Reincarnated: I Became The First Warlord Of The World-Chapter 30

"Let’s see how many you can do."

The bald headed man folded his hands across his chest as he focused his attention on Jonathan.

Jonathan carried the barbells and it felt a bit easy, it wasn’t that he didn’t feel the weight, he thought the barbell would be heavier than this, but he forgot this world have to do with magic.

Jonathan dropped it gently and carried it again. He did it for the third time and Luke’s facial expression became unsettled.

’How could a martial artist complete the same attempt as me?

Well he is a martial artist. Their bodies are meant to be hard as a gorilla but when it comes to the battlefield, there is no way they can stand other ability users.

Since I am a summoner, I am more like a Godzilla on the battlefield. What could a mere gorilla do to a Godzilla.’

Luke smiled as he concluded that Jonathan was only able to complete the same attempt as him because this was where martial arts freaks shine.

He was still fantasizing his thoughts when Jonathan registered his fourth time attempt. Jonathan went on to register three more attempts making it seven. Luke’s facial expression became ugly now, he couldn’t believe that Jonathan would be able to register four more attempts than him.

’Just how good are martial artists in this drill!!’

Hillary’s expression was poker but with a closer look, one could tell that she was starting to become worried. She couldn’t believe Jonathan would go this long and he wasn’t showing any sign of quitting.

She had to defeat Jonathan on this drill otherwise it would be a tie between them.

With all of her big talks from the beginning, no way she could draw with a martial artist who hasn’t even entered the first stage of his magical path yet.

Jonathan continued with the drill and he started shaking on his tenth attempt. His whole body was breaking down, but his legs hadn’t given up on him yet.

He managed to register his tenth attempt before collapsing to his butt.

Everyone started clapping for him, except Luke and Hillary of course.

Without waiting for her name to be called, Hillary stepped closer to the barbell. Her expression was deadpan and she placed her hands firmly on the barbell.

’No matter what, I am going to defeat that asshole!’

She sounded angrily in her mind. Hillary started carrying the barbell. At first it was easy, but when she got to her fifth attempt, her body was starting to shake.

Hillary’s eyes widened a little. She couldn’t believe her body was already starting to shake, that shouldn’t be possible because Jonathan was able to do it ten times, and she was stronger than him, given the fact that she was in the fourth stage of her magical path.

Hillary managed to register another one, making it six. There was no way she was going to give up and relax at being second.

She had never come second in her life before and this wouldn’t be the first time.

Hillary managed to register another one, making it seven, but her whole body was shaking now.

Jonathan’s eyes were completely focused on her. The consequences of completing a marathon with full force had finally caught up with Hillary, and taking the wrong posture during her squats had also caught up with her.

Although he ran the marathon with force, he didn’t use the force Hillary used so he was able to cope, and what really made him to have reserved strength for the barbell was because he did his squatting properly. That was the major consequence for Hillary here.

It seemed this world lacked the knowledge of physical activities, and it was understandable given the world had magic.

Why bother doing physical exercises when magic was present to make things easier.

Hillary completed her ninth attempt and was going for the tenth, but her whole body was vibrating so vigorously that she had to let go of the barbell. As the barbell fell to the ground, Hillary also collapsed to the ground, but she fell to one of her knees, she didn’t want to fall on her butt like Jonathan.

Hillary struggled with her breathing when she fell to the ground. She couldn’t believe that she failed.

She let a mere martial artist defeat her.

Hillary’s expression darkened. The reason why she actually lost to Jonathan was because she trained tirelessly last night and she exhausted all her energy. Without energy she was slightly better than a normal human being.

Even though the usage of energy wasn’t allowed in physical drills, the presence of energy goes a long way. 𝒇𝒓𝙚𝒆𝔀𝓮𝓫𝒏𝓸𝙫𝓮𝓵.𝓬𝙤𝙢

She wasted all her energy last night because she thought all the new recruitment wouldn’t give her a tough time, not knowing there was a barbarian among them.

Hillary stood up after a while.

"And that ends the drill for the day."

The bald headed man closed the mini notebook he was holding.

"Meet me at the recruitment hall."

He said as he walked away. Some people cried out when they heard his words. All they wanted was to go to their various rooms, but it seemed the instructor still had a lot for them.

Everyone slowly followed the instructors from behind. Jonathan didn’t follow the crowd at once. He stared at Hillary who was looking at the barbell like it was an important item that she lost.

After a while of staring at Hillary, Jonathan walked away.

When he got to the recruitment hall. He found out that there were several items on the stage now.

The items on the stage were medals, gold medals, and two bronze medals.

Without being told, Jonathan could tell that the medals were the magical boosting item he had been hearing of. Just like the crystals Greyson gave him, he could feel a little sense of energy inside the medals.

When everybody had arrived at the recruitment hall. The bald headed man cleared his throat and pointed at the medals which were on the table behind him.

"Like I said earlier, magical boosting items are limited and as such, the military would only give a part of it to those that performed extremely well and those that awakened special abilities.

For those that awakened special abilities, you will be given one gold magical boosting item each, and that would increase your progression by 1.5X.

The highest progression for a magical boosting item is 3X, so you are basically getting half of it now."