Julie watched him enter the periphery step by step as his pace became slower and slower from the increased gravity.

She observed all of his body language and facial expressions. His body trembled as it started becoming red from the exertion and his expression changed from calm to serious till it became a slight grimace.

After taking ten steps he stopped to take a deep breath before taking out the bident from his inventory. He then used the new spear art according to the manual he read earlier.

From her perspective his movements in that place was very praiseworthy as he still didn't falter despite the sluggish and painful experience with every stroke of his weapon that kept making his skin redder and bleed slightly from the limit.

She checked his status window covertly to monitor his progress in real time. As her social status exceeded his by more than three stages she could indeed do such a thing. As a matter of fact, even the teachers weren't exempt from it as her noble identity was just that lofty in the domain.

She gave a slight nod of satisfaction after observing his status window.

[Social Information:

Name - Blue

Age - 18

Class - Blight Paladin (Level 8)

Identity - Outer Player Academy Student

Student Ranking - 4th (1st Year)

Student Quarters Placing - Cloud House 4

Academy Points - 610

Contact Number - 9876ABYZ54321

Base Stats: 72

Strength 14

Constitution 10

Dexterity 10

Intelligence 12

Wisdom 14

Charisma 12

Attribute Comprehension:

Moderate stage early phase

Class Skill Proficiency:

Beginner stage peak phase

Main Weapon Mastery:

Conscious Effort stage peak phase

Inventory: 1m²

Health potions, stamina potions, paper bags, shovel…

Achievement:

None

Quest:

Compulsory - None

Voluntary - None]

Worthy of the top prodigy who she truly acknowledged. This much progress in just near two months was already on par with the top three and even his level had already exceeded them.

She was very pleased with this. Though lower levels and three attainments’ lower stages were easier to progress further, there's still a big gap between those who were prodigies, top prodigies and even outliers among their peers.

She firmly believed that with her polishing he would also become such.

An outlier who shines brilliantly among the other players. This was the high expectations she had of him after having been thoroughly impressed by his manners and behaviors. He was truly a young man with a boundless potential.

Stolen story; please report.

She watched his training while keenly keeping a track on his status window as well as his condition.

When she finally noticed him being not able to continue if it went on any longer she promptly used a skill of her class to teleport him away from there as he appeared next to her.

She told him not to drink those potions but instead gave him a dozen of exquisite vials of glowing liquid that was of a much better quality as it healed the injury and restored stamina at the same time. Such products were unavailable for other students but for him she made an exception.

It was her investment in him.

°°°°

Blue rested for half an hour before treading ahead again.

The restoration elixir given by her had worked its effect within the few moments after he drank it but obviously the mental exhaustion was still a thing. Though an elixir was out of reach for the students and her investment in him proved to show her expectations but the true good stuff had still not been brought out by her.

In his past life he had talent in alchemy and the branch of puppetry was his true expertise. That being said, making potions and elixirs were nothing to him even if it was not his specialization. The potions were those products that could only give a singular effect to the consumer.

It was also called a failed product tacitly by all alchemists.

The health and stamina potion he was using was a thing that couldn't enter the eyes of an accomplished alchemist. He had plenty of such trash in his subspace which he randomly chucked in batches from failing in creating elixirs once in a while.

An elixir was those that could give the consumer more than one effect upon consumption. The restoration elixir she gave him and the medicinal liquid tank from the simulation facility were one and the same.

Alchemists would only consider an elixir as a standard for a successful concoction in that field.

There were more higher grade products out there which were available and he had much of it in his subspace but obviously he wouldn't waste even one of it as those were all consumables. A single one used is gone forever as he had no abyssal ingredients to make them, procure them or buy them from someone and even without abyssal ingredients he had no channel to get similar ones from other places. He was currently a combat class of the player civilization so showing talent in alchemy would be extremely suspicious.

Thus his stock of both the ingredients and the products were extremely precious.

The higher grade products could also restore him from mental exhaustion but because of Julie still not having that big of a favorability he failed to secure a channel for such products. Sure enough, the grind needs to continue.

He had been informed by the Primordial Auditor how she kept checking his status window but he let her be as his was modified from the start. The weapon mastery training on the increased gravity was not very useful to him as he had to practice the trash manual in front of her.

However, it wasn't entirely useless as the increased gravity had been pushing his body to his limit and the aether vein was slightly refined because of his weapon mastery training that conformed to combat activity. The next training of skill proficiency would also be the same.

Only the aether attribute comprehension training wouldn't show any result. His space element comprehension was so high that whatever treasure she wanted to give him wouldn't be enough to take his true comprehension further thus he again had to modify his status window accordingly.

That being said his class levels were bound to soar these three days.

With the elixir and the continuous training it was bound to be so therefore he would graciously take full leverage of this opportunity. Earlier he got her advice again about how he shouldn't hesitate to seize opportunities. He obviously would “listen” to her advice.

There's also another opportunity that was present before him.

When he reached the space where the gravity intensified for the first time, Premonition innate ability got activated again. This time it said that when he gets to the foot of the mountain there will be a great fortuitous encounter waiting for him which will help him tremendously on his plans in the academy.

This matter further drived his motivation to get to the destination in front of him as soon as possible. Earlier he was able to take ten steps before he stopped to work on his training but actually he could have advanced five more. He didn't do such an attention grabbing action for obvious reasons.

“A top prodigy should at least be able to go ten steps at the first try in this environment but fifteen was no longer the case. I have to show her my growth and adaptation in the increased gravity gradually to finally get to the destination.”

This was the only way for him to get the fortuitous encounter under her nose. This was a very dangerous matter since she was much higher leveled in strength and much loftier in social status than him. If he showed oddity then she was bound to become alerted and may investigate further.

So now he showed her his “diligence” in training as he got to the ten steps again before stopping and getting to the training of skill proficiency. He showed off his Blight Sense, Drain Touch and Wailing Sanctum skills one by one while “trying” to use them in many creative ways. He would sometimes add more limits on how he wanted to use it or tried to add more options on the utility aspect. All this done under the increased gravity naturally ended up refining his aether vein continuously. Some time passed before he decided to conclude it after training on the latest skill he unlocked.

Hearty Meal, the healing skill of his class.

He used it on himself as the surrounding aether in the air, ground and also from the trees got absorbed by his body as it healed his injuries from the slight muscle tears. The surrounding of him became more desolate and if he continues it will become lifeless from all the aether being consumed at the rapid rate.

This skill was actually multi-faceted as it not only healed his injuries but just like the elixir restored stamina. It also restored him from mental exhaustion or burden as long as he kept absorbing the surrounding aether. When all the mentioned things had been fixed it would end up storing aether for him in his aether vein channels within the body.

He was aware that if he still continued after filling it up to the maximum then there were more effects available later on but his current true skill proficiency hadn't reached that far.

For now in front of Julie he only absorbed as much aether he needed to heal the injuries on him before stopping and acting like he couldn't do more than that. His “exhaustion” was also nearing its limit so he got teleported to her side again.

With that he had one more thing left on the training schedule, for now at least.