Days flew by quickly and Ivan was finally taken away from earth after spending just a week with his family and brought to a different planet for the training.

The travel through space was a first time for Ivan and he felt a mix of excitement and nervousness as he stared at the huge meteorites and stars in the distance as their spaceship shuttled through the black space, the enormous size of the earth was so mind boggling that Ivan felt his head spinning.

They traveled at an incredible speed that the gigantic earth got smaller and smaller at a visible speed, soon, it was out of sight and all that surrounded them were black space and stars.

They traveled for days in space before finally arriving at the planet where the special training was to take place, it was a desolated planet with red rock surface and a single enormous structure which belonged to the human civilization. The structure was millions of kilometers tall and had floors that Ivan could not even count, inside the structure were the millions of living beings from different planets that had come to this planet for one reason or another; the structure was like a standing continent!

Ivan learned that aside from the structure, everywhere else on this planet was nothing but red rocks; no other living being resided outside the structure, it was also going to be where his training would be taking place for the next three years.

After a week of familiarizing himself with places that were accessible to him, training soon started.

Ivan realized that there were hundreds of other humans who were also participating in the training as well as youngsters from other life forms, aliens!

Coincidentally, the youth who Ivan had beaten up back on earth was here as well; the youth swear to get back at Ivan.

Training started soon, it was hell.

The trainees complained about the torturous training but the warriors only increased the difficulty but this also helped them improved quickly.

Time flowed quickly as the training continued everyday, Ivan was making fast progress and had already gotten the title of “demon” from the other trainees.

The youth wasn’t able to keep up and could only despair wherever he encountered Ivan, Ivan wasn’t bothered to pay any attention to him and just let him be.

He had gotten so strong that he was even competing with official warriors.

Ivan also made friends during the period of training, two boys and a girl who were from earth and an alien kid from a different planet. His alien friend had a single eye and purple skin but that didn’t hide his handsomeness; he was good looking even in human standard.

A lot of other people also tried to become friends with him but Ivan wouldn’t let them as he was able to tell that they were only approaching him for benefits unlike his four friends who genuinely liked him and had similar mindset with him.

Things progress further and Ivan even got into a relationship with the girl in their circle, her name was kira and she had long green hair and was a cold beauty. For some reason, Ivan always thought that he had seen her from somewhere else but knew it was just his mind playing tricks on him.

After all, all of his human friends were from far away countries on earth and there was no chance that they had met before.

Training continued and Ivan’s speed of getting stronger continued to shock everyone, he was so monstrous that he graduated early.

After only a year and six months, Ivan was already stronger than many of the warriors in charge of their training and was able to face up to ten of them in a fight and even won a few times.

The higher ups were puzzled about this and invited Ivan a lot of time for questioning about his Ki examination but Ivan remembered the words of the red haired man and would always lie about the actual number that had shown that day.

As for the red haired warrior, Ivan had not heard from him since he came to this planet.

Since the higher-ups were unable to force him to say the truth, they could only let him be and make him graduate ahead of the others.

As this would cause the courage of the others to shatter and Ivan would not be able to make any more progress from continuing the training, it was best to leave this child’s play and enter the real battlefield.

Before Ivan left, he promised his friends that he would come find them after a year and six months during their graduation so they could catch up. His girlfriend proposed that he took her to see his family and told him her desire to get married as well.

Ivan didn’t refuse her and accepted her suggestions before leaving.

Ivan was brought back to earth a few weeks later after passing through a lot of paperworks and formalities. He got his warrior identity and a lot of benefits like an entire estate, citizenship upgrade certificate, cash rewards, and many more.

He really became a changed person after just a year and six months away from earth.

Ivan was finally reunited with his family after returning to earth, his mother and sister welcomed him with tears of joy.

Later that day, he found out that a report came shortly after he left for training; the planet that his father had been sent to for exploration turned out to have its own civilization and the creatures were not weak either.

As the first batch of warriors to make close contact with the planet, dispute resulted from an argument and it escalated into a brutal battle. His father was reported to have died in the battle and the entire team was wiped out, they were unable to retrieve their corpses so Ivan’s mother wasn’t able to do a proper burial for her husband.

Ivan felt that this report was extremely suspicious and couldn’t help remembering when his father warned him to be careful of the red haired warrior.

He decided to think about this later as there was no evidence to anything yet, comforting his mother was priority for now.

Ivan spend two months with his mother and sister, enjoying the feeling of having a family after going through a year and six months of extreme training.

His sister was doing well in school and his mother has been asked to retire as the mother of a warrior, she was being paid a huge amount of money every month and it was not difficult to just sit back and enjoy life.

Ivan suggested them moving to his estate but his mother refused, she wanted to live in her late husband’s house until she joined him in the afterlife.

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Ivan could not force her, he could understand her; the couple were still in their prime after all.

He told them about his experience during the training as well, obviously filtering the hardship he had passed through so as not to cause them worry. He also told his mother about his girlfriend and their plan to get married in a year and half after she graduated.

His mother was in full support and was eager to meet kira.

After two months of spending time with his mother and sister, it was time for Ivan to resume his duty as a warrior.

His first mission just happened to be the planet where his father had died, Ivan happily accepted the mission.

He was equipped with gears and his personal mecha which could only be controlled by fusing Ki into it.

He was sent along with a squad of older warriors to the planet, they boarded a spaceship and were soon on their way.

They reached the planet after two months of travelling through space and came in contact with the creatures living in it.

It was a massacre!

Ivan showed how much of a monster he was and shocked even his teammates.

It was as if he had an unlimited storage of Ki and was able to keep his mecha running for days straight without taking a rest!

Mechas were gigantic machine in human shape, they had various attacking methods and can cause a mountain to collapse with enough energy poured into it.

Ivan’s mecha was special, it wasn’t as huge as the normal mecha that other warriors used and was only seven meters tall, its body was smoother had had less edges compared to normal mechas; it was like a veey tall human with metal bodies.

It’s speed and power output what countless of times more than that of other mechas, it also had more attacking methods!

In just a week of landing on the planet, Ivan singlehandedly massacred half of the planet’s population; laying waste to half of the planet and turning it into an apocalypse.

It was devastating, his teammates even began to fear him. He didn’t fight like someone on a mission but instead like someone who had a personal grudge against this planet.

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