Zion's Ascention.

was watching the mortals as he had done for over 300 years as he had been tasked to do by those powers greater than even the Kai, his place in the afterlife had been pleasant and peaceful until around 15 years ago when he noticed the mortals of the living realm had began grown more and more powerful, to the point where his own innate strength was becoming less effective than the mortals that began cropping up in the afterlife and especially those who were still alive. To this end the Judge would begin to put serious and to the eyes of those who were not of Demigod descent, extreme effort.

First Zion would pay a visit to the Kai in order to gather the resources he would need, talking to many of them about their kin who had the ability to materialize objects with ki in order to produce objects of various weights from a few kilograms to several tons. Once he found who he needed he returned to the world between worlds where he had set up as an impromptu place of rest, had the objects materialized for him and with great thanks he let the Kai away to their own business so he could take stock of what he had and began planning a training routine that was fit only for the natural strength Demigod were born with.

With his plan in place he began by testing each of the weights that were produced until he found the ones he could barely lift, several different weights that were in various shapes he had designed to target different muscle groups from the way they had to be held and began lifting, starting off on the extreme end with what amounted to a boulder that the humans would call an ‘Atlas stone’ which used all of the muscles in his arms, wrists, hands, legs and many muscles in his back to lift and keep balanced within his grip. He had to use all of his focus to just keep the stone aloft with the blood beating in his ears.

At first he lifted these weights into a squat and made almost rocking motions to slowly work his muscles and build them up, slowly but surely strengthening his body as he prepared it for the greater weights he would be using in the future. It took less than a year for him to adjust to these sorts of weights thanks to both his rank in the checkpoint empowering his body and the fact that Demigod had an unusual ability to rapidly train their bodies without any need for outside assistance, by the end of the year he had gotten to the point where he could lift that very stone he had been using over his head with only minor effort.

Each time Zion got used to one milestone in his weights he switched to the next, thanks to no serious events happening since the death of Glaza causing mass deaths, he had more time than he’d had when the tyrannical Icer was dominating worlds and enslaving entire civilisations by force to focus on his training. Zion spent several years scaling his raw physical prowess to a point where his old strength was a mere insignificant compared to the levels he was putting out now, capable of lifting more than one of the multi-ton weights on each arm that many mortal fighters could only dream of lifting with their entire bodies.

Along with the strength he was gaining his body was becoming more rugged from the harshness of the weights he was using, a feature he had to insist on the kai adding was spikes, harsh surfaces and gyroscopic structures that would cause the stones to harshly vibrate and rattle his bones and body at frequencies that could turn bones to dust. The combined exercises left Zion with a body that was harder than all natural materials in the universe and many mortal or even god made materials, eventually testing his strength on the weights he had used to hone his body into not a weapon but a force of the divines who put him in the role of the Judge of Souls.