"You don't have to do it Samsung." Henry said when he heard what Samsung said.
"This is not for you. It is to encourage the kid to be like how we were at his age." Samsung refuted immediately which made Henry blush a little which made Gideon to cover his mouth with hands to not laugh looking at his blush.
After a small talk and discussion on how and where to add the iron blocks in Gideon's armor that would not affect his movements and speed, Gideon sold the 4 bronze teeth he harvested for 25 dallans which was a dallan more than the current market rate for each teeth.
He thanked Samsung and did a side glance at Henry for trying to modify his armor without his knowledge, left the shop and went home feeling excited about his armor as Samsung said he will be painting his full black armor with some gold to make it look better after the 'upgrade' he does for him.
But, Gideon had to control his excitement for now as it is not something that can be done overnight and need a week's time to complete it with no defects which might happen if it was done in a hurry.
Till then, Gideon couldn't go out on any tasks which made him a bit sad, but he thought it was a good time for him to relax and perform the 'Devil's Exercise' … no, the Constitution Enhancement Exercise and see if he could break through to the 16th step that could give him extra adrenaline boost in the battle.
He was in a way forced to take the time off from the Adventures Association and go out on tasks, but he is not going to waste this time by taking the rest his foster parents wanted him to do. He will use it to refine his basic fighting technique while also performing the Constitution Enhancement Exercise.
He wanted to focus on it for now, as after completing the 1st cycle, it would give him a permanent boost in strength, speed and healing even without performing the exercise.
Everyone wanted it, but they were not strong willed to face the pain they would feel while performing the exercise. Everyone who had integrated their soul with a monster partner had tried, but failed. Only a few had completed the 1st cycle and stopped after that as the pain only increased only a little after every step, but would be doubled after completing a cycle.
He was not afraid of pain and he is not going to slack off. Most of his peers are already more experienced than him and some even started to treat him as a garbage because he was the youngest and the last to undergo the Soul Integration which already forced him to be the last in a race to power and he is not going to waste the days taking rest when he didn't need it.
He went home, had his dinner and went to the garden with his short sword to start practicing his fighting technique and to perform the exercise with a stern expression on his face.
Being skinny, he knows he can't rely on strength and has to focus on speed to face the monsters which would be stronger than an average human which automatically puts him at a disadvantage in any fight.
Gideon was someone who had been an average student in school, but didn't slack in the physical training, always giving his best, gaining a good name from his physical training teacher which made his peers bully him for being weak and skinny. Being a dark brown skinned kid made it even worse which made him become an introvert and keep everything hidden inside his heart and mind.
He took a deep slow breath to calm his mind and started practicing his basic fighting technique he was taught in school. He started stabbing, chopping, slicing, sweeping, blocking and parrying his imaginary enemies which were mostly the bullies in school while Jaice was sitting on one of the cloth drying strings in the garden keeping watch over him.
He continued his sword training for an hour before he paused to get rest for a few minutes as he couldn't keep training for hours immediately and had to gradually increase it to not hurt himself by training for a long period of time from the start.
He was breathing heavily by the end of his training, so he slouched on the chair that was under a tree. He took a few deep breaths and waited for his heavy breathing to become even before emptying an entire bottle of 250 ml water into his stomach.
TAP
After calming his breathing, he realized his major flaw in his fighting technique and hit himself hard on his forehead.
He forgot to infuse the Spirit Energy into his short sword when training. He also used it barely in yesterday's fight against the Bronze Teeth Rats even when fighting the Tier-1, level-2 and level-3 rats.
He has to start infusing his Spirit Energy more often in battles so he could try to even the odds with the penetration power it would give him. He has to start focusing on infusing it regularly to make it a habit in every battle.
It will also help him to use the Spirit Energy his body stores to be refined and used without being defused back out of his body after being not used for days.
After pondering for a while, he decided to make it a habit to train in his basic fighting technique infusing his Spirit Energy for at least an hour a day and also perform the Constitution Enhancement Exercise along with it so he could complete the 1st cycle as quickly as he could.
He decided to do this even when he is out in the wild for days on any tasks that might need him to stay in the wild.
He also wondered how his Spirit Refinement percentage was and when he checked, he was baffled would be an understatement.
His Spirit Refinement was only at 27.43 % which was only 0.03 % higher than his 1st refinement %.
He immediately started refining the Spirit Energy in the storage of the Spirit Refiner as he hadn't done that more often and only when he was resting during his injury from his 1st task.
He also decided on doing Spirit Refinement all the time as doing it only for 3 days didn't do much good. The only problem he had to face is he had to split a little of his focus to the Spirit Refiner as it would only compress and make the gaseous Spirit Energy to liquid state automatically, but to refine, he has to focus on it.
And he will also become tired faster than usual when he refines the Spirit Energy as it will use his physical power and spirit power to refine the Spirit Energy.
He has to train himself to multitask so he can refine the Spirit Energy continuously even when he is doing other things or fighting monsters in the wild.
Refining the Spirit Energy is the most important work one must do, second to nothing as the more the refinement % was, the more powerful their infused and Spirit Energy attacks would be.
He blamed himself for a minute for forgetting this important work that every Soul Integrated human must do at the starting and he had been lapsing for 2 months which puts him in a very disadvantageous position than others.
He wanted to rectify it and started refining his Spirit Energy immediately, wanting not to waste anymore time on it.
With that, he stood from the chair, went to the center of the garden and started practicing the basic sword techniques while gritting his teeth to endure the pain from performing the Constitution Enhancement Exercise.
He was only able to do all the 3 together for about 10 minutes before he fell down on the ground when fatigue reached a point that he couldn't endure.
He was a bit taken aback because he was unable to endure doing all the 3 works together even for 10 minutes, which means, his strength, stamina and spirit power is lower than he expected and has to find a way to increase it as soon as humanly possible.
After lying on the ground for a minute, he sat with a groan as Jaice kept pecking his ear with worry and fear mixed in her feelings that were shared.
He patted her head with a smile on his face and decided to do some other basic exercises like pull ups, push ups, squatting and also going for jogging whenever he is in a safe location to increase the attributes he was lacking.
With all these in his mind, he rested for another 15 minutes before he continued to perform all the 3 together taking 15 minutes of rests after every 10 minutes when he reached his limits.
He didn't want to get injured and become more of a burden for his foster parents when they are trying their best to keep him safe.