1st Year of Training
Throughout my first year at this facility, I went through hell, I got up at sunrise every morning starting with running 5 laps around the perimeter of the mansion, followed by 200 sit-ups, 150 squats, 250 push-ups, and 50 pull-ups.
All before noon, then I spent the afternoon being tutored by Trina on all the ways to be a proper maid, manners, etiquette, reading expressions, guessing what your master wants, being prepared, posture, tea serving skills, attending to guests, being optimized, the art of cleaning, cooking, learning everything about your master to tend to their needs, never talking back, listen and remember everything you hear, etc.
Then during the evening, Sasha teaches me the basics of combat, paying attention to every movement, reading your opponent, positioning, how to use every weapon at a basic level, how to use anything as a weapon, we had sparring matches. I found out she was very bored and was ecstatic to find out about me since she never has students. I get a day off a week, so my body doesn't just break down.
When I started having to make my own food, I optimized the whole process, heat, cooking time, size of the ingredients, amount of ingredients, as to not waste any food, I also created a set diet to preserve my energy and help strengthen my body.
2nd Year of Training
When my second year started I was starting to get used to things, but my training was raised in difficulty. For my morning training, I had to now run 12 laps, do 350 sit-ups, 300 squats, 400 push-ups, and 200 pull-ups.
Classes with Trina were the same, just more strict and harder lessons. I was being made to achieve perfection. If I didn't have Dexterous Movement as an Innate Skill, this would've driven me nuts.
The combat training with Sasha progressed, I was being taught more advanced techniques, they even had to bring more teachers from outside to teach me more about how to use most weapons, they wanted to teach me all they could due to my Awakened Skill allowing me to use any weapon as if it weighed a stick. I remember the guest teacher's face when I picked up a war-hammer with one hand. From what everyone could gather the two weapons I was most talented in were Gauntlets/Claws and Maces/Hammers. Due to my talent with Gauntlets, it meant my skill at unarmed combat was very high, which was useful for a maid that also served as a bodyguard.
My optimization in the kitchen kept improving that when I once walked in front of the main mansion's kitchen I started criticizing the staff over how unorganized the place was and started giving advice, there was a little argument, but when my advice caused the kitchen's performance to be 20% more efficient I was apologized to and praised.
3rd Year of Training
My morning routine was modified again, I have to run 15 laps the increase wasn't much but I had to have weighted clothes on while doing it, the other exercises had their amount increased by 50, and I still had to have the weighted clothes on.
In the afternoon my lessons with Trina were the same as the usual with the predicted difficulty increase, but I was also being given general lessons, math, reading, writing, etc. It apparently is for two reasons, one is that it is useful to be well learned, and two is to be more useful to your master. It wasn't hard to learn most of it, I think my brain has gotten very accustomed to memorizing and learning to do a multitude of things. I wonder if I got a skill out of it. I could check but I'll check how my status changed after graduating.
During the evening was even more combat training, at this point, Sasha can't even teach me anymore and only serves as a sparring partner and I'm being solely taught by outside experts, generals, expert trainers, and even high-rank adventurers. Both the men of the military and adventurers felt it was a waste of talent for me to become a maid. I was thinking to the military men to just hire me if that was the case, but it's not my position to say anything. They seemed reluctant I wonder why. I was later told in a letter from Martha that someone had their eyes on hiring me after graduating, but I was not told who. Well if they could get people from the military to not be able to get me they must be of very high status.
As for the late evening, I was now called the second head chef due to my advancements in the structure of the kitchen and all my optimizations of how it should be run. My cooking isn't as good as the head chef but he apparently used to work at the castle. Well, I won't try to compete against a former royal chef. He still said my cooking can compete against first-class restaurant food.
4th Year of Training
My morning training was modified and is now completely different, I had to go outside the facility and fight monsters in the nearby forest and dungeon, all they gave me to use as a weapon was a wooden club. Thanks. Monsters like goblins and kobolds all died in one hit which surprised me, it looks like the three years of spartan training paid off. I spend every morning diving into a nearby dungeon that apparently has 100 floors, but there's a teleport circle serving as a checkpoint every 5 floors. By the end of the year, I had gotten to the 55th floor, I've fought things like Wyverns and Stone Apes, which apparently are C-Rank monsters, at that point, I was using an Iron War-Hammer I stole from a Minotaur boss on the 50th floor. The hammer was taller than I was. The adventurers that trained me in the evening were crying from regret that I wasn't an adventurer.
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My classes with Trina were progressing well, I'm being given classes as advanced as she can give, she already says I put some professional head maids to shame. She brought over a tutor to teach me more advanced subjects, I apparently being given classes normally given to royal academy students. Now the tutor is crying that I'm not a scholar. As for why I haven't been taught magic, we had an aptitude test and I wasn't compatible with any which confused everyone due to me actually having good intelligence in my stats, everyone decided that it was just my natural defense against magic.
During combat training, it wasn't training at this point, I was having practice matches against the teachers, Sasha now only has a use as a warm-up. She gets very sulky about that, all the teachers say my skill in every weapon is very high. Not master tier but very high.
