25 Progress (2/2)

”Oh, here comes the cheat.”, Elihim chuckled, ”But we don't want that yet.”

The car stopped as Elihim sighed but Rin still absorbed the Natural Energy and his body glowed faint blue.

”Ah wait.”, Elihim pointed and the car started again and pulled Rin, ”This is a good timing to see his current capacity limits.”

The car passed the 10mph and went to 20mph. However, this time, Rin was actually the one that was winning and pulling the car away from the line drawn by Elihim.

…..

”Wow”, Elihim reacted sarcastically when Rin was dragged away by the car eventually, ”Ahaha, weak, too weak.” But Elihim was not disappointed at Rin at all.

Elihim walked over to where Rin was dragged by the car. I said walk but actually Rin was dragged about a kilometer away when the car reached 50mph and Elihim needed a little magic to help him teleport a significant distance every step.

Elihim crouched near the exhausted Rin and noticed that he was back to his usual appearance. Rin's chest was heaving up and down from exhaustion but Natural Energy helped his breathing and healed every wound from being dragged on.

”It's really unsightly that he had to become skinny and normal again and again. He really need to control the manipulation of it so that he won't need the help of the contract anymore.”, Elihim poked Rin's cheeks, ”Hahaha, after a thousand years, what will you become? Haaa, but lets not go over ourselves.” He sighed.

Elihim was just talking to himself and thought that Rin collapsed already that he didn't checked it and was surprised when Rin's lips moved and he heard an almost inaudible words, ”Master… did I fail..?”

”Yeah, very.”, Elihim replied without hesitation, ”But I'm not serious about the consequence of failing though.”

”Ahh… that's great..”, Rin made a peaceful expression.

Elihim smiled, ”I guess, I should give you a minute break.”, Rin didn't reply, probably already sleeping.

After exactly one minute…

Elihim kicked Rin so hard that Rin almost flew but was stopped by the car, pulling him. His body plopped onto the ground. Obviously, he had already woken up and when he landed he curled to the part where Elihim kicked him.

”Agh!”, Rin spout blood, his face was frowned when he opened his eyes and looked at his master and when he was about to complain, he felt a sudden pressure.

”I said minute break, no complain.”, Elihim said with his usual smile.

When the pressure disappeared, Rin stood and knew that he had to continue but because of the Natural Energy, he was rejuvenated.

”Is this a cheat?”, he looked at his hands and turned to his master.

”That is what I call it.”, Elihim shrugged his shoulders.

Rin nodded. Now that he agreed to become a disciple of this God who was ruthless enough to kill on a whim, he was long been expecting a hellish and strict training but he didn't expect it to be easy, between his master and him of course but when talking about the training itself, Rin sure wasn't wrong about being hellish.

When Rin determined himself to start again and repeat this hellish round, he ran. He ran slowly…

Then he stopped and looked back at the car he was dragging. ”Wait.”

”What? Why are you stopping?”

”Before, I couldn't even walk properly but now, I can jog even if it's slowly…?”

”What would you expect from a five hour, non-stop extreme training?”, Elihim pointed at the car.