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Nick was sorting through cards he had used his magic on they had the the abilities of the students written on them and he only made 10 for each student, which had a brief explanation of the trait and information to not invade their privacy too much.
He shuffled the cards and read them thinking about writing his report to the king about the newcomers
He looked at Max's cards he saw some of his beneficial and harmful trait.
The cards he thought were interesting were
Blood of priests: Hundreds of years of worshipping gods fanatically in his ancestry has made his bloodline favored by the gods: Beneficial (mid-level) (innate)
Minor insanity (based on paranoia): A state of mind, mentally unstable and usually accompanied by schizophrenia: Harmful or even (low level) (innate)
Unholy: Blood blessed by darkness may have vampiric blood: Beneficial (mid-level) (innate)
Nick stopped and reread it After thinking for a bit he clicked his tongue and assumed it was like the blood of priest. He read on
Iron bones: Increases the strength of bones /note original bones were
Slightly fragile: Beneficial (low level) (given)
Free magic: Increased ability to manipulate magic without spells (high level) (given)
High Testosterone: Extremely high testosterone, may cause heart problems (countered when reborn) also includes a minor unknown hormone similar to testosterone: beneficial (mid-level) (innate)
Underdeveloped: An unevolved, primitive physique and semi-unevolved mind, may affect sanity desire and aggression, Will affect muscle density and regeneration: beneficial (high level) (innate)
High intel: Certain parts of the mind are mildly advanced allowing higher analyzing of others, may have high morals, can observe and mimic easier, higher level of philosophy, may affect sanity: beneficial (low-mid level) (innate)
Nick stopped and reread that 'What in the world? Why are they countering each other in his traits first the priest and the unholy then this.'
He then curiously looked into it a bit more and discovered that he was roughly normal and morals due to them countering each other off and the desire is just basic caveman thoughts.
He clicked a black pen he had grabbed and started spinning in his chair thinking about how that might affect Max's mental state.
He put his pen back in a pocket. Nick continued to read and wrote his report for the king saying
'The students seem quite exceptional, They have stronger abilities than many usually do though'
He erased 'though' and continued writing on the parchment until he had a full report saying that it would be his pleasure to teach them and not to worry.
After that, he went on to design a curriculum or just what he would teach and thought about Max and looked for guidance
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Max jolted back repeating his question "Who are you, why are you here?"
"Didn't they tell you?" She asked
"No," Max stated ,assuming it to be obvious
"Oh well I'm here." She said with a sparkling smile
Max was half listening as he thought '
Gods, why must you do this?'
He focused back in before she could notice
"By that, I can absorb some of your energy."
Max stared "What?" He requested clarification "By having sex it will help you control your energy."
Max thought for a minute contemplating his life's meaning and what not as h looked at her
For this world she was kind of tall around 5 feet and seven inches , she was decently strong, she had sparkling brown eyes and hair fantastic white teeth, decent chest and behind.
She was wearing a green that only covered her chest leaving her stomach showing and something alike to cargo shorts. She seemed to have mobility and efficiency on mind, Max respected that
" No I can't have sex it's against my religion" He said after a bit of thinking
It was lie . Honestly, he just wanted to be a virgin until he met someone he loved or he felt was right
But she went on to talk about her duties to help him,
"I have to I was told to and I don't mind it's good I'm even an adventure myself, C ranked." She mentioned and puffed out her chest .
Max wondered briefly why he should care and wondered if she could bench him or what ranks were.
After a few minutes they came to a compromise just sucking
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30 minutes later John walked to the table room where Alex, twelve, and Jack were talking. John fixed his pants after cleaning up and looked at the food there.
"What took you so long," Alex asked "What took you so little time" John replied quickly and sharply
"What are you guys talking about," Jack asked innocently
"The women, in the rooms?" John sounded confused
"Yeah, the women I saw them walk out of yours I just woke up too early to meet them why, what'd they do?"
Twelve, Alex and John stood i silence until it dawned on Jack his eyes growing wide and unfocused "What?" he asked sounding traumatized similar to a young boy figuring out that Santa isn't real or there is no farm where his hamster went… just the toilet.
They silently ate breakfast, until about 45 minutes later when Max emerged and came to the table and they looked at him "What it wasn't that long, and we didn't even do anything we mostly talked."
That was partially a lie he did talk for a bit at the end. He used his analyzing powers for therapy talking to her.
