On a small table to the side of the bed, a moderately sized phone vibrated as it let out a song...

'Did it work?' Chrome thought to himself as he opened his eyes and immediately reached out to his phone to check the time.

Before he slept in his normal reality, he had set up an alarm on his phone to wake him up at 7:50 am to test the theory of him being capable of waking up before 8 am as long as his sleep was interfered by outer factors, but…

'It's a snoozed replay…'

Finding the time to be exactly 8 am once more, Chrome could only let go of the little hope he had regarding this matter. He had originally thought that it had really succeeded as he heard the random alarm song that he set play from the start, but it seemed like it was just a replay since 10 minutes have pa.s.sed since the initial alarm which snoozed automatically.

'I guess that's the true limiting factor…'

"Oh my, you even set up an alarm to wake up early, you really are becoming more diligent!" Sarah, who was pa.s.sing by the room said as she leaned on the door before walking out before she added on her way out, "Go wash your face and come out to catch breakfast while it's still warm."

"Alright, mom."

Chrome didn't ponder much about it as he took out the note to add his latest discovery before leaving the bed and headed to the bathroom. He obviously didn't expect that it would be this easy to abuse the exchange to increase the 28 hours limit anyway…

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Half an hour later…

After having breakfast and seeing his father off, Chrome returned to his room while his mother was doing the dishes.

'I should start finalizing my plan for the next two months.'

Chrome had already put away the topic of his 'awake' time away for now, while it was quite a limitation to not be able to wake up before 8 am, it didn't seem like he could do anything about it for the time being so he decided to put his focus on the next step.

He had already achieved the first one by getting the eligibility for enrollment so the next step was fixing his balant flaws so that he can become a proper Extra student.

Chrome had already used the rest of the day after he returned from the examination to browse through the internet and get a few highlines about how he should progress, and it didn't take him long before he found the most reasonable thing to work at…

'The Physical Aspect.' Chrome confirmed in his mind as he wrote it in a new page of his notebook…

Being already known to him, Chrome already knew that the focus of improvement was naturally the same three aspects that they were tested on during the examination.

Going by the normal process, one would first concentrate on increasing their Exos rating through the usage of pills, boosters or even secret training methods, using the leftover of their time to practice mastering their awakened ability and only look into improving the physical aspect when they were already done working on the earlier two points

However, when it came to topping up his Exos ratings or even increasing the range of capability for his special ability, all that Chrome needed to rely on was increasing his SRP points, which he could easily acc.u.mulate with time, so being desperate for pills or secret methods would be an unneeded behaviour.

As such, other than practicing the usage of [Basic Lightning] for a limited period of time in the day, Chrome needed to invest his time in another aspect, and the physical aspect easily fit the criteria!

Despite the fact that it was the third point to care about during the initial period of training, it was still within the list of improvement targets that Chrome had found during his extensive web search, so it naturally had its own uses anyway… besides, was having a strong body ever a bad thing?

"The question is, are those Exos bodybuilding gyms worth it?"

During the last hour of search at 11 pm in the alternate reality, and after going deep in search of faster ways to improve the physical aspect since time was limited and going to normal gyms for two months might not produce much of a result, Chrome managed to find a very interesting topic.

He found that most wealthy aspiring Extras would usually use these 'Exos Bodybuilding Gyms' to train their physical aspect with little effort and big gains, but the authenticity of these info was left unchecked.

Even though he did manage to locate one such facility located near his place, it was too late to actually check it so he decided to do so he could only do so the next day.

On the other hand, he also managed to grasp a very important piece of knowledge, he severely lacked knowledge regarding practice as an aspiring Extra!

Not to even mention these secret practice methods that could increase Exos, even the 'Exos Bodybuilding Gym' which was considered a common facility that he even had one close to home was something that he just heard about for the very first time…

His original understanding that alter Chrome knew a lot was overturned just by one day of surfing the web, as he finally understood the fact that alter Chrome barely knew anything useful other than his fangirling about super powers and special abilities.

But then again that was understandable knowing how alter Chrome had put every option away due to his financial status and planned to bet everything on using the 'Awakening Pill' to achieve a lucky flip, which actually worked out, though he unfortunately wasn't the one to witness it succeed as Chrome has took over by then already…

In conclusion, Chrome could only leave a few question marks on the page before he opened his favorite webnovel app to read as he wanted to laze away to celebrate his first success, as for going to gym and researching to fill up what he missed on, he could only wait until he got back to the parallel reality before he could do anything...