Even before the sun rose, the seven Heroes were already wide awake to train, unlike the first week of theirs in this world.
It was hard to wake up this early, not due to them not being used to waking up this early, but mostly due to the lack of an alarm clock and a reminder to wake up since the temple only has a roaster to wake them up.
Feeling good and hyped about their newly earned skill, the heroes rushed their morning routine to get to the training area to train.
As the group crossed paths in the hallway, they gave each other a smile and morning greeting and finally made their way to it.
As they got to the training area, they thought for sure their instructor Clark would be there, like how he had been all this time.
So seeing him not there on his chair waiting for them felt weird, but they started running on their own.
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A few hours have passed already since they have been in the training area, and all this time, Clark has not been seen or heard to come to them at all, making them feel weirder.
Yuki and Ritsu looked at each other and stopped running with everyone else, they hesitated for a bit before asking each other at the same time.
"You first," Yuki said.
"Alright then. Do you think he'll come today?" He questions, followed by: "Do you think he hated it that we used appraisal on him yesterday at the same time?" he said, looking down.
Hearing the follow-up words, Yuki flinched, wondering if teasing him yesterday was also a reason for him not to be here today.
Unable to answer his question, not wanting to get blamed for it, he looked at him and said, "He's probably slept late out only, bet he'll come a moment later," then ran again to not continue their conversation.
Hearing Yuki answer, Ritsu was convinced, and seeing he was the only one who was not running now, he followed behind them.
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An hour later Clark finally appeared along with the priestess beside him yesterday, holding a basket on her arm.
Being at the furthest back of the training area near the forest behind them, Ritsu used his magic item and looked at the instructor; seeing his ear bright red; he wondered what had happened before they got here.
A moment later, he saw him yelling out something, and seeing everyone running towards the two, he followed up again with the rest.
After grouping near Clark, he announced that one week from now, all of them would go deep into the forest to fight inside a 2-floor dungeon around levels 10-17.
Followed up, that they will now have to do other exercises except running from today onward. Making everyone more hype up and excited about their dungeon subjugation.
"Everyone steps inside," Clark said to everyone. Seeing everyone behind him, inside the temple, he stretched out his hand to the field.
A second later, blue and brown energy swirled around his arm; seeing this, the heroes wondered what would happen now, while the priestess with them, eyes sparkled in excitement, waiting for something.
After a minute since he stretched out his arm to the field, a wave of energy left his palm, colored in the blue and brown energy before cutting hundreds of the full-grown giant trees behind the field temple.
As the trees began to fall, they stopped before hitting the ground; one by one, each of the fallen trees floated in the air; they spun around relentlessly without stopping.
Clark groans for a bit before saying: [ Wind blade ] A second later, a gust of energy in green leaves his fingertips and made on the tip of the tree in the sky.
As the energy is made to the top of the tree, it begins to be skinned off like a pencil being sharpened, while the bottom of the tree is flattened down.
The tree trunks of the cut tree began to uproot themselves and jumped into each other. At the same time, the Earth around them began to cover them, making a small hill, while the cut tree still sharpened in the sky.
Five minutes after the sight before they started, it stopped Clark leaning against the priestess with them while the priestess was caring for him.
There, right before their eyes, appeared a new ground area, surrounded by a wall made of trees with sharpened tops, bushes, and grass-like forms from the leaves of the tree, making a new environment for them to get used to.
Shallow and deep sinkholes are made from uprooted tree trunks, with different sizes of hills made from tree trunks that have been covered by dirt.
Their training area has increased by over a hundred meters longer from the destroyed forest behind the temple made from Clark magic.
Looking at it they wanted to explore it even though it was in front of them. "Stop! I'm not done yet," Clark said, drinking a bottle colored in Blue from the basket of the priestess.
He stood up, dusted himself, and said something for one last time: [ Training tools]. As those words left his mouth, the remaining cut tree moved all over the training and changed into various training items and equipment.
"Go! One week, train yourself and increase your level by lifting weights and doing other exercises or whatever can help you guys increase your stats." He sighed and took a sip from the bottle.
"You guys should know more about this than me since you guys are from Earth and do physical training, right?" He said he was unsure of what to teach them since he had never trained on his physical strength.
"All of you should reached level 10 by then, and after that, you guys will clear the dungeon." He said looking at them, remembering the man before he continued with:
"till then I won't be in here, so all of you will train on your own. Then bye!" Waving his hand to them as he leaves with Ria on his arm.
Seeing this, everyone waved back and looked around the new training area and equipment for them to use.
Chapter 9 end.