Before Julian had regressed, and the continent had been drowned in war, and he was in his second year of senior classes in the academy, the news of an ancient ruin had covered the entire empire, causing great conflict among the imperial officials and nobles for who would get what portion of the treasures.

While most of the common population wasn’t informed of the contents of the ruin, later when Julian had achieved the ranks of a general and was permitted to access sensitive information like this, he found out that the ruin was filled with all kinds of unimaginable items, like elixirs, forgotten martial art, and ungodly amounts of gold.

“Haah to think I will have to go mountain climbing basically as soon as I returned, and for the spot to be mount Tyree, why did old civilizations love mountains so much, augh frustrating.” I said as I sighed in frustration, just thinking of how much terrain I would have to cover, and how shitty the weather would be high up in the mountain, where I knew of the ruins to be.

Knock knock

“Young master it is Steven, may I come in?” he knocked on my door and said.

“Yes come in.”

Upon my permission, an old man came in. he wore a classic butler outfit with the long tailcoat, and had a well groomed white beard, along with his equally well maintained white hair. However, if the white hair and beard did not give it away, one would simply be unable to notice that the man was old, seeing his well defined physique.“I heard you called for me.”

“Well that is true, and I have a task for you.” I said as I nodded my head at the old butlers words.

“Please go ahead young master.”

“Well, you will likely hear of this soon from my parents anyway, so I doubt I need to explain this, but I will do it anyway. In about 4-5 days time I will be going mountain climbing, and as such I want you to have all the necessary equipment prepared for me, you know stuff like boots, ropes, hooks, and other stuff.” I said as I looked at whim with my hands under my chin.

“Understood young master, is there anything else that I can help you with?” Steven said as he nodded his head in understanding.

“Hmm no that is it for now.” I waved my head.

“Well then young master I will take my leave, and have all your equipment prepared as soon as possible” he said as he bowed his head and left the room.

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“Well I guess I will eat my cake and head to the training ground, wold be in best interests to get used to my young body as soon as possible.” I said as I ate the cake that Meyline had brought for me.

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Finishing the cake Meyline had bought me I headed out for the training ground, just to check the current state of my body. One might wonder why I had decided to train my body right now instead of my mana, well it is a valid question, but the answer was quite simple, I intended to use one of the mana absorption techniques found in the ruins to gather mana. As such I had no real option but to get my physique stronger.

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And there was also the point that the stronger my body the more mana I could store, for one can only store the amount of fluid that one's container can hold, which in this case meant mana and my body. As with a weak body, even the best mana technique would not really work all that great, and this was something that I had to learn the hard way.

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Swoosh klang thump swoosh

The sounds of all sorts of weapons clashing and waving was heard quite well throughout the room as I entered.

“Huh, isn't that the young lord” one of the men in the training room said as he halted his sword mid way.

“Huh what, why tho, I thought he was not interested in martial arts?” said another one of the men who stopped training as he looked at me, and slowly mumbling started across the entirety of the entire hall, and almost everyone had stopped their training.

“SILENCE, everyone return to training” a shout came from one side of the room, where an old buff man was training, who stopped and came towards me.

“‘YES SIR’” the men in the hall shouted upon the man's shout, and returned to their training.

“Sir Alfred, how is training going?” I said as I looked at the old man who stood before me with a bright smile.

“It is going great young mater, but mind if I ask why you have come to the training room today? As far as I am aware you weren’t interested in martial arts?” Alfred asked with a puzzled expression.

With a nod I replied to him, “Well that was certainly true, I was not interested in martial arts, but recently I have gained a bit of interest in the art”

“Is that so? Well then young lord, please go ahead with your training, and if there is anything that I can help you with do tell me.” he said as he started to nod his head.

“Well I was about to ask if you could help me if you see anything wrong with my form during my exercise.” I said as I looked over at the gym where the machines were kept.

“It would be a pleasure young master.” Alfred said with a bright smile as he tapped my back.

“Well I will be in your care then” I said as I walked confidently to the field

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“Huff huff huff” loud breaths could be heard as I ran across the field for barely one round.

‘I knew my stamina was worse than shit when I was young, but this is way worse than I remember it being’

“Come on young master 4 more you can do it” Alfred said as he cheered me on.

“Come on young master we believe in you” some other knights from the hall appeared and started cheering me on as I ran.

“Fuck me” I whispered under my breath, as I ran like my life depended on it, which it did for without the stamina that I don't have, I won't be able to climb the mountain in a billion years.

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“Ahhhhhhhhhh” I screamed as Meyline applied an ice pack to the back of my calves as I laid on my bed face side down.

“Haah young master, I understand that you wanted to exercise, but why did you have to overexert yourself so much haaaah” she said as she sighed and looked at me with an angered look.

“I thought we went over this aahhhhhhh” I said reminding her to not bring up this topic again, before I screamed from pain.

“Please just keep quiet and rest, you will be needing it to recover, in time before your birthday.” she said as she pressed on the ice pack with a bit of force.

“Ok uffffffff” I said as I breathed out hard.

‘Haaah to think my calves would give out after barely 5 laps around the field… well the climb will be much more torturous than I had thought it would be’ I thought to myself for I really thought my body would have been able to handle such minimal levels of training.

“Ahhhhhhhhh" I screamed as I felt a sharp pain on my left leg at the same time as my right leg.“What are you doing Meyline?” I said as I looked back at her with a sharp look.

“I bought a second ice pack to help you recover faster” she said as she looked at me with fierce eyes.

“Is that so? Well okay then, but please be a little more gentle ahhhhhhhh” I said as my pleas were ignored, and I was put in more pain.

“Yes young master” she said, while her actions were quite the opposite.

“Thank you ahhhhhhh”

‘I will never make her angry ever again, at least not at me.’