"Phew, phew, I can't go on."
"Hang in there. The mission rewards are waiting for us. You, kid, hold on and don't drag us down."
Snow Mountain, halfway up.
Li Zheng and the others struggled to climb. Their legs trembled as they went, and they had clearly reached their physical limits.
Behind them, Combat Instructor Kuáng Shā watched with a cold gaze:
"If you can't keep going, you can choose to quit."
Hearing Kuáng Shā's emotionless, indifferent advice, Li Zheng and the others gritted their teeth and immediately picked up the pace.
The group had gathered that morning, and then begun their initial physical training.
Before that, Kuáng Shā had handed each of them a suppression bracelet. Once worn, it detected the strength of their flesh and automatically adjusted its restrictions.
That was precisely the culprit behind their arduous climb.
The First Stage of the assessment was already proving too much for them.
In modern society, humanity had long since escaped physical labor. Robots controlled by Artificial Intelligence handled all the heavy work. When had they ever suffered like this?
But thinking of the generous rewards for completing the mission, they encouraged one another and kept going.
They looked up toward the summit. Most of the alien reserve trainees were already close to the top.
As for those behind them, there was only Instructor Kuáng Shā, following along in midair with his arms folded.
"I really don't understand what Duan Xing sees in you. Your willpower is so pathetic, yet he actually used a spot from the Heavenly Rune Clan to get you into the first training camp."
Li Zheng and the others didn't reply. They continued to endure Kuáng Shā's occasional taunts.
From Kuáng Shā's words, they gathered that God of Wealth had paid some kind of price to