The next morning after my meet-up and cooking lessons with Richard, I left for the shop of my current master. I am excited about what she's going to teach me today.
Reaching the shop, I saw that it was closed. Just as I was about to knock, I felt a sudden dizzy feeling and the next moment I knew I was inside the shop seated across from my master.
To think she can just pull me into the shop; is this the power of an Imperial? This just makes me more excited to learn about the supernatural.
Eleanor looked toward her current disciple, who was looking at her with excitement and eagerness.
'He looked just as excited as me when I started.'
"Do you want to eat anything?"
"No need; I ate and came."
"Then let's start. What do you know about the Origin Way?"
After that, I explained to her the basic idea I knew, and she nodded to it.
"Um, that's pretty much it. Looks like you study well."
I "blushed" at her words, as if happy and embarrassed about it.
"By the way, do you currently feel any connection with the atmosphere?"
"Oh, you mean the little particles floating around?"
"So you can feel it."
After that, Eleanor sighed and looked at me like a rare specimen.
"Austin, do you know that you currently have a plate, that it's tier 3 and rank 10."
"What!"
I shouted in surprise, real this time.
'So wait, I am tier 3!? No, wait, what's rank 10 plates?'
"Master, is there a rank for plates?"
"Oh, I forgot they didn't teach you about it yet."
"The plates formed in your body also have ranks, it determines how much forward you can go in your path."
"It's normally from Rank 1 to Rank 10, with Rank 1 being the lowest and Rank 10 being the highest; the Rank 7 and above plates are termed as geniuses."
'Damn, I didn't know about this! Looks like everything can't be found in the library.'
"Master, does that mean I am strong?"
I reacted with "excitement."
"No, it's the opposite, your body is in danger. Your current body is like a glass overflowing with water, but the glass holding it isn't strong. If it goes like this, your body won't be able to handle it and explode."
Silence...
'Damn, I didn't know that! The system, you didn't tell me anything about it!!'
[Systems duty is to only support the host, not to warn and protect the host.]
'You're heartless! Plus, what's wrong with this woman? Is this something you say directly to an 8-year-old boy's face? If it was any other kid, he would be peeing his pants.'
What Austin didn't know was that it wasn't much of a problem and it was easy to settle, but Eleanor wanted to see how he would react to death, and seeing him so composed impressed and made her curious.
"Aren't you afraid of death?"
'Afraid? Of course, I am!! Who wouldn't? It's just that my poker face is good. Wait, this could be an opportunity to score some points.'
Putting on my serious face, I directly looked into her eyes.
"Of course I am, but the fear of losing my family is more painful to me than the fear of death."
"My father gave his life to protect mine; he only had one wish, and that was for me to protect my family, and I plan to do that. So, no matter what comes, I will survive it."
In the end, my voice raised to a high pitch for dramatic effect.
'Oh...thank you wuxia novels for your cliche lines.'
Looking at my master, I saw a deeply surprised face on hers, contradicting her normal graceful self. Suddenly, I felt a pull on me, and the next moment, I was in her embrace; a unique orchid smell entered my nose.
'Oh...man, these pillows are huge, maybe even bigger than my mother's.'
Meanwhile, Eleanor...
'Ahh, what a pitiful child. Don't worry, master will protect you and make sure you're strong. Such a pitiful child; the master is there for you.'
Thinking of it, she ruffled the boy's hair, who was looking at her with absolute trust and admiration.
'Ahh...if you look at the teacher like that, then I can't help but pamper you.'
+3000 affection
'Wow, looks like my words hit her pretty hard.'
Then suddenly, I again felt the same pull, and when I opened my eyes, I was in a forest near a cliff. Eleanor then put me down.
"From now on, we are going to get your body accustomed to your power. So, your first task is to run 5 km here, then do 20 push-ups, squats, and sit-ups."
"After your warm-up, your task will be to climb the mountain. After that, when you reach the top, we can start the real training."
Looking at the tall cliff as if touching the sky, my feet suddenly felt unsteady. Putting on my puppy eyes, I looked toward her, but all she gave me back was a look of disappointment. Seeing that, I clenched my teeth.
"I will do it, but after that, will the teacher show me her face?"
After my question, she hesitated a bit, but then later she nodded. Seeing that, I took action.
The warm-ups, even though hard, were accomplishable. But when it came to the cliff, I climbed, I scraped my knee, my hands turned red, my nails peeled almost off, and I almost fell to my death, but the master saved me at each turn.
Like this, it was only two months later that I reached the top. Standing above it and seeing the rising sun, I let out a huge scream of accomplishment.
Behind me stood my master, proud without a veil covering her face, her black hair swaying in the wind, her face looking beautiful, creating a beautiful picture. At first, her beauty moved me, but then later a more important thought came to me.
'When I am strong enough, I must destroy this cliff.'
And like that, a few years later, this huge cliff disappeared from this world. No one knows how.
[
Name: Eleanor Claus
Sex: Female
Age: 140
Species: Human
Talent: 10/10
Power: Imperial rank 3
Title: The Bow Empress, Cold Beauty, The Imperial... etc.
Love: 90% (a master's love)
Description: Happy she found a strong-willed disciple
Awakening a certain dangerous tendency
Difficulty: S+ (she is a woman with powers you can't imagine, courted by several men, if you wanna conquer her, you gotta work to the bone)
]
Grace POV:
Currently, a woman was walking through the corridors of the mansion. She had blonde hair and green eyes.
'Sigh, what could have happened?'
