Gravity Machine

Above the azure sea, the Ghost Sword sailed straight toward Boke Village.

The sun shone brightly today, and the sea was calm. White seagulls flew through the air, with an occasional few skimming across the surface and drawing long ripples in the water.

Luo Ze and Monya went their separate ways as soon as they boarded the Ghost Sword.

Luo Ze had been thinking about the training room that the old craftsman Yulis had introduced to him before, so he immediately went looking for it after boarding. Though Monya no longer disliked Luo Ze as much as she used to, she certainly could not be said to like him either. Seeing him leave on his own, she was more than happy to let him go and ran off somewhere herself.

After searching through the Ghost Sword for quite a while, Luo Ze finally found the training room he had visited once with the old craftsman Yulis. He pushed open its iron door and slowly walked in.

The chandelier's switch was on the wall. Luo Ze flicked it on, and the entire training room quickly lit up.

"Mm, this feels pretty good."

Luo Ze casually tossed his luggage into a corner. Ever since before boarding, he had been thinking about this training room built by the old craftsman Yulis. That was why he had come straight here instead of going anywhere else after getting on the ship.

"I think this is the button."

Luo Ze walked up to the training room's control console and carefully studied the machine in front of him.

This machine was also one of the old shipwright's research results.

He called it a gravity machine. The old craftsman Yulis had explained that it could alter the gravity within this cramped training room, allowing Luo Ze to undergo more demanding physical training by changing the gravity of the space.

Luo Ze was extremely satisfied with the old craftsman Yulis's invention. In the world of pirates, once physical techniques had been trained to a certain level, ordinary physical conditioning was no longer very effective. With this gravity system, he could carry out deeper, more intensive physical training.

"The old craftsman Yulis's machine can raise gravity by up to ten times, but I should try double gravity first. My body still isn't that strong. If the gravity is too high, I probably won't be able to take it."

Luo Ze muttered to himself. Since he had not put any points into the "Strength" attribute in the "Swordsman System," his physical body lagged far behind his swordsmanship and speed. He had no intention of raising the gravity by too many times right from the start.

Beep! Beep!

Luo Ze pressed a button on the gravity machine to increase the gravity, and a strange sound quickly rang out.

Then, the training room's iron door automatically shut, and the lights throughout the room turned red. At the same time, the pressure of double gravity finally descended.

As the double gravity hit him, Luo Ze felt somewhat unaccustomed to it. It was as though he had put on a full suit of heavy armor, making every movement inconvenient.

Still, double gravity was not particularly extreme. Although Luo Ze felt that his body had become heavier, he could still move freely. It just took a little more effort.

"So this is what double gravity feels like? Not bad. Training under these conditions should greatly improve my physical fitness. Once I get used to double gravity, I'll use the weighted training equipment the old craftsman prepared for me."

Luo Ze muttered to himself.

The old craftsman had also placed plenty of training equipment in the room. Weighted vests, dumbbells, barbells, treadmills—when used alongside the gravity system, all of them could provide Luo Ze with even harsher physical training.

But you had to take things one bite at a time. He had only just begun, so he had no use for those things yet.

"I'll start with push-ups."

Luo Ze braced himself against the floor and began doing push-ups one after another.

Push-ups were an incredibly remarkable exercise. They required no equipment, yet they could greatly improve one's physical condition.

Luo Ze quickly completed more than eight hundred push-ups.

For the first seven to eight hundred, Luo Ze did them with ease. Though the room was set to double gravity, his physical fitness was already quite good. Even under double gravity, he could still easily do seven or eight hundred push-ups.

However, once he passed eight hundred and fifty, Luo Ze began to struggle. Unlike before, every push-up left his arms and chest aching with fatigue and soreness.

He knew that he was nearing his limit. Though he had breezed through the first eight hundred or so, once he approached his limit, every push-up afterward would become incredibly difficult.

Luo Ze gritted his teeth, enduring the soreness in his arms and chest as he forced himself through another two hundred push-ups.

"One thousand and fifty-one... one thousand and fifty-two..."

By then, Luo Ze's arms were practically numb, devoid of all feeling. Yet he continued to grit his teeth and persevere, because he knew better than anyone that when he had already reached his limit, every additional repetition was a step toward breaking through.

If he could do one thousand and fifty-two this time, then he definitely could next time as well.

His willpower had always been exceptionally strong. Others might choose to rest once their bodies had been pushed to the point of utter exhaustion, but he was different.

He continued gritting his teeth and pushing past his limits, while enjoying the pain from the bottom of his heart.

He did another two hundred push-ups.

However, after Luo Ze completed his one thousand two hundred and fifty-second push-up, he could no longer raise his arms.

Luo Ze sprawled on the floor, gasping violently. He wanted to go over and shut off the gravity system for the moment. But he was simply too exhausted. Before he could even crawl up from the floor, he collapsed again and lay there limply.

"Haha... That was satisfying."

Luo Ze gulped down breaths of air and laughed.

He truly felt that the old craftsman's gravity machine was immensely useful. With it, Luo Ze's physical training would yield twice the results with half the effort. Though the process was rather painful, Luo Ze greatly enjoyed this kind of self-torment.

Seven days passed quickly.

Dog Town was very far from Monya's hometown, Boke Town. Although the Ghost Sword sailed extremely fast due to its unique power system, after seven days, it had only covered two-thirds of the journey.

And during those seven days, Luo Ze never left the training room.

He felt as though he had developed a tendency toward self-abuse, spending every day under double gravity as he trained his body like mad.

At first, he could only do one thousand two hundred and fifty-two push-ups. But as he broke through his limits time and again, Luo Ze became able to do one thousand five hundred and three, then one thousand six hundred, one thousand seven hundred... and finally, two thousand!

But that was not Luo Ze's limit.

By the third day, Luo Ze could already do two thousand push-ups.

After achieving this accomplishment, Luo Ze did not feel complacent. He directly put on the set of weighted clothes in the corner and continued doing push-ups, squats, and running.

During this time, Luo Ze collapsed from exhaustion more than once.

But every time he woke up, after eating the nutritious meal made by the robot, he recovered quickly. Then he continued brutally punishing his body.

Monya also came to the training room several times out of curiosity to check on Luo Ze. However, every single time, she happened to see Luo Ze relentlessly torturing himself.

For a time, she thought Luo Ze had mental problems. Otherwise, how could he abuse himself like a madman?