Week seven was exactly what Mordain had promised: preparation for something worse than anything Amaron had experienced in either life.
The exercises were designed not to test his current capacity but to push his body and pathways to the absolute edge of what they could sustain, then force them to adapt to that edge as the new baseline. Every session left him damaged in ways that required the full recovery period to heal. Every morning he woke up questioning whether continuing was sustainable. Every evening he made the decision to show up again anyway.
