"In case you must have forgotten, I have a rank three body, a poor attack from a rank 2 martial art with mana wouldn't be able to hurt me, even in a thousand ye.."
As he was about to complete his sentence, he suddenly felt something wet run down his throat, when he touched it, he could see it was a drop of blood.
"Fucking kid, you almost killed your master!"
Ainz couldn't help but laugh when he saw Bruce's reaction, after cursing out for a while Bruce eventually calmed down and stared at Ainz with a solemn expression on his face. When Ainz saw his expression, he knew it was his last training session before the following week, when he would begin his treatment, so he paid attention.
Although he was once a monarch, but after he came to this world, he realized there was still so much he didn't know, some of it he had been able to learn by himself, and his mother, while in terms of martial arts, even though Bruce was sent by his father to train him, Bruce was still honest in teaching him, sometimes would show worry when he went extreme.
So he understood that this might likely be the last time he would listen to his last instructions, so he listened attentively.
"Kid, I am sure you already know, I can't postpone it any further even if I want to, it can't be helped. When you come next week, do not come to this place, wait at the top floor. The place where I will perform the treatment will be different. I am sure you know the scream of a kid, are not the happiest to hear."
Ainz understood, when he heard the word 'screams' even though he wasn't afraid, he knew how horrifying it could sound, since he had already decided to put his life on the line, being scared would neither help, nor change anything.
"If you survive, I don't know why but my guts tells me you can survive the treatment, so I will simply say after you survive the treatment you will probably spend like a week bedridden for your body to get used to its new acupoints, so remember to inform lady Lilith about it. The day before the treatment, don't do anything demanding to your body or even practice anything, and I am serious, except you are ready to go to heaven.
"The only thing you are allowed to do is rest, and read the tome about the eight gates asura, you must understand that you need to be at your peak for the treatment to succeed and for you to be alive."
Ainz smiled, when he heard what Bruce said he didn't know why he thought that, but he felt a bit of warmth from those words, of course, he knew wasn't going to die, but he wasn't going to say this out he didn't want to appear too confident, another thing was compared to before his chances of survival had once more increased, ever since wyvern regeneration became level 3.
Bruce suddenly walked toward him and then patted him on his shoulder.
"Now kid, go, don't forget what I said, and rest yourself as much as you can. Next week it's life or death."
When Ainz got back to his room, for some reason he felt tired, making him realize since the mana he used wasn't directly from his core, but from his muscles, it took a toll on his body, the depletion of mana in his muscles was what was causing the tiredness to envelop him, which was something even wyvern regeneration couldn't fix, since he wasn't bleeding or was injured.
'To think that with just that little amount of mana used, could drain me so much is quite surprising, I guess any mana not from my mana core will have an effect on my body, nevertheless, it was worth it since I was able to perform it on a blunt weapon, most importantly with this I can now manipulate not only the mana in my mana core but also that of my body.
'I wonder how much I can perform it if I use the mana from my core? It's no wonder why Andrew was able to pierce the wyvern that time, if a mere blunt weapon can be this sharp with just a little bit of mana, although the result was substantial but if I were to use it with the mana from my core, every technique I use will be exponentially more powerful.'
While lying on his bed, Ainz couldn't help but review what happened today at the training session with Bruce, the sensation he felt today when sparring with Bruce, reminded him of when he was a monarch, although he was no longer one at this point, he was still aiming for one this lifetime.
'I must continue to train myself, to become even much stronger. I don't want what happened then to repeat itself again, if I had been a bit stronger I could have survived it. I need to set a standard for myself. Only through sharpening myself can I see the end of the world and protect what's precious to me.
'Next week, begins the real starting point! I can't rely purely on the system alone, I must also train myself to become stronger.'
One of his biggest secrets was the system, but he couldn't purely rely on the system alone although it made him progress at an astonishing rate. In those six months and even the previous years and the time he was reincarnated, he didn't completely trust it. What if it suddenly disappeared one day?
The thought of it suddenly leaving him, with everything he had was something he couldn't imagine, this was why he was simply absorbing everything that was thrown at him, the effect of the system was evident but it was coming through it and not directly through him, especially since his ability only became better with the system.