It ended with a hug, of course. He also found out that his phallus here was considered even larger than on Earth and that sex can affect magic, and was a bit happy about his sexual endurance.
They ate and sat silently as the other people emerged apparently not receiving the same treatment as the others "So how was sleeping?" Max asked "Okay." John replied
"I can't believe we are actually here is this real" Twelve asked "I guess it is or it isn't," Max said thinking about the concept of reality, time, and life.
"but if it isn't them you'll either wake up or don't so no need to worry," Max said intending for it to be a joke. The atmosphere got notcibly more glum, They ate silently afterward.
"Good morning, nice sleep," Nick said enthusiastically, pointing fingers guns at the kids as he walked in
"Come on we need to get to class in a few minutes hurry up let's say fifteen minutes" He announce walking near the kids.
After that brief period, they followed him into the large classroom and seated themselves. Max took note that the seats were rearranged and they reduced the amount of spare space in the room. Nick stood in the front, facing them, behind a rectangular dark wood desk.
"Let's talk about schedules," Nick said "After we get you to the high priest and you present your weapons we will adjust the schedules then but you will have an etiquette class after and-," Nick reached in his pockets. "Here." Nick pulled out a few notecards for the students and placed them on his desk.
"These are the levels of two of your traits that should be useful one is inventory and one is language translation the inventory is a spacial box you can open to store nonliving things which should come in handy later on for carring items while adventuring, and language translation is the thing making it so you can understand me better as long as it is not complex you should understand and of course." As he talked he moved his arms gesturing with his explanation.
Nick continued "The level of it correlates with its strength so bigger for inventory bigger space though it grows as you level up and for language, it just makes it easier to understand more languages, okay." He walked closer to the kids with papers in hands
He started passing the notes to the students each getting average or high Max got low spacial and medium for translation 'I wonder if I can stick my dick in it' Max thought for a second before discarding the idea.
"Let's go," Nick said
They were rushed into a large room. As they went Nick talked "Later, you will meet the king" Nick said, not disclosing the time.
After they entered an older man walked to them and they were told to present their weapons 'What are they talking about?' Max thought 'I'm forgetting about something aren't I?' and he looked around and saw something each of the students had materialized a weapon out of the air 'what the hell am I supposed to do something like think about a weapon like a sword' he did think about one and it did not materialize but he noticed they were focused on John, so he thought harder in the time he had
"A scythe rare and strong but an omen perhaps death and darkness," the old man said and Max panicked when they looked at him so he shrugged "What is your weapon?" the priest asked "I don't know" "What do you mean," the old man asked And Nick replies "He could perhaps have no weapon like some or maybe a magician" "Get him a sword!" the old man orders and points at a knight "You there, please give him your blade."
The knight unsheaths his sword and walks to Max and presents his weapon and Max lightly picks it up. The old man puts his fingers under his chin and thinks "Use the second swing it" he demands and Max lightly swings it "Swing it at someone" he suggests and Nick steps forward "Swing it at me I can't get hurt" the priest looks at him "and who are you" he asks "I'm an instructor but you may know me by other names... Crimson"
Nick whispers the priest's eyes flash with fear "Very well" Max raises the sword and swings it in half-decent form and before he makes contact with Nick his mind unto us and he feels something like a shock and his gip loosens missing Nick by a hair 'what' Max straightens and prepares again "stop you can't. It seems you can't use any weapons like the others you are bound to something, but you don't have a weapon. You just have a restriction," the priest says
After the priest said that he went on to inspect the other student's weapons and left
The students were walking down the hall and Max thought about some of their weapons ' a scythe, a sword, a wand, and knives' and they went back to the class "Well," Nick said, "Well that was good relatively for the evening class you guys will need to be taught etiquette and how to deal with diplomatic means since You guys will eventually be sent to help other kingdoms but because Max isn't .. Supposed to be here he won't go there."
after saying that there was a brief moment of silence until A man arrived and brought the students to the class and Max stayed in the classroom.
Nick walked forward "Since you won't have to do that and you have no weapon we will do some training, come on."
As they walked to the room Max recalled the conversation earlier about who Nick was and if they knew each other. They started to talk resuming their conversation talking a bit and catching up
Max jabbed "Hey did you know a guy called ——-?" Nick sidestepped
"Wait what were you before came here," Max asked Curiously try not to smile
"I used to be a martial arts instructor" Nick replied blankly then stepped forward and hit Max lightly on his ribs before retracting his foot "Why do you ask?"