As for the kitchen, I was told that my advice and optimizations we're being reported to the kitchen in the castle, apparently the royal head chef was praising it, I apparently inadvertently increased the royal kitchen's efficiency by 15%. After that the information spread to all the noble households and down to the commoners, increasing general kitchen efficiency by 25%. I don't understand how it all happened but okay. Didn't get a reward out of it.
5th year of Training
I turned 10 and a priest was brought over to see if I awakened to a second skill. I apparently did, I didn't look at my status wanting to surprise myself later, my new awakened skill was:
Master of Ice Magic (Special)
Can use all Ice Magic spells, all Ice Magic costs half MP and have double power.
My second awakened skill was Special-Rank. That caused an uproar among all the people I surround myself with. More people were sad and regretful.
As for my morning dungeon raids, one month before graduation I completed the dungeon. Apparently, only 20 people in history have done so. At the 80th floor, I had gotten a Magic Storage Ring with 60km² of space. After that, I stored materials from high-rank monsters. The boss on the 100th floor was a dragon called the Void Dragon. The battle took 3 hours, it almost made me late for lessons. I found out later that the Void Dragon is an S-Rank monster, apparently, if I were an adventurer I would be ranked as an SS-rank adventurer for beating an S-Rank monster solo.
Throughout the year I finished learning everything Trina could teach me, and the tutor even taught me everything that is taught at the Royal University. For the last couple of months, it was solely reviews and me having discussions with scholars.
As for combat training, well, it was just me having practice matches with the teachers while I was blindfolded since I already learned everything they could teach, I even surpassed the Gauntlets and Mace teachers.
In the kitchen, all that changed was the head chef saying that my cooking is now on a royal chef's level.
After completing the dungeon I was asked if I wanted to have any equipment made and I said I wanted to have my maid uniform and weapons made using monster materials. They contracted the best dwarven smiths, as for payment I told them to tell the smiths they can keep leftover materials. The best smiths rushed to take orders when they heard I beat the 100-floor dungeon, which I just learned is called the Void Trial.
My maid uniform is a traditional maid uniform. I had the black dress made out of the Void Dragon's scales, the apron, headdress, and socks made out of an Abyss Spider's (A-Rank) silk, the shoes made out of a Thunder Leopard's (A-Rank) leather, magic enhancing bracelets made out of mithril and Ice Pheonix (S-Rank) Magic Stones, a shield made out of a Fortress Tortoise' (S-Rank) shell, a pair of clawed gauntlets made of orichalcum and the Void Dragon's claws, and a war-hammer made out of the Void Dragon's skull for the head of the hammer and titanium alloy for the stick part, I had them make me an assortment of other weapons that I was trained in for utility.
Due to my achievements, I was registered as an adventurer against my will and given an adventurer card, it was black with a white border with two flashy gold S.
During graduation, Martha came and told me who was looking to employ me, it was the king. I was being employed to be the personal maid of his 7-year-old daughter Princess Claire. All the stuff ordered arrived and I left the facility with Martha. The maid uniform was enchanted to grow along with me, but knowing my current growth speed and race I won't be growing much taller, but I wouldn't be surprised to see my chest swell. sighs
Before getting on the carriage I decided to finally check my status.
Name: Tear Sub-Race: Polar Bear/Black Panther Race: Beast-man Species: Humanoid
Level: 100 (Ascended)
HP: 1000000/1000000
MP: 1000000/1000000
Experience: MAX
Vitality: 500000
Strength: 500000
Intelligence: 500000
Agility: 500000
Luck: 500000
Awakened Skills:
All-Equip (Unique)
Master of Ice Magic (Special)
Innate Skills:
Thermal Energy Immunity★★★★★
Perfect Swimmer★★★
Night-Vision★★★
Dexterous Hands★★★★
Skills:
Master Chef★★★★★
Perfect Maid★★★★★
Sword Expert★★★★
Lance Expert★★★★
Axe Expert★★★★
Mace Mastery★★★★★
Gauntlets Mastery★★★★★
Whip Expert★★★★
Bow Expert★★★★
Dagger Expert★★★★
Martial Arts Master★★★★★
Master Presence Detector★★★★★
Attack Resistance★★★★★
All Status Immunity★★★★★
Titles:
S-Rank Monster Killer
S-Rank Dragon Killer
Ascended
SS-Rank Adventurer
Equipment:
Abyss Maid Headdress (+50000 Defense)
Abyss Maid Apron (+150000 Defense)
Abyss Kneesocks (+80000 Defense)
Void Scaled Maid Dress (+300000 Defense)
Thunder Leather Shoes (+10000 Defense +200000 Agility)
Ice Phoenix Bracelets (+10000 Defense +350000 Intelligence)
Fortress Shell Shield (+300000 Defense)
Void Dragon Gauntlets (+350000 Attack)
Void Dragon War-Hammer (+600000 Attack)
Etc. (A lot of weapons)
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I'm not super surprised but these numbers are 10000x higher than when I first arrived 5 years ago. I sure have come a long way, I hope the princess likes me and is nice. I open my mom's locket and look at the picture.
(Tear) "Mom, Dad, are you proud of me? a tear falls down both cheeks while smiling"