The Immortal Player

Sabrina, Loren, and Aldo soon left after cleaning Pedro's hospital room and getting the furniture back to its original arrangement. On the other hand, Pedro went to the VR Box beside his bed and logged back into the game.

At that moment, Clara was sitting in front of Sabrina and Loren's characters and was half asleep. Her head was on top of her crossed arms and was resting at the handguard of her sword. Beside her was Faunia—who was casually laying her back to the just awakened Pedro.

"Uhm… Can you move a little?" Pedro asked Faunia whilst forcing out a smile.

Faunia simply furrowed her brows before her eyes opened—filled with murderous intent. She asked, "Did you just insult me, human?"

Pedro quickly shook his head in response and said, "I am not! I am not! What I said was if you could move a bit so that I can stand."

Faunia simply sighed in response and said, "If that's the case, then, you should have told me earlier."

Pedro flicked his tongue in response and said, "That's what I said earlier!"

Faunia simply moved forward to allow Pedro to stand. Then, she moves back and leaned to the cave's wall when Pedro left behind her—to go back to her rest. At this moment, Pedro glanced at the sleeping character of Mathew with the basket containing Werewolf Tam behind his back.

Pedro glanced towards Clara and asked, "Is the Werewolf still alive?"

"He can hear you, Captain!" Clara said coldly.

"I was just checking!" Pedro said in response. Then, he glanced deeper into the cave and said, "We'd have more students later on. They are to train the basics of swordsmanship and close combat. I hope that you two could help. However… Please go easy on them. They are not as strong as the two of us."

"What's the occasion, young master?" Ragas asked as his shadow appeared in front of them. He was inside the dungeon and was taking care of the baby spiders in Pedro and Sabrina's stead.

Pedro stretched his head to the sides while saying, "Nothing special… My friends and I might join a party with other humans."

At this moment, Ragas walked out of the dungeon with a hungry baby spider running in a frenzy behind him. That said, Ragas did not even bat an eye as it got closer to them. Then, in the next second, Pedro's Pen-knife went past Ragas' left shoulder and pierced through the baby spider's body.

Its corpse dropped dead into the ground with a gooey substance oozing out of the hole. Then, a few seconds later, something pulled the corpse back into the dungeon and a weak wave of air blew past Pedro and everyone else, indicating that another batch of baby spiders was on their way.

"Have a rest. Let me stretch my arms for a bit." Pedro said with a smirk as his figure vanished into thin air in the next second. Then, aftershocks could be felt—originating from inside the dungeon.

Ragas smirked in response and said, "In just days… Young Master and Young Miss have already mastered <Movement with the Light>! Impressive! It is only a matter of time before they would be able to create skills of their own!"

"Dream on, wyvern!" Faunia chuckled in response. Then, she added, saying with her eyes closed, "They are just starting to properly control their mana! Their mana capacity and recovery indeed increase by a huge leap, but they are still far from reaching even a percent of their limits. Yes, they are stronger than ordinary humans, but they won't be able to last longer than the rage form of a Mongutan!"

"Just keep on fighting them to drain their Mana before fighting them with nothing but their raw physical strength. It's more effective than just draining them out of their limits." Clara argued calmly.

"It slows their Mana Outburst mastery and capability. But training Mana Outburst without application is pretty much useless. So, I'll overlook this for now!" Faunia said in response.

Ragas bowed towards Faunia in response and said, "Thank you for your understanding, Your Majesty!"

Faunia simply raised her hand in response and said, "Raised your head before I decide to even take over their combat training."

Ragas could not help but raise his head and sat beside Mathew as Pedro and Sabrina's welfare during training might become at risk. After all, Faunia did not know the words "Going Easy" to anyone who's under her training.

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A few days ago, Pedro and Sabrina were about to reach their limit in resisting Faunia's Mana Outburst. That said, at this moment, Pedro's player interface popped up—notifying him that he received a message from his cousin.

"Urgent news cousin…" Weyron said in the first few lines of his message. Unfortunately, Pedro was not able to continue reading his cousin's message any further as his Mana was about to be sucked dry and his vision started to become blurry.

"Not yet!" Pedro grumbled as he bit his lips and his will to remain awake intensified just to be able to remain awake and be able to respond to Weyron's seemingly urgent message. That said, in the next second, Sabrina beside him started to fall on her knees while he was barely able to keep his balance—standing on the ground.

"Hoo…" Faunia chuckled as she noticed the slight change on Pedro this time around.

That said, Sabrina noticed that Pedro was somehow being able to withstand way past their previous limit. Thus, she can't help a bit to also grit her teeth and do her best to remain awake with Pedro. In fact, most of the time, Pedro losses his consciousness first before Sabrina because of Sabrina's intense will to last longer than Pedro and be able to protect him at such times. It was not being competitive but rather care and desire to protect someone she loves.

As a non-forgiving trainer, Faunia did not even give them the slightest mercy and even increased the pressure created by her Mana Outburst towards Pedro and Sabrina by two folds. Thus, Pedro and Sabrina's eyes entered their last spurt of rage as their Mana uncontrollably burst out of their body to resist the force exerted by Faunia.

However, like a car that runs dry of gas, Pedro and Sabrina had slowly lost their consciousness as their body gets blown into the ground. At this moment, Faunia stopped releasing her Mana while saying, "They lasted longer this time around… Something must have happened with the Greedy Human [referring to Pedro.]."

"You even toned up the strength of your Mana Outburst…" Clara said in a calm demeanor. "Should you have maintained your normal output, then, they might have lasted longer than usual."

"If I did not do so… Their development would be slow at a constant rate! They would rather fight either of you till their mana run dry than try to resist my Mana Outburst and just waste my mana!" Faunia said in response.

"Hmm… Their bodies have been experiencing Mana bursts in the past few days… Won't it be better to go easy on them in the next few days, Your Majesty?" Ragas asked as he carried Pedro and Sabrina's bodies on a safer side. Then, he added, "Well… It's not like we'd be going really easy on them. I just suggest that they learn a thing or two where they can apply the fruits of their training… Their training would just be a waste if they have no single-use for it."

At this moment, Faunia pondered for a few seconds before taking a deep sigh. Then, she said, "Teach them the basics of movement using their mana. That way, their magical energy would be drained faster during combat training. It's up to the two of you on what you would do afterward. But if it is up to me… I'd beat their asses off until they are unable to lift a finger."

"You need not worry about it, Your Majesty! Please use these times to recover, and leave the combat training to us. We'll make sure to train them 'properly'!" Ragas said as his mouth curved up and his eyes emanated a tinge of killing intent.

Faunia simply shrugs off Ragas' faint killing intent as if it was nothing, and said, "Do as you wish!"

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Back at the present… Pedro fought the baby spiders by using the hand-to-hand combat ability that he learned from Ragas, combined with the Tae Kwon Do that he learned in real life. Add up with the use of his mana to hasten his movement speed—by releasing magic energy in his back to propel him as fast as the speed of light, Pedro was able to kill and kick the unfortunate baby spiders straight back to the Spider Queen's mouth, increasing the production rate of offspring of the spider queen by three times.

However, such efficiency did not last long as his mana was almost sucked dry. That said, fighting without the boost of his mana is not a problem because what they experienced from their combat training was more difficult than that.

"Ragas and Clara is more a hundred times more terrifying than a hundred of these baby spiders combined!" Pedro smirked as he toyed around the baby spiders and kicking them just strong enough to land directly into the Spider Queen's mouth.

~~~~~End of the Chapter~~~~~

Pedro glares at you and says, "Hey, Readers! What are you doing? Do you want mass release? Vote for the novel and bug the author about it in the comment section! Do you want him to enjoy the latest chapters on his own?! Or do you even need my grandma to ask on your behalf?"

Sabrina chuckled in response and said, "Let them be... my dear Peds! The Author will have a chance to laze off if that happens. Well... some readers are not reading on w e b n o v e l. c o m, and no one is commenting lately, so we can't really blame the lazy author!"contemporary romance

"So... This is all the Author's Fault!" Pedro cursed in response. Then, he raised his pen-knife and said, "I am going to chop that lazy man into pieces!"

~~~~~End of the Rant~~~~~

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