Viper's arms shook uncontrollably.
The Lead Skeleton on his back laughed.
Its metal pelvic bone ground against Viper's lumbar spine.
Rip. Flesh tore. Hot blood trickled down his sides.
Sweat poured into Viper's eyes, stinging like acid.
He tasted copper in his mouth. He was at rep 12. His triceps felt like they were filled with crushed glass.
It hurts.It hurts so much.
But a twisted joy kept him going.
If I am suffering this much with 150kg... Chen Shi is dead.
He pulled the 250kg S-Rank Boss. He must be a bloody pancake by now.
Viper gritted his teeth. He turned his head, straining his neck.
He wanted to see the blood.
He needed the satisfaction of seeing the arrogant rookie crushed into the floorboards.
He looked toward Rack 3.
Viper's eyes widened.
His pupils shrank to the size of pinheads.
His trembling arms completely froze. He forgot the pain.
He forgot the ghost on his back. His brain simply stopped processing reality.
HeavyTank, who was bleeding from his gums under the Spectral Gorilla, noticed the pause.
"Viper...!" Tank choked out.
"Keep moving! You'll fail! What are you looking at?!"
Tank painfully turned his head.
He looked at Rack 3.
Tank also froze. The gorilla pounded his shoulders, but Tank didn't even flinch. His jaw went slack.
[Foreign Live Stream Chat]
[What are they doing?!]
[Why did they stop?! The timer is ticking!]
[Look at their faces... they look like they just saw a ghost.]
[Are you stupid? The room is literally full of ghosts! What could shock them?!]
[Wait... the drone camera is panning to Chen Shi.]
[Show us the body!]
[Let me see his snapped spine!]
[...]
[What.]
[WHAT THE F*CK?!]
[WTF AM I LOOKING AT?!]
At Rack 3.
There was no blood.
There was no snapped spine.
There was no 250kg giant sitting on Chen Shi's back.
Because the giant was under him.
Lady Cecilia lay flat on her back on the rubber floor mat.
Her frame stretched out like a queen resting on a silk bed.
Chen Shi was suspended directly above her.
Hands planted on either side of her waist. Toes dug into the floor. A perfect plank position.
Down. Chen Shi bent his elbows. He lowered his body.
FWUMP.
His face sank directly into her massive, soft breasts.
It was like falling into a cloud of warm dough.
The heavy scent filled his lungs.
It blocked out the stench of rot and vomit filling the rest of the gym.
Up. Chen Shi pushed back up.
His face was flushed. He was gasping for air, avoiding eye contact with the big lady.
He was doing bodyweight push-ups. Zero resistance.
In fact, it was negative resistance.
The sheer elasticity of the "landing pad" were bouncing him back up.
Lady Cecilia looked up at him. Her eyes were half-lidded.
She reached up. Her fingers traced the sweat-slicked muscles of his abdomen.
SMACK.
She slapped his glute. Hard enough to sting, soft enough to send a jolt through his nervous system.
"Faster, little one."
"You are losing your rhythm."
"Go deeper."
Chen Shi swallowed hard. He went down again.
FWUMP.
More perfume. More softness. Complete suffocation.
[Dragon Country Live Stream Chat]
Silence.
Then, an eruption.
[HAHAHAHAHA!]
[Oh hell yeah!]
[I CAN'T BREATHE!]
[Look at Viper! Look at Tank! Their souls have left their bodies!]
[They are fighting for their lives, dipping their faces in vomit,
and Brother Chen is doing a motorboat push-up?!]
[The difference between Heaven and Hell is just one Rack apart!]
[Brother Chen's face is so red! He is suffering too! Suffering from extreme happiness!]
[Is this a horror game or a late-night adult broadcast?!]
[Admin Lady Cecilia: "Rules? I am the Rules."]
[@Golden_Eagle_Gambler, where are you now?! Come out and explain the biomechanics of THIS!]
[Foreign Live Stream Chat]
[THIS IS RIGGED!]
