In a foggy early morning, Adrian woke up after 1 week of resting from fever and soul damage. His body felt a rejuvenating and refreshing feeling that he never felt before.
"Aria, show my status"
[Responding…]
[Name: Park Jae Sung] [Age: 5]
[Level: unawaken]
[Strength: 6] [Agility: 6] [Endurance: 7]
[Intelligence: 45] [Mana: 100 (unawaken)]
"Woah, my stats went up. Why did my stats go up? All I do is lay in bed and why is my intelligence is so high?"
[Responding. A Soul is an important factor of being 'alive'. Master survived a soul attack and manage to recover form it therefore, tempering the soul.]
[Intelligence stats are reflecting one's mana understanding and control to result as 'efficiency'. Master's high intelligence stat is because Master has almost completely understood the nature of mana.]
"Huh? So fast, we didn't even have mana yet. Although I almost understand the nature of mana, I feel like there is more to it." Adrian begin to ponder.
[Intelligence: 46]
"I knew it. 'Reality into numbers' is amazing. It matches to the current growth." Adrian laughs at his sudden increase of Intelligence stat. Gaining insight.
[Responding. Stat growth will match Master's real time growth. Any activities that contribute to the attribute's growth, it will increase naturally. Please note that it can decrease as well, either temporarily or permanently.]
[Advice. Master is now at age of 5. Physical exercise is advised before reaching age of 10. Awakening mana will bring many positive changes to the body. Having a strong body foundation in the early stage will prove to be beneficial to the Master in a long run]
"Hmm… so I have to exercise my body so it become strong to hold mana?... I get it now, it's like the water and the glass theory. A strong container can hold denser and purer mana. All right, I do it." Adrian cleverly turns the information in to an analogy.
[Intelligence: 48]
[Responding. Issuing 'Daily Mission 1'] [Mission duration: 5 years]
[Running: 0/3km]
[Arm exercise: 0/30 times]
[Upper body exercise: 0/30 times]
[Lower body exercise: 0/30 times]
[Draw, Slash and Downward slash (sword): 0/200 times]
[Stab, Pull and Slash (spear): 0/200 times]
[Pull, Aim and Strike (bow): 0/200 times]
[Notice. Please note that the mission is just template of focus for Master to get started. There is no penalty if daily mission is not complete or skipped]
"Wow thanks for the template Aria. I know what to focus on before reaching 10. Also, is there no rewards?" Adrian thanked Aria while asking if there is any rewards.
[Responding. Rewards come by own effort. Master will see it from the results soon.]
"Alright. I get it." Adrian gets out of bed to meet his parents for breakfast.
As he arrived at the dining hall and took a sit, he greets his parents.
"Good morning, dad. Good morning, mom" Adrian greets with a smile
"Good morning, son. How do you feel?" Malcom greets back while asking
"Good morning, my baby boy. Are you okay? Do you still feel sick? You had me worried." Amanda walks over to him checking on him while feeling his forehead.
"I felt very good. Thank you for taking care of me. I love you guys." Adrian expresses his gratitude and love while hugging his mother.
The couple smiled. They felt relieved that Adrian is all better now.
"Young master, here is breakfast. I prepare extras. So please eat your fill. You need it. We are very glad that you are back to health" Ralph serving a huge breakfast while showing a loving care.
"Thank you, Ralph. I really feel hungry. I will finish all of this." Adrian thanked Ralph and begin devouring breakfast.
After finishing breakfast, Adrian felt satisfy and thank Ralph again. Ralph nodded and clean the table.
"Dad, mom, I want something to ask for. Will you listen first?" Adrian asked politely
"Of course, son. You deserve to ask for anything that we are able to get. Just tell us what you need. Remember we didn't give for any birthday presents for 5 years because we don't know what to get for you, and also you said 'you already have everything'. So at the very least we can grant you something." Malcom said with mellow tone.
Amanda nodded but she showed a nervous expression.
"It's like this. I want to do some training. Just simple body training. I want to be stronger. I want to be ahead of my peers by a mile and begin competing with someone older than me." Adrian gave his intention and his reasoning.
"Oh? That's a simple matter. You can use the mansion personal training grounds. But on one condition." Malcom tells Adrian his answer but with a condition.
"Make it two conditions." Amanda added after feeling relief hearing Adrian only wanted to be stronger. Not a stupid dangerous request like she think.
"Thank you, dad, mom. What is the condition?" Adrian thanked both of his parents and wanted to hear their condition.
"You must have Ralph watching over you while training" Malcom states his condition
"And you have to see Marylyn every day." Amanda states hers
"Okay dad, mom. I go first. Excuse me." Adrian accepts the conditions and excitedly preparing to leave to change his clothes while still remembering his manners.
"Wait. I forgot to tell you. Your birthday presents are in the lounge room. There are from the nobles during your birthday party. They also wish you well." Malcom tells him about the presents.
"Yes. Thank you, dad, mom. Love you" Adrian rushed out when he heard the word 'presents'.
After Adrian left, the Cross couple breathe a sigh of relief.
"Sigh… Parenting is hard. Should it be this hard? Or Adrian is just to hyperactive and smart that make it this difficult." Malcom complained
"Yeah… I think it's the latter. I thought he want to request go the borders to meet monsters. He almost made my heart explode when he wants to ask for something. Kids this age should ask to go play. I guess he is waiting for his sister to grow up so they can go together. I guess we get Marylyn too soon or our son would be begging to go to town." Amanda cheerly comment.
"Well whose plan is it to have a baby to called out father-in-law. He now called me 'Trash' because I broke the promise I made to him, to only have another baby after the first one awakened mana." Malcom pout.
"Fufufu… but it all worked out right. Adrian had motivation to be the best now." Amanda chuckle felling satisfied.
Malcom is now positive, although Adrian had majority of his looks, he had 100% of his mother's intelligence if not smarter. He looked forward the see his boy shine.