A week went by in a flash since appearing in the world and having to explain the system to Lily and Towa. While, Lily didn’t really mind and happy she knew one of his secrets, Towa on the other hand wasn’t. One question after another she hounded trying to get the full list of it abilities and where it came from.
So, he spent a few hours lying, removing certain information, or refusing to answer with ‘I don’t know.’ It was Lily who ended up saving him from the questioning as they yet to find a spot to live temporarily. So to solve their issues, he borrowed without a plan of return gold from the city gang. Not that they know it was him, since he snuck in and out without being caught.
“Zaraf, how do we train here? Even doing our normal training not giving us much of a benefit.” Lily said pouting as they spent over a day training their young bodies again.
[Beep! To train the mage path, one must increase and store the force inside them by meditationing and gathering their elements from outside. For the Warrior path, one must train their bodies and allow the elements to strengthen their bodies from the inside. To receive better training method either discover or buy from the store.]
Relying the information a small grumble came from Towa as they wasted an entire day. Thinking of it, even if it goes against what he wants. He prepares to use the sacrifice and buy something from the system.
[Training Methods (Panlong):
Sculpt the Earth- Increase the speed of learning Earth Magic/Laws. - 1000 points
Surf the Water- Increase the speed of learning Water Magic/Law. - 1000 points
Fly the Skies- Increase the speed of learning Wind Magic/Laws. - 1000 points
Burn baby burn- Increase the speed of learning Fire Magic/Laws. - 1000 points
Time of a River- Increase the speed of learning Time Magic/Laws. - 1000 points
Big space little space- Increase the speed of learning Space Magic/Laws. - 1000 points]
Looking them over the list of options as options for every branch was available he decided to pick three and reach Saint level. Trying to learn all six at once will be counterproductive and waste his time. So, he bought the earth, fire and wind which he gave copies to Lily and Towa in scroll form. He didn’t even know it was possible, but now he knows.
Scanning over the methods to train, he liked the earth one since it involved sculpting. The only thing that confused him was why it used flat edge only. However, he it has to do with sensing the earth particles and carving them into the boulders. As for the wind and fire, they had different methods and seemed more difficult.
For the fire, they need light a small flame in their hands before moving it around without touching it. It doesn’t sound that tricky except they can’t use a spell or nearby flames to create it only the flame particles in the air. After that it just adjusting the heat, changing the size, and creating more than one.
Finally for the wind, it basically becoming one with the wind and allowing the wind to guide you or controlling it. When completely mastered you would be able to feel your opponent making a move before they do. Which sort of reminded of the description of Ultra Instinct that Whis gave them when Towa asked what it was.
“Well, let's get to training, since we only got three weeks before classes and a couple more before we return to our world.” Towa said getting pumped to begin training.
“Huh, didn’t we mention that there was a time flowed differently here.” Zaraf said.
“No you didn’t but by how much?” Towa asked.
[Beep! One thousand years here is a day to dragonball universe until you leave than it 1:1.]
“Until we leave it one thousand years here to a day there. However when we return our bodies will return to the age we left plus a couple days or so. Though if we die here we die there and the ratio will change to 1:1 when we leave.” he explained as he looked at the system.
“Oh, that good.” Towa let out a sigh of relief.
“So we got a lot of time yet not a lot of time since we be long dead before even ten years passed. Who knows what kind of trouble we will get into or arrogant noble will attempted to take us.” Lily said as it nearly happened a day after the test.
They were leaving the hotel when a carriage rolled by and a young noble brat spotted them. For some reason he was attracted to a pair of eight years old. So, one beating was in order since he hasn’t even achieve rank one in either warrior or magus paths.
“Hmm, that is true so should we begin our grueling and monton training?” Towa said but was grinning as gaining strength interest her.
Heading towards a small clearing in the forest outside of town, they split into their own training. As he pulled out some different sized boulders, Lily began watching the clouds and Towa attempted to grow a flame in her hand.
Feel the earth essence and focus on that feeling. Zaraf thought as he stared at the boulder attempting to gain an understanding of the instruction.
After standing there for nearly thirty minutes with his eyes closed he finally felt something and became inspired. So taking the flat edge chisel, he began slicing through the rocks as he moved his energy around. It not really ki as it much thicker here, and has a different feel to it. From the feeling it like his genetic ability but since he barely uses it, he can’t be sure.
Carving the stone for nearly five hours, a statue of a grown up Lily appeared, only he didn’t carve clothes on her. Admiring his work, he quickly stored it into his space ring alongside all hsi other statues. Only he and a few should be allowed to look at it, with a few being Lily.
