This routine was hellish and painful but the results were also outstanding. After only a month of this training my status was already unrecognizable.
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Name: Victor Balzac
Age: 14
Class: Classless
Level: 6
Stamina: 350
Mana: 60
Affinities: N/A
Skills: Body infusion;
Titles: Reincarnated (hidden); Hard worker
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My stamina jumped up to 350 by whole hundred points in a single month. My mana jumped all the way to sixty, six times the amount I had just a month ago. Hard worker was a tittle that was very similar to reincarnated, it also increased the speed with which I was training. Body infusion was a skill I received when I learned how to infuse mana into my body. It turned out to be very useful combat skill that increased my defense, strength and agility. Making me much tougher stronger and faster. All in all, for just a month of work it felt awesome.
Around this time, I also noticed the change in how Yuki looked at me. At the beginning she was looking at me with almost sadistic smile when I was running around with her special bracelets on, or when I was passing out from mana exhaustion. But over time the smile faded, replaced with what almost looked like worry.
Her threats and insults she was hurling at me when I was barely holding on were replaced with words of support. It was weird, I was curious what was going on, but honestly, I was very much scarred to ask. I was rather happy with the changes and didn't want to anger her with pointless questions or make her return to hurling insults at me with sadistic smile as I suffered.
As for Rina, she was real prodigy, her stats were keeping up with mine despite the fact she lacked the reincarnated tittle. We were spending together pretty much every waking minute and as such we started to grew closer. She started to be more open with her affection towards me. At first it was just minor stuff, like a shy smiles, lingering looks along my body as she was helping me change and so on. Later she became more obvious like grabbing my arm when we walked together and pressing her boobs against it.
I noticed her interest right away but decided not to act up on it for now. We were both about the same age despite her looks and honestly, I didn't want to rush things, there was no reason for it. For now, I kept it age appropriate. And for the time being I did my best to let her know that her affection is not one sided.
I returned her glances and smiles. Sometimes I grabbed her by the waist with one hand and pressed her against me gently as we walked together, monitoring her expression making sure she is not uncomfortable with it. But every time I did it, I saw a beautiful smile light up her face. I also talked her into eating with me, instead of standing over me while I ate. And she even started to call me Vic. I was satisfied with how things were for now, we both knew, heck whole mansion knew that we are going to be together without us ever discussing it.
**** Sebastian's personal chambers. 3rd person POV. ****
The old knight sat in the chair while short petite foxkin paced around the room as she spoke.
"The only reason I accepted this job was that I was meant to be able to go nuts on the sick freak that was known for harassing women, enslaving them and being lazy fat psycho. Not only the person I found was not even fat, I didn't saw or heard anything about harassment in here, there is not even a single slave here. Closest to the slave is Rina, that was freed by Vic. I asked everybody working here in the mansion, and nobody could tell me anything bad about him outside of rumors. Gardener and cook mentioned that he once was a piece of shit but that he genuinely changed. Since I came, he freed and employed six more people that used to be slaves. He was meant to be fat and ugly; did you saw him these days? Dude is fucking hot, his body is shredded, fuck even his muscles have their own muscles, his face looks like it was sculpted by gods. And don't get me started on his so-called laziness, I would want to be this 'lazy' for fuck's sake. That man works like a madman, without complaints without hesitation. He just looks at Rina and goes without complaining. And his talent? What the fuck is his talent? Did you saw how fast are his stats raising? And did you saw Rina's? Both of them are insane. It does not make sense. Please tell me that you as retired high-ranking knight have some explanation for me! Because I will go mad from this!"
Old man chuckled. "I am happy that I am not the only one who can't make heads or tails from this!"
Yuki froze and looked at Sebastian with shock filled look.
"You knew him since he was a baby! How come you don't know what the actual fuck is going on?"
The man sighed. "I don't get it either. He was a sweet kid, then something happened and he became lazy, fat piece of shit that terrorized women all around him for some time. But then he passed out a few times in row and was out cold for almost three days straight. After that he just told me that he met his dead mother and that she was disgusted by him. After that he became another person! It was like a switch flipped inside of him and from that point he changed everything. At first, I was skeptical about the change, I even had him checked if he is not possessed, but over time I started to trust him, I think that he is really genuinely a new person, or rather his original old self! And I am very happy for him!"
Yuki sighed and shook her head. "Well, it's not like we have a choice. He is showing to us every fucking day that he changed. It's just hard to swallow. I almost left when I saw that he is not a person I thought him to be, I came to abuse an abuser, to destroy a piece of shit. But stayed to nurture an unbelievable talent."
The old man chuckled and spoke. "Is it just that? You don't happen to have some other incentive?"
Yuki blushed heavily and shook her head in protest. "No! What are you talking about old man?"
Sebastian started laughing at Yuki's response.
"It must be nice to be young!" He muttered under his nose while still having a good laugh.
Yuki just stomped out of the room; her face red as a ripe tomato.
**** Victor's POV, library of the Balzac's mansion ****
" HIC!" "HIC!"
Both me and Rina started to hiccup at the same time.
" HIC! I will go get us something to drink Vic. I will be right back. HIC!"
" HIC! Let me go with you. We can drink together in the kitchen. HIC!"
And so, we both went to kitchen to have some water.
We kept up with our training and I could not wait to be able to pick out weapon for myself upon reaching the goals set by Yuki. I started thinking about what should I pick, I thought long and hard about who is most likely to be in main character's party based on his default nature. What equipment they normally use. So that I can pick something that would not directly impact him. I didn't want to take stuff away from him too much, I still needed him to overcome some challenges down the road so that people don't get needlessly in danger.
To my surprise it only took little more than a month for me and also Rina to reach the desired stats. I hit first the 500 stamina, about a week before I had 100 mana. What was weirding me out was the fact that from the moment I hit 500 stamina the whole week until I had 100 mana my stamina didn't rose a single point. I was thinking about asking Yuki about this, but when I was already about to ask, it happened. I managed to hit 100 mana and everything got explained without me ever asking.
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Congratulations you hit maximum level of 10 in your class 'Classless'!
Warning both your stamina and your mana are maxed out! Until you receive a class, they won't be able to raise any further!
Only an infusion skill detected, please gain a non-infusion skill so that your class selection can be generated!
Name: Victor Balzac
Age: 14
Class: Classless
Level: 10
Stamina: 500
Mana: 100
Affinities: N/A
Skills: Body infusion;
Titles: Reincarnated (hidden); Hard worker
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