Jack obviously wasn't happy about it but he still relented seeing me struggle to catch my breath "fine we'll take a quick five min break" hearing that made me feel relieved I thought he wouldn't allow me to get any rest, I removed the weights and sat down to what felt like the shortest five minutes of my life.

Five minutes on the dot, Jack started commanding me to start moving again not really recovering from my exhaustion but having no other choice I started moving again the path initially after I started running was just a dusty road which didn't gave me much difficulty in moving expect dust flew everywhere but after navigating that it started getting difficult again now it was a rocky terrain and it was bit of a uphill so I was struggling to move upwards while trying not to fall back and then after a bit of climbing it turned into a downhill and my struggles became the complete opposite, I would most likely fall on my face if I am not careful and somehow I managed to get down safely but my torment was still not over and I had to go though a jungle then cross a stream of water and then it was running for about two hours all this time Jack was yelling behind me and by this point I have learnt to ignore it and I had fainted a couple times during this but Jack just healed me and I had to continue this suffering for this long.

After running for who knows how long the headquarters came into view and after we entered the grounds Jack said that warm up training is over and now we were moving to the combat training for a second I was relieved then i processed the whole sentence and I was regretting everything and while I was in this daze Hera came over and was talking to Jack and after a few minutes Jack came over to me and said that we will do the rest of the training tomorrow at the 299th grounds and I can go home for today.

Jack left after saying that, Hera then came up asking if I was alright to which after clearing my thoughts responded that i was really tired and my legs are killing me,to which she responded by healing me and saying this would give me a bit of relief but that I need to rest and take care of myself to fully recover to which I nodded and thanked her for saving me from the second round of training to which she shook her head saying not to thank her and the higher ups calling jack is the only reason he let me go and he wouldn't have listened to her otherwise, and she apologized to me for not being able to stop him from doing his insane training, that took me a bit aback and I responded saying she didn't need to apologise for it and that I understand her predicament and am still grateful for her help to which she thanked me for my understanding and told me to go home and take a good rest and I nodded and left the grounds it was a struggle to reach home as my body was in soo much pain and after a quick wash and a change of clothes I flopped on the bed and as I was heavily exhausted fell asleep almost instantly.

The torment of the training doesn't seem to want to leave Max as he dreamt of more training that seemed almost psychotic to dragging weights in the desert to swimming deep underwater to being chased by a huge bull like creature it seemed like a never ending nightmare.

I woke up sweating from the nightmare when I dreamt of being stabbed by a sword, I wiped my sweat and was relieved that it was only a nightmare and that couldn't happen in reality, and after thinking about it for a bit I realised it wasn't outside the realm of possibility here so I hope it wouldn't be one for my sake, it was night time right now and my body was still sore from that ordeal and I was also a bit hungry, I was going to try to find something to eat at this hour but then my sights fell on the tray in the room with a note which read that it a late night meal prepared for me, the meal was still hot probably with the help of magic, I ate the meal and decided to go to bed again since it was the middle of the night and there wasn't much else I could do at this hour and as it turned out I was still tired and fell asleep again in a few minutes.