Gaju - One

Chapter 18 - Acupuncture

Gaju woke up when the atmosphere around him was already dark. He felt his whole body ache all because of what he had done earlier. Gaju estimated that he was only able to survive for 3 seconds after feeling the tremendous pain earlier.

But Gaju is now convinced that the acupuncture method is effective to strengthen his muscles. His muscles felt more sore and sore than the power training exercise he had ever done. Currently he wanted to go to the training field and try to increase his strength by using Strength Meter.

All the candidates realized that on the Island, the best way to increase the ability of physical attributes and the brain was with a genetic serum. Because the results are faster and more certain. Especially for physical strength. Gaju felt it himself.

The value of his physical attributes only increased by 0.1 point for each category after two years of extremely hard training. And according to Gaju's analysis, the results are better than most candidates who only get an increase of 0.5 points which becomes their average progress.

Compare that to candidates who get a genetic serum injection. 0.1 Point increase only they get from one injection only. Especially for monsters like Koga or Koma. Koga made it into the top three ranking 10 times, the most among other candidates. Koma followed with 9 times and Aju 8 times. The rest were evenly split into Candidates who might be lucky to enter the ranking once or twice.

Gaju had calculated that Koga and Koma had become real Fighters with Physical Attribute points exceeding 5.0 while Aju was probably close to that number.

For the Strategists, Tian and Gama are clearly a real Strategist with an Intelligence Capability value above 5.0 while Adel may be a bit far from that number.

Gaju himself?

Gaju doesn't know the exact score for his Intelligence Capability, but he's convinced that he's more than worthy of being a Strategist, from the start he knew that. But for Physical Capability? Gaju is in the average area.

When the first test, Gaju only had a total score of 2.30 points, for two years he trained hard and only got an increase of 0.1 points. So the last physical attribute value of Gaju is only 2.60 points. Almost half of the monsters are named Koga or Koma.

Although Gaju believes that his physical abilities are far above those of Strategists such as Tian, Gama or Adel. But if it's dressed up with those Fighters, Gaju is nothing.

Weak Gaju? No. gabe. According to the standards given by the island. Strength scores for normal adult males off the Island range from 0.6 to 1.0 points. Maybe it could be more if he is an athlete or a person who is focused on sports.

Even most adult men have a strength below 0.8 point. Means the power of the men's blows has less than 80kg of power. Compare with Gaju who now has a Strength value of 0.8 point at the age of ten years.

With an increase of 0.5 to 1 point each year, when Gaju is 20 years old, Gaju will probably be able to beat normal adult men outside the Island with one hit.

But Gaju doesn't want that. The enemy of Gaju is the monster that is in the Island. He should be able to defeat them if he wanted to survive to the end on the Island. Koga, who has received ten injections of serum genetic muscle enhancement, now has a fantastic strength value at 2.15 points. 215 kg of punch strength. Let alone Gaju, even the wall might be destroyed if hit by the monster with all his might.

Gaju knows that the world is unfair. Those who are given the gift of physical strength from birth can easily improve their abilities on this island. And Gaju realized that he was not part of those who were given the gift.

Until finally, Gaju found a method of acupuncture and recklessly using his own body for guinea pigs.

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Gaju stood up and took a breath. After resting for an hour, Gaju went straight to the training field and wanted to test how effective the acupuncture method he was using earlier.

Gaju now stood in front of the strength meter and prepared to lash out his punch with all his might. No candidate is paying attention to Gaju at the moment. Make what? They know beyond the head Gaju's strength value. Gaju is only a candidate with average ability.

Gaju focused his attention then hit the strength meter as hard as his strength. Shortly thereafter a number appeared on the display attached above the target to hit the one on the strength meter.

83 kg.

Gaju was silent for a while, after which he immediately clenched his hand and pointed it upwards. He wanted to shout and vent his emotions, but it was night and he did not want to attract the attention of the other candidates. So he just held his hand up and smiled in satisfaction.

“I succeeded!!”

Eighty-three kilograms, a small and insignificant figure when compared to 215 kg of Koga or 180 kg of Koma. But there is one important thing here that makes Gaju very happy and makes him almost scream as loud as possible.

Gaju previously only had a strength of 0.80 points, when he hit the strength meter, the results ranged from 79kg to 80kg and never exceeded that figure. But now, his strength rose to 0.83 point. There was a 0.03 point increase.

Small and not important at all.

But Gaju had calculated quickly in his head, for one test session that he did last afternoon, he gained 0.03 points. Perhaps because it was the first time, the acupuncture technique exerted more effect on his body. Gaju concluded the worst possibility for the future, he will only get an increase of 0.02 points per session.

There are still approximately 2 years left before the Elimination Test is done. That meant that he could still perform this acupuncture technique a hundred times. And even though there will be a decrease in the effectiveness of this method. At least Gaju has managed to get a powerful way to improve his physical abilities.

But Gaju suddenly remembered the pain he experienced when using the acupuncture technique earlier. An excruciating pain from the tip of his hair to the tip of his foot as all of his body muscles were forced to constrict.

Gaju took a deep breath. He knew that his days to come would be filled with suffering and pain. But in order to survive, he would.