“Sigh...” He sighed while looking at the barbell in front of him. Both ends of the barbell carried a pair of 20-kilogram discs. The barbell itself weighed 20 kilograms, so it was 100 kilograms in total.
A trainer with muscles reminiscent of Raccoon in Arena tapped on the flat bench while saying, “There is no need to sigh like that. I’ll assist you, so just listen. You just need to do 12.”
Hyeonu’s expression distorted as he lay on the bench the trainer had tapped.
“This is the last one, right?” Hyeonu asked.
"Yes, it will be over today with this last bench press. You just need to do 12.”
After hearing his trainer's reply, Hyeonu carefully grabbed the barbell. Then upon confirming that Hyeonu was holding the barbell, the trainer started shouting orders, “Three, two, one, go!”
In response to the trainer’s command, Hyeonu pushed up his arms as hard as possible. The barbell left the stand. It was held up in the air using only Hyeonu’s strength.
“One! Go down slowly, slowly.” The trainer placed one hand on the barbell and pointed out Hyeonu’s posture. He yelled every time he saw that the posture was becoming disorderly. “Four, focus! Five, focus on your chest!”
Despite the trainer’s loud cry, Hyeonu still felt his arms lose strength. He gritted his teeth and tried hard to push the barbell. Yet, the barbell didn’t move, and his arms just trembled pathetically.
“I’ll help you, so push.” It was only then that the trainer started lifting the barbell.
He didn’t use a lot of strength. He used precisely enough strength for the trembling Hyeonu to push up the barbell. It was the perfect strength adjustment brought about by his long experience as a personal trainer.
“Ten! Two left, two left! Last one!”
‘Two more?’ Hyeonu thought about how today’s exercise would be over if he just lowered and raised the barbell two more times, so he pushed it up again with all his strength.
“11! Good, good! It is perfect! 12! The end! Relax your strength!!”
Once Hyeonu finished the 12th bench press, the trainer lifted the barbell like it was a light twig and placed it down in its original position.
“Good job today. Have you been eating less fried chicken recently? Your body is getting better. Are these due to your genes?” The trainer handed a water bottle to Hyeonu, who couldn’t get up from the flat bench.
“Are you joking? Now you want to be a person?” Hyeonu said as he snatched the water bottle from the trainer. Then he opened the lid and drank the lukewarm water.
“What joke? I just admire you. However, it really is the first time I’ve seen a person get better so quickly like you,” the trainer commented.
“I guess it is because I eat well and exercise all the time. I also have a good trainer like Hyung.” Hyeonu shook his head like he was wondering what this person was talking about.
“That is what matters. Keep exercising and eat well. In any case, you’ve worked hard today. See you in two days.” The trainer patted Hyeonu on the shoulder and left. Left alone, Hyeonu literally fell back on the flat bench. He didn’t have the strength to move.
‘Ah, should I go and eat fried chicken with Yeongchan tonight?’
Hyeonu really wanted to eat protein, a lot of it.
***
“Let’s work happily~” Hyeonu was in a good mood at the thought of eating fried chicken at night.
“Let’s eat meat, meat~” Tang-E was also excited.
The meat-crazy bear and his owner walked along the street singing strange songs. At the end of the road, there was a huge stone wall made of black stones.
‘I should work hard on managing my territory.’
Hyeonu was back in Phinis. As the opening of the pro league neared, the time spent on managing his territory increased. Of course, there was little chance he would fail to win the league if he was overwhelming everyone in the PvP and raid stages. It was just that… a powerful territory was also needed to match Hyeonu’s big picture.
‘Royal Roader’ was a title formed from a strategy simulation game that caused the first e-sports boom in South Korea in the past.
The title was given to a player who won in his first appearance in the pro league. It was originally a title given to individuals, but it had recently changed to giving it to a team. Hyeonu thought of one more word to add in front of the title, turning it into ‘Undefeated Royal Roader’.
Royal Roader was a title that was unconditionally given to one team every time a new league was created, so Hyeonu thought it wasn’t worth much. He thought of it as no different from the first league’s winner.
‘To be the best, I should be more overwhelming than everyone else.’
This was the big picture that Hyeonu envisioned, and his territory management was part of it.
“Ah...” Hyeonu saw the statue in front of him and felt his anger rising.
“Do you like it? That thing?” Hyeonu asked Tang-E out of the blue.
Tang-E looked at the statue of himself and nodded without thinking at Hyeonu’s sudden question: “Of course, it is good, Master dude.”
When he heard those words, Hyeonu smiled coldly and said, “Let’s eat vegetable stir-fry for lunch later. I’ve only eaten meat lately, so my stomach is uncomfortable.”
Tang-E’s expression immediately changed. The smile disappeared, and he immediately made a gloomy expression.
“Really? If Master is uncomfortable, then...” A melancholy aura seemed to blossom behind Tang-E’s head.
Seeing that, Hyeonu stroked Tang-E’s head and comforted him, “No, let’s eat meat. Meat.”
After this brief incident, Hyeonu walked diligently and soon arrived at his destination. The place he headed to was the peak of Mount Canary. The Knights of Keon were here. To be precise, they were the candidates training to become knights and the Knights of Keon.
‘The training is being done in a very dirty place. What’s with these teachers holding the training outside?’ Hyeonu inwardly complained with dissatisfaction as he climbed rough terrain reminiscent of a cliff.
However, he didn’t show it at all outwardly due to the knight that appeared right in front of his eyes.
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