Chapter 4
Unexpected Person
Julio, who has been staying at our house for about a month now, has been helping mom with the things around the house. His fast cleaning skills come in handy because he also does my chores for me. He also started training with me with my mother, my mother didn’t recommend Julio to be an adventurer at first because he can’t handle any type of sword, but after he started cooking, my mother saw the potential of Julio in dagger skills.^ Which I already knew^ So my mother recommended Julio to practice dagger skills rather than swordsmanship, which Julio excelled pretty easily. To my eyes I think that Julio’s fast dagger skills were already exceptional since it was fast, but to my mothers eyes, Julio’s dagger may be fast but it was dull. It was fast but it had no destination, so my mother introduced us to another person whose name is Arthuro.
The next day a surprise appearance showed in front of our front door. A slender looking person who’s not that tall but has toned skin and has 2 sharp daggers behind him. He looks like a person who has many secrets but to those who have none, a very mysterious person who blessed us this morning. Who could this person be?
“Hello little chipmunks!! My name is Arthuro. Starting today I’ll be your personal trainer! But don’t be happy! Hehehe! Because starting today you guys will wish that you stayed learning from the Flame Princess instead of me! Because I will make you spend the next 2 years training in a living hell!”
“Flame Princess? 2 Years of hellish training?!”
Me and Julio questioned at the same time.
“Ohh haha! You guys don’t know who the Fla.. hmmppp!!”
My mother covered his mouth from talking anymore.
“Alright kids, how about we start changing and come out a bit ok! WHILE I TALK TO MR. ARTHURO HERE!”
While my mom glares angrily towards Arthuro.
^But I gotta say Mr. Arthuro here is better than what he looks like^
Arthuro Gutierrez (Silent Assassin)
27
Health: 1827/1827
Mana: 1134/1134
Power: 2354(A)
Stats:
Str: 87 Agi: 154
Magic: 54 Int: 67
Skills:
Dagger skills (A)
Silent Walk (A)
Backstab (A)
Dash (A)
Chain strike(B)
Thought Communication(B)
Trap detection (B)
Invincibility (B)
Clear trap (B)
More…
^Whoa!! This guy has invisibility skill?? Would Julio learn this too? Probably not since his shadow and Arthuro is silent. Hmmm!! He’ll probably have another OP skill that's on par with it though. Most Jobs have the same names, especially the swordsman and mage. I also see a lot of clerics and archers around here too! Is there any special reason why they have extra names such as silent and shadow. WAIT! Does that mean that I’m normal? Since I only have a commander and nothing more?!! But I haven’t seen other commander jobs though! But still I also want to have a cool job. The cunning Commander or something more awesome like, The Supreme Commander!! Hays!! This world is too cruel! Hohoho^
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As soon as we started to change and head out, my mother had already left for work and Arthuro had a scared look on his face.
“Umm! Mr. Arthuro, what did you mean by Flame princess earlier and what do you mean by ``we're gonna have to wish we were dead?”
Well I can tell what training to wish we are in hell means (pshhh! Typical novel shit!) I’m really interested in why my mother was called the Flame princess.
“Well you got to ask your mother about that story, since I’m scared of what might happen to me when I tell you guys, and the training! How about I let you guys taste what is coming for the next 2 years of training??”
“So Mr. Arthuro what are we supposed to do now??”
Asked by Julio.
Well that question was the last thing I remembered after that day.
The first thing he let us do was to run all around town until he said to stop. Well one thing led to another. We ran for the past 8 hours non stop, and if we ever slowed down or just stopped for even a second he'd slap our back with a wooden stick. When I thought that was already the end he let us go eat for 30 minutes, and after we ate he let us do 500 push-ups! And whenever we lay down not finishing he smacks our hands with the wooden stick.
^WHAT THE F*** is wrong with this demon! This is child abuse you know!! I’m barely 5 years old you know!!^
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“I know what you're thinking Lil brats!! You’re probably thinking around the lines of I’m barely 5 or 6 this demon or something like that”
“GEH!!”
^Does this demon also have a mind reading ability??^
Both me and Julio started to look at each other and it looks like he was thinking the same thing as I did! I mean who’s not gonna think that! This is the first day aren’t you supposed to be gentle on the first day??
“Now you’re probably thinking that this is the first day and I should be gentle right??”
What the! With both of us with a surprised look he started talking again.
“Why don’t I show you guys what a real demon I really am huh!!”
“UGHHH!!”
“UGHHH!!”
Both of us are crying already but then a savior saves us!
“Alright Turo why don’t we stop it here and let these kids learn from me too.”
With both of our faces happy as ever we both are thinking that Gramps is an angel sent by heaven.
“Hoo! How are you gramps! I haven’t seen you in a long time now!”
“Hohoho!! Well I’ve been well. I already retired so I’m taking it easy here in the countryside. How about you Turo not taking more dungeon exploring lately?”
