Chapter 8: When I Face Him My Confidence Takes A Blow

"Maybe, it's because Ad is one of the chosen people!" Adam looked at him and sighed and told Walter

"Told you not to say that carelessly, someone may hear it!" Walter just laughed it off

"I mean you were born with a god's blessing why do you need to hide it. Hell, you didn't even tell us which God blessed even though we are your best friends and first retainers." Adam just laughed at that, he had his reasons to not disclