His Own Punishment

 And without even a second's rest, he had disappeared. It was now time for the one hour sprint session of his at full speed. Thanks to his previous training, thinking specifically on his full day run from the center of the city to the end, his stamina was very well leveled, so it was hard for him to get tired in that sense alone. 

 It is only when you add other elements to the training, like strength and speed that gets him tired. His biggest focus when sprint training is acceleration, quickness, explosiveness and surprisingly eye training. He also made sure to add stuff like directional change and environment movement training. All this added together created extreme fatigue after his approximate one hour was over. Most of the fatigue was in his legs and the rest seemed to be in the other muscles in the body. When sprinting with the right technique, you flex your core for stabilization and move your arms like crazy when sprinting full speed. The last time he was sitting down was after he fell, he didn't want to take a break and he didn't feel the need to either.

 Next he still had another tree to destroy before moving on to the handstand pushups. Fortunately for him he knew exactly where to go for the river if he was too far away to hear it. The forest was very dense, and there was only one place so far that had a hole from the top. All he needed to do was to jump as high as he could and scan around. Thanks to his eyes he could see from much further away and also much more detailed. He wanted to clear space there so he could build something in the future as a sort of landmark. So then he found a tree, one that he thought was appropriate to his level.

 He immediately started punching and kicking the tree. He immediately went to full speed and power, he just wanted to finish as fast as possible. Thanks to his experience, he didn't need to look at stats to see his growth. He could just tell whenever he did something. But anyone could now tell, Velios had become much stronger.

 He didn't only talk about a day's distance or since he came to this world. Before he even started running, when he was destroying that tree. Anyone, even the most amatuerish amatuer could see the difference. Well, maybe not considering the speed he was going at, considering that they would only barely be able to see him. But the rate at which the tree got destroyed had already drastically improved. He got into the flow suddenly, the outside world was no more. The only thing he was focused on was that tree and everything he did to it. Every single hit, every single move, every single muscle and every single fiber in his body. He seemed to have control and clarity over everything at once, he had only achieved that a few times over his whole lifetime close to the level which his flow state was at. Peak performance, but only when certain conditions meet. But the most common trait in all of them. When something is the perfect level of difficulty for a certain individual, their concentration and everything else seems to break their own limitations and reach heights not thought possible.

 It could be seen as a waste considering that it's extremely hard to come by and also the fact that he wasted such abilities on destroying a tree, which he would do tens if not hundreds or more times in the future. But looking at the bright side, the only resource that you have that is truly precious, the one thing you can never earn more of, the one thing you should never waste. That resource is your time. The difference in speed from start to finish might only be around ten minutes. Everything you do always leads to another, and depending on how you do stuff you can change your entire rest of your time alive. Small things like these, this mentality of his, is how Velios is who he is today. He competes with himself and everybody else, he makes sure to always be afraid of not reaching his goals, he never goes back and that feeling of failure honestly scares him.

 It felt as if for him he had unlocked a new feeling yet again, but he had no idea what it could be. He couldn't pinpoint what exactly he was based on what he was feeling. It felt more complex, but he didn't even know if it were multiple emotions he was feeling or a singular one. But he knew one thing, it felt really good. Like the feeling you get when you accomplish a hard task or finally get the amount of many for a certain thing you've saved for. Out of all the people, he couldn't even describe it, the right words didn't want to come out. But he didn't have time to think about stuff like that while standing around and doing nothing. While he still felt strong and fast he decided to do the handstand pushups as fast as possible while he still had the strength so that he could get even more of them. The faster he was done with the challenge, fully completed he could train something else, explore the world or even learn something about it for an advantage. The ideas kept on flowing in and he just got more and more excited for every second that passed.

 After some time had passed he couldn't do a single one more. He now had his answer for his question. And the answer was that his regeneration would prove dominant. He was not becoming weaker due to fatigue, but he was in fact becoming much stronger. But, he had only managed to do one thousand and three hundred twelve pushups. Which in itself is a massive improvement, but if he had only managed to do four hundred or five hundred more, then it would easily take another seven rounds of this cycle before completing it and that's not even accounting for the fatigue slowly building up. He knew that he would spend at least quite a few days until done. The only thing he could consume was the water unless a wild animal showed up which proved to be highly unlikely since there was close to no wild life. He guessed that they were further in. But now that he knew that he could do it, the fire kept on burning in his eyes. But how long would it take to do all of them?