Hmm, I feel stronger but it doesn’t feel like I’m about to breaking into the second rank. If I have to estimate it around half way and barely able to sense Lily and Towa they are about to reach there. Zaraf thought as he looked towards Lily and Towa hard at work or Towa since Lily staring at the clouds.
“Shall we take a break?” He called out to them with them nodding.
“Ok,” Lily said as she stretched since she been laying on the ground most of the morning.
“I could use a break, attempting to enlarge the small flame is mind numbing.” Towa said as her flame grew from a fingernail to about half a golf ball.
“If training was easy and entertaining than we would have five years old blowing up planets at a snap of their fingers.” Zaraf said almost sagely before getting smack on his head.
“What about that one planet you blew up a few years ago.” Lily and Towa said before huffying.
Of course he didn’t have a reply as he didn’t have an answer as he can’t say they were special case. There have been moments in history where younger children accidently blew up their planets. Not all the races train their bodies but instead their minds, which cause their technology to soar. Which leads to children accidentally blowing up the planet due to the leaders carelessness.
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“Let just get something to eat before we continue.” Zaraf said changing the subject.
After they left the clearing, a blonde girl appeared with blue eyes watching them leave. For reasons unknown, she has taken an interest in them. However, she also remembered that she need to train so she left quickly wondering how to approach them.
As Zaraf walked away the feeling of being watched vanished making him wonder who it was. He has no way of knowing as his Ki senses doesn’t work well here. As for his skill set, beside his martial arts, everything else is unavailable. So he was unable to use the Flame Step to get places faster.
“It weird how this world barely advance in technology. They have old monsters who ages are in the thousands yet barely has plumbing.” Towa complained.
“I think it has more to do with how the world advances. Most spend time cultivating or training trying to become immortal. If they can’t they just kick back and relax not caring about the world. There is also an issue where most commoners can’t read or write. So the world is just advancing a lot slower than others.” Lily said.
“There also, ‘I won’t help as someone else is already doing it,’ mentality.” Zaraf chip in.
“I have been wondering about this for the last week. Did you guys turn on or up your gravity with your gloves?” Towa asked figuring they could up the gravity again.
“No, they are currently off as we didn't know how or what the effects would be on arrival. Besides we had them set to hundred so long, we need a break so we haven’t turn them on yet. However, it feels we need to go back down to ten since our bodies aren’t as strong here which is weird.” Lily said thinking how they nearly had bodies of steel before leaving. However, if she was to compare them right now they would be around an athlete that doesn’t use Ki.
“Maybe it has to do with the transfer and trying to get the maximum benefit. If you had your bodies before leaving you would have been around high rank six or so. At least you still have your transformation.” Towa grumbled.
“We haven’t been able to access super saiyan again yet, and the Oozura puts too much pressure on our bodies currently. We figure we need to reach around rank four to access them again.” He replied making her nearly face plant.
“How about your sage mode?” Towa asked.
“Tried and nearly exploded with less than a sliver of energy. Though it like a yellowish green mist here instead like in our Universe.” Zaraf mumbed the last part not realizing that the energy he trying to use is the wrong one.
“Good thing neither of you relied on transformations as it is going to take time to get them again.” Towa grinned that they lost their cheaty transformations for a while.
Walking through the city, they calmly looked around the city hoping to find a shop that would sell to them. They may have nearly ran some of the business out of business due to how much they ate. Well Zaraf and Lily since Towa ate two plates compared to there twenty five.
“So how your training coming along in, Lily?” He asked since it nice to listen to them instead of just sensing it.
“Why don’t you lay on the ground and stare at clouds.” She snapped as it was beyond boring to her it seems.
“What about you Towa,” He asked seeing that Lily mumbled about stupid boys or clueless Zaraf.
“You already know,” She replied in monotone.
“I was just asking,” He sighed since both of them are angry at their lack of progress. It seems that it harder than he thought going from quickly progress to barely feeling any at all.
There is also the possibility that they are in another universe that completely forigen to them. Or it could be their hormones are completely out of whack due to getting a younger body. Zaraf thought as they weren’t this snippy before.
Guiding them into a small restaurant they began to eat and their moods began to grow as smiles appeared. Peacefully enjoying the meal, Zaraf felt something clique was going to happen but he couldn't put his finger on it. Due to lack of reading fiction in his last life, he can’t identify it by the feeling only it coming.
True to his thought a young noble about ten entered and has a weird look in his eyes. It appeared as if he desired or lust after something which was weird due to his age. He wore high quality clothes or high quality in the time period. With a blue robe and short brown hair covering his chubbiness, everyone inside thought the kid needs a diet.
