Thor was not nearly that uninspired. There were no laps around the training area for the acolytes under his training regimen.
Instead, he brought out a number of weighted vests, made of Rae's silk, and had the trainees do sprints up and down the bleachers while he kept a milder version of [Refreshing Lightning] active so that the muscles had time to strain, heal and repeat.
If he kept too powerful of a spell active, they didn't suffer the strain needed to grow the muscles, but this way they should get the gains in a single morning that would otherwise have taken them months.
Thor was very proud of the plan, but Karl noticed that he put a stronger version of the regenerative spell on the Cerro Hatchlings, who were happily chasing everyone up and down the stairs.
They didn't need the work to grow up big and strong, they needed higher quality feed and a good smashing post to practice their skills. Chasing the herd was just fun.
Thor had prepared both for them, and he was happy to ignore the hateful glares that he was getting from ten of the eleven trainees.
Four laps in, Sybil was too exhausted to even glare at him anymore.
But that was quickly solved with an adjustment to her protective spells, and Rae was happy to keep her running. No disciple of hers would be lazy.
One of the training Sergeants came over to coordinate assistants for Karl's acolytes today and paused when he saw their physical training.
"Did they do something personal to you? Weighted gut laps up the bleachers is pretty extreme for rookies." He asked.
"Nope. We have a healing and stamina regeneration spell on them. In theory, this should build muscle at a rate that no steroid could compete with. We have limited time to train, so we're pushing them as hard as humanly possible without damaging their potential.
It's the core of what the Church asked us to do when they assigned us these lucky recruits. My group has a number of training specialty skills, and they were hoping that we could push up a fresh group of Elites, then teach others the method.
It's only day two, but I already see progress.
Take a look at that Monk, what do you see?" Karl replied.
"Just a Monk running up the stairs with everyone else." Then the Sergeant paused, then noticed one more detail.
"Much more easily than she should be with that much weight on her back. How monstrous is her strength?"
Karl chuckled. "If I am right, it's not about her strength, which is actually monstrous. I believe that she has learned a movement skill to reduce her weight."
"A new skill learned on the second day of training? How ridiculous is your method?"
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