[On the training ground]
" Alright for now I will do an hour of physical training each day. That wouldn't have been enough if it was normal training."
I head towards the storage room which is directly next to the training grounds. I open the storage room door.
"As expected of our family."
Everything is well-organized whether it is the wooden sword, spear, and all the other weapons right next there is the steel category where all the weapons forged with steel are but that's not what I'm looking for, what I'm looking for is the category right next to the steel weapon category: the training items category. I walk in and look at each item.
"Just as I expected, there are no magical items or weapons in the storage room, I guess there are in the treasury."
The Ducal family's treasuries. Each family of the Four Ducal Families possesses a treasury. A treasury is a place where families store special items and weapons. Some of them are weapons or items forged, rare monster parts, weapons, and items gifted by the king, some of them are obtained during a mission, an expedition, or a ruin exploration or, inside the treasury, families heirlooms.
- Where is it... It should be around here... Ah found it.
What I was searching for is a special item that was kept in the storage because nobody knew how to use them. They are four shackles(Without the chain) two for my wrist and two for my ankles. They are called the shackles of heaviness. They are special because they were crafted by a blacksmith called Cain who also was a gravity magic user. To use the shackles I need to discharge some energy (in my case Aura) when that happens the shackles absorb the energy and increase in weight. After that, you need to control your energy in order for it not to leak otherwise the weight of the shackles will increase.
" Two birds with one stone like they say. It'll train me physically and it'll also train my control of Aura."
I put the shackles on, discharge some energy, and the weight of the shackles increases. I start running some laps on the training grounds, and after that, I start doing some push-ups and other types of physical training.
[After an hour]
-*Gasp, Gasp,* It's been a long time since i *Gasp* last trained * Gasp* like this.
The door to the training grounds opens, it's not the knights but Roan that appears when the door is fully opened. He closes the door and walks up to me and hands me a flask.
- Here you go, young master.
- That's a stamina potion.
Potions and pills are created through alchemy by alchemists. They use magic to grant their potion their effects and Ki to grant pills their effects. There are three basic potions and pills. Stamina potion and pills increase your stamina or recover your stamina. Health potions and pills recover your health and lastly, energies potion that are separated into mana, and prana and energy pills are able to help you recover your energy. There are many other potions that exist each with different effects however potions are first separated into two categories. The forbidden categories they are potions that have been forbidden to make for multiple reasons. It could be because the method requires sacrifices, it could also be because the side effects are dangerous. The second category, the legal category just like its name entails it his the category in which production is allowed.
Alchemists are magicians essentially but refuse to be called such. The reason why they refuse to be called as such is that when it comes to alchemy the number of hearts forged actually doesn't matter. all that matters is how each item is processed. Because of that alchemists were given another classification method which is stars. The best alchemist known to the continent of Zenrok is named Gaj, a 6~7 stars alchemist. He doesn't reside in any kingdom nobody actually knows where he lives and no kingdom forces him to join their sides because it could provoke a war.
I drink the stamina potions and my stamina recovers.
- What time is it Roan?
- It is 2h45 young master. You should probably go back and eat something.
- Ok.
- By the way young master what are these shackles?
-They are magical items that I found inside the storage, anyway I'll go take a bath. I'll be right back.
- Wait! Young master, are you not gonna take them off?
- Of course not I'm constantly training.
[In the bath]
" This is harder than I thought but at the same time, I started training earlier than I was supposed to. I'm thinking of using body reconstruction when I reach ten. I was born on August 14 and we are in September I still have a lot of time before I can use body reconstruction during the next two years I will focus on training my body. School starts in a week I need to buy stamina potions in order to increase my training speed."
I get out of the bath and head to my room, I get dressed and head back downstairs.Roan gets me some food.
- where are my parents?
- Your father is working in the study and your mother was invited for tea by Duchess Laos.
- How much time has it been since she left?
- Two hours.
- She should be done by now. Let's go pick her up.
- Are you sure young master? Assassins are probably all watching you.
-It's fine. Since we are taking the magicians and the martial artists with us.
- Alright I'll go prepare the car.
I get up and head upstairs to my Father's study. I knock on the door.
- Father, it's me, Noah.
- You can enter Noah.
I open the door and my Father is sitting at his desk working on some documents.
-Father I found these in the storage room they seem to be magic items.
He gets up takes his glasses off and walks towards me takes my hands and looks at the shackles.
- What do they do?
- It seems like by feeding it my energy it absorbs it and increases in weight.
- I guess you want to keep them?
- Yes!
- Go ahead if it wasn't for you nobody would have found out how to use them anyway so you can take them.
- Thank you, Father. Oh and by the way ill be going to pick up mom.
- Take the mages and the martial artists. I'll be coming with you too.
- Don't you have a lot to do?
- It can wait while I do trust Roan, the mages, and martial artists I do not.
- You don't trust the King.
- No it's more like we can never be enough cautious. The safest option is having me with you.
- Ok well we'll be waiting for you.
I head back downstairs. Roan has already come back and is waiting for me.
- Young master. The car and the others are ready and waiting.
- Alright let's wait my Father says he's coming with us.
- The Duke is coming?
- Yeah he said that while he trusts you we never know what could happen therefore he is ganna come too which will make the travel as safe as currently possible.
- Indeed, if the Duke is with us assassins wouldn't even dare to try attacking after all the kingdom's second most powerful is with us and we have Excalibur with us.
- It's not like we can even use it.
- While we can't use it Excalibur is still one of the four Sacred Swords even without their abilities they are the sharpest blades that exist in the world right now.
- I guess that's true. Now that I think of it I never asked you how many mana hearts have you forged Roan.
- Oh I guess I never told you I have four mana hearts, young master.
- WHAT!? With four mana hearts, you could get a more important title in the family. Why are you still acting as my butler?
- What are you talking about young master? I am not only a butler.
- What?
- I am also your bodyguard as well as the Arcadios family head of the mage order.
- HUUUUUUHHH?
Each of the Ducal family possesses two orders. The knight order is made of martial artists and the mage order is made of magicians. Those at the head of these orders are called HeadOrders.They are the strongest in the order and gain quite a lot of money.
- I will always be by your side young master. That's the promise I made to your mother.
My Father arrives downstairs and we go inside the car.
- Driver. To the Laos Duchy. Says my Father.