The Path to Strength – The Beginning of Brutality

Chapter 94: The Path to Strength – The Beginning of Brutality

🔥 Aether Academy's Underground Training Facility

Rei Kurogane and Kozuki Renjou stood before a massive steel door. It was marked with a single warning:

💀 "ENTER AT YOUR OWN RISK." 💀

Professor Graves (grinning): "You two got humiliated in the tournament. Now it's time to fix that."

Kozuki cracked his neck. "Tch. About time."

Rei adjusted his bandages. "What's waiting inside?"

🔥 Graves smirked.

Graves: "Hell."

💥 BOOM! 💥

The doors burst open, revealing a brutal training ground unlike anything they had seen before.

✔ Steel walls covered in scorch marks.✔ Training dummies reinforced with military-grade armor.✔ Gravity control chambers that could increase weight up to 10x.✔ AI combat bots designed to kill, not spar.

💀 This wasn't training. This was survival. 💀

Phase One: Unbreakable Bodies

💥 The Gravity Hell Chamber 💥

Rei and Kozuki stood in a massive dome as the air around them grew heavier.

1.5x gravity…3x gravity…5x gravity…

Kozuki: "Tch… nothing yet."

🔥 10x Gravity Activated! 🔥

Suddenly, their knees buckled. Every step felt like dragging a mountain. Rei collapsed instantly, his body screaming in pain.

Graves (mocking): "If you can't move under this, you're dead in a real fight."

Kozuki: "Shut… up…!"

With sheer force of will, Kozuki forced himself up, veins bulging, sweat dripping.

Rei, however, lay still. His brain was analyzing. "I can't overpower this. I need to adapt."

💀 So he did. 💀

✔ Instead of resisting, he changed his movement.✔ He stopped fighting against gravity and flowed with it.✔ Step by step, he started walking.

🔥 After six hours, they were still standing. 🔥

Phase Two: Blood and Broken Bones

💥 The AI Death Squad 💥

Five combat bots entered.No mercy. No holding back.Full killing intent activated.

Rei and Kozuki had no weapons. Just their bare hands.

Kozuki: "Time to crack some metal."

🔥 BOOM! 🔥

A bot rushed forward at lightning speed. Kozuki dodged by a hair's breadth, countering with a devastating elbow—

💥 CLANG!

His strike barely dented the machine.

Rei (thinking fast): "It's using reinforced alloys. Attacking the body is useless… but the joints—"

Rei ducked, twisting his body at the last second.

✔ He grabbed the bot's arm.✔ Dislocated the joint in one precise move.✔ Used the bot's weight against itself.

💀 SNAP! 💀

🔥 The first bot was down. 🔥

But the others attacked.

Kozuki got slammed through a steel wall.Rei barely avoided a blade slicing past his throat.Blood spilled. Bones cracked.

Graves: "No pain, no progress."

🔥 They fought for hours, breaking past their limits. 🔥

By the end—

✔ Kozuki stood, covered in blood, grinning like a demon.✔ Rei had calculated every attack, every weakness. His eyes were sharper than ever.

💀 They weren't just fighters anymore. 💀

🔥 They were monsters in the making. 🔥