Ainz immediately shifted his attention to the sheets of body cultivation methods, Bruce didn't notice that the excited look on his face had disappeared, and had now turned to a frown.
'Guess I was still overestimating my position, if not I wouldn't be given low ass cultivation methods that don't require mana core. With how Bruce has been going on and on, about how body revolving technique was a cheap imitation, I was expecting something better, the techniques instead are no better than the body revolving technique, they only added one peculiarity like more strength or speed.
'The only good thing about them is being rank 2, so they should be able to show some results when training them albeit not as wyvern king cultivation technique, but still usable.'
He was almost done choosing a body cultivation method from among the sheets, when he noticed the last sheet and the rank it had.
'Semi rank 4'
The look in Ainz's eyes grew intense as he stared at the sheets in front of him intently, however, he didn't notice Bruce who had been shutting his eyes, had opened them and was now staring at him with a sorry expression.
'Maybe my lord was being too harsh adding that particular cultivation technique among the cultivation methods, please kid don't choose that one. And damn, the fucking kid did.'
Bruce cursed inwardly, he didn't know if it was just greed or pure ignorance but he knew the kid would end up regretting it, left for him he wouldn't have added that cultivation method among them, but his lord obviously thought differently, at this point, he was wondering if the lord truly wanted to train the kid and tame him, or wants the kid to revolts and turn into wild beast.
'Bruce although he's just a kid, we still have to respect his choice and desires. If he truly wants to spread his wings and protect wants important to him, we might as well help him spread his wings early and let him face reality, he might lose trust in us and might revolt, but if he's as smart as we think he will appreciate my actions."
Those were the words of his lord when he gave him the order to take him under his wing, however, while he understood what his lord was trying to say, the pain and torture the kid was going to face wouldn't be the same.
While Bruce was lost in thought, Ainz instead was already going through the semi-rank 4 body cultivation method in his hand with excitement.
'Forging the eight gates of Asura, peak body cultivation methods among none mana core cultivation techniques. At its peak it equals the power that involves the use of mana core, however, on the condition that the user is able to survive cultivating the technique, if the user is able to survive cultivating the technique, then the user will be able to obtain the body of almost rank 4 cultivator.
'Capable of withstanding a rank 1 cultivator and rank 1 magical spell from any wizard without harm, also, since it's a body shaped by the world energy "mana", it will improve the physique of the user, such as faster recovery and sensitivity.
'Requirement consists of opening a certain number of acupoints in the body in specific places, to create tiny mana vortexes that help the world energy reconstruct the acupoints. After that the user lets the new acupoint construct and nourish the body for a period of time, the price must be repeated even times.
'Caution: Extremely dangerous, the user must be conscious throughout the construction of the tiny vortex, else the body might experience mana overload, causing instant death from explosion. Warning: Extremely dangerous.'
After he was done, Ainz finally closed the sheet, however, the look of excitement still didn't fade from his eyes, not minding the pain and death that was written in it, after going through it if anything he was even more excited than before, while the word death and pain might be scary to others it wasn't to him, he might not be the undying monarch anymore, but he had experience things that were worse than death.
Just as he was about to ask Bruce about it, it was at this point he finally noticed the worried look on his face.
"Kid, before choosing a technique you must understand that just having a powerful technique is not everything that a cultivator needs to be powerful."
Bruce said, trying to mask the intention in his words, with a smile.
'Sure, enough he is trying to convince me not to cultivate it, it means it wasn't him who added it among the body cultivation methods I was given, which means, someone else might have done it, likely the person behind him.
'I wonder if the person behind him, wants me to cultivate it or die while doing so, either way, Bruce might not be in support of it, but had to follow orders, even though I don't know what the person behind him wants, nevertheless, I will like to thank the person from the depth of my heart. With this technique, I can finally balance the wyvern cultivation and stop it from mutating my body into a magical beast, but still enjoy the benefits of cultivating the technique.'