At a certain part of the Mediterranean Sea, deep inside the seabed stood an extremely heavy structure that looked like a giant turtle being protected completely by its super tough shells.
Though color diminishing measures were used to tone down its color and majesty a bit, this could still not stop its extremely eye-catching surface and body.
At this moment, a whooshing sound reverberated and a purple-surfaced mini-submarine suddenly appeared beside the heavy structure.
From inside the mini-submarine, Clark stood as he carefully looked at the structure before him with a mixture of excitement and anticipation.
After putting the submarine into a hibernating state, Clark came down with his student before they both swam before the structure.
Clark already knew the necessary password and everything to unlock it, so he was not left stumped when he saw the training chamber still locked despite him coming within close vicinity.
He first went closer and placed his fingerprint on the heavy door, then a blue scanning glow flashed through his hands.
[Biometric fingerprint sensor matching…, fingerprint verified.]
[Welcome to the Future training chamber, Mr. Clark Pendragon.]
[To get complete access to the Future training chamber, you have to complete the remaining 3-way verification process.]
Hearing what the structure’s A. I just said to him, Clark’s mouth was left twitching. “Don’t you have any respect? How dare you call me by my name so smoothly? I’m now your master, dammit!”
The A.I did not pay attention to him though as it continued doing its work.
Next, he did an eye scan, a blood verification, before finally ending it with a urine verification which was excess for a single verification process.
The process was tedious but he didn’t want anything to happen to this extremely expensive structure, so he approved this verification method.
As the doors of the heavy structure slowly opened, he felt anticipation.
After it opened completely, he finally took the first step inside. Albert quickly followed behind his master as he looked around with a curious gaze at the surrounding sci-fi-like environment that appeared before him.
Inside the heavy structure was just a big fat rectangular hall, nothing else.
Though the hall was the only thing in the heavy structure, it was so technologically designed and arranged that it left him feeling breathless.
Inside it was coated with a grey exotic metal sheet all around. The floor looked like it was made from wood, but Clark knew otherwise that it was a special type of exotic material that was hard to obtain.
Its body felt hard, and elastic at the same time.
The ceiling looked like it was the blue sky filled with white clouds, but Clark easily recognized that it was an effect replicating a mirage to form a mysterious and serious atmosphere in the training chamber.
These, and a lot of other physical add-ons added a lot of glamour, majesty, and sturdiness to the training chamber but these were not its best parts.
The real most expensive goods of this project were in the virtual domain.
After going to the middle of the training chamber, Clark gently swiped his hands at the air and unsurprisingly a virtual screen appeared.
The virtual screen depicted a lot of things; things like how to operate and maintain the heavy training chamber, how to make it move, how to configure the different training difficulties.
Not only was this manual on how to operate it recorded for him, but there was also a manual on every general knowledge that he needed to know.
These were just the most basic features of the training chamber’s virtual domain; apart from the virtual screen, it has a ton of other virtual features like the extreme realistic virtual simulation.
The virtual simulation was not up to the level of the one that he experienced when he was in the outer headquarters of the Seafarers alliance yet, but it was still the real deal.
This and a lot more effects made it the perfect training chamber for Clark.
With eyes now glittering like stars, his imagination went wild as a lot of thoughts of himself achieving even more scientifically impossible feats flashed through his mind like a movie.
Thud!
Hearing the thudding sound outside, he was not alarmed. Instead, like he already expected it, he calmly walked outside and opened the doors to the training chamber wide.
A pair of red glowing eyes first appeared, illuminating a part of the darkish blue seawater before the first metallic leg stepped into the training chamber.
A few more thudding sounds later, the mech finally settled in the chamber.
As he drove here on his exotic car in its mini-submarine configuration, he made the mech also activate its stealth systems before making it come here on its own.
Seeing the mech standstill, Clark’s hands itched as he felt the urge to jump inside the mech and start practicing immediately but he froze on feeling the fiery gaze on his neck from the side.
He turned his head. “What?”
“Master, I’m still here”. Albert sighed exasperatedly.
“Oh, sorry, my bad. You already know the most common rules to follow to improve in your rank, you can take the exotic car back and train alone”.
“If you are stumped by any problem, you can always ping me”.
“Ok”. Albert finally nodded his head with a smile.
Before he could leave, Clark added. “If not necessary, don’t disturb me for the next 2 weeks. I want to engage in secluded training. If King or anyone calls, you can speak with them on my behalf”.
“Ok, is there anything else?”
“No”.
As soon as Albert left the training chamber, Clark turned around with a fierce penetrating gaze in his eyes that could easily bore a hole through any metal.
He looked at the mech for a few seconds before taking a step close.
His secluded training officially began.
…
Zoom!
Albert leisurely switched gears, pushing the mini-submarine to a new speed as it cruised through the underwater environment like a fish in water.
To complement the nice feeling of this experience, he put on one of his favorite music and started shaking his head to the beat.
The days of freedom are always the best, and the next 2 weeks were exactly these kinds of days. There was no right word to express how happy he was.
He would force himself to train of course, but he would also enjoy himself.
That was the number 1. Albert's rule that he formed for himself.