Chapter 7 Practice
While waiting for a job, Vic used the remaining money to process some weight-bearing materials at the blacksmith shop, and returned home to make weighted vests, leggings, arm sleeves, etc.
Then, I made barbells, dumbbells, simple gantry and other training equipment with stones in the forest, which will be used for subsequent exercises.
With the mayor's help, the milk delivery job was quickly secured.
Vic and Rebecca's lives stabilized.
Get up early to report to the milk factory, pick up the milk and delivery address, and then start running to deliver the goods.
If the exercise goal is not achieved after delivering the milk, they will add weights to the work.
After delivering the milk, I go home to eat. Then in the morning I do strength and speed training. I go home to eat at noon.
The morning time is basically spent on physical strength, power and speed training.
After dinner, I didn’t take a nap. Instead, I went to a quiet forest and sat in the shade to meditate for two hours.
In the afternoon, Rebecca practiced the basics of kendo under Vic's guidance.
Because there are only a few basic kendo moves, Vic asked Rebecca to practice them repeatedly, thousands of times every day.
Vic believes that reading thousands of books will help one write like a god, and the same goes for sword practice. After swinging the sword thousands of times, one will be able to understand the true meaning.
......
Just like that half a month passed.
Rebecca has a good talent for kendo and has mastered the basic kendo moves. The next step is to deepen her practice.
Vic was faster, he perfected all the moves on the first day, and this body gave him a big surprise.
When practicing sword moves, his body would constantly correct those movements.
The same goes for exercise and running, each day you should run farther and lift heavier than the day before.
Strength, speed, endurance, and recovery abilities increase day by day.
My understanding of kendo and martial arts also deepened during meditation.
This body seems to have a proficiency system. Efforts will not be in vain and there will be progress as long as you work hard.
"So this is the real golden finger!"
When Vic realized that his body had this talent, he knew that his path of cultivation had already led to heaven. He only needed to keep moving forward and move up slowly.
Vic seemed to see a straight road going up, with several forks on the road.
There are just some closed doors on these side roads, and you need a key to enter these doors.
What Vic has to do is to find these keys so that he can reach the top of every road step by step.
"Let's not talk about the development of devil fruits. That requires both brainpower and physical fitness. I haven't encountered it yet, so it's hard to say."
"But there are still many strong people in this world who don't rely on devil fruits."
"Except for the Devil Fruit, all other systems are linked to the body and can be strengthened through practice."
"When I have nothing to do in the future, I can go and pound the mountains, chop steel, or something like that."
Therefore, Vic practiced even harder afterwards.
Because you won’t be doing useless work, the time for each practice will be shortened.
His daily time was divided into smaller pieces, and he used the extra time to practice the swordsmanship and martial arts from his previous life.
Extensive exercise makes it difficult for ordinary food to meet the body's supply needs.
This requires a lot of meat to supplement.
So the salary from delivering milk could no longer cover his food expenses.
So Vic used the time after breakfast to go to the dock to help the cargo ship unload and load cargo.
This way you can save some time for exercise and earn some extra money.
Vic thought of catching some small animals in the forest to solve the problem of food and clothing.
But the two of them are too young now, and have practiced for too short a time, so they can’t catch those small animals at all.
Not only was his speed not as fast as theirs, he ran away before he even got close.
Large animals won't run, but they are also meat eaters, so going after them would be like delivering food to you.
The professional hunters in the town don't dare to mess with them, and their bullets can't even penetrate their skin.
Finally, Vic thought of using his talents to do something.
He found a blacksmith shop and asked the old blacksmith to make a batch of throwing knives according to the drawings he drew, and then practiced throwing knives like crazy.
After two months, they rarely came home for lunch.
Vic's throwing knife is very powerful, it can hit whatever he points at.
Nowadays, people eat prey shot with knives.
Occasionally Vic would go to the sea and catch a big fish to improve his diet.
Now the two of them have to practice against each other several times a day, physical confrontations, and clashes between knives and swords.
