Seeing how concerned Lilith was made him realize how much she cared and loved him, this was the first time someone was worried about his safety, and despite being a cold-hearted, cynical, misanthropic person to his very core, Ainz could not help but feel touched.
Ever since he was reborn, she was the only person who had loved and cared for him like a child, even when he was rejected and despised by almost everyone in the Kalamas household including his own father, whereas in his past life people only showed care and love for him because of his immense power and wealth, and what they would benefit from him.
With Lilith's constant love, affection, and care, she had managed to crack his emotional wall. The more time he spent with her, the more he began to consider her as part of his life, rather than just a stepping stone.
However, that didn't mean he would limit his training or pause his plans because of her, since he needed to grow strong enough to protect her, since even that required him to not only be strong but stronger than the entire kalamas household, and become strong as fast as possible.
Apparently, he began to notice there were new bruises on Lilith's body, whenever he asked her what caused it, she would always wave off as bruises from working, or hitting herself while working, and he would always feel pained because she would say all these with a bright smile.
Knowing fully well she was lying, Ainz would say nothing, while he didn't say anything, Andrew was now at his very top list of people he was going to kill, even way above the monarchs in his previous life who had betrayed him.
'To screw that fucker up, I would need to train even harder. I don't want to leave any regrets, this lifetime.'Ainz clenched his fist after he thought that.
"Hey, fucker, the fuck are you doing, dazing out like an idiot under the sun?" a loud yell from one of the guards could be heard, interrupting his thoughts. Ainz glared at him, before hurrying himself to the group of guards delivering the buckets of water.
"I am sorry my lord, I didn't know you were through with your training. I was just a little tir…"
"Shut your fucking mouth, no one ask for your explanation. Just drop the damn buckets and get ready to get the beating of your life." The guard interrupted Ainz as he was talking.
Despite wanting to shove the buckets down the bastard asshole, Ainz said nothing, this event was meaningful for two reasons. The first was him not wanting to reveal himself and blow his cover, so even if they insulted him he would say nothing. The second reason was because it benefited him.
Being forced to work under the guards and watch them every day of his life, Ainz had the opportunity to watch how they trained their techniques, and was able to understand how cultivators train themselves, so without them realizing it, he was learning their cultivation techniques.
However, what Ainz didn't see coming was that apparently, while he watched the guards cultivate everyday he would suddenly receive a notification message from the system.
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[Host has acquired a new technique!]
When he saw the notification message, Ainz couldn't believe it and kept looking at the notification message for some time. This was among the last things he saw after he was done watching them train that very day.
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[Rewards for acquiring new technique]
[+1 Extra attribute points has been added to all of the host's attributes]
Ainz stared at the multiple notifications with surprise, and delight. Although he would always feel something inside of him each time he was watching them train, he didn't expect he would actually acquire their techniques, his intention was only to use them as reference, and see if he could learn something from them.
However, in the last year, after he could not learn anything new from watching them train he suddenly had an idea, to make them punish him, which the usual way of punishing him, was them basically beating Ainz until he was lying flat on the ground.
While they consider it to be beatings, he consider it as a form of combat training, it must be said that the combat training was what resulted in him acquiring their technique. But what they didn't understand was Ainz was only toying with them, afterall, during his previous life, he was a monarch and could be said to be proficient in all kinds of fighting techniques, so whatever they were doing was child play to him.
He would always choose the ones that were having a bad day, so he could be picked on them and then he would be beaten to pulp.
However, they wouldn't go too far since he was still a young kid, and although clearly abandoned by his father was still part of the Kalamas household, and had their blood running in his veins. Seeing Ainz being dragged around by the guard, some of the guards began to cheer, they could already tell Ainz was in for some serious beatings, but funny enough no one said anything or tried to stop him.