Chapter 693: *Take it easy*
Kevin then looked at Axel and asked him, "Is it bearable for you?"
Axel just nodded and said, "This training is awesome. Just to hold this force field in place for one hour, my Stamina points will get a good boost. As for you, try to endure this pressure and start training like in the other room; it will greatly increase your Stamina, Strength, and Agility points. Moreover, if you use a force field, it will probably also increase your energy reserve."
Kevin nodded, and just as he was about to leave Axel’s protection, Axel asked him, curious, "Did you get something from your System for having passed the first four floors of this tower?"
Kevin then told him, "I didn’t receive any notifications from it, so I guess I won’t receive any rewards."
Axel then said, "That is weird, but maybe it is because your System has never come across these towers before, and so it can’t give rewards out because it has no idea just how difficult they are."
Kevin then told him just before leaving his force field, "If that’s the case, then I should receive a reward once we finish them, and the more outstanding my results are while passing these floors, the more rewards I will get."
Axel then said to him, when Kevin fell once more to his knees, "Take it easy. The boost your Basic Stats will undergo is already worth it, so just train like if we were in the Warrior Spirits’ gravity room, that’s all."
Kevin then activated their energy sharing, and the mark Axel made on his neck started to shine, lighting up the entire room with its golden light.
The pressure diminished instantly, and Kevin could finally get up. But since Axel was also feeling the pressure in this room, Kevin, even with the help of Axel’s energy that was boosting his Stats, could only start to walk around the room, and every step was very difficult. He was drenched in sweat in less than 10 minutes, but Kevin never gave up and continued to move, step by step, to train his body.
Willow, who could see his determination in every step he was taking, was about to ask her Dad to let her train too, but Axel then said, "Not even in your dreams, my beloved little princess. The pressure in this room is too high; you will collapse after a couple of minutes. Your force field can’t withstand it, trust me."
Willow then said, "But Dad, I want to train too! I will never get stronger if I don’t try."
Axel shook his head and said to her, "I can only stand under this pressure because your Dad helped me strengthen my body yesterday. If not, I would have already sent you back to our personal dimension..."
Axel then stopped because he could feel Willow’s feelings. She felt helpless seeing Kevin training so hard; she was scared that he would hurt himself, and she wanted to get stronger so they would stop worrying about her.
Axel hugged her, caressing her hair, and said to her, "Even if one day you become stronger than us, we won’t stop worrying about you. You are our baby girl, and that will never change."
He then told her, "As for training in this room, your Daddy can only do it because he has already undergone this kind of training with the Warrior Spirits, so he knows the limit of his body and will come back to rest under my force field to replenish his energy reserve. You will see. Besides, if your Daddy were to see me let you train here alone, he would be very upset because it is too risky."
Willow then looked at him and asked, "Does it mean that you can help me train here?"
Axel then smiled, and since his little princess wanted to train so badly, he didn’t have the heart to refuse her anymore. He nodded and explained to her, "I’m going to expand my force field, and I will diminish it until you feel the same pressure that is in the other room. But you have to promise me to stay under my force field to train; don’t leave its protection, got it?"
Willow then smiled and promised Axel right away that she would do what he said. Willow then saw Axel’s force field expand 10 meters around them, and she suddenly felt the pressure on her body. Axel put her down and told her, "There are still 40 minutes to go. Try to endure this pressure until then, and that in itself will already be a very good result."
Willow nodded, and since she didn’t need to focus on her force field this time, she started walking like her Daddy, but always under the protection of her Dad. Walking was tough, but she could still do it without too much effort, so she conjured up her wings and started flying.
Axel expanded his force field a little more to let Willow train; indeed, trying to fly under this kind of pressure was great training, and it would boost all her Stats for sure.
But under this pressure, Willow could only fly just under one meter high and never for long. Finally, after 40 minutes under this huge pressure, Kevin came back to put himself under the protection of Axel’s force field and winced when he felt that the pressure was still high here.
By now, Willow was also drenched in sweat, and when she saw Kevin joining them, she stopped training and came to help him as her Daddy really seemed ready to collapse.
As soon as Kevin entered Axel’s force field, he conjured up two Legendary-grade healing potions and gave one to Willow, telling her, as she came to help him sit down, "Here, sweetie. You are such a brave and hardworking girl; I have been watching you; you are doing great."
Willow then blushed, happy that her Daddy complimented her, and Axel, while joining them, conjured up a few bottles of water and towels for them because he knew that Kevin wasn’t done training yet and that their little princess, seeing her Daddy continue his training, would want to follow his example.
Axel then said to Kevin, when he saw him drink a bottle of water and wipe the sweat from his face with the towel he had just given him, "Babe, take it easy. There are still five floors to explore, so don’t exhaust yourself, alright?"
But Kevin then smiled at him and told him, showing him his mark on his neck, "Thanks to you, I can take it, so don’t worry. I just came to replenish my energy reserve and to see how the both of you are doing."
Kevin then said, "That is amazing; you have reproduced the same pressure we felt in the other room for Willow to be able to train. I’m truly impressed."
It was one thing to be able to protect yourself and others using a force field, but to control it to lower its power so that their daughter could also train—only a few could have done it. Axel then told him through their link, "It wasn’t that difficult, and our daughter wanted so badly to train like you that I could only come up with this solution."
Kevin smiled at him and kissed him before kissing Willow’s forehead and getting up to continue his training.
Axel was right; there were still five floors to explore, but even though he was drenched in sweat, this pressure couldn’t really hurt him. He didn’t feel like he was suffocating; it was more like a force was trying to crush him to the ground.
When the hour was done, the pressure gradually disappeared from the room, and they all received another message through their minds.
They could all go to the next level if they had 20,000 energy points; otherwise, just like on the fourth floor, they could return to the third floor by using the door with a ’3rd’ written on it to meditate and wait again for an hour to be able to come back here directly.
In this message, they received more information, and now that they had successfully unlocked the fourth and fifth floors, once they put their pass on the silver stone, they would be able to choose the floor they wanted to go to. This tower was even better than they had imagined.
Once they were able to unlock all the floors, they could choose the training they wanted, and they wouldn’t need to pass through all the other floors first; it was perfect.
Axel then asked Kevin, "What kind of training do you think is next?"
Kevin then told him, "The healer of the Black Elves told us that there would be physical training, mind training, and Soul training. I think that the Soul training is the first three floors where we can meditate and increase our energy reserve."