[I CALL HACKS! REPORT THIS INSTANCE TO THE ADMIN!]
[What kind of horror survival game is this?!
Our players are bleeding out, dipping their faces in vomit, and he is motorboating the Boss?!]
[System! Are you blind?! He isn't carrying any weight!]
[He is literally bouncing! I saw it! He is using her S-Rank chest as a trampoline!]
[My eyes are bleeding! Viper paid to upgrade Chen Shi's service package?!]
[User 'Golden_Eagle_Gambler' (VIP):]
[This is a visual glitch.]
[It has to be.]
[The System does not allow cheating. The rules are absolute. The sensors read 250kg of gravitational pressure.]
[He is just hiding the pain! Look at his red face! He is suffocating!]
[His arms will give out! Just wait! Biology is absolute! A Level 0 cannot sustain this!]
[Dragon Country Live Stream Chat]
[LMAO. "Hiding the pain"???]
[He is suffocating, yes! Suffocating in absolute heaven!]
Back in the gym.
Viper was still staring at Rack 3.
His brain refused to accept the image transmitting through his optic nerves.
Why?
Why is the S-Rank monster smiling?
Why is she slapping his ass?
He forgot where he was. He forgot the rules. He forgot his arms.
His triceps, completely drained of energy, gave out.
SNAP.
The 150kg Lead Skeleton dropped its full weight onto him.
"AGH!"
Viper screamed. The jagged metal pelvic bone pierced his lower back.
Hot blood sprayed across the floorboards.
He collapsed, his face smashing directly into his own pool of sweat and blood.
Next to him, HeavyTank suffered the same fate.
Distracted by the sheer absurdity of Chen Shi's "punishment,"
Tank lost his core tension.
The Spectral Gorilla roared in anger. It slammed both fists into Tank's back.
CRACK.
Tank spat out a mouthful of blood and broken teeth.
He flattened against the rubber mat.
The System Voice chimed. Cold. Indifferent.
"Warning. Player Viper. Player HeavyTank."
"Pace dropping. Resume exercise or face termination."
Viper looked up through his blood-soaked hair.
Ten feet away, Chen Shi went down for rep 18.
FWUMP.
Another face-first plunge into S-Rank softness. Another echoing slap on the glutes.
Another husky, satisfied chuckle from the Boss.
Viper bit his own lip so hard it bled.
Fake.
It has to be fake.
"The System rules were absolute. Lady Cecilia created this domain.
She should not break its core laws!"
"She is warming him up." Viper hissed. Blood bubbled between his teeth.
"She is a predator. She plays with her food before she eats it. The real weight is coming."
He glared at HeavyTank. Tank lay on the floor, coughing up broken teeth.
"Get up, Tank!" Viper roared. "Finish the reps! If we live, we buy potions!"
"I want to watch her crush him! She will sit on his spine! She will flatten him!"
Tank groaned. He planted his bleeding hands on the rubber mat.
He pushed. Bone ground against bone. CRUNCH.
Viper forced his arms straight. The metal skeleton dug into his torn back. TEAR.
Agony spiked through his brain. But hatred kept his muscles firing.
At Rack 3.
Nineteen.
FWUMP.
Twenty.
Chen Shi's arms gave out.
He collapsed completely.
He sank into the valleys of Lady Cecilia's chest.
His lungs filled with hot perfume and sweat. He closed his eyes, panting hard.
Lady Cecilia's hands did not stop.
Her finger traced his spine,his muscle. Up. Down.
They slipped under his silk robe. They squeezed his waist. They stroked his glutes.
"Good boy."
Her voice vibrated against his ear. Husky. Wet.
"You have stamina. I like that."
She shifted her weight. Her massive thighs rubbed against his hips.
"Annie told me a secret earlier."
Chen Shi froze.
His heart skipped a beat.
"She said... an interesting boy arrived in her ward."
Lady Cecilia whispered. Her breath was hot on his neck.
"A boy with a very... talented tongue."