Healing System

'Is he a monster?' Michael couldn't help but exclaim upon seeing the results of Kai's training.

After just three hours, he managed to climb all the way up to the top—and that was while Mikhail had been sending down boulders.

They were much stronger than the ones Michael had thrown, so it was a real testament to his skill.

Especially the sword skill.

Along the way, he had stopped using his arms to climb altogether, merely using the sword to position himself upwards before flinging to each hedge one by one.

The speed was fast enough to evade the boulders, and even if one did come his way, he'd simply slash it in half.

That was the case for most of the encounters—all the way up until he reached the very top of the mountain where Michael was leisurely lying around.

"Good job."

However, Kai didn't react to his words, merely holding the sword in a way that suggested he could lunge forward at any moment.

Seems like he is seeing you as some sort of enemy now, the system remarked.

'Doesn't matter.' Michael shrugged in response before raising his hand.

Immediately, Kai's sword disintegrated, and all he was left with were his shaking legs that had been storing up fatigue this entire time.

"You should relax for a couple of minutes. I know just the perfect training for you," Michael stated with a grin before enveloping Kai in mana and, once again, flying into the sky.

On his map, there was a single place that seemed a bit more isolated than most.

It was not too far away either, meaning he could get there within just a couple of minutes.

Therefore, Michael covered Kai in a see-through mana barrier and began heading over there at full speed.

In just a few moments, he had arrived. His speed was much greater than before—many times greater, even.

Now, the two were above a small island in the middle of a decently sized lake. Swimming across it wouldn't be too taxing for either of them.

However, there was one problem—the fact that inside the lake were a few red dots swirling around.

With his Eyes of the Great Sage, he could see certain monster-like beings swimming around as though they were massive serpents.

Strength-wise, not so strong, but their appearance alone would be more than enough to frighten someone.

Noticing that Kai had been a little out of it due to the speed they were going, Michael plopped him down on the very middle of the island.
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"Your task this time around is to simply survive," Michael stated in a neutral tone before setting his foot on the ground as well.

Just to be safe, he looked all around the forest, making sure there weren't any traps or secrets.

To his surprise, there were some booby traps and wires strewn across several places, most looking very outdated.

However, once he stepped on one of the traps out of curiosity, it managed to pierce his foot with some kind of small projectile.

But just before it could reach Michael's face, he deflected it to the side, watching as it pierced through several trees, knocking them down.

'Mana infused, huh? They have some pretty good traps,' Michael thought, unamused.

His foot quickly healed—it barely felt like a prickle at this point.

Nonetheless, he proceeded to dismantle every single trap like that on the small island since, while he was extremely durable, Kai was not as much.

Soon, Michael was finished, and he headed back to Kai, who had seemingly fallen asleep. Without waiting further, he woke him up by using mana to push him around.

It did not take long for him to wake up, and once he did, he once again looked at Michael with malice.

However, before things could get out of hand, Michael suddenly flew into the sky, overlooking the entire island as well as the puzzled Kai, before stating,

"Survive here until tomorrow. I will pick you up."

Right as his words fell, Kai's expression turned to one of shock as he was about to call out. But before he could do that, Michael vanished from sight.

Or so it seemed to him. All Michael did was move incredibly fast upwards.

This training regimen would be much more effective than the previous ones since Kai had the experience to, at the very least, dodge an attack or two.

As for the reason Michael did not give him a sword, it was simply because he relied on it too much, making it extremely easy for him to deal with most encounters.

And soon, the training began as Kai fiddled around with his surroundings, trying to get accustomed but failing.

Knocking down the trees to form some shelter was his go-to first move, which was not a bad choice.

Next, food.

Food was pretty scarce on the small island, with only a few animals roaming it. However, since he was only tasked with being here for a single day, it did not matter.

But it was too easy—much too easy for this to actually be called training.

Therefore, Michael would do what he had planned on doing from the very start: stirring the river.

He made sure that Kai would not notice him as he flew back down to the water, and without wasting any time, began infusing his mana in it.

Immediately, ripples spread across, turning more violent by the moment until eventually, there was a mini tsunami heading toward Kai.

And inside it, a couple of the serpent monsters.

This sure is a bit reckless, don't you think? the system commented, and he simply shrugged.

'I am right next to Kai. If anything, I can kill those monsters in a mere moment,' he stated before moving his hand, revealing the glow of several golden swords in the sky.

It had become a habit of his to gather a few of them each time he was not fighting or doing anything special.

Now, the number of swords in the sky was astronomical, to say the least.

Putting his baseless worries aside, he looked off into the distance.

'I wonder how they are doing?'