Wasteland Conqueror

Chapter 8: Making The Most Of Things

Date August 13th, 2250

A week later.

"Okay, honey, time for you to take a nap." My mom Jane said to me in an upbeat and positive sounding voice as I was busy roaming around our home's large living room floor, trying to build up, strengthen, and improve my weak but quickly growing baby muscles.

*ahh*

After responding to her with one of my signature baby noises, I continued crawling on the floor for a few more seconds before I found myself being picked up by her and brought to my bedroom to be put down for one of my many scheduled naps.

When she arrived at my bedroom door with me in tow, she opened it and brought me inside my room, which I'm pretty sure was quite a bit larger than the typical bedroom for the average undercity resident. Though I haven't been to another one so I don't know that for sure.

With the two of us entering the room, mom walked over to my crib with me in hand and gently placed me in my crib before tucking me in with my usual blanket and gazing at me with what I perceived as a loving gaze for several seconds.

"Alright, honey, I'll be back when you wake up. Sweet dreams." She said to which I responded with another of my many baby noises that I had in my arsenal, making a smile appear on her face before she reluctantly departed my room, probably to continue her work in the living room.

Now that Mom's out of my room and has left me alone to take a nap, I'm not really feeling all that tired thanks to my Monstrous Physique perk cutting the amount of sleep I need by half. So with that being as it is, I suppose I'll use the time I have available to myself like I've been doing the past couple of days by getting a bit of working out in before she eventually comes back to check up on me since that's all I can really do besides sleeping and sucking on my mom's teet.

Thank god there aren't any baby monitors in my room. If there was one, I wouldn't be able to do much of anything besides normal baby activities.

Done thinking and ready to get to grinding, I set into motion by first removing the very soft and comfy blanket covering me and tossed it to the side of my crib before I then stood up wobbly without holding onto anything. Which no doubt would have left both of my new parents gobsmacked because no newborn baby out of the womb for a single week should be capable of that type of physical feat.

What exercise should I start out with... I'll begin with squats first to continue strengthening my legs and once I feel like I've reached my limits in that exercise, I'll rest for a bit and move on to some of my other bodyweight exercises.

Finished deciding, I got to work on my squats before resting and continuing on to a different exercise.

...

Many reps later.

I think I did more than enough exercise for the time being, don't want to overdo it and end up stressing my newborn body too much. Although, now that I'm giving it some thought, that's probably not possible with just bodyweight exercises since I have 11 endurance. Which is a hell of a lot higher than the 1 to 2 endurance that most normal humans down here should have going off of my game knowledge.

As for the various humans roaming around the wasteland above, they could range anywhere from 1 to 10, however, most will probably range around an average of 3 to 4 endurance. Additionally, there should be a few gifted individuals above that have breached and surpassed the normal human limit of 10, but they're an exception and should be few and far between...

Going back to my previous train of thought, I have many years ahead of me to make a ton of progress, so it's better that I err on the side of caution than to push things too far and end up damaging my body. Plus, if I were to end up injured, that would most definitely make my parents concerned and would likely result in me being put under a microscope, something of which I'd definitely rather avoid for obvious reasons.