Author's Note: Do Not Unlock Yet. Chapter Is Still Under Construction
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The fourth week at the Awakened Academy had rolled in like a storm, and with it came yet another intense training session. Today, the first-year Warriors had gathered at the base of an artificially created mountain, one of several training installations spread across the sprawling landscape of Camp 11. This mountain, like many others used for drills, was imbued with advanced gravitational runes and core-embedded pressure regulators.
A hundred steep stone steps wound upward along its slope, and today's lesson was simple in premise but brutal in execution: climb the stairs one step at a time, swinging your sword twice for every step taken. Every ten steps increased the gravity pressing down on their bodies, making it harder to breathe, harder to stand, harder to think. Only those who reached the top were considered to have passed the drill. But so far, not a single first year had done so.
