"Hey, Sintan .. how was the training?"

Asked Woodwill.

"What training?"

"Weren't you training Zenith?"

"Haha! I was training him?"

"What's wrong? You sound weird"

"I wasn't training him shit! 

That kid knows everything, you wouldn't believe what happened today. 

I raided more than hundreds of arrows of my sword magic on him and he came through with a small scratch on his leg"

"Are you serious? You are joking, ain't you?"

"Go ask Zenith himself or the guards who were standing there"

"What the hell that kid is made up of?"

"We are doomed Woodwill, we are doomed, 

I don't know what will happen if we can't make him obey us."

On the other hand, Zenith was lying on his bed and staring at the ring

"I am not sure about anything, 

but there's something which is telling me that everything weird which has happened to me up till now is this ring's doing. 

Hmmm

Wait! Grandpa had told me I have to get stronger and to get stronger I need to train,

but what if I train to control this ring? 

I am sure if I do that I can become stronger. 

I guess grandpa doesn't know anything about this ring. 

We haven't talked about it ever.

I guess I should keep this a secret.

I will train when all are asleep."

After dinner Zenith and Katrina headed towards their room and Sintan was already asleep.

Zenith pretended to be asleep and waited for Katrina to sleep. 

As soon as Katrina was asleep he sneaked out of his room and headed towards the yard. 

"Alright, hmm pretty chilled weather. 

Let's see… wait a minute how am I even suppose to activate this thing

(lol).

How? 

How? 

Hmm, I should think for a while." 

"Damn! what the hell I am doing 

I have been wasting a lot of time thinking, I guess I should try whatever I can think of

Hmm. 

Deep breathing

(He tried directly commanding the ring)

'GET STARTED'

------ NO RESPONSE-----

No???

How about something sassy

'ARISE '

--- NO RESPONSE---

What should I do?????? 

I have no----

Wait a minute last time it got activated when I was exhausted and this ring lends me strength.

So maybe I just need to get exhausted again so this ring will be activated

Worth a try

I should do it"

Zenith starts running laps around the yard.

Lap 1 

Lap 2

Lap 3 

…………

Lap 6

……….. 

Lap 9

……..

Lap 15

……..

Lap 16 

……..

Lap 20.

……..

Lap 25

……..

Lap 39 

…….

Lap 43

Breathes heavily*

"No, I should keep going until I can't even move. 

Lap 46

……..

Lap 50

Lap 5---

"I guess this is my limit I can't-----"

And he collapses. 

"Cmonnn stupid ring you better activate now."

Zenith closes his eyes and tries to focus on activating it

And finally, something happened.

The ring along with his yellow eyes glowed. 

Once again the green pure rays of energy from the plants around started gathering in the ring and also the same green rays were coming from the ground itself.

The plants started dying and the ground started cracking. It got dry. 

"I guess running laps paid off"

Zenith stood up and noticed the ring 

"Woah! At night it glows even more 

What he couldn't see was that his eyes were glowing even more. 

"I guess I have activated it so controlling it shouldn't be that much of an issue. 

Also, I have noticed one more thing this ring draws power from others so the more I get stronger, the weaker the enemy grows quite a versatile technique.

 Okay so …."

He closes his eyes focuses and 

thinks of the word 

'MORE'

The moment he thought of that word, even more green rays started to gather towards the ring. 

"Good it's working 

Okay 

Now...

The ring stopped pouring energy from plants and ground and also stopped glowing

He commanded again, 

the ring started glowing again

And when he saw that 

He lied down on the ground with a relief 

"It listens to me,

Thank god

Running laps, seriously pay off"

And he slept on the ground itself.

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To be continued…..

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