Once I woke up I found myself alone in mothers room. Thinking she must've already gone a head I left her room and went towards mine to get ready for the day.
"Good morning young master" Bella and Ella said while standing out side my room.
"Morning you two, what time is it?" I questioned while we all walked into my room.
"10am young master, it seems you had quite the good night, hmm?" Ella teased
I ignored her as I went into the bathroom to shower and brush my teeth. Once I came back out with a towel wrapped around my waist Ella helped me get dressed while Bella went out to grab me some breakfast.
After finishing my food we all went towards the training ground where I started doing my daily routine, first I did light movements with all three types of my weapons; duel single edge swords, a dagger, and throwing knifes.
Once finished I moved onto the more advanced side of the training to get use to this body and hone my skills. In my past life I had no technical background and the only teacher I had was, the battle field. In a constant struggle of life and death I created my own unique style of fighting, the only downside is it's meant for efficiency and killing, so while performing it I can tell it makes both my maids a little uncomfortable as a little of my killing intent seems to sometimes leak out… they don't say anything but they always seem more pale and distant right after my weapons training.
'Young master doesn't seem like a 5 year old learning to weild swords .. maybe I should lay-off the teasing a bit… ' Ella thought with a somewhat paled face
'Nah he is still my cute young master, of course I still need to tease him❤️' Ella reaffirmed to herself while wearing a sly smirk
'Young master is scary with those things…" Bella thought while biting her nails.
'But he also looks so cool!🤩' she added to herself while having a smile on her face and stars in her eyes while seeing my perform my last set.
I got done my weapons training and proceeded to sit down an cultivate. Right now I am at apprentice stage 2 which is really good for my age as most of my peers would still be in the beginner stage. However this is only because the first few stages are more focused on body so while I may have a stronger body, me only being able to use 1/4 of the mana my body can hold is a problem that doesn't seem to be going away anytime soon.
'Let's not focus on the negatives and start with what I can do, I need to get the best control possible over mana and my ice.' I thought while deep in thought having beads of sweat running down my face.
'This world has spells but no incantations, it's more so that spell books just deepen your understanding of the element and describe the essence of the action you're trying to achieve. This means you don't actually need to get spell books if you have a truly deep understanding of your element and the actions/shapes you want them to take. For example I have been building my foundation of ice better then most as I not only focus on ice but why it is ice. Ice is the form of water in a solid stage with a low temperature, however it is also just water with a mid temperature in the liquid stage. The final stage of water would be the gaseous form which would be water Vapor turning into mist, fog, steam and even clouds dependment on the process of controlling the temperature and time they react. This form seems to be the most versatile for AOE but doesn't seem to have much offensive effect although I still don't even have a way to raise my ice's temperature to make it into water let alone water Vapor. Since I was born with the water variant ice but if I'm somehow able to gain better control over it and if I somehow find a way to increase the temperature I'll have a better chance of using my limited mana to close the gap between me and others. As this world relies so much on mana science has taken a back seat. Although my old life I never was able to go to school I still learned some basics. The more I think about how my ice is made and gain insights the stronger my ice becomes while using the same amount of mana.
My weapon skills seem to be okay for now, I should focus more on my affinity and control over mana from now on.' I thought to myself as I finally opened my eye after circulating all my mana and refining it as much as possible.
"Young master, it's already 5pm we've missed lunch you should go get ready for dinner soon" Ella said as she stepped closer to me passing me a glass of water.
I nodded to her as I stood up and downed the entire glass of water "thank you, Ella"
Ella bowed as I started walking towards my room to shower and change my clothes as both my maids followed behind me.
My mother met me in the dining room as we always have dinner together, the maids join us too. This isn't normal that a servant and master share meals however my mother and her three maids seems to have basically grown up together and are quite close. Also my maids and I have always been together since I was born and we get closer with each passing day.
Although we don't seem to be really part or at least considered part of the winters house hold internally, we don't mind as both my mother and I consider each other and our maids our true family and loved ones rather then house winters.
Mom has told me the story that although she was forced to give birth with a child with count winters, my father. Because they are in the same realm he couldn't force her to submit or have any type of relationship with him. They used some old weird ritual for my mother to get impregnated using the counts blood. Although it had weakened my mother and caused her cultivation to stagnate she doesn't regret doing it as she said she loves having a son and couldn't stand the thought of not having me or being with the count intimately. I'm not sure why she has told me this or if she really thinks a normal 5 year old could understand what she's talking about, I have to say I'm glad that man didn't touch my mother. He's not worthy of her. It is also for that reason as to why we are shunned from the family and casted aside into the guest house. We are publicly known as in the family of count winters and I his fourth son but that is it. Only for appearances as it could hurt his reputation if word got out that one of the flowers of the foreign kingdom refused to be with him and he cast is own son out of the family.