The chubby kid scanned the restaurant and smirked as his eyes landed on Lily. Waddling over, her appeared next to their table as if he did something worth a million gold.
“Hello, my young lady, shall I show you a good time by leaving behind this street urchin.” He said as if he was the most beautiful thing.
Sadly, for him it one thing to insult other company but if they also happened to be with their soulmate. Well, he going to know a new definition to pain and gender.
Lily who was on the receiving end with a knife hand stop moving. A deadly silent took over the restaurant as an icy feel appeared. With her bangs covering her beautiful icy blue eyes, she began chuckling as her knife vanished.
Wondering where her knife went, Towa looked at the boy who was now realizing that something was wrong. Hundreds of cuts appeared on his body and a red liquid began covering his skin, and phantom pain in his lower half. However when he looked down his little brother was missing and a knife in his foot.
Sadly for him or lucky he quickly fainted before he registers the pain. Standing up Lily gave him one last kick before leaving the shop and ignoring the boy guard outside. Dropping the boy bag of gold on the table, Zaraf smiled as he left a wave. It felt good to get a mel he didn’t need to pay for and quickly caught up with Lily.
“How dare he say that and that arrogance. He couldn’t be more than ten and...and ugh so stuipid.” Lily ranted as she couldn’t believe she was flirted with by a ten year old. The only person she would accept to flirt with her was Zaraf and she didn’t know why.
“Well he won’t be flirting with anyone anytime soon or ever. Now I’m more worried about how his family going to react. If he has a brother he will come, than assassin, than father, grandfather, before finally an ancestor long thought dead. That how it usually goes in those novels similar to this.” Towa said.
“Novel?” Zaraf asked since he didn’t read anything like this then again he doesn’t read much. If he did read it usually low fantasy in a modern time setting.
“You really need to read more when you relax.” Towa sighed as she facepalm as he usually sculpt to relax.
Shrugging at the incoming dangers, he wasn’t really worried as the pressure could be used to push them to new heights. However they need to be careful as to not overdo it or they would really end up dead.
“Can we check out the art gallery?” Towa asked as she saw it in ahead of them.
“Why not,” he said with a shrug as he wanted to see this world standard.
Entering the gallery, he soon became disappointed as some of the pieces looked barely entering advance level. Yet they are called masters or masterpieces which disappointed him. He only made a couple masterpieces over the years as they need luck, enlightenment, and feeling. The only feeling he got from them was bored or trash.
Towa and Lily felt the same as they looked around as they were used to his and picked up a few things over the years. His are all around Expert levels and just missing that one piece to make a masterpiece. So, after a few minutes of being disappointed, he wanted to leave but Lily spotted something.
“Zaraf, why don’t you sell some of your lesser sculptor. We don’t really have a place to put them all and don’t really have a use. So why not sell them so we have some money in the world?” she said.
Thinking about it, he nodded as he has hundreds just sitting in his storage ring. However, most of them he doesn’t want to sell or get rid of due to them being him, Lily or Towa. What is worse is that over a quarter of them are them clothless except Towa due to Chronona. She got Lily hooked on the smut novel and she asked him to make some of her at different ages.
Sighing at the thought only a quarter of them are reliable to see since he doesn’t want to sell one of them expressially the ones without clothes. So, that left ones with animals or mythological which he assume aren't here.
After talking to the director he managed to get a few of his pieces up and sighed as he won’t get the maximum amount. This is due to him not being a well known sculptor and age which the man didn’t believe him. So after negotiating a deal he had to wait for the sculptor to be sold and only expected a few thousand.
“What shall we do now?” Lily asked.
“Warrior training an option, since we did mage training this morning.” Zaraf said.
“Hmm, I noticed that many only follow one path. So why do the two of you want to follow both?” Towa asked.
“It similar to Zaraf theory I’m guessing. Our Oozaru form boosts our bodies power, but burn through our energy quickly. Why super saiyan form boosts our ki level but strain the bodies. However, whenever I thought of combining the two it felt like it the two aren’t ready. The super saiyan form is a third complete before we can completely combine them.” Lily tilted her head as she explained.
“Then why did we have to travel to this universe.” Towa asked.
“I wanted a pocket dimension where I’m a universe creator and to get a taste of what divine ki feels like. I believe that once we hit saint level we should be able to feel it and go higher in rank.” Zaraf said earning a few nods from Towa and Lily.
“So two bird and one stone.” Towa said as she changed subjects.
“Bingo, now let's begin our training,” he got excited as hope of breaking through the ranks was exciting. Expressially since he going to crank up the gravity and hope there more improvement than before.
“Let's do this,” Lily said.