Legendary Traveler: By Earning Progress Points I will Become Supreme!-Chapter 127: No Gain, Without Pain (4)

"GAAHHHHh AHHHHHHHH Ahhh…hhh.., hah hah, hah,"

The deafening roar released by Aoni echoed in the distant mountain range for an untold distance; however, the Lad in question, who lay covered in a mixture of unknown and known body fluids, was painted in grey, red, clear, and yellow.

The Pain may have left; however, the mental anguish caused by this most traumatic incident was more than enough for him to roll over on his side and vomit whatever contents of his stomach remained, which, in this case, amounted to bile and acid.

’Horrible, this shit is horrible,’ retching time and time again until nothing remained, the Lad curled his knees to his chest and shivered, causing his summons to take it as a sign and rush to his aid.

Glacia immediately patted his back, using a strange technique even though she had no idea where it came from, while Nyria gently nudged one of the turd-shaped nutrition bars toward her Lord’s mouth.

"This…heh, sucks…so…much," Aoni said with a wry smile as he took small bites of the gross bar he’d made.

"Gao, gao" *there there,*

"cheeee..eee, click,"

’That was horrible, brother; this happens every time you add points to yourself?’ Hesitation and worry were evident in Nyria’s tone as she took some snow, allowed it to melt, and then used her beak like a cup to pour cold water over Aoni’s skin to try and clear it of gunk.

"Yeah, foooooo," exhaling softly yet shakily, Aoni weakly nodded his head before continuing.

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"Defense is always the worst; thankfully, you guys only get sleepy and hibernate for a few days, but this is my burden to bear; speed and Attack are rough, but they mostly force my body to exert itself to the point that it simulates years of training in a short period." Feeling a little better, thanks to the pawing of Glacia on his back and the cool water trickling on his head and shoulders, Aoni found enough strength to sit up and speak.

"As for defense, well, you guys saw, it’s like I’m being attacked on all sides with fatal blows and then healed." With some effort and stumbling around like a baby deer, Aoni meandered toward the open gate with the aid of his summons before finding a large snowbank to dive head-first into.

Although the pain had subsided the moment his upgrade finished, he still felt like shit; everything was sore, but that was something a few minutes surrounded by snow easily fixed.

Soon enough, Aoni was back on his feet and begrudgingly sitting down in the same spot as before, with his Traveler’s display open in front of his face.

’Tsk, all that and not a single bump to my Pain Resistance, annoying. Hm, 18.5 points, yet I got 10 back; that’s not a bad deal for the shit I went through; regardless, if that’s the case, I should have no issue reaching, at the very least, E- in everything.

"Let’s get this started up again, No Gain, without Pain," Saying that aloud drew a scared reaction from his summons, but Aoni didn’t have enough time to pay attention to them because the next wave of agony had already begun.

| Increasing Defense from F to F+ |

| 20 pp Earned |

| Increasing Defense from F+ to E- |

| 39.375 pp Earned |

Going through Back-to-back upgrades was absolutely miserable, especially when Aoni realized that the duration of his torture seemed to extend with each Step, that is, until the last when he broke through into the E-Rank.

Five hours of intense physical torture, which, instead of the usual abuse, caused his body to be subjected to simulated acid baths and burn damage, was the worst thing imaginable.

Glacia and Nyria, unable to watch at that point, both emptied their stomachs due to the immense stench emanating from Aoni’s body, resembling the worst kind of decay when the simulated bath happened, followed by an atrocious foul burning smell when he hit the burning phase.

It was simply too much for their poor tummies to handle, and although they wished to aid their Lord, subconsciously, they understood there wasn’t much they could do to ease his pain.

Sure enough, when the E- upgrade concluded, Glacia was the first to make a move. Dashing forward with two fruits in hand, she bit into them with surprising dexterity before smearing the contents all over Aoni’s exposed flesh and shoving the pit down his mouth.

Meanwhile, vaguely aware of the Floof’s actions, the Lad swallowed the hard-candy-sized fruit pit and was brought a small amount of relief.

The only silver lining through this process was the fact that along with the new damage and previous torture sessions, Aoni’s Pain Resistance, which had been stuck at F+, broke into the E-Rank before skyrocketing to its current Maximum of E+.

With this increase in his passive, the pain was EVER SO SLIGHTLY more tolerable. That is, if you could call comparing getting a fingernail pulled off and having your whole hand ripped away from your wrist slightly more bearable.

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Having been at it all day and well into the night, Aoni decided to call it after reaching E-, and after a third snow bath, he half walked, half got dragged by Glacia, toward his bed and passed out for the night, leaving his summons to worry about their own dinner.

"gao?" *food?*

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Looking at her little sister questioningly, Glacia asked, but when she saw the look on Nyria’s face, the floof decided it was probably best to forgo dinner for the night; after all, they had tried eating lunch earlier in the day but lost it all when Aoni’s Defense broke through into the E-Rank.

"Chee, chee clack," *We need to go clean up outside; brother appreciates small things like that.*

Tossing a glance at her sleeping Lord, Nyria lightly clicked her beak before looking down at the ground and thinking, then turning to face the door to the cave.

"Gao, gaoo," *True, he does,*

With that said, the pair headed outside and, while holding their breath, used Glacia’s snow shovel to clear away the sludge left behind after the upgrade session.

Then, since she was the only one who could get rid of it, Nyria reluctantly picked up one of the empty chests Aoni had crafted that they had filled with the sludge and took it to the edge of the barrier before throwing it outside.