The Extra's Survival

Lucas went near the boulder. Placing his palm on it, he tried to push the boulder with all its strength.

With a rumble, the boulder shaped rock started moving. Now all he had to do was push the boulder up the slope. The difficulty of doing this is, if you stop applying force a second, the boulder will push you down against the hill and the boulder may roll over you.

Climbing along with the boulder was both times consuming and exhausting. Lucas didn ’t even know whether he had enough stamina to push it to the top.

Lucas had to concentrate so that he might not lose focus, as the slightest loss of concentration will result in boulder rolling down.

If he could use mana then he could have pushed the boulder up without using full strength but without mana, his current strength was barely enough to pass the course.

Lucas had already climbed more than half of the course and paused going up to catch his breath as he was feeling out of breath. Standing there with constantly applying force was hard still he decided to take a break to replenish some of his stamina.

All of his muscles especially his legs and shoulders were feeling sore at the moment and clear beads of sweat rolled down from his face while his entire clothes were drenched in sweat as if he has just taken a shower. His legs were already trembling to maintain his standing.

Lucas could see the students grinding their teeth to push the boulders. This is undoubtedly the most difficult part of the course.

Pushing his back against the boulders Lucas turned back to stare at the bottom of the mountain and the forest below it.

’The view from the top was quite nice. ’Lucas mumbled.

From the top, the forest was quite distant and the big trees now looked like small shrubs.

After a few moments of catching his breath, Lucas began to push the boulder gritting his teeth. He tried to squeeze every drop of strength he has within his body.