Chapter 444: Training
The floor below his feet thickened and turned into a reinforced training surface. Circular platforms rose from the ground, followed by weight machines, resistance systems, magnetic strength platforms, and running tracks.
Sections of the walls opened and revealed storage units, sensor arrays, and combat equipment.
Above, several panels unfolded from the ceiling and formed the chamber's environmental systems. Gravity-control units, temperature regulators, lighting systems, and air-pressure controls came online one after another.
Finally, thin sensor lines appeared across the walls and floor. A transparent screen rose from the area where the installation of the training chamber happened, displaying the chamber's status and waiting for commands.
Looking at the transformation, Michael was amazed by the technology used. Nanotechnology, capable of creating something big out of something small, or completely disintegrating something extremely huge into nothing.
It was the same technology that was applied here. During the time that nobody was here, none of the training facilities could be seen. But with a voice command, they would appear.
Of course, Michael had considered the possibilities of someone else entering the villa. While the villa had its own security system, with the requirement of an access card to enter, nobody could tell if someone would use other methods to get in.
Therefore, if someone managed to enter into the villa, they would only find that the villa was a complete open floor. Apart from a round object at the center of the villa, they would not find anything else.
Considering that the training used voice command, it would be impossible for anyone else to be able to activate it. Even if they tried to use voice command, unless their voice was registered, they could not command the AI in charge of the training chamber.
With the activation of the training chamber, Michael suddenly noticed something. Usually, within the training chamber, there was a panel that showed the time.
And right now, looking at it, Michael could see that time was moving at an extremely slow speed. After observing it for a little while, he realized, it was moving 30 times slower than normal.
Immediately, he realized, this was the effect of the Time-field Acceleration Core.
Despite possessing the time manipulation ability, Michael had never really experienced that time acceleration. Maybe during the time that he was activating this ability, he had. But at that time, he was not focusing to understand what was happening.
Now, as he carefully observed, he realized that, there was a certain form of energy that was in the villa. It was this energy that was making things here at a fast speed.
Of course, with things moving here extremely fast, it made it that the time seemed to have slowed down. As for how exactly this worked, Michael was not really sure.
In any case, he understood, it was definitely different from something that could increase the speed of a person. This energy, it increased not only the speed at which people and objects moved, but it affected someone to the cellular level.
But, according to the information about this device, he understood that while it had an effect, the time field here did not affect the lifespan of a person.
This implied that a child could not be placed here so that they could grow fast, or, in a Time-field that has been slowed down, it would be impossible for a person to be able to elongate the time that they would be alive.
Clearly, this time manipulation did not have an impact on the lifespan of a person. Michael was not sure why that was the case, but it made him relieved, despite the slight disappointment.
The relief was that, no matter how much time spent in here, only the time that passed outside would count.
As for the disappointment, he was worried. If time could not affect a lifespan, would it allow him to be able to bring back a person back to life?
That was something that he was worried about. After all, he was hoping that in the near future, he would be able to get an ability that would allow him to be able to bring his parents back to life.
After a moment of thought, Michael decided not to linger on this matter anymore. Instead, he decided to train a little bit while waiting for Kate.
Without having to worry about the time, with an understanding that he could train here for 30 minutes, while only 1 minute passed in the outside world, he went all out.
And as he did, he realized, the energy consumption here, it exactly matched his actions here. If overexerted himself, he would need more energy.
Because of this, he could not exploit a situation where, only a few energy bars were enough for him to be able to train continuously for an entire day.
Regardless, Michael did not pay much attention to this. He could access the system store at any moment, and if he needed energy, he could just buy a few energy bars and other sources of energy from the system store.
With the rapid adaptation ability, Michael could vividly feel his strength continuously increasing. And as he continued training, he realized, maybe, he should try to advance this training chamber?
He wanted rapid growth. Therefore, he decided, after Kate came over, he would start planning on how to improve the training chamber further.
In the end, Michael was lost in thought, continuously training. He did not even notice when Kate arrived at the villa's entrance.
Outside the villa, the moment that arrived, she looked around, quite curious. But as she looked at everything that looked the same as before, she was left puzzled.
At the same time, she wondered, what kind of surprise did Michael arrange for her? In fact, while coming over, quite a number of thoughts had already flashed through her mind.
She had thought of so many possibilities, including some that made her blush with anticipation. Some of those things that he had been hearing from Susan, and some that she heard from some of her colleagues back while she was still a police officer.
Just as she was confused, she suddenly thought, 'Could it be that the surprise is inside the villa?'
Filled with anticipation, she went ahead and entered the villa. And the moment that she did so, she felt that there was something unusual about the villa. It was just that, she could not tell what exactly it was.
She looked around, immediately spotting Michael. He was currently at the magnetic strength platform.
Looking at him, sweating, she was left tranced. She had never really seen him going all out in training. Therefore, she curiously looked at the screen that displayed the situation within the training chamber.
The moment that she did, her eyes widened in disbelief.
Current Load: 3,500 tons
Peak Force: 4,180 tons
Stable Force: 3,760 tons
Load Duration: 3 min 18 sec
Muscle Strain: 72%
Bone Stress: 61%
Fatigue: 48%
Adaptation Rate: 4.2%
Estimated Maximum: 4,450 tons.
Currently, Michael was moving with the magnetic field making it seem as though he was carrying the weight of something at 3,500 tons. That was something that left her completely shocked.
At this point, she wondered, good possible that Michael possessed an ability that allowed him to be able to increase his physical strength? Otherwise, it would be difficult to explain this.
But then, she thought about the ability that she possessed. Currently, she had not trained enough. Because of this, she obviously could not compare to Michael in terms of strength.
But that would not be the case if she continued training. She believed, with the potential that this ability had shown, she would definitely be able to lift objects over 5,000 tons. Currently, she was a little over 1,000 tons in terms of the maximum load that she could carry.
By this point, Kate had already forgotten about the surprise that Michael had mentioned to her before. Instead, seeing how strong Michael was, she also wanted to get stronger.
With the motivation, she quickly went ahead and began training at the gravity platform. At the same time, she gave the command, asking the AI to make sure that the gravity pull reached the limit that her body could bear.
Usually, she left a leeway for herself, not completely exerting herself. But this time, she decided to go all out. Only by doing this would she be able to have a chance of catching up to Michael.
Additionally, she did not have to be worried about getting injured. First of all, the AI would immediately deactivate the equipment in case someone was about to suffer serious injuries.
And secondly, there was a chamber that could be used to heal injuries. While it was not capable of healing the injuries immediately, at least, it sped up the speed at which a person could recover.
Neither of the two talked to the other, as they all focused on training. Even when Michael noticed that Kate had arrived, seeing how determined she was, he decided not to interrupt her.
Instead, he just focused on trying to increase his own strength. Most of the abilities that he had got in recently did not directly improve his physical strength.
Therefore, for the time being, he had to depend on the rapid adaptation ability, in order to be able to grow physically strong.
The motive behind this was simply because of the note that he had received from the system. Clearly, the current limitations of the abilities that he possessed were mostly based on his current strength.
If he could grow stronger, maybe he might be able to better utilize those abilities.
Several hours went by, Michael still concentrated on training. Then, he was suddenly interrupted by Kate's shout.