After A few days, Treasurer Ben was given the additional duty of tutoring Alex. A noble should at least be capable of reading and writing. Thus Shallie was actually fine with Gaden's decision. After all her plan was a success. But it felt a little strange for an eleven years old wanting to learn reading and writing. From Shallie's point of view, it was a funny thing. Children are taught these things starting from 14 and so. And the same went for Ben. This was such a waste of time to him, however, as an employee to Baron he had to abide by his master's order. Thus it was decided that Ben will tutor Alex in the evening, twice a weak.
Alex was a genius in his previous life on earth. It only took one sitting for him to understand all the letters. By the next sitting, he had already memorized all the letters. Thus the teaching soon took an unexpected pace that even surprised Ben. From his perspective, it was beyond the level of academic genius. But none of his business. Thus due to sympathy, jealousy, or ignorance, whatever it was, he actually refrained himself from reporting Alex's abnormal speed of comprehension to Gaden. Alex already knew the spoken language. As Ethen, picking up the grammars and writing patterns was actually child's play to him. He was a programmer and one of the best at it. Understanding a new written language and being able to apply was really child's play to him. In a month Alex was completely adapt to reading and writing. Ben wanted to shift to topics like arithmetic, but Alex told him that he was not interested. Alex rather wanted to read books. This was actually profitable to Ben.
Gaden's office room had two bookshelves containing books. Paper and books were something easily available at the world of Naya. Although there was no printing system, books were not something beyond the reach of low-life nobles. For a Baron's office room books were somewhat a representation of status, rather than reading materials. Thus many different kinds of books were available. All Ben did was to bring a book from Gaden's office once every week and take the previous one back to the office. Ben was happy, Alex was happy, and others didn't care. Alex soon had a better understanding of Naya. Rather than illiterate servants books were actually a way better source of information for different topics like Social, historical, topographical, etc.
Thus two more months passed. In the meantime, Alex found a strange fundamental difference between the lives at earth and the lives at Naya. People at Naya could physically grow way stronger than a human could ever achieve on the earth. Due to his physical training every day his strength was now comparable to a bodybuilder from his previous life. His muscles were normal-looking, not much different. But the strength, stamina, and agility were unfitting of a child of his age. He first noticed this a few days ago. One day when he was training in the morning, he accidentally broke a 10cm thick branch of the tree easily. Then to confirm and process what happened, he tried to punch the tree's log. And there was a little dent. He was shocked. Then went some more experiments. He could run faster than an athlete. Even after running for more than 5 miles round and round the courtyard the amount of fatigue was negligible.
However, he soon realized that although he was somewhat better than the boys at his age, it was not something at the level of abnormality. Many of the workers could carry hundreds of kilos with ease. If observed closely maids were way faster than the most efficient people from the earth in terms of speed. Alex came to the conclusion that people could physically grow exponentially with respect to earth. This was the primary reason why some were superhumanly strong while others were weak. He didn't know if this kind of growth possibility was common for all, but in any case, as long as he trained to his limits, he could grow strong, stronger than any human on earth could imagine
This opened up additional paths for him. After a few days of careful planning and consideration, he was ready with his action plan for the near future. This was his old habit. Never plan for the far future. But schedule and plan every step for the upcoming times. Always having incremental aims helped his high productivity. And it was time to be productive.
Thus his new set of plans began their execution. Alex never used the training grounds or rooms. Every day Alex trained himself as hard as he could until he could no longer continue, stayed awake late-night studying and learning whatever he could. He even started practicing his old fighting moves from his virtual reality experience from his previous life. Not having any sword or weapon, he used small branches and twigs as weapons and large trees as training dummies. After all, he was a pro gamer. As long as he could achieve the flexibility of combat like his in-game characters, these guards will be no match for him. He had often seen the guards' practice sparring, and according to his evaluation, it was below the average. He had to be strong. Stronger than someone who could protect himself against the beast attack that took his mother's life. Stronger, so he could stand on his own in this world, so he could fight for himself.
Except for spending some time with his sister, training became his life, and this winter was almost over. The snows had started melting. The cold became less. Although not so much but his physic was much chiseled than before. Now he was 4 feet 5 inches high, with black hair and normal skin tone. Better than average face, with black eyes filled with determination. He could not be considered muscular, but the skinny boy was gone.
It was time to take the initiative, to execute the next part of the plan.