Next training session, and another battle for the bench.
This time Adam thought 'Ah why not'
And jumped in on the action, which became a great bonding moment between the gym members. You learn a lot when you try to rip out a piece of metal out of someone else`s hands.
"MAN who the f**k are you"
"Oh hi I`m Adam, I just didn`t bother getting to the bench last 3 times but I`m changing up the routine"
"F**K THAT" and someone else threw Adam away.
And after a bit more of pushing, throwing and "friendly fighting" Adam got quite literally thrown away
"How are they so f**king big"
"You know you are just....small, right" Ben chimed in while sweating in exercise
"No I`m not...small. I`m lean" And he started to work the free machines too
"Sure thing buddy"
After that came the sword training. And here the first great idea came to Adam.
If he never had a problem with swinging in the house or during training, but then he did have troubles in battle there were only 2 options
a) The battle itself was the problem
b) The armor was the problem.
Since he only wore armor during battle, and de-summoned it after, there was no training while he wore it.
So....
"ARMOR" and he started swinging while covered in metal.
The guys who threw him away from the bench looked at him 'crazy' they said and just kept on normally training.
It looked like it...sucked. Adam came out sweating, tired and sore in all of his muscles, even those which he really didn`t use. But moving and holding up additional weight for an hour was quite painfull.
When he finally reached the end, "ARMOR...OFF...PLEASE" and could finally stand normally.
"Why?" Grant came to him then "Like....why man"
"He he" Adam pointed to his head "Cause.*pants* I`m a genius *pants * You see..."
"I don`t care anymore" And Grant left
'F**k you too man' Adam got up, changed his clothes back and went back to training.
Since he already knows the problem, raising his stamina became the priority.
and the easiest way to do that
Running.
So he ran. To his house, then past his house, than through the park, and some more and more. And then back to the house. And he passed out after eating a small lunch.
~~ the next morning ~~
[Wave 1 will begin in 15 minutes]
An orange light from the system window woke him up.
"f**k" Adam ran to his clothes and grunted with pain with every step
"F**k f**k f**k" Outside he got a cab after a while of waiting "I`ll point where to go"
The driver looked at him confused but Adam just showed him the sword
[Wave 1 is now beginning]
"F********k" Adam kept on just giving the direction of the arrow to the driver
And when he finally saw the goblins, Adam jumped out of the car and charged into battle
"WHY THE F**K ARE YOU LATE??!!?" Marcus scolded him while defending from a sword
"SORRY" And Adam slashed this goblin as soon as he could
"GET TO WORK" and pointed towards a small group of swords-goblins
Adam still panting and sore from the running session, managed to drag himself to the group and start slashing
But he forgot one key detail
Armor
*scktchk * as a blade cut his arm
"F**K ME ARMOR" just in time as another one was coming
And he fought them alone, just enough so that others could finish their job and come to help him
[Wave 1 completed]
[Wave 2 will now begin]
"ADAM . GET BACK"
As soon as the pop-up appeared goblins started to charge forward from the gate. No commands, no archers drawing their bows just a straight charge.
'Well. I`m fucked' Adam thought trying to get away.
And then the other great idea hit him
"ARMOR OFF" And the armor disappeared from him, leaving him way faster than before.
"Are you dumb" Ben scolded him as soon as he reached the squad
"ARE YOU RETARDED" Commander slapped his head hard
"No. I`m a genius " Adam laughed it off while catching his breath again
"WHY ARE YOU NOT WEARING ARMOR???!!?!?!" others looked at him at once, and then gad to go back to fighting off the goblins
"Calm down. ARMOR" and he got to fighting again
And it went on pretty smoothly. If the only challenge today was to stop a raging group of blindly running goblin soldiers....then there was no challenge at all.
Since the weight difference, and the small amount of experience on the human side was enough to do so without casualties. Injures sure, but nothing much.
[Wave 2 completed]
[Monsters killed : 40/40]
[Civilians survived 20/20]
[Most kills achieved : Low Ranking Soldier Ben]
[Rewards will be given out shortly]
"ADAM" Marcus came after the celebration "What. The .F**k"
"Sorry. I ummm, trained a lot yesterday"
"Not that you dumbass, why did you take off your armor. WHY DID YOU START WITHOUT IT" already confused Marcus tried to get anything from Adam.
"I forgor" he said a bit embarrassed.
"Pardon?" Marcus had to move his ear much closer to hear that correctly.
"I said I forgot" And after a while of silence "Besides, it turned out great. I`ll have to do that again next time"
"Why?" Marcus was about to give up "WHY?"
"I told you. It turned out great" and Adam just walked away
"If I die this way you can keep my stuff" on his way out he just waved him goodbye.
"dibs on his house" some random guy from the squad shouted to him
"The car is mine!!" another soldier chimed in
Marcus just ... gave up
"I`ll take the girl!!!" and said to the squad , getting in on the action too.