MMORPG : Ancient WORLD

Chapter 332 A Trip Back In TIme

Alex wanted the battlemage class in real life, as it was the class he had in the ancient world and knew best about it, but he didn't want to acquire it the common way of first becoming a swordsman and then a mage and then learning to wield them in harmony to get the third rank promotion as a battlemage.

However, to avoid the long route and get the class on the first Rank promotion, he needed to have a hundred points of stats in strength and mana and above sixty points in every other stat to be eligible to acquire the battlemage class from the start.

A hundred points of any stat was extremely challenging to reach before the first Rank promotion, and to do so in a short period of twenty days like he wanted was even harder.

Alex held confidence in reaching those stats without even needing to awaken his elemental physique because all his stats were already above sixty points each, and they continued to increase, albeit at a very slow pace.

Alex gave the target and time frame to Zoe, who pushed him to his limits through various exercises in the next twenty-one hours to gather data to make a calculation of how much he needed to work to achieve his goal.

The training chamber had incredible equipment concealed beneath the floor, emerging seamlessly as the ground shifted.

The technological marvels within were designed to cater to specific aspects of training, each aimed at enhancing a particular stat.

One such machine resembled a sleek metallic exoskeleton, its intricate design providing resistance to Alex's movements. This device targeted strength, utilizing adaptable settings to challenge his muscles in various ways. 

The room could turn into a pool of running water with a thickness beyond normal, featuring controllable speed, and another feature that turned the whole room into an ever-changing obstacle course focused on improving agility.

There was the rich mana atmosphere that he could meditate and rine his body to push his intelligence stat and various other ways to push his vitality if it was not already increasing by proxy of all the strain his body would go through with other intensive exercises.

After twenty-one hours of doing every single exercise under the influence of three times the gravity, Alex was exhausted, and his body was in pain.

While Alex took a small nap as he recovered using Life Serum treatment, Zoe worked on creating the best routine he could use to achieve his set goal.

Alex woke up to the good news that his goal was achievable if he didn't face any unforeseen problems in the following nineteen sessions.

In the next fifteen sessions, his neutral mana would also fully transition into the darkness element, setting him for the first Rank promotion in two months, provided everything progressed smoothly.

When Alex emerged from the training chamber, night had descended, and at home, his parents were still awake, watching the news. 

After spending a few minutes sitting with them and enjoying the dinner of white rice and chicken, he went to his room, took a quick shower, and swiftly returned to the ancient world to resume training.

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In the ancient world, the days followed a continuous cycle, with Alex seamlessly transitioning between two training days in the Ancient world followed by a day dedicated to the training in the real world. 

The routine in both the ancient world and the real world was the same, and days Alex made progress, inching ever closer to his two goals.

There was no change in Alex's schedule in the ancient world for the first three weeks, with him spending nine hours dedicated to battling the base version of himself, honing his defensive skills, swordplay, and elemental manipulation. 

In the following Seven hours, he spent learning and studying spells/skills and working on combining them to create new spells, with him hardly succeeding yet still learning valuable experience.

Alex spent four and a half hours every day experiencing the memories of guardian Nochin and learning about the basics and practicals of the runes stacking.

Alex spent the remaining three hours meditating, cycling mana through his body, which became a serene retreat where he could rest amidst the chaos of his training.

Alex repeated the same process twice in the forty-eight-hour time frame he had and then returned to the real world and went to the training chamber to train again, with little time to rest to stay with his family.

Alex was a bit worried that such a hectic schedule might take a toll on his mind. However, each day, he felt rejuvenated and eager to dive into his training, realizing that he was truly enjoying every moment of his hectic routine.

Alex could feel he was becoming stronger every day with better control over his elemental manipulations, better ability to perceive and handle mana, and better handle his clone in battle, forcing him to use skills and even elemental manipulations.

However, after three weeks, Alex's progress faced a hurdle as his elemental manipulations reached a wall, making it harder to improve his control over them no matter how many times he clashed with his clone.

So, to break the wall and make progress, elders decided to add another activity to his daily routine.

Instead of spending nine and a half hours learning the basics of rune stacking, a skill Alex had made significant progress in and could proficiently stack basic runes for a considerable duration.

So, Five hours were taken from the learning time and five from the fighting with his clone to make him spend ten hours every session reliving one of the biggest events in history that would give him the best chance to progress his elemental manipulation and overall skills.

The chosen historical event was the Chaos Apocalypse, a cataclysmic event that occurred over a millennium ago.

The event that introduced the Chaos Spawns, nightmarish creatures that thrived on chaos and death, invaded the world, leaving a trail of destruction in their wake.

In this chaotic period of history, Alex had the opportunity to witness the most significant event, a time when the ancient world was much different than today and was facing a catastrophic event that had plunged the whole world into a time of unparalleled death and destruction.

Alex did not experience any of the historical events because he did not have the time to spare, but he needed to experience, and he was going to a time of pure carnage.

It was decided that he would only relive the various important parts of the event as the event lasted for a few centuries before peace came back to the ancient world.

It was the twenty-third day of training when Alex entered the state of illusion, his body going into a state of slumber while his mind was sent thousands of years back in time to the day the chaos began.

Alex expected the illusion to be distinguishable as such with less density, lower details, or even finding bugs, but to his absolute shock, it was as real as the ancient world, which was no different than the reality.

Alex was sent to the human continent, a land that wasn't yet recognized by that name, devoid of any human empire, or any empire at all, for that matter.

The continent was called Lornarath, which meant the land of nobody, and why it was called that, Alex had no idea as even that little information was given to him by a man who wanted to earn a gold coin.