Free Web NovelChapter 678: Kaelvar Became Human
Back in the training area, the situation had become completely miserable.
Feron, Iris, Varka, Loraine, Erlin, Azton, Oriana, Slifera, and Elisa were all sprawled across the ground like corpses.
Feron stared blankly at the sky, his arms and legs spread out like his soul had already left his body. "I... take back everything I said about dangerous shortcuts."
Iris lay nearby with faint smoke rising from her body. Her fiery temper was still there, but even she did not have enough strength left to curse properly. "This... is not training. This is child abuse."
Giselle slowly hopped around them with both hands behind her back, looking strangely cheerful.
"No, no." She shook her head seriously. "You are not children. You are bugs."
Feron weakly turned his head toward her. "That doesn’t make it better."
Varka was lying flat on the ground, still grinning despite her trembling arms. "Hahaha... damn. This is crazy."
Loraine sat against the cracked floor, her golden hair messy and her usually elegant expression completely ruined.
Erlin sat beside her with closed eyes, silently controlling her breathing like a proper Moon Elf, though even her calm face looked strained.
Azton’s expression was dark.
Oriana’s smile had disappeared.
At that moment, everyone finally understood why Elisa and Slifera had looked half-dead the day before.
This training was insane.
Feron slowly muttered, "Even in my father’s place, I’ve never seen training this crazy."
His background was not low. He had seen elite training, military training, body refinement chambers, pressure rooms, and plenty of expensive methods used by powerful people.
None of them were like this.
No wonder God Gym could produce monsters.
Giselle looked around at them and sighed like a disappointed old master. "You are all so weak."
Everyone’s faces twitched.
Giselle pointed at them one by one. "Already sprawling around after only this much?"
Feron raised one shaking finger. "Only... this much?"
Giselle nodded seriously. "Yes. This is only some basic training. It’s not even the advanced one yet."
The training area went silent.
Giselle tilted her head. "Also, remember that all of you will become Star Realm later. The training will become even harder after that, so how are you going to survive if you can’t even handle simple training like this?"
Rovak, who had been laughing at first, suddenly froze.
Alira noticed immediately and looked toward him. "Wait. Is what she said true?"
Rovak slowly frowned.
For once, the battle-loving Drakhor did not laugh.
"Yeah," he said in a low voice. "It’s true."
Everyone looked at him.
Rovak crossed his arms, but his expression was unusually serious. "Even me, a Drakhor, was pretty damn afraid of their Star Realm training."
He glanced toward Giselle, then toward the miserable candidates on the ground. "That thing is too crazy."
The others could only swallow after hearing that.
Even Rovak, the same lunatic who laughed while fighting pirates and enjoyed getting beaten half to death, had admitted that Star Realm training was terrifying.
For a moment, the same thought appeared in almost everyone’s mind.
"Damn. Can we still leave now?"
Unfortunately, the answer was obvious.
They had already come to God Gym.
Regret was useless.
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The next day arrived, and everyone’s expressions immediately turned ugly.
Feron, Iris, Varka, Loraine, Erlin, Azton, Oriana, Slifera, and Elisa were once again gathered in the training area, and every single one of them looked like they wanted to curse the sky.
Yesterday’s "basic training" had already nearly destroyed them.
Now another day had started.
Feron stared at the training ground with dead eyes. "I hate mornings now."
Iris crossed her arms with a dark expression. "I hate this whole place."
Varka grinned, but even her grin looked a little stiff. "Hahaha... same."
A moment later, footsteps came from the side.
Everyone turned their heads.
Garion appeared, walking casually with Kaelvar beside him.
The instant they saw Kaelvar, the entire group froze.
Kaelvar’s aura had changed completely.
It was deeper, purer, and far more dangerous than before. His presence no longer felt like an Ignis Dragon struggling to reach the edge of the Star Realm.
Instead, it felt like his entire existence had been refined down to its most perfect form.
More surprising than that was his appearance.
Kaelvar looked almost completely human.
His dragon horns were gone. The dragon traits on his body had disappeared. His crimson hair had become even brighter, burning like pure flame, and his red eyes now carried a deeper glow within them.
At first glance, no one would think he was an Ignis Dragon.
He looked like a powerful human cultivator with terrifying flame energy hidden beneath his skin.
Iris’s eyes widened. "What happened to you?"
Kaelvar looked at his own hands for a moment, then slowly clenched them.
His expression was still complicated, but the power in his body was impossible to hide.
Garion grinned. "Hehehe. This is the result."
Azton frowned. "Result?"
Garion nodded. "Yeah. Even though he looks like this, his dragon power is actually purer than before. This is just his Sealed State, same as Rovak."
Everyone immediately looked toward Rovak.
Feron pointed at him. "But Rovak still has horns."
Rovak grinned. "That’s because I let a little bit of my Drakhor identity show."
The next moment, Rovak’s body changed.
His horns disappeared, his rough Drakhor features softened, and in only a few seconds, he became a tall, muscular human man.
Everyone stared.
Rovak cracked his neck and laughed. "When I’m fully in my Sealed State, I also look completely human."
Kaelvar exhaled slowly. "It’s strange, but the power is real."
Iris stared at him seriously. "How strong are you now?"
Kaelvar looked up. "So strong that I can tell you this clearly."
His gaze moved across the miserable group still recovering from yesterday’s training. "You won’t regret it."
The training area became quiet.
Those words carried more weight than any explanation.
Kaelvar had gone in first. He had experienced whatever insane method Garion called hidden ultimate training, and now he had returned completely changed.
No one knew exactly what had happened inside that hall, but the result was standing right in front of them.
Garion smiled and turned toward Azton. "Alright. You’re next. Let’s go."
Azton’s expression immediately tightened.
Before he could move, Kaelvar glanced at him and said calmly, "Be prepared."
Azton frowned.
For some reason, that warning sounded far heavier than anything Garion had said.
