military uniform with all sorts of items hanging on their bodies. They were also carrying a huge backpack, which looked rather packed.

Nine-Tailed Fox led them deep into the forest once they had gotten down from the car.

”This is an emergency base where my subordinate would use to train. Feel free to stay as long as you like and I'll let you use it for free,” Nine-Tailed Fox said generously.

”Thank you,” Garen nodded as he looked at Yuria. ”My training towards you will start from here.”

”Understood!” Yuria replied loudly. He felt that Garen was filled with mystery. He, who was just a normal secondary school student was able to come in contact with so many mysterious things. Furthermore, he seemed to strangely have a very wide network as well and his powerful Saber Art seemed to be trained out from an actual battle.

”Let's go...”

Garen then followed Nine-Tailed Fox as they headed forward swiftly.

Yuria and his sister followed tightly from behind and Kong Xinxue was the last one walking behind everyone else.

They walked passed a few Tripod Surveillance Towers which had swivel surveillance systems with red lights coming out from it.

”This is the scanning system installed for this base. It can scan and detect any movement in an area of up to two hundred and fifty meters,” Nine-Tailed Fox explained. ”I've spent tens of millions on this system.”

She explained as she walked further in.

Soon a jade-green pond appeared in front of the forest. The oval-shaped pond looked rather sticky and one could even smell the faint stench coming off from it.

”This is it,” Nine-Tailed Fox pointed at the pond.

”This is the location?”

Garen walked towards the pond, turned around and looked at Yuria as if there was nothing wrong with it.

”This is where you'll train.”

”Huh?” Yuria walked towards the pond and looked into the water confusingly.

Then, Garen revealed a mysterious smile.

”This is the best place for your training, where you can enhance your actual strength within a short amount of time.”

”Is that so?” Yuria looked at the stinky water inside the pond and could not figure out why this place suited him at all.

”Don't believe me?” Garen smiled as he gave him a strong kick on the back.

Yuria immediately plunged into the pond and a huge splash followed along.

Yurijie and the rest were stunned but they suppressed their doubts within themselves. They knew that Garen would never harm Yujia, hence, this action was definitely part of the training.

”Brother Saber?” Yuria surfaced his head out of the water with a confused look on his face.

”This is your training,” Garen laughed.

”My training?”

Yuria was confused. It was not just him as the rest were confused as well.

Garen then hinted him on what his next action would be.

”Try and raise up your right arm.”

Yuria then raised up his right arm confusingly as he heard the instruction.

His entire arm that was exposed was densely filled with black leeches, These black brown leeches were attached to his arms with their tails hanging freely downwards. they swung about freely like a bunch of black ropes...

Yuria then swung about the leeches on his hand.

”Are these... Leeches?... Ahhh!!!!!” He started screaming madly as his face turned green and then purple before his face became distorted. ”My God!!!”

He immediately tried to swim up towards the shore.

”Hehe. There's at least thirty four of them. Pretty popular,” Nine-Tailed Fox was impressed.

”That's right...” Garen nodded.

Yurijie looked at him from the side with a worried look as she covered her mouth with her hand whereas Kong Xinxue was just crossing her arms and observed coldly as if she was looking at a circus act.

”What are you afraid of?” Garen moved forward and tried to kick Yuria who was almost out of the pond back down into it. ”Haven't you realized?”

”Brother Saber! I'm dying! For real, I'm about to die...! This is a murder, not a training!!” Yuria was on the verge of crying as he fell back into the pond. This time, his entire body which was exposed to the water excluding his face was covered in leeches, which could not be pulled off.

”Looks like you have not realized it,” Garen shook his head. ”Enjoy yourself inside.”

The Nine-Tailed Fox took out the ropes that she had prepared beforehand with a crafty look on her face.

Ten minutes later... Yuria was entirely tied up and thrown into the pond. What was revealed was his face so that he could breathe

”Help!!” He cried out loudly, but Yurijie did not come and attempt to save him at all. Instead, she was pulled to one side by someone and gave up after a few moments of hesitation.

”Enjoy your bath. We will head in and have our meal,” Garen waved his hand as he brought the rest into a small house which could be faintly seen.

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Two hours later...

Yuria was on the verge of dying...