Chapter 4: Ceremonial Training Camp
Several months have passed since meeting with the new family. After clearing the misunderstanding, it turned out that Rudy’s playboy attitude did not differentiate in gender. Seeking protection, I quickly made friends with Runa and Rika. Runa was the cheerful airhead and Rika was the hothead. All of them learned from their parents how to fight and all of them started to train together. Every morning we trained in stat improvement and planned to raise level later.
Contrary to what I expected, we barely interacted with each other besides morning training and the occasional dinner invitation. This gave me more time to advance in his training.
Soula: “Open Full Status and Full Skill List.”
Well, it seems like I came a long way. Ah I remember the days where I trained in secret,
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(Flashback)
Today as-well, without being seen by my parents, I carry out my daily training. Every day I practice swirling mana and ki around my body. I focus as much as I can on mana control because I already practice ki during morning exercise.
Morning, fitness session with Runa, Rika, and Rudy as well as our fathers. Nothing like sword practice and swinging a wooden stick 100 times a day, mind you. All we learn is what plants to eat, how to stretch properly, how to hunt small animals (who, unlike monsters, do not have levels), etc.
Afternoon free time I sneak away into my room and work on mana/ki control. One day the skills finally got mastered.
Obviously I was thrilled. I started to to a little happy celebration antic consisting of shouting “Yes” repeatedly as well as dancing in a little circle. I know I’m acting like a child, but this is quite a feat, and besides I’m technically only 4 years old.
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Ah, now that I think about it, I really acted quite foolish.
In my mind right now, I am doing an orz position because of how I acted.
Well, ignoring that for now, today is the day of the ceremony. Everyone between the ages 4-10 will enter the Salty Lake Forest. The Salty Lake Forest is a dungeon that gives shelter to monsters level 1-20. There are 3 areas: outer ring, middle ring, and core area. The deeper in you go, the stronger the monsters become.
At the core area, there is a lake that contains, you guessed it, salty water. Over there is also apparently a Lv: 20 BOSS creature called Labu. Labbu is some sort of lion-serpent sea-dragon. It seems to be named after Labbu from mesopotamian myth.
Seriously, when I heard mesopotamian, I wondered if I wasn’t really reincarnated on my home world.
Well, the guides told us that no one from the village will interfere unless one gets caught in a life threatening situation. Otherwise, children should join together into teams of three or more.
Obviously, I joined the group of siblings that I knew pretty well. The trip to the forest was rather boring. Most monsters heard us coming from a long way off and avoided us except for the ones who were slaughtered by our group.
Seriously, the faces of the kids are screaming “EXP!”
It wasn’t until the border to the middle ring did everyone calm down. This was where people could split up while adults would keep hidden and only act when necessary.
The outer ring was weak, but safe. It only had monsters Lv: 1-5. However, monsters do not train their bodies but naturally get stronger through fights. So basically compared to monsters even at the same level, unless the monster is an elite or BOSS, we would be way stronger than most monsters.
Rudy: “Ok ladies, what do you want to do?”
Soula: “Hey, don’t call me a lady, and for your question we should go into the middle ring and hunt around there.”
Ruka: “Why don’t we go to the core area?”
Runa: “Ruka! Are you crazy? We’re only 4 years old, and none of us are past the 2nd Gate yet. And you want us to fight a BOSS!”
Soul: “Runa’s right. We aren’t prepared to fight a 2nd Gate monster, whether it is a BOSS or not.”
Ruka: “Aw man. You guys are no fun.”
Rudy: “Come on now, let’s go hunting before all the others wipe the forest out.”
Runa and Ruka: “THEN LETS HURRY! JYNX! JYNX AGAIN. JYNX…”
Soula: “Alright, stop already. Lets go already.”
Seriously, I can’t believe the attitude of these kids.
The first monster we encountered was a small boar.
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Soula: “Alright everyone, I’ll coordinate our attacks. Listen to my commands.”
Rudy, Runa, & Ruka: “Roger!”
All of us moved in. Because all of us had beastmen heritage, we all took warrior training. Hiding the fact that I could use magic, everyone here is a warrior.
Rudy unsheathed his sword and swings with both hands at the front leg.
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Runa runs while rapidly firing blasts of ki with her skill [Gatling Ki].
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Ruka envelops her fist with ki and starts to attack the boar’s head. I move to the back and start to attack with ki-infused punches as well.
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And thus we wrecked the poor piglet… of course not. Remember, this is (not including me) our first real battle and we’re only 4 years old.
Ruka accidently bumps into Rudy when he attacks again, Runa almost shot us a few times, and Rudy actually drops his weapon.
Soula: “Rudy, pick up your sword and back off. Ruka, Runa watch out for your allies. We don’t want any friendly fire.”
Runa: “What do you mean by friendly fire? What kind of fire is that?”
Soula: “No, I mean we don’t want to hit our teammates.”
Runa: “Oh, I get it.”
Afterwards, we fixed our positions and defeated the Black Piglet.
Alright, I leveled up! The stats that I can raise are: Strength, Agility, Vitality, Dexterity, and Luck.
...well I’ll invest them after I get a class. It doesn’t really matter when you invest them.
After pressing no on the notification screen, I turned to look at the others.
Ruka: “All right! We did it!”
Rudy: “Finally I’m not level one anymore.”
Runa: “Wow Soula, you were great. You seemed like you did this before.”
Ah if only you knew.
Soula: "Alright, we won. But we still need to go fight more monsters. Lets go."
Rudy, Ruka, & Runa: "OK!"