With the look on their faces it looks like there are sparks going through their faces. What happened between these two guys?
“Alright you can have them for today's gramps. I’m coming back tomorrow 1. Better be prepared lil chipmunks!”
After that instead of letting us study gramps let us sleep the whole night. I didn’t even realize that I already sleep. After sleeping the whole night, both of us went up and ate our breakfast. I asked my mom why she picked such a cruel instructor and she replied with.
“Don’t be like that sweetie, did you know that when I was your age his father was the one who trained me. We also formed an adventure group back then called the moonlight blessing. A 7 man group consisting 2 tanks, 3 damage dealers and 2 support. He was our trap detection support and he also helped with the damage attack, his the perfect instructor for Julio and best for training your strength and speed.”
“But don’t you think that this training is too much for us?”
*NOD NOD!!*
With Julio agreeing with me.
“You’re right! I guess I didn’t ask what you wanted in the first place. I just decided on my own and called him here. What I want is that you grow to be strong and healthy but I was blinded and didn’t know what you wanted to pursue. So I’m going to ask now! What do you want Alexander?!”
With a clear and serious tone, my mother asked me a question that determined what my future would be. What do I want? What should I do? Don’t I want to build the best party anyone could have asked for? Don’t I want to be leisurely living in a mansion and doing nothing?! NO! I want to be strong! I want to be the strongest so no one could treat me like garbage again! With my face getting serious and serious. Suddenly Julio started talking.
“I want to be of help to you Alex! You gave me life and I want to repay you with my life!”
I was surprised! How could I forget what’s the most important thing to do!! What was my goal?! How could I be so blind! That’s right! I want to be strong so that I can help those who are powerless. I’m!
“Hehehe! You can do whatever you want Julio! I didn’t bring you with me so that you could owe me. But I want people like you to find what you guys want to be! But if you want to help me, help me stay right to my goal. And that is to be the strongest and to help those people like you were! To create a place where kids and adults can have fun. A place where kids can have a future, where I can destroy the thing called poverty. Can you help me? My Brother Julio?”
As I reach out first and ask for a fist bump.
“As long as I can be of use to you Sir Alex I would do everything so that you could achieve your dream!”
And he started reaching out his hand.
*bump*
“I guess you already know what you guys want to do right? I’m just gonna ask this to know what you guys want. But what is your guy's goal?”
“My goal is to help Brother Alex achieve his dream.”
A confident answer by Julio.
“I already told you Julio that whatever happens I want you to follow your own dream. I know that you're still young to know what you want. But what I want right now is to build my strength and also build a good party with the people that I trust the most.”
“Aren’t you also young Alex? You’re even younger than me! “
Me and Julio looked at each other's eyes and started laughing. When was the last time I enjoyed having someone by my side? I remembered that the last time I really enjoyed having friends was my last life when I was still in Senior high(Grade 9-12). This ain’t really a bad feeling.
That’s where the start of the 2 years of hellish training began. For the past 2 years it has been practically the same thing over and over again. Practice with Mr. Arthuro in the morning till afternoon and sword practice with my mom after, then with gramps after that. I also didn’t neglect my magic training. I studied mana manipulation with Julio, and now we’re at book :Intermediate Mana Manipulation 2: I didn't tell anyone but I’m already in my 2nd intermediate tier circle.
I didn’t know back then that there were tiers of circles starting from. Beginner tier(1-60MP)~>Intermediate tier(61-240MP)~>Master tier(241-400MP)~>Legendary tier(401+). And it is divided into 3 divisions in every tier. Well I’m the only one who can tell what their Magic power is so I can differentiate them from one another. The most powerful person to ever have a high Magic power was the Sage. They created a new tier because they can't measure his power back then which is the Supreme tier which I’m guessing is over 1000 Magic. Which is pretty OP. But the most powerful mage alive right now is a Legendary tier. l, and the current master of the Magic Tower, located in the center of the capital.
~~~~2 years~~~~
Julio Santana (Shadow Assassin)
Human 8
Health: 882/882
Mana: 441/441
Power:703(D)
Status: Happy
Stats
Str:42 Agi:71
Magic:21 Int:30
Skills:
Dagger(D)
Camouflage (D)
BackStab(E)
Dash(E)
Poison dagger(F)
Trap detection(F)
Trap disarm(F)
Not yet learned:
????
????
More…
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Alexander Sator (Commander)
Human 7
Health: 966/966
Mana: 1218/1218
Power:647(E)
Status: Happy
Stats:
Str: 46 Agi: 20
Magic: 58 Int: 70
Skills:
Eye of truth (B)
Command(E)
Swordsmanship (D)
Mana Manipulation (D)
Fireball (E)
Gust (E)
Earth Shock (F)
Minor Heal (F)
Not yet learned:
???? (?)
???? (?)
???? (?)
More…