Chapter 307 306. Training.

While Reynolds was announcing the newly implemented old events, Charlie's gaze was fixed on an odd couple.

The couple were the ones that had introduced themselves only to the people surrounding them, by what Charlie heard, the man's name was Henry and the woman's name was Core.

Core could be seen flinching at each of Henry's touches, even though he seemed to introduce himself as her boyfriend. Core was seen gazing at Eshwar with pleading gazes a few times, as she looked away whenever Henry, her boyfriend, glanced at her.

These were the obvious signals for help, but the people at whom she was gazing weren't looking back at her, perhaps unintentionally. So, Charlie decided to confront Henry in the training ground, where they were asked to go now. And the most suspicious person among this couple was Vinny, who was pretending not to notice anything even though everything was happening right in front of him, and the flashes of that ominous grin on his face from time to time made him even more suspicious, up to the point where Charlie was considering him to be the fate-less.

"Alright! Follow me! We'll train you for a week before starting the event officially." Reynolds roared with a smirk that seemed to hide another meaning behind it.

With a loud "Yes, Sir!" The cadets got up from their seats and followed after him, while Charlie's gaze danced from one person to another, observing each and every one of his new "classmates." A few among them were going to be his future companions, so of course, he had to look for them and nurture them before taking responsibility for them; in other simpler words, he planned to create his own "faction."

'First, I need a separate room. My room would be good. Second, how could I make sure they join my faction? Third, how do I make sure that there are no spies in my faction? Damn, even though I have already learned all these, applying them in reality seems to be a pain in the a*s.' Charlie thought, looking down, when he bumped into someone.

"Oh, sor-" Charlie apologised almost instantly, but the other figure stopped him before he completed his words.

"No, no, don't apologise; I bumped into you on purpose." Eshwar said, glancing at Charlie from the corner of his eyes, making Charlie lower his gaze. Isha was walking at Eshwar's right, while Charlie was at Eshwar's left.

"You, I don't like your gaze that's been wandering around my woman." Eshwar said, making Charlie flinch with his back covered in cold sweat.

"T-that's n-not..." Charlie tried to make an excuse as an unknown fear crept up his heart.

"I know how beautiful she is, but I'm saying this for your own good. Ah, in case you misunderstand, I won't do anything, but if you get uncomfortably close, then your existence may disappear before I even get to know what had happened." Eshwar advised and walked in front, while Charlie stood dazed, not understanding a bit of what just happened.

'What does he mean? I'll die before he knows what had happened? Does that mean that woman is stronger than him?' Charlie thought and pondered for a bit before reaching a conclusion.

'Doesn't that mean I have to get her in my faction, together with him?' He thought, and an unknown greed crept up in his heart, and it wasn't long until Isha looked back at him while walking ahead with Eshwar.

BA-THUMP

"!!!!" For a split second, his heart fluttered, skipping a few beats, but by the next moment, he heard a requiem of his death at the back of his mind, feeling like he was in the middle of a death god's palm. Shuddering, Charlie shook his head and began to follow after them, believing and understanding the meaning behind Eshwar's advice.

'I-is he w-with her out of f-fear then? S-should I help him?' Charlie thought.

*

It was only after a few minutes after arriving at the training ground that the cadets understood why Reynolds' smile felt suspicious. The entire room was filled with loud huffs and gasps as the cadets ran, circling around the entire 500 square foot room. It had been a few minutes before their current predicament.

When they were asked to run around the room, in excitement, they lunged themselves forward ahead of everyone else, but it wasn't long until the gravity surrounding the massive room got heavier and heavier, until it came to a point that the commoners, whose levels were extremely low, began to have their calf bones broken before they were carried away to have them healed.

Among all the huffing and puffing cadets, a few noble heirs, and the very few humans from the other world, continued to run around the ground without even opening their mouths to gulp down air.

Eshwar, Isha, Henry, Core, Arngrim, Louie, Vinny, Jiwoo, Katline, Katharine, Violet, Seol So-Young, Seo Hana, Charlie, and three more noble heirs continued to run, with the noble heirs' and Seol So-Young's stamina almost hitting rock bottom.

"This is hell." Seol So-Young exclaimed amid huffs before dropping to the ground.

'I was a goddamn author! How could one ever do something so cruel to me? Waaaa!! If I didn't train with Katline and the others in the past two and a half years, then I too would have broken my legs.' So-Young thought with a tear-filled gaze while sobbing inwardly.

'But how to woo Eshwar? Even though his gaze, his speech, everything about him is the same, Isha being next to him is kind of... infuriating.' Seol So-Young thought, gazing at Eshwar's and Isha's incoming figures.

'I definitely do think that it is a shared feeling among us women. But she is definitely more beautiful than us.... did he fall for her due to her beauty, maybe he did.' She pondered while Grace walked up to her and picked her up like a princess before taking her out of the gravity-effected field.

'I have to develop my skills before focusing on my beauty.' She nodded to herself, ignoring the weird gaze Grace was giving her.

"Pst." Grace indicated for Neal to lend her an ear as he walked next to her with another male cadet in his arms.

"Does the gravity field affect one's mind?" Grace asked with a frown.

"Huh?"

"I can hear you, I'm literally in your arms remember."