Max lowered his guard and remembered something "Wait, were you his brother the half-Asian guy" "Half brother and yes" Nick conceals any emotions except for a slight tone change and a slight decrease in his speed along with slightly softening his defense.
"Dude I visited you once with him you where at a dojo place or a pavilion." Nick nodded gravely "But when did you die," Max asked "Later, much later" Nick looked up in the distance remembering how he got here, and took a shallow breath trying not to tremble
"I remember I was walking on a path and I saw a puddle I jumped to it heh."
Nick remembered his old life as he was an aging man and was continuing on a sidewalk path on a dark night maybe dusk he saw a puddle maybe from a storm earlier on. He tried to recall the weather and as he hobbled he saw a small poll of water and decided to jump in it
He remembered falling through the water into complete darkness before opening his eyes as a baby a few weeks old. He hid the effort it took him just to recall a few details and wondered if he was with someone on that path but shrugged off that thought and refocused.
I …reborn straight from childhood that had to have been hundreds of years ago" Max sympathized with him but that caught him off guard "How long ago?" Max realized what he just asked and covered his mouth after he muttered it
Nick thought and looked at him "I'm… it was a few hundred years ago I'm roughly five hundred now. " Nick's posture was uncertain though "damn" Max whispered
They were quiet for the rest of the way "What do you want to learn?" Nick asked
"Maybe like striking or maybe something like capoeira fast and stuff"
"Okay," Nick said, "let's go with just sparring and I'll give tips but first I will teach you some basic moves."
Nick walked to Max's side and observed him checking how his punches flew and looking at his form, Afterwards, they sparred for a short while, during which Nick looked at his form and physique making mental notes about Him. 'slightly overweight, strong muscles in the lower body, but could use more training overall'
They finished and Nick thought for a bit "Well, let's check your limits first this is a pretty hard one" he said before jumping on one foot rotating in the air landing on the tips of his toes, and using the collected energy in a punch. He then looked at Max 'my god is he expecting to do that' "Maybe I should stretch more and practice a bit before that" Max said awkwardly Nick chuckled "Hehe just messing with you that's an expert move and highly inefficient for beginners and for fighting monsters" he changed his posture and placed his hands in front of him "Just follow me" Nick said
Max listened, mimicking his form. Nick went with two light jabs, and a left hook, and then shifted his weight down placed an arm on the ground then swept his leg before launching himself up fast and continuing to punch and changing form, Max tried to follow along doing pretty decent 'god what is his agility' he thought as he tried to do the moves realizing that he should have never neglected cardio
'god I'm going to have a heart attack please slow down' Max mentally pleaded as after two minutes
Nick watched as he went along impressed
Thinking about how strangely unnatural it was and then after a minute, he stopped 'Thank …haha I'm not bitch Am I, I kept up' Max thought congratulating himself.
Nick looked at Max "You may have some fighting potential I wonder what level" As Nick muttered this Max wondered what the hell was he talking about "It's a variant it had know purple hair" "What?" Max asked for a further explanation "Oh yeah I never told you guys I'll discuss it later but in some places, you can tell someone's ability by hair color I'll explain later and there are two ones that aren't magic combat or fighting and alchemy " Nick dismissed it
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four hours were used, plenty by Max stalling talking, and trying to learn new fighting moves and understand the principles and used a pull-up bar for a few minutes playing with it and the last few minutes they were talking
"So what's going to happen next," Max asked "Well you may meet your… no that's not due for a few weeks" Nick replied. Max tried to think of what it could be.
", so you will probably spend most of the time learning or training" he answered, "for the next few weeks!" Max was in disbelief "Don't worry you will have books and stuff to entertain yourselves and also you will visit the city and go outside and monster hunt" Nick informed him cheerily.
'There's a city? What types of books do they read? I'm getting off-topic aren't I' Max tried to refocus only slightly getting interrupted by one of his thoughts, wondering if they had gay vampire fanfic Yaoi.
After focusing Max thought for a bit "Cool" he said and then they walked back to the classroom
Nick waited with Max for a few minutes before the class started.
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And now a joke.
I was studying my families history in agriculture …really helped me find my roots.