Basically, it was Rebecca who attacked, and when she had almost used up all her skills, she was defeated by Vic with one move!
There's no way, the talent of Vic's body is just so unreasonable.
Every time Rebecca would mutter "pervert".
Under Vic's devilish training and absolute crushing, Rebecca's improvement is visible to the naked eye.
Several ordinary lions and tigers had died at her hands, and their meat and fur had been sold to the town.
The meat we eat at home now comes from the large beasts killed by Vic!
After eating meat one day, Vic discovered that animal meat contains a substance that can improve a person's physical fitness, strength, recovery speed, etc.!
Vic discovered that the higher an animal was on the food chain, the more of this special substance it could provide.
Only then did Vic understand that there was a reason why the people in the pirate world had abnormal physiques and strong recovery abilities.
There is a kind of spiritual energy here that is similar to the world of immortals.
Vic calls it the "elemental spirit".
After knowing this, Vic is no longer afraid of getting hurt and specifically challenges beasts of a higher level.
Fighting with wild beasts can improve his combat ability, and killing wild beasts and eating their meat can also improve his physical fitness, which is simply killing two birds with one stone.
After making a lot of money from selling the meat, Vic and Rebecca stopped delivering milk.
The running is basically around various obstacles on the outskirts of the forest with weights.
You can also practice stress response at high speeds, which is especially helpful for actual combat.
Vic did not stop his work as a porter, mainly to find out the news brought back by the fishing boats outside.
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Eight months passed like this.
In the forest, Vic, who was a lot taller than him, was standing aside, watching Rebecca fighting with an animal that was nearly two meters tall and looked like a hippopotamus.
Although it looks like a hippopotamus, it is not slow at all and rushes around with red eyes.
This animal is called Giant Hippopotamus, and the town hunter gave it this name.
This guy is hard to be hurt by swords and knives, and bullets can't penetrate his thick leather armor. None of the hunters in the town have ever caught such prey. His strength in the forest is considered middle-level.
But now it couldn't even touch the corner of Rebecca's clothes. Rebecca moved left and right like an antelope, and the sword blade made a "clang" sound when it hit the giant hippopotamus.
"Rebecca, are you a blacksmith? You are forging iron here. Since you can't do anything about it, why don't you find its weakness and attack it?" Vic shouted.
Rebecca didn't reply, but just kept changing her position to attack. After a quarter of an hour, the giant hippopotamus finally fell down, and Rebecca was exhausted and panting.
"Rebecca, next time you encounter an enemy of equal strength like this and you can't defeat him right away, you need to look for his flaws and weaknesses to attack."
"If you can't find the weakness, then stop and leave the battlefield as soon as possible!"
"What if the enemy keeps chasing me and won't let me leave?"
"That depends on the endurance of both of you. That's why I asked you to train your endurance.
Sometimes the enemy is not just one person, and pirates will not talk to you about morality.
You can use them together or in a round-robin battle, so the more endurance you have, the longer you can live. Sometimes life and death often depends on who has more endurance!"
Victor thought of King Luffy's battle against the Four Emperors Kaido. If King Luffy hadn't been doing sit-ups all the time, Kaido would never have lost.
Kaido has fought so many battles from beginning to end, he must be very thick-skinned, durable and long-lasting!
So Wick thought that his endurance in the future must not be lower than Kaido's, and this is what Wick has always emphasized to Rebecca.
Rebecca's running mileage and weight have been increasing, and the time and weight of practicing dumbbell and barbell rack exercises have also been increasing!
In actual combat, Vic frantically tested Rebecca's will and almost drove her crazy.
"What if my endurance is not as strong as the other person's?" Rebecca asked again.
"Then you have to defeat your opponent before your stamina runs out."
"You can either choose to break through the existing realm and defeat the opponent. This has been done by many people, and some can even awaken domineering power."
"Or you have to be faster than the enemy and get rid of him before your stamina runs out.
This is what we usually practice, you have to work harder, Rebecca-chan!" Vic said with a smile.
Rebecca curled her lips: "What you said makes sense!"