Mia had entered her room and said that Austin had something important to say, and I had to head there; she said that it was urgent.
Thinking about her son, a smile naturally formed on her face. It had been 2 and a half months since he had taken the Bow Empress as his teacher.
In the beginning, he would return all hurt and dispirited. My heart had hurt seeing him like this; he was just 8 years old. I wanted to stop him from doing it, but each time he would show determination and move forward.
I could see changes in him too. He had become a little taller, more proactive, and more confident. Plus, his sisters are being more attached to him too.
He also now has 3 girls following him around too. Looks like my son is quite the player. I chuckled a little.
My mind goes back to half a month ago when he came to me saying that there was a slave trading going on in the dukedom. Naturally, I didn't believe him at first, but then he showed me all this proof, and I had to make a move.
I quickly mobilized the soldiers and raided the area. When I saw the slave arena, I was so enraged that I had killed all the perpetrators and gave each person caught a heavy punishment.
After that, three of the girls who were being sold got attached to Austin. It seemed that they were only saved because of him and they had no family to return to and wanted to serve him.
The human girl became his maid, and the other twin fox tribe girls became his soldier attendants.
While I was thinking, I reached the room. I could feel familiar auras from the room. Curious, I pushed it open and entered.
"HAPPY BIRTHDAY MOM!"
I could see my children in the room holding banners and tables filled with food.
'I see it was my birthday today, and my children remembered. Ahh, why's my face wet?'
It was only then that I knew that tears were flowing down my eyes. Seeing this, my children came to me, and we all hugged. I had regained myself after 5 minutes.
"How did you all know?"
"It was Austin; he was the one who said about it to us. He said that we could give Mom a surprise."
Nora answered in a slightly disappointed voice as if she was sad that it wasn't her who could give the idea.
"But it was big sis who had arranged it all. If it wasn't for her, we wouldn't be able to do this. Also, Elda helped out a lot too."
Hearing Austin's words both Nora and Elda looked a bit smug. I chuckled a bit at this.
'This boy knows how to handle his sisters.'
I turn towards Austin who has a smile on his face. I couldn't help but pull him into a tight hug.
'I won't let anything happen to my family again.'
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Austin's POV:
'That went better than I thought'
I was currently surrounded by my family, who was wolfing down the food I made and praising me about it, my cooking skills had increased these days though not at the level of 5-star I am near to it
"Master shall I serve more"
During my inner monologue, a girlish voice enters my ears, turning my head I saw a girl of 8 years with brown hair and black eyes in a maid costume looking at me in at most devotion, she has a cute nose and an average face.
[
Name: Clara
Sex: Female
Age: 8
Species: Human/demon
Talent: 8/10
>booldline unawakened
Power: Null
Title: None
Love: 94%
Description: completely devoted to you
>She wants to be worthy of you but thinks that her lowly self cannot be your lover.
>Has an intense desire to make herself better.
Difficulty: what difficulty?? You already conquered her in a way.
]
Clara was one of the girls I had managed to win over, she was not a capture target but an important person in the story as a part of the villain faction that is, she had joined the Babylon school as part of a dark organization to be a spy in the school, the protagonist would later change her heart and bring her to the good side
She had an intense hatred of my Dukedom because she had been sold as a slave here and had been violated a lot, in the game she tried a lot to kill me and my sisters. I had a good memory of her because of her special bloodline that provided her great aptitude with darkness and she had the rare darkness healing magic and was a great support in battle.
Once she awakens her demon bloodline, her looks will completely change and her talent will rise, she had many suitors rushing to be her boyfriend but after learning about her past they move away just as quickly.
The issue of slavery had been found out later in the game causing much reputation damage to the dukedom, so I nipped the problem in the bud and got myself 3 powerful followers. It wasn't hard, I just had to play the cards right, the perfect moment of entry, the perfect support, and the most important cliche line and they were in the bag.
I then looked towards the other 2 girls, one of them had a white fox ear and tail with a cute face and the other had black ears and tail, twins to be exact. They both looked the same except for the white-haired fox girl being shy and the other one being extremely straightforward
In the game both of them were known to hate boys and only supported each other, they were also part of the organization, and they had suffered just like Clara.
[
Name: Rika
Sex: Female
Age: 8
Species: white wolf beastwomen
Talent: 8/10
Power: Null
Title: None
Love: 89%
Description: her feelings for you continue to rise
>Her shy feeling caused her to be unable to convey it but your words gave her confidence and a desire to stand together with you
Difficulty: no need bro she's yours
]
[
Name: Mika
Sex: Female
Age: 8
Species: black wolf beatwomen
Talent: 8/10
Power: Null
Title: none
Love: 83%
Description: as a person whose personality was falling your words had rekindled her hope
>swears to protect you and be your sword, she dreams her body and soul to be yours
Difficulty: dude how much do you 2 want her to fall?
]
It wasn't hard to raise their love, it was very simple for one, just give the inferiority complex Clara a butt load of compliments, responsibilities, trust, and love, Then she's yours. As for the twins they were made fun of by their clan when they were young due to not forming a plate, they were thought to be special cases where they had no talent for mana
But that was just a misconception, they had the rarer case of forming their plate all together at once, Rika would have great talent in water magic and Mika would be a close combatant. Together they will be a very strong team, one not to be pissed off but right now they lack confidence and hope so I just gave them that and so I got them.
Though Mika was a bit suspicious in the beginning I quickly won her over, and now I have 3 future stars under me.
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