I Reincarnated as The Protagonist's Best Friend

Chapter 18: Rapid Improvement

The next day, the park atmosphere was even more intense. Especially near the lake area where there is a pit of sand, bars for pulls ups, there were students doing squats while holding spoon in their mouth. Any one that drops even a little bit of water is eliminated and needs to start over again.

After Quash had told the gym bros about the trick for circulation, they had gone home to try it. But they were very confused about the pull part. Where they should pull from? And how?

Even though Quash and told what to do step by step, their conceptual understanding was shallow, thus making it hard for them to break their perspective of thinks they have learned from childhood.

But when they started trying, they started to get ideas about what Quash had actually meant. They failed quote few times. But once they, managed it for for first time, the result was worse than their usual circulation. But they trusted Quash and continued the circulation.

But as they got more familiar with their Cardiovascular System, they started to see the difference in speed. Looking at the Aura Wisp from a different angle had many advantages. Most advantageous part of the insane speed.

Circulation normally depends on will power for speed. The higher ones Will, the faster they can push and as a result, the faster they can circulate. But with pulling, they just need to keep the Aura Wisp in their grasp whole their perspective moved through the path, dragging the wisp around.

It all becomes just a matter of familiarity with their Cardiovascular System.

The gym bros have tried the method and was absolutely awed. Normally, it would take them hours to just complete one Grand Circle. But now, they could do it within an hour.

Their gratitude towards Quash increased even more. And they trained harder. They were no where near enough to fill the bench mark Quash had set for them, and it didn’t seem like they could complete it on their life time. But they will try their absolute best.

Right now, Quash was getting beaten left and right by three new gym bros with the basic skills mastered to Expert Proficiency. Their co ordination was flawless. They would cover for each other, attack his blind spot. They were basically playing with him.

But he didn’t get angry not did he lose cool. The reason he was getting beaten was because his vision. It was one liner and barely covered anything.

So he just needed something that will cover everything. He remembered his "Divine Sense", which he used to Sense Natural Energy quite a while ago. He hadn’t used it after his Impurity Expulsion.

He closed his eyes fir a brief moment while getting attacked. His vision tunred black but the blackness slowly started to form outlines. Thise outlines have green colours. Quash saw an outline shaped like a fist flying towards his chest. A kick towards his calf and a punch towards the face.

Quash made a split second decision on what to do. He jumped and avoided the lag strike, used his mucle Strength to tilt backwards mid air and avoided all three attacks at once. The three gym bros froze for a moment before they regained his bearings and attacked Quash again. He didn’t open his eyes.

The tide has turned, the gym bros could barely land any hit now. Quash avoided their attacks by hairs breadth.

Their sparing continued and Quash hadn’t opened his eyes. As Quash continued to use "Divine Sense", it became more defined. After the Impurity Expulsion, the range has increased to 5 meters. Now, he could not only see out line but also dots different from Natural Energy. They appeared on objects. Like they were trying to define what he was feeling.

After a while, everyone stopped to take a break. Many gym bros have noticed what Quash did and asked what was that. He told them about his "Divine Sense". But when they heard that, they actually said otherwise.

They said he was misunderstanding and mixing two different things together. Divine Sense only unlocks when one Starts Cultivating the Upper Dantian. And what Quash was describing was purely physical sense.

"..."

Quash didn’t know whether to feel embarrassed or to praise his stupid little self. He just now remembered that when he was little, he was confused about this sense and instead of confrontation his parents, he talked with an AI and the end result was, it told him that he had some unique kind of Divine Sense.

The memory was such insignificant but the empathy on his psyche was immense as he had always firmly believed his physical senses were some kind of Divine Sense. So much so that he even involuntarily ignored the description of Divine Sense he had read in the Novel.

’Fuck you brain! Were you born to embarrass me!? What’s the point of having 1000 IQ!?’

He cursed his stupidity once again. Reminding himself once again that no matter how much IQ he has, he was bound to make mistakes.

But no hair was done and it was actually good that it was appearing gym bros that corrected his misunderstanding.

If it happened in the Academy City, his enemies won’t leave a chance to embarrass him. It was a ruthless place.

Quash just coughed in slight shame. The gym bros looked at him weird because it seemed like Quash had already reached a conclusion when they had barely stopped talking. How terrifying his thought speed must be to think in an instant? But since it was Quash, they didn’t dought he could do something like that.

Quash then started to ask everyone about their progress in the circulation. They all seemed to have forgotten about the exciting matter because of the intense training and forgot to tell Quash.

So they started to tell Quash their experiences to Quash eagerly. Wanting his advice. But ye has nothing much to tell them aside from the fact that if they could get more familiar with their Cardiovascular System, it will become even faster.

He also told them why he told them to try circulating 70 cycles per second. Because at that speed, they could some what move but not much. Only at 200 cycles per second can one move freely because the Aura Wisp would have reached saturation and they won’t even need to actively circulate. Circulation becomes passive.

Someone from the crowd asked how far he had managed to take the cycles speed? They probably meant if he had actually achieved it or not. Nothing malicious, just curiosity.

"Aaaa... 1000 wait no. I changed it to 2000 cycles per second recently. You know the recent Impurity Expulsion, it happened because of passive circulation and there are still impurities left in my body. That’s why I increased it."

Everyone: "..."

But Quash’s answer completely flipped their image of him.