Snow Valley Training Camp.
Snow filled the sky as Li Zheng and the other Hardcore Grinder Group players stood bare-chested on the Training Ground, swinging stone hammers against the Crystal Wall before them, blow after blow.
"Eighty! Eighty! Eighty!"
"I'm so tired. I want food so badly. What's even the point of hammering this thing?"
"All the manual labor I've done since I was little doesn't add up to what I've done in this damn camp. They're training us like beasts. When will this ever end?"
Complaints filled the voice channel. At their head, Li Zheng said helplessly:
"Enough talking. We have to finish hammering it anyway, so let's get it done and rest."
"The rewards had better be good this time, or I'm going to lose it." Eat Dirt couldn't resist complaining again.
For this training exercise, Kuang Sha required them to smash the Crystal Wall with stone hammers.
The repeated blows left the webs of Li Zheng's and the others' hands numb from the vibrations, yet only faint scratches marked the Crystal Wall's surface.
It showed no sign of breaking at all.
To continue the task, they could only grit their teeth and persist.
As they worked, the webs of their hands split and bled, and sweat streamed down their foreheads.
Turning to look, they saw the beasts from the various races throwing themselves into training, completely ignoring their injuries. The Crystal Walls before them rang under their blows.
Only occasionally, as they hammered the walls, could a stomach be heard growling.
This was the aftermath of the cafeteria's hunger-endurance war, and the Snow Valley Training Camp trainees' way of welcoming those from Water Valley Training Camp.
They had added an extra training course that no instructor had ordered: hunger endurance.
After three consecutive days of hunger-endurance training,