Time passed again, and no one knew how long it had been.
When Elara finally finished the last round of training, the weight she was carrying had already reached 100KG, the same number Uno had started with.
Elara lowered her eyes and looked at her sweat-soaked body, and was surprised to find that her body now had smooth and beautiful muscle lines.
Her abdominal lines, waistline, and abs were clearly and beautifully defined on her body.
With her physical ability suddenly rising like this, Elara felt that even without using internal power, she could fight ten people at once.
Feeling the agile and abundant strength she had never had before, Elara looked at the beautiful muscle lines on her waist and abdomen with disbelief.
Even though it looked amazing, it had to be some kind of illusion caused by this training room, right? After all, even if she had trained here for a while, there was no way she could develop such defined abs and abdominal lines in such a short time.
Thinking about how this space could even simulate high mountains, cliffs, deep valleys, and giant rivers, Elara gave one last look at the beautiful muscle lines on her abdomen, put on her clothes, and didn't think about it further, deciding to check again after leaving when the training was over.
She had already used up all ten rounds of training, and her speed and strength had greatly improved. There was no point in continuing anymore, it was time for her to take the test.
Elara returned to the space where she had started. She glanced to the side where Uno was, but a thick blue light blocked the view, and she couldn't see what was happening on his side.
In her mind, she used the power of the Holy Spirit blood to send Uno a message, telling him not to waste the training chance. Even if he could pass the test now, he should still take the time to train more. Then she withdrew her gaze and looked at the test panel, pressing the button labeled [Start Test].
The physical test started again, and the steep cliff filled with all kinds of obstacles appeared in front of Elara once more.
The familiar feeling of weight came over her again, but after training with 100KG, this 50KG weight could no longer burden Elara like before. Instead, it even felt a little light.
She looked down at the smooth lines on her arms and suddenly wanted to know how long she had actually stayed in this test field.
She had agreed with Prince Yu, Prince Leland, and the others to meet again in three hours, but if these muscles were real, then the time she spent training here must have already far exceeded three hours.
This thought appeared in Elara's mind for a second before she pushed it down again.
Forget it, she couldn't worry about them for now. After all, she was also trapped here. Only by pushing through the training and reaching the test standard could she have a chance to leave safely.
Elara set aside all unnecessary thoughts and focused completely on the test in front of her.
The moment the countdown on the projection screen hit zero, she shot out like an arrow from a bow. Her speed was so fast that it left afterimages behind her.
During the last test, she had felt discomfort, pressure, soreness, and breathlessness shortly after starting. This time, all of that had completely disappeared.
Elara even climbed the steep, hanging cliff faster and more smoothly with each move.
By the time she reached the top of the steep cliff, only ten minutes had passed.
And she was only slightly out of breath, not feeling tired at all, and there was no trace of exhaustion or discomfort.
After glancing at the countdown above her head, Elara rushed toward the area she hadn't reached during the first test.
The way down was just as extreme as the climb up.
But compared to climbing up, sliding down or leaping down used far less effort.
So on the way down, Elara only spent five minutes.
After five minutes, she landed steadily on the ground and sprinted toward the finish line fifteen hundred meters away, now visible to the naked eye.
There were still all kinds of obstacles along the fifteen-hundred-meter path, but after going through the ten rounds of the "Holy Temple Escape," these challenges felt no different than flat ground to the current Elara.
In just three and a half minutes, Elara shot straight from the bottom of the cliff to the finish point like a gust of wind.
The mechanical voice she had grown familiar with rang out again. [Ding~ Congratulations on completing the first physical fitness test. Second-round result: 18 minutes 34 seconds. Rating: Excellent.]
[Ding~ Congratulations on receiving an Excellent rating in the physical fitness test. The first test is complete. Please rest briefly. The next test is: Spiritual Power Test.]
As the mechanical voice fell, Elara felt the internal power that had been firmly suppressed inside her finally flood her body once again, as if it had been unlocked.
At the same time, a faint cracking sound similar to when she had made a breakthrough echoed lightly in her mind.
The next second, her original internal power and the newly absorbed, vast and deep energy merged together, rushing through her meridians like a roaring river, following a certain rule and path, wildly circling within her.
Elara froze for a moment and instantly understood what the feeling of breaking through to another level of power was.
Sure enough, her "Divine Spirit Mystic Technique" had broken through to the seventh level after her inner power was released.
After breaking through to the seventh level of "Divine Spirit Mysticism," Elara could now roam freely through this ancient world.
Thinking of what Uno had told her in the past, Elara felt the powerful surge of energy in her body after the breakthrough, and her heart grew more joyful.
If she were to encounter the assassins from the Blood Cloak Tower who had once hunted her, even without the aid of any external force or Puppet Soldiers, Elara was now ninety percent confident she could easily eliminate them.
After sensing the strong and solid force within her for a while, and realizing she didn't know how much time had passed, Elara shifted her focus back to the screen in midair, which had now displayed the second round of the test.
[Mental Test]
Elara stared at these words for a few seconds.
Did it mean the mental will to endure suffering? Or was it the so-called mental power evolved in those futuristic sci-fi novels she had read in her past life?
A trace of curiosity flashed through her heart, and Elara raised her hand to tap on [Start Test].
But to her surprise, whether it was mental endurance through hardship or evolved mental power, the [Mental Test] did not, like the [Physical Test], transform the space into a hellish scene.
Instead, a thick blue light suddenly lit up from the center of the testing room.
The blue light shone on Elara, gradually climbing up her body, and eventually formed a structure on both sides of her face that looked like blue-glowing headphones.
Elara raised her hand, wanting to touch these strange "blue light headphones," when she suddenly heard a mechanical voice from above her head:
[Congratulations. You have passed the mental power test. Evaluation rating: Good.]
Elara paused. That was it?
The screen above her head was already shifting to the next part of the test.
Elara looked up and called out for it to stop.
"Wait! I'm not satisfied with this result. Start this round of training."
The light screen above her head paused.
The air went quiet for two seconds before the mechanical voice spoke again:
[You have already passed the second round of the mental test. You can proceed directly to the third round without training. Are you sure you still want to do the pre-test training for the second round?]
But after gaining so much from the first round of training, how could Elara possibly let go of the second round's training for nothing?
With the breakthrough she made during the first training, she now saw its value as no less than that of the test itself.
"I don't want a 'Good.' I'll take the test again after the training."
The mechanical voice, bound by fixed programming, only responded to executable procedures within the test.
Although Elara's request was rare in its testing records, it wasn't impossible.
The mechanical voice smoothly switched the contents on the screen:
[As you wish, the temporary training for the second round of the mental test also includes ten sessions. After the training ends, you may begin the mental test again.]
The process of the mental test had been so simple that Elara didn't even feel anything before it was over.
When the mental training began, she was curious about how this invisible and intangible mental power would be trained, and whether the process would be as easy as the test. But a sudden wave of nausea shattered her original expectation.
Mental training was indeed different from physical training. After it started, although there was no visible change in the test room, Elara felt as if she had turned into a blob of soft, shapeless mud.
She was thrown into a spinning washing machine drum, and without any warning, her world turned upside down, spinning wildly.
"Damn..."
Unable to hold back, she cursed softly. Elara realized what kind of hellish training mental training really was. Her body hadn't changed at all, but her consciousness was somehow pulled out by a strange force.
The once quiet and empty test room seemed to turn into a suffocating and sticky swamp, a whirlpool of mud.
And her consciousness was like a poor soul struggling in the swamp, about to be drowned, choked, and killed.