When Asuna accepted Fang Zheng's invitation, she had firmly believed that she would surely endure his harsh training. But when the training truly began, Asuna discovered... just how vast the gap between reality and ideals could be.
Fang Zheng took complete control over their daily lives. Starting from the second day after joining the team, the three girls, including Asuna, never returned to the safe zone. Instead, they trained while leveling up in the forest alongside Fang Zheng and the others!
The basic schedule went like this.
They got up at six in the morning, then spent an hour warming up—leveling up. Next, Fang Zheng, Lestia, and Esther trained Asuna and the other two. Although they were already top-tier players, they had all come late to cold weapons and had many shortcomings. So Fang Zheng first had them practice basic weapon attacks and counterattack stances for three hours, then continue leveling.
At one in the afternoon, they got two hours to rest. They could use that time to catch their breath and relax their nerves, after which they resumed training their swordsmanship techniques in the afternoon and put them into practical combat during leveling.
This continued until eight at night... yet that still was not the end of their training.
During training, Fang Zheng kept all their food under his control. He gave Asuna and the other two another task—they had to cross a stretch of forest path alone within a set time limit. All sorts of monsters could spawn there, and there were even plenty of obstacles to trip over.
Only if they crossed the path and reached the destination on time would Fang Zheng give them food. If they went over time... well, sorry. It was not like they could starve to death in a game, so they