HEAD-PATTING IN MARVEL

Chapter 4 : Sneaking around and exercising

*Huff huff huff huff *

He catches his breath after reaching the gym. Close call at the last corner before he reaches here gives him the cold sweats. Although he bought the skill, it's only the basic level. He's pretty sure that he's caught by the camera, and some people but they ignore him. "Why do I feel insulted?", he ponders.

Hiddle already thought everything. Maybe the boy will feel suffocated, so he allows some mischief once in a while. After all, it's human nature to break out of the place holding them, for example, prison. There was no camera at the gym, so the old man came out of the monitoring room, and returned to bed.

He got an alert for suspicious activity before, and he laughed seeing the boy crouch over and hide behind a potted plant. "It seems like the kid is really bored." He plans to ease up on his restriction and to put some cameras at the gym after this.

To be honest, it's not that the skill sucks, it's just that the monitoring in the Manor is over the top. Hiddle was already alerted when he stepped out of his room, making his effort futile. But he didn't know this at the time.

The sneaking boy takes a deep breath and starts warming up his body. He did some jumping jack, something that looks like an aerobic exercise but looks more like a silly dance, and a few others until he sweats.

Ryan starts with a simple test. He goes to pick up some dumbbells, and record his power. He lifts it from the lightest, and moves slowly toward the heavier ones. Once he felt the strain, he stopped immediately.

It stops at 22 lbs."What is the conversion rate of the pound to kilogram?", he then calculated in his head. Luckily the previous guy is pretty smart, so he quickly completes it. "Divide by this, so it's... 10 kg?".

He's in shock. He looks at his hand and starts to deny reality. "Yes, it's only the strength of my arm. It's very scrawny, and I just got out of bed." No one knows to who he explains this, but it works as he calmed down.

He went on to do the deadlift, 100-meter dash, and halfway doing the leg raise before he thought "that's enough for now". He convinced himself that the initial data is enough for now, and he didn't stop because he couldn't go on any longer.

This is the result of his experiment;

Arm strength - 10 to 15 kg

Weight lifting(full body) - 70 kg

100-meter dash - 25 seconds.

He can't help but show a wry smile when seeing the result."Maybe a pre-pubescent teenager could defeat me." He wanted to say 'kid' at first, but that's too much of a blow to his ego.

"Atrophy in my body is very serious, with enough time I can be stronger. I think". When putting back the weight, he slips and accidentally drops the weight to the rack. *Bang*Clang* The weight collided with the others and produced a loud sound.

Flustered, he prepared himself for some guard bursting into the room. But after 5 minutes of waiting, it still didn't happen. He realizes that the people already know it's him at the gym. His face flushed red with embarrassment, as the people were going easy on him. "They are treating me like a kid!"

At this moment, he made a decision. He wanted to wait until he could analyze the serum, but his embarrassment influenced him to do it now. He summoned the vial of gene optimization fluid that looks like a test tube with purplish fluid inside it. He drank the serum without any hesitation.

A warm feeling spreads inside his body that can be compared to taking a hot bath. "Well this is not that bad," Ryan thought. Before he can enjoy it, intense pain comes along with the heat. "Of course to strengthen the body pain will come alongside it," Ryan said with gritted teeth. All he wanted at this time was to rationalize the pain.