Aditya exercised continuously.

He didn’t take any breaks. For every exercise he took up, squats, crunches, pull-ups, burpees. He had to do them until he cannot move his body anymore and he took sips of the recovery potions to get back into shape.

He worked out for hours and when he was done, there is a puddle of sweat on the floor.

He quickly cleaned the room up, placed the remaining bottle of potion in the cardboard box with the baking soda baits and placed the whole box in the inventory.

He doesn’t have enough inventory slots and he is still waiting for the box filled with food that will be coming from his new trading partner.

As he started showering with cold water, he looked through the attributes and he was stunned to see.

[ATTRIBUTES

STRENGTH: 21

DEXTERITY: 20.5

ENDURANCE: 19

INTELLIGENCE: 13

WISDOM: 12]

There is barely any change in the attributes. Aditya was really stunned by this. He has been working out for three and a half hours, without a break. He did squats until he fell down and he got a break for thirty seconds.

There is no way he could be satisfied with this. After all, all this while for every three and a half hours or so, he spent in the AIP got him massive increase in the attributes, but he barely had any in this one.

He really wanted to scream to the gods above for this unfairness.

[Really? You were fighting against the bugs that could suck your eyes out of your sockets in a single swoop in the AIPs and here you are just putting your body through some physical pain. What do you think is more dangerous?]

That is what Ram said.

Aditya finished his shower and came out. By now his stomach his grumbling in rebellion. He is feeling extremely hungry to the point he felt like he is losing some weight.

He looked in the trading room and noticed that the materials are ready to be taken. He is really happy about that and when he accepted it, the box appeared in his empty inventory slot.

He opened the large box and noticed there are twelve boxes of large pizza.

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It smelled amazing. Along with that there is a message on the cardboard box.

“Original Italian Pizza. Nothing like you have ever tasted. Enjoy it.”

That was what’s written on it.

Aditya was really excited and luckily for his sake, Andrew was considerate enough to not use the take out boxes that were labelled with the Italian names.

If someone saw these boxes, particularly his roommates, saw these boxes with the takeout labels and brands, he wouldn’t be able to explain it to them. So, now he can safely eat them.

The pizzas are piping hot. They are definitely just out of the oven. He took all the pizzas and placed them on the two tables as he started eating one after another.

He never knew that there are this many types pizzas in this world. In fact, he doesn’t know much about the pizzas, he just started eating them after confirming that there is no beef in any of them.

Most of them are chicken and vegetarian which he is quite comfortable eating and he did exactly that.

As he swiped one pizza after another and threw out the take out boxes, suddenly his roommates came when there are five of them left.

“Damn, somebody is hoarding delicious food all for themselves. You are goddamn traitor, Aditya.”

Suraj yelled on top of his lungs as soon as he saw Aditya devouring a slice. Aditya looked at three of his roommates with an awkward smile.

He felt lucky that he threw out the boxes of the pizzas he already ate, otherwise, he would be in trouble.

“Hello, guys. I am not hoarding. Come on, you can’t be thinking that I can eat all of them by myself right? It is just I cannot hold myself back.”

Aditya said with a smile.

And then everyone started digging in.

Aditya simply ignored all the questions related to where he got them and grabbed a slice and started stuffing his face.

Actually, he is not feeling hungry at all now. After all, he ate seven pizzas, that is too much even for him. He didn’t expect that even doubling the strength would be this troublesome. He couldn’t help but think what would happen if it grows even more.

He is very horrified thinking about that.

While he is thinking, Venkat suddenly said.

“Oh, Manasa got your number from me, but you didn’t answer any of her calls.”

“What is it about?” Aditya said as he looked at his phone. He put it on silent and forgot about it.

“Tomorrow after the basic ceremony is over, we need to gather at the SAE club for something related to our freshmen. So, she wants to ask you something about that.”

Aditya nodded and got out with his slice.

There are a lot of missed calls and even some text messages.

He called her.

“Hello? Aditya?”

“Yes, what is the matter? Was it something important? You called so many times.”

“What is the point of your phone if you are not going to use it at all?”

Aditya was taken aback. He didn’t expect a scolding as soon as he spoke. After all, he and Manasa are not actually that close. They barely knew each other. He felt like this scolding is a bit too familiar in tone.

“So, is it important or not?” Aditya asked calmly.

Manasa took a deep breath and said.

“I am sorry. I was a bit frustrated. There is some trouble on my side and I want you to help me.”

“Sure, I can’t promise anything, but I would try.”

“Tomorrow, come a bit early and meet me at the SAE club, we can talk there.”

“Can you at least give me some details? So, that I can be prepared. If it is not something that I can do, you will at least have a headsup.”

“Okay, the seniors are setting me up a bit.

Tomorrow you will be asked to pick a lottery for some of the competitions our club is going to attend. Apart from the main vehicle competitions of course.I am looking to be involved as a senior and a team leader, I have to take one of these competitions and it is going to a be disaster if I don’t win. I need your help for that.”

“What kind of competition is it?”

“Have you heard of Metal Art?”