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. 🔥