Chapter 5_Life in Newerth

"Welcome to training in hell!"

Tears almost came out of my eyes, but there is nothing I could do. I picked myself up from the ground and looked around. Everywhere I look, trees, some small, some are big. My only chance of survival now is to stick with master, after all, he should be strong enough to handle monsters here. I guess we are going to live here from now on, but I look around, theres no house or even at least a shelter whatsoever.

"Master. . .?"

"Hmmm?"

"Where are we going to live?"

"Here"

"Here? But theres nothing here"

"If theres nothing here, then you better start making something" As master said those words, an axe came out of thin air, probably from his storage ring.

"You want me to build a house here? But Ive never built anything before." I ask while picking the axe of the ground.

"Well, consider it part of your training, I won't be here forever, and you will have to learn how to live by yourself one day, also better make a shelter fast, because the earlier you get the shelter done, the faster we can start training."

I looked at my master, and it looked like he built a hammock in a very short time using vines. He slowly crept into it and began napping. I was dumbfounded, I was too work and make a shelter while he sleeps. I was about to cry!

I had no other choice but to start chopping down some small trees, surprisingly it doesnt wake up my master, he just sleeps and sleeps.

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It took me about 3 months to make the "house" it was pretty troublesome, even though I haven't built anything in my life, I do know the basic concept of making a wooden house.

In those 3 months, I fought countless life and death battles. Monsters would show up while I'm chopping down wood, or when gathering food and water, or when I'm just plainly sitting down and taking a breather. The monsters were pretty tough, one single monster was pretty much a monster, really hard to kill. I was pretty happy when I took down one monster.

To my disappointment, my master told me that the monsters that I have been killing have all been low C class monster. To me, they felt like SSS class, even though I couldn't fathom how strong SSS monsters are.

Eventually in those 3 months, I was able to handle C class monsters, then C class monsters came in packs, which made me turn tail and run, taking one down was hard enough, but a whole pack? I don't have a death wish, so my natural instinct to live kicked in. I just hide behind my master who just sleeps in his hammock. He just wakes up and after a few swings of his sword, almost the entire pack is half beaten to death. Eventually they stop coming near our location.

Three months passed and the house is complete, its a 1 story house with 2 bedrooms, 1 for me and 1 for my master. Other than the 2 rooms integrated within the house, everything else is pretty much the kitchen / living room area. I am proud of my work, I finally decided to wake up my master, who is still sleeping in the hammock, sometimes I even think he is dead, so I sometimes go near him to see if he was still alive. In return, I always get a hit on the back of my head.

With the house complete, its time to wake up my master.

"Master, the house is complete!!" I shake his hammock.

"Hmmmm? What? Oh, the house is done, good! now you need to furnish it!." He says while slowly getting out of his hammock.

Upon hearing those words, I slightly frown, the house was completely empty and there was literally nothing inside.

"Im just joking, lighten up a bit, good work on the house." Master slow walked to the house and entered it. After a few seconds of going in, I hear this weird sounds coming from the house.

I scream in my head! I think he is taking my 3 months of handwork apart! The only thing I can do is drop my master to the ground to stop him from taking it apart! Its an impossible task but the only thing I can do is try! I pull out my katana and charge inside. Once I got inside the only thing that dropped was my jaws. Im taken back, the house was entirely furnished. Tables, silverware, cooking utensils, I even check my room, theres a comfortable looking bed, theres even a bookshelf and some other things.

"What are you doing with that sword?" My master asked, snapping me out of trance

"Uhm . . . well, you see, I thought you were tearing the house do. . ." Before I could finish, a smack to the head hits me once more.

"Sorry master!" I cry

"Humph, well you worked hard, you can go sleep and take a rest now, ill handle the rest."

I wasn't sure what he meant by handling the rest, but I simply nodded and went to my room.

After 3 months of hard work and life and death battles, I finally have the chance to rest. I went to my bed and lay down on my bed and think about all the stuff I have been through. Like how I was an orphan at my old world, how I died and got resurrected by God, how I finally got parents, but were simply taken away from me, how I met my crazy master, up to today. Many weird and crazy things happened to me, but I fear only weird and crazy things await me. I immediately fall asleep.

I wake up, which I assume is early in the morning, because I fell asleep mid afternoon, and I look outside my window, the sun is about to come up. Its been a while since Ive slept like this. Now that I think about it, I have never slept like a baby before. Ive always worried about what would become of me in my old world. In this world, my family was poor, so I had to help, its not like I didnt want to help, because I do want to help, to help my family is the only thing in this world that I lived for. But now, things have changed, theres a whole world ahead of me, and hopefully once I am free from my master, I can do whatever I want to.

I lay in my bed for a few more minutes. Embracing the comfort, because I know, the actual training will start pretty soon. I couldn't take it any longer, the earlier I start training with master, the earlier I can be set free to the world!

