LIGHTNOVELWORLD Chapter 7: 6. Gifts?
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"Oh, interesting, how did you escape?"
"Well, I trained my mana control while days passed and when it reached to a good level, I tried to break the lock and escape, but the guy noticed me, which led to a confrontation between us, which I lost, but a mana beast came and charged at him... blah blah...and I was able to kill him and then escape" He omitted the important details and details like he was the only one who escaped and didn't bother to free others and so so.
"Oh, do you remember his face or something, any sort of dressing similarities, anything would help," She said while writing whatever he said in a notebook.
'Woah, so she has the patience to do this kind of stuff too, I definitely thought that she only knows how to fight' This time he didn't changed his facial expressions.
"Cool, I will drop you out of the forest then"
"Wait, I don't want to leave, I think this is a good place to train" He protested immediately.
'This place is really best to train due to the mana concentration and honing my instincts which would be hard otherwise, I would rather be away from the place with young masters as long as I could'
"Oh, why do you want to train?" She asked amused.
"To get stronger"
"Oh, why do you want to get stronger then?"
"So, that nobody messes with me, plus fighting and investigating mana is fun too I guess" He answered honestly.
"Ohhh, Meet me in around 10 years, You might become a worthy opponent for me" She said with a smirk that was primal in nature.
He sub-consciously shivered.
"Hell, I will defeat you within 7 years" He tried to put a strong front to hide his fear.
"Do you even know how to skin animals and cook them?" Her question caught him off guard.
"I don't know," He said shamelessly
She looked unimpressed.
She took out a cubical object from nowhere and a book came out of it.
'A spatial device? How interesting? does it work with runes or something?'
"Here, this should give you a variety of techniques of how to skin animals according to their body structure, you know how to read right?" She gave him the book.
"Let me check" He quickly opened the book and sighed in relief that it was Japanese only, if it was some other language, then he would have been in trouble.
"Yeah, I can read it, finally could eat some real food instead of plants" He cheered, he was getting bored of eating fruits and stuff, checking for poison and all by looking at how many animals ate that food.
It was too tedious and time-consuming process.
"Oh, if you are so kind, then do you have some books on mana control or something, I feel like seeing already existing techniques and already established principles will save a lot of my time" He shamelessly asked.
"yeah, sure, but these are the ones that could be found in the general library, if you want something more advanced, those are generally reserved for magic knights or monopolized by nobles or royals" She summoned a few more books and gave him, they were in a carry bag.
'Woah, the day feels so bizarre, I was just joking with that statement, she actually gave me the books, also, why is she carrying these?' He was puzzled but didn't bother to ask.
Who will argue against a gift horse in the mouth?
"Kid, do you know a good bathing spot in this forest?"
"Hmm, There is a hot spring nearby, Let me lead you to it, Wait a minute, I will come back after hiding these" With that he went to his temporary hideout and kept the goods he received and then guided one of the strongest people in clover kingdom to the hot springs.
None of the animals approached them due to Mereoleona not hiding her mana.
It seems there were no suicidal fellows today.
"We are here" He motioned his hands to the large ass hotspring.
"Nice, I needed a place to relax after some training I did"
'For some reason, why do I have a feeling that some beings were abused while she was "training"' He sweatdropped at the thought.
"About those books, why are you car-" His words stuck in his mouth as he saw Mereoleona getting naked.
"What about those?" She removed the last clothing and dived into the hot springs.
"Why are you naked? No,a more proper question is aren't we supposed to not show our naked bodies in other people's presence?" He instantly changed his question.
"Who decided that? Those decisions are on an individual to take" Her words silenced him.
"Well, it doesn't really matter" He sighed.
"Why don't you join me?"
"Hmm, Sure I guess, It's been a while since I took a bath" He didn't have even an ounce of shame when he said that he hadn't taken a bath for so long"
"So, what were you asking about earlier?"
"Hmm, I forgot" He actually had forgotten what he was going to ask momentarily.
As he was trying to recall what he was going to ask her, she asked a question of hers.
"How did you train so far? I could see your chakra control to be unrefined, but it's really amazing that you reached this point without any books for reference or an instructor"
"Well, just thought of some exercises as I went along, their effectiveness indicator is how well mana is in control within me I guess" He shrugged and summarized what he was technically doing.
"Interesting, I am really looking forward to your growth, don't disappoint me" He shivered again due to the intensity of her gaze.
He felt like he was being looked at by an apex predator and helpless to do anything.
It was more absurd that she was naked.
"Ahem, anyway the water has the right temperature here" He tried to change the topic.
"I forgot to ask, but what's your name?"
"I don't have any" He replied subconsciously.
'Name, huh, Not like it matters'
"Oh, how about I name you Akeru?" Her sudden statement caught him off guard.
"Um, why Akeru?" He asked curiously.
"I just thought randomly and it was the name of the last thug I beat"
He looked at her incredulously and then started laughing "hahaahaha!"
She also started laughing.
"Why not? I shall refer to myself as Akeru from now on" He or now Akeru decided.
At least his name would now remind him of something funny from now onwards.
"You are a very funny kid, anyway, time for me to leave kid" With that she got up from the hot springs and put on her clothes in a flash.
"Well then, till we meet again I guess, I would at least be a magic knight level next time we meet, that's also considering within 5 years, if we meet that is"
"Don't die kid" With that she turned around and paused.
"Hmm, actually take this kid, My brother had given me a few of them and I forgot about these till now, I guess there was no situation for it to be used" He caught an orange emblem that had an animal engraved on it.
"I forgot what it does, but it should give you at least access to the library when you go out, just show it at the main gate of Vermillion House, Cya" With that she disappeared from the spot, causing shockwaves to be created due to her speed.
Air was blown away and Akeru found himself going inside the water.
He came out of the water and put on his clothes.
He put the emblem in his pocket and headed towards his hideout, which was just a few branches, which he had moulded, such that it was kind of a platform for him to sit, or lie down.
'Let's see, I first need to check out the book on cooking animals after skinning them' He sighed and started flipping through the book
He started first looking at animal types he was familiar with and even found out the exact species of some, leading to focusing on them first.
'I know that I don't mind killing animals or cutting their heads, but this must be some other level of this' He made a disgusted face and started looking for prey to kill.
Days passed, and he was now able to get food easily and his training time increased.
Time passed quickly.
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