9

Not even the awakened would know what was coming, and there was literally nothing they could do to stop it. Lilian would just be one of many that would be sucked into a war that no one was ready for. The first dungeons were just as they said they were. Nothing more then a tutorial to give humans a chance at surviving the hell that way coming. Would the world fall to chaos or would it survive?

I had a weird dream. Someone was speaking to me, but they weren't using any words. They kept on insisting on me going out to kill some more. I didn't understand what they meant or what they wanted. The voice was feminine. 

It was such a pretty voice, but I didn't know what she was saying. I woke up after about five hours of sleep. Rolling out of bed far earlier then I expected. I wasn't exhausted either. I was completely awake.

I didn't feel the usual exhaustion. I always had sleep in my eyes when I woke up with less then eight hours of sleep. Why wasn't I tired this time? Was is because of my increase in stamina or something else? I stood up.

Stretching slowly. When had I ever felt this well rested? I went outside to feed the rabbits right quick. It was dark out, but the moon was out, and it felt as if my vision was a little better then it had been before. My health was at a hundred, and my body felt incredibly light. 

I felt as if I was walking on air. I'd never felt this light before. I'd always felt this weight on me my entire life. I hadn't always been overweight, but the weight had always been there. I worked away at the manure beneath the rabbit hutch. 

Bagging it all to sell. I only got five dollars a bag, but it was something. I wondered how long this newfound feeling would last. I focused on this feeling as I scraped shit in the dark. I didn't really care. 

I would hold onto this feeling for as long as I could even if it required me to go after the worst monsters I could imagine. I wanted to grasp this feeling as long as possible. I felt the urge to summon the dragon egg. I didn't know why. It wasn't as if the damn thing was anywhere near hatching yet. 

I could humor the impulse once I was back in my apartment if I remembered it. I waited until I was done cleaning up the shit before heading back up to my apartment. It was the middle of the night so no one was really open. That meant I had to actually cook, but first. The bathroom was calling me. 

I started the water first before heading to the bathroom. By the time I was done the water was ready for noodles. I poured the noodles into the hot water. Then all I had to do was wait a bit. I decided to cook a few slices of bacon to add it to the macaroni once it was done. 

Bits of ham wouldn't be a bad addition either, but I didn't have ham anymore. Then I remembered that I left a little bit of leftovers back at the hotel. I shrugged it off. It was the only thing I'd left behind, and besides the fact that I kind of wanted to eat it now it wasn't anything more then a minor inconvenience. It was too early in the morning for me to worry about sunrise. 

I dropped into pushup position, and put one arm behind my back. I was curious. If I made it harder for myself maybe I would be able to speed through my pushups while actually doing less push ups. I just needed to wait for the macaroni to cool before I could eat it. That gave me plenty of time to test my theory. 

I just needed to do one single handed pushup, and see what happened. If I was right then I would get credit for two. I tried to do it. It took me way longer then I thought it would to pull off a single one handed pushup. Once I did manage it I realized that I really could have one push up count for two. 

All I had to do was use one arm. I stood up, and grabbed my bowl of macaroni. Stepping over to the bed, and sitting on it to watch tv, and eat my food. I knew that I shouldn't eat a whole box of macaroni with three pieces of bacon all by myself, but who was going to stop me? I ended up putting a DVD into my game console simply because the internet wasn't working that great. 

My phone had been slow to load as well, but with my phone I could at least switch between internet, and the mobile network. The console didn't work that way. I could just play one of those games that wasn't online, but I wasn't willing to dedicate my hands to any of that right now. Food came first. Once I was done with food I was going outside to do some exercise. 

I had some serious working out to do. I still had that feeling that something was coming. I didn't know what that something was. I didn't know if I cared. I stretched slowly. 

I started doing pushups right away. I focused on balancing myself, and doing them one handed so I wouldn't have to do as many. It was hard to balance, but once I got it figured out I would be able to do it more easily. Once I learned how to do it on command I'd be able to handle it more easily. I needed to improve my balance, and heighten the sensitivity of my center of gravity. 

I didn't know how accurate that statement was, but that was the way it felt to me. Time would tell how much work it would take for me to improve my stats in the future. I was already sitting on three thousand push ups for one strength stat point. I worked on opening my mana veins while I did the push ups. I'd opened up the mana veins on both of my arms.