I get up and do a little morning stretch and exercise. I get out of my room and my jaws dropped once more. The entire house looks different from yesterday. It looks like theres a few different rooms added, also the floors and the walls look better, I don't know what my master did but its amazing. Speaking of master, I don't see him around, I guess he is still sleeping. Since he isn't around yet, I decided to look around the new rooms.

I walked towards a room just beside my master's, I opened it and it was a bathroom! Im shocked, I expected to shower in rivers or waterfalls, but theres actually a full functioning shower in here, theres even a toilet! I guess I don't have to worry about digging holes for poop anymore. Since I was here, I decided to take a shower. I undress and go in the shower, theres even a knob to change the temperature. (How this works is monster cores with fire element for heat and ice element for the cold water)

I finish my shower in about 15 minutes, I took my time because it felt too relaxing, but alas good things must come to an end, but ill be back and enjoy this shower a little bit more, maybe even ask master to make a bath. I dry myself with a towel that seems to be made out of monster fur. I put on spare clothes, a gray shirt and brown shorts. I put on my sandals (or slippers, I really have no idea what the difference is) and get out of the room.

My master is still asleep I think so I decided to check out the other room. It was a study room, there were books and writing materials, probably where my master will be spending most of his time cause I see a hammock in the corner of the room. The room doesnt interest me so I decided to leave.

As I close the door to the room, another door opened, it was the door to my master's room, and there he came out of.

"Good morning master" I say and bow politely

"Morning, get breakfast ready and we will start training once we have finished eating."

I nod. I head over to the kitchen and see that theres something that closely resembles a refrigerator, i check inside and there was some different kinds of ingredients. I pick out some eggs, vegetables and some rice and bread. I quickly prepare breakfast. In about 20 minutes breakfast was served. Me and my master sit down at the table and start eating, in 10 minutes we were done.

"Alright, lets head outside."

I follow him and we are outside.

"Alright, first things first, you're weapon of choice is a katana? yes?" He says after looking at my waist

"Yes master" I bow

"Good, if you still haven't noticed, I too use a katana. First part of training, I want you to pull out your sword with finesse, but still fast and strong enough to kill. You will be practicing quick draws. Do this 1000 times with your dominant hand first, and then move on to your other hand." After saying those, he went to his hammock and got ready to take a nap.

"What does this teach me master?" I ask curiously

"It will teach you discipline, it will help with precision, and it will build your endurance." He immediately fell asleep on the hammock.

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*Sigh* I sigh, but theres nothing for me to do but comply.

I unsheathe and sheath my sword just as my master said, with finesse, but with speed and force that is enough to be fatal.

"One, two, three, four, five . . . 68, 69, 70, 99. . . 200"

At first I thought it was easy, with the pace I was going, I was gonna be finished in about 3 hours, but the moment I reached 200, my arm felt really heavy and it started to ache. I slow down my pace a little bit to decrease the burden on my arm. I was sweating so much that I had to take off my shirt. After 2 and a half hours, finally I was finished training with my dominant hand (right hand). I was quite tired, but I still had to finish training with my other hand. I transfer my sword from my left side to my right side.

I started swinging with my left hand now, at first it felt weird, but after around 100 swings I got used to it, my pace is a little bit slower however. When I hit 200 with my left arm, the burden kicked in a little bit more, as a result slowed my paced even more. It took me about 3 and a half hours to finish with my left hand. In total was about 6 hours. There are clocks in this world to tell time, but alas, we don't have one in our humble abode. To my guess its almost about 1 pm early afternoon.

I knew I was sweating like crazy, but I didnt notice that I sweat enough to make the surrounding soil almost soaked. I was kinda weirded out by it. Since I was finished with training, I decided to wake up master and to see what else the day holds for me.

I walk up to his hammock and gently shake it.

"Master. . . "

"Hmmmm? Yes? Tired already? You can take a rest if you want. . ." He said half asleep and he then feel asleep once more.

"What a troublesome master" I think to myself.

"Master . . ."

"Stop disturbing my sleep, go finish training!" He let out a small yelp

"Matster . . . I'm done."

Master immediately woke up with an angry expression, I wonder why?

"What do you mean you are done?! You just started training today! You can't quit now! Here I thought you were strong!" My master yelled out

*Sigh* He misunderstood me, he really is a troublesome master.

"No master, I finished training." I said while looking up to him

"Finished?! You got to be kidding?" He snorted out

"Yes master, 1000 swings each hand."

"Impossible, its still early afternoon, It should have taken you at least till early evening! You lying to me?!" He hit me after saying those words.

"No master, why would I lie to you?" I say almost crying

My master looked at me, and then looked at the spot from where I was training. His eyes turned from agitated to eyes of disbelief, he immediately run towards the wet spot which I was training on. He then looked at me.

