Pompeii's lens had AR functionality.
It displayed information about Lin Chen's last physical assessment.
The school conducted physical assessments once a week.
Last time, Lin Chen's assessment data was body level 1.5, mental level 1.1.
This data was basically below average in the class.
As the homeroom teacher of Class Two, Pompeii couldn't say he understood everyone's family situation.
But for special cases, he generally paid attention.
For example, Xia Mi and Lin Chen were both orphans with quite ordinary family circumstances.
Xia Mi went without saying—exceptionally talented, personally monitored by the principal.
They were counting on her to make a stunning achievement in the college entrance exams.
As for Lin Chen, his previous performance had been quite mediocre.
His training was quite diligent, but without sufficient resources, his body and mental levels couldn't improve.
Now, however, he'd had a considerable breakthrough.
"I see, breathing technique second stage."
Pompeii suddenly noticed a key piece of information.
This was information just entered into the class database yesterday—he hadn't noticed it at first.
Breathing technique second stage, if combined with purchasing some high-energy, high-nutrition food supplements—
Physique could indeed have a major breakthrough.
"Not bad."
A gentle smile appeared on Pompeii's fierce face.
"Keep working hard and strive to enter the class top ten."
"There are only two months left until the college entrance exams. Don't be stingy with resources. If you really don't have enough, you can come find me."
Pompeii's words left Lin Chen stunned. His predecessor's grades were mediocre, a nobody, so he hadn't dealt with Pompeii much.
Looking now, beneath Pompeii's fierce exterior was actually quite a gentle heart.
"Go on."
Pompeii waved his hand at Lin Chen.
Back in his day, his family circumstances had also been mediocre. He'd encountered an opportunity to explore new worlds recruiting cannon fodder and went to the One Piece world.
Boot camp was under Teacher Zephyr, and later he followed Mr. Garp.
Both Navy instructors had given him tremendous help.
After returning, he became a teacher and also liked to support and help his juniors.
"Next."
After Lin Chen left, the physical assessment continued rapidly.
"Next, Kujo Jotaro."
Pompeii called out. Lin Chen's spirit jolted.
JO's here.
Jotaro's body level—
"Body level 9.9, mental power 9.9."
"Excellent, Jotaro. You're about to break through to the First Energy Level."
Pompeii was never stingy with praise for good students.
He learned this from Teacher Zephyr at boot camp.
"Really strong. Truly a man with 'invincible' written on his face."
Lin Chen admired internally.
Jotaro himself was extraordinarily talented, with absurd gifts in both physical body and mental power.
Although he hadn't awakened Star Platinum yet, in the high-martial-arts world, his talent was sufficient to make him a powerhouse.
In his predecessor's memories, Jotaro studied Stone Breathing.
Focused more on physical tempering, plus Old Jo wasn't short on money.
His grandfather, Joseph, was a real estate tycoon, and there was the SPW Foundation—even more of a conglomerate than the Shinomiya family.
With this level of physique, Lin Chen was very curious what strength his Stand would be when he awakened it.
As for the First Energy Level that Teacher Pompeii mentioned—
That was this high-martial-arts world's realm division.
Body level zero to ten, mental level zero to ten—both were the First Energy Level.
Breaking through level ten in any category meant reaching the Second Energy Level.
Because the high-martial-arts world connected to many worlds with numerous cultivation systems, the division was this simple and crude.
The civilian population also had similar divisions, just more intuitive.
For example, First Energy Level was "Stone-Crushing Level," Second Energy Level was "House-Busting," Third Energy Level was "Street-Busting."
After that came City-Busting, even Planet-Busting.
A bit like the crater-smashing debate method in power-scaling arguments.
The combat power in Lin Chen's panel was closer to the civilian version. His current combat power level was Weak Stone-Crushing.
Even within the First Energy Level, it was considered relatively weak.
"Alright, finished. Begin training."
Pompeii removed his single-lens eyepiece, clapped his hands, and spoke loudly.
The simple physical assessment only tested basic body levels.
As for breathing techniques and such, those all belonged to combat.
The college entrance exams had this as an independent subject with substantial points.
"Wait, what about the little dragon girl's data?"
Lin Chen subconsciously looked toward Xia Mi's direction.
She was also looking this way, tilting her head with a smile, revealing cute little fangs.
Lin Chen quickly withdrew his gaze.
His predecessor's memories also didn't have Xia Mi's test data.
It seemed her talent was too high, protected by the school's upper administration.
After Pompeii finished speaking—
The students began dispersing and starting their training.
Lin Chen trained alongside Jotaro.
Jotaro had a cold exterior but warm interior—appearing hard and unapproachable on the surface.
Actually, his character was quite good.
As long as you became friends with him.
This body training classroom, in Lin Chen's view, was essentially a large-scale gym.
Perhaps because Teacher Pompeii had been to the One Piece world and trained in the One Piece world's system—
His training method involved pushing high weights.
Constantly breaking through stimulation, sprinting toward limits.
Things like dumbbell flyes, barbell bicep curls, carrying giant iron blocks while doing frog jumps, and so on.
It sounded quite abstract, yet this was the physique training method of the One Piece world.
Fortunately, Pompeii himself was quite responsible—correcting movements, closely monitoring everyone's condition, so dangerous situations wouldn't occur.
Huff.
Jotaro had already started doing one-handed bicep curls with a barbell nearly full of weight plates.
Watching made the corner of Lin Chen's eye twitch.
However, he quickly withdrew his gaze and began intense training.
Hiss.
Lin Chen's breathing was audible, large amounts of gas entering his body, enhancing his physique.
He began physique training under the second-stage breathing technique condition.
The Demon Slayer world's breathing technique system also extremely emphasized physique training.
Breathing techniques themselves couldn't directly train physique.
But with breathing technique assistance, one could train physique better and more efficiently.
Not emphasizing body training and only breathing would actually make one weaker and weaker.
Tanjiro's father died young—besides disease, there were also reasons related to this.
Using breathing techniques when nutrition couldn't keep up was overdrafting the body.
LV2 breathing technique made Lin Chen's breathing rhythm more stable, not liable to interrupt at any moment.
In intense training, Sea King meat was rapidly digested and decomposed, supplementing the body's needed nutrition and energy.
Although there wasn't equipment to monitor physical improvement in real-time—
Lin Chen could still feel his physical fitness improving.
This speed was much faster than his predecessor's.
Moreover, in this state, breathing technique proficiency was also slowly increasing.
"Yaho, Lin Chen."
A voice sounded beside him, startling Lin Chen.
He turned his head to look—sure enough, it was Xia Mi, currently squatting on the ground, cupping her face while watching him train.
"Class Monitor, what are you doing here?"
Lin Chen was somewhat helpless.
The little dragon girl seemed to have discovered something and kept paying attention to him.
In his predecessor's memories, the little dragon girl wasn't this clingy.
"Of course I came to struggle hard together with you."
Xia Mi stood up, making a gesture displaying her right arm's bicep, but there wasn't a trace of muscle visible.
It looked rather cute instead.