"That's one of your worst ideas, and that's really saying something" Sera yelled at her husband.
"But this is the age I started learning how to fight, Eleos has to learn someday" Mareem replied.
"But he's only five, FIVE! He's just a baby"
"Um, *nervously* do I have any input in this matter?" asked, said five year old.
"NO" replied his mother
'Scary.' Eleos thought to himself.
"My love. What will we do if Eleos is kidnapped? He would be defenseless. And besides he was the one who expressed interest in the first place." Argued Mareem.
"But what if he hurts himself or worse you hurt him. Cause you've done it before! Need I remind you of the dragon incident"
"*nervous laughter* Don't worry about that my love. His training will be nothing like that. I'll even let you supervise us, and if you don't like what I have him doing we'll immediately stop. Well what do you say?"
And with that strong argument my mother finally relented. She allowed me to practice how to fight with my father on three conditions.
One, she could supervise all my training and veto anything she didn't like.
Two, I was only allowed to practice four days out of the week and this practice was limited to a maximum of three hours a day.
Three, I had to begin to learn how to read and then I had to study various basic topics my mother would assign.
'I really got off easy on that last rule, ahaha'
With my Universal Language Skill I already know how to read. But I'll conceal that fact of course and pretend I'm learning to read. And anyway the other part of the rule will be easy. Since I'm only five she won't assign anything too difficult.
'Though in reality I'm much older aren't I? If I were to include these five years I would be…'
'Wait'
'How old am I again'
- The Host's is approximately 157 years old -
'Wow, I sure am old'
- Though if the Host is asking for a mental age then that number would be considerably lower -
'Snarky system'
That aside. I'm very exited to learn combat in this world. When I was demon lord before I was a mage type of fighter so I don't have many physical fighting techniques. And since Ki is all I have in my arsenal I might as well utilize it. And since I've been cultivating my Ki all this time it's stat has increased exponentially.
'Ki Stat'
[Ki] - 30
[Ki Control] - 300
My Ki has only increased by twenty points but my control over it has increased dramatically. Now I can completely maximize my use of Ki. It's basically like another body part I can now naturally control. This will be very useful for the future.
I still have no idea how magic works in this world. If it's the same as my old world you have to be born with it and as far as I can tell my magic stat has stayed at zero. Hopefully there's a way to raise it at some point but I can only hope.
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One week later
*Huff Huff*
'This training is brutal! I thought mother would have stopped him by now' thought Eleos.
'Besides this guy is like a pro drill instructor. If we were still in my old world I would definitely recruit him to train platoons of troops'
"Fifty more push-ups welp! And after that I want one hundred squats, then one hundred fifty elevated sit-ups. After that we'll get on to stretching. We only have three hours to get your body up to snuff for combat training so hustle maggot!"
'He even talks like a drill instructor too' I thought while despairing about all the exercises.
And through all of this my mother has said nothing at all.
An hour passed
'Haaa… finally done with that' I thought laying on the ground.
"Get up welp. Our warm up is finished now I'm gonna teach you how to fight for real"
'Finally'
"Okay dad, I'm ready." steeling myself.
Suddenly
- Notice -
- [Innate Skill] is awakening -
- The Host should prepare -
'Huh'
Then I exploded.
My explosion wasn't just any explosion, this one broke the sound barrier.
Surprisingly my father flashed in front of my mother before the explosion reached her. He's fast.
"[Imperial Shield]" my father yelled as he stood in front of my mother holding a large exquisitely decorated shield.
Then all the energy exuded outwards pulled itself back to the core in the center and my body was rebuilt.
- Notice -
- An [Innate Skill] has been awakened. System analyzing and checking for possible upgrades. -
After I hear the system say that I passed out, completely exhausted of all my energy.
"What was that" screamed Sera.
Mareem flashed over to where his son was still holding the shield. Picking him up, he flashed back to Sera.
"Quick, check his status."
"[Status]"
[Status]
[Name] - Eleos Safi
[Age] - Five
[Race] - Human
[Condition] - Exhausted
"It looks like he's alright just exhausted. I was so worried what do you think happened?"
"Wait, do you remember what happened when your innate skill manifested?"
"Yeah, I remember a lot of air pulsed out of me and then came back to me then I got my innate skill"
"It was similar for me but mine was more like a force field"
"Wait, you don't think… an explosion on that scale… it's just not possible"
"It is the only explanation" replied Mareem
As he began to dematerialize his shield his wife stopped him.
"Look at your shield. Isn't that your strongest one"
Looking down Mareem finally noticed it. His [Imperial Shield] known for blocking the most powerful of attacks from high level monsters was reduced to nothing but a piece of scrap metal.
'At least this thing self repairs'
But for Eleos' innate skill awakening to do something like this.
'My kid is gonna be powerful some day!' Mareem thought triumphantly.
On the other hand his wife was worrying more and more about her son.
'Oh I hope he's okay'
End of chapter seven