"You stood here right?"

I nod

"And you didnt grab a bucket of water or whatever?"

I nod again

"You don't know of any water magic do you?" He asks again

I stare at him confused, I don't get why he keeps asking me weird questions.

"I don't think so? And why are you asking me all these weird questions?"

"Theres something I wanna see, get a change of clothes, take a shower, and come to the study in 5 minutes!" He shouted and went back to the house.

I comply to his words, I don't know what he is planning but I have no choice but to follow. I take a shower, this time I took a quick one, I didnt want to keep my master waiting.

I arrive to the study, and there master was waiting.

"Good, now you already know how to absorb mana right?"

"Yes?"

"Okay, now come and sit down, take of your shirt and start absorbing mana."

I only heard "sit down" and "take of your shirt" I give my master a weird look.

"Its not like that you dumbass!" He yelled and hit me in the back of the head once more.

"Ouch ouch ouch! Im sorry!" I take of my shirt

I sit on the ground and start absorbing mana in the surrounding area. As I feel the mana go inside me, I feel master's hand touching my back. I tried not to let it bother me, but then something interrupted me, a shout of surprise!

"Aaaaaaah!" My master shouted

"Whats wrong master?! I stop my absorbing and look at master, he wore a serious expression which turned calm after a few seconds.

"You really are unique" He said with a grin, and Im sure he let out a small laugh

"Hehehehe, nothing is wrong, in fact everything is great, go ahead and continue to absorb mana for an hour, it will help you recover your strength." He said

"Absorbing mana helps recover strength?" I didnt know that so I had to confirm what I heard.

"Yes, go ahead and absorb mana, I was planning to teach you general knowledge tomorrow, but since you're quite unique, classes will be held this afternoon, absorb mana for about an hour, then prepare some food (lunch by the way) and call me, we will resume training then."

Master left the room and I think he went to his bedroom to sleep, he acted like nothing even happened. I didnt let it bother me, by now I'm used to master just sleeping all the time. I did what he said, I absorbed mana for about an hour, and I actually felt my stress to go down. I never noticed this because before, I just absorbed mana before I slept. But now, I feel a little bit relieved. After absorbing mana for an hour, I left the study and went to the kitchen. I grabbed some ingredients from the cooler and started preparing lunch.

I woke up master to eat lunch, we ate and talked for about 30 minutes. Master then took me to the study.

"What are we doing here master?" I ask

"Im going to teach you general knowledge and other stuff, in other words, you are going to study!" He said with a grin

"But I thought you were going to train me to get stronger?" I ask

"Im not going to let you dumbass! I can't let my only disciple to be stupid!" He yelled, and he then hit me as always.

The lesson went of pretty easy at first, he taught me basic math and basic language, which I understood pretty easily. Then he started teaching me about absorbing mana, the 2 typed of people in the world, the physical and the magical, which my dad already gave me a quick overview before.

He then told me about how absorbing mana can help cure fatigue, but also how absorbing too much mana and going over a persons limit can be harmful. He also told me how to increase the mana you can take, you just have to keep absorbing mana each day. He also taught me about the different elemental affinities, how absorbing cores work too.

Cores are separated to their elemental affinities too. It doesnt matter what kind of core you absorb as a physical person. But for a magical person that absorbs mana and feeds it to their core, they need to absorb neutral mana, or mana that is close to their affinities. Absorbing a neutral mana core will let you absorb almost all of its mana. Absorbing a mana core that is related to your elemental affinity will do the same thing. Absorbing mana that is not to your elemental affinity however is a different story. A person can still absorb it, but the body will "filter" it out, absorbing only a percentage of it. Depending on how good the person is, the person can absorb up to 80%.

Master also taught me more about the adventurers guild, what the ranks are, what kinds of mission each ranks does etc etc. . . He also told me their are schools out there that help people get stronger. He also taught me survival guides and other stuff.

After about 3 hours of lecture, we finally get to the important part, the part when he slightly freaked out earlier. I already knew that being both magical and physical type of person was amazing, even though I was mostly physical, it was still quite amazing for a 6 year old like me.

The magical core inside of me can be used as an extra source of energy, a person can control the mana to supply the tired muscles, of course I can also use it to perform wind magic since it was my elemental affinity.

My body transferred mana to my muscles on its own earlier during practice training, it explained the surreal amount of sweat, if I didnt have a magical core, I would have probably finished training around evening like my master said.

Lecture ended in the evening. I prepared dinner, ate it and went to my bed. Today I learned many things, and Im sure I'm about to learn many more things under this master of mine. I go to sleep and prepare for a new day!

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Hey guys! sorry about the delay! the royalroadl server went down monday which didnt give me time to work on the chapter, I just finished, sorry if its a little bit short! I hope you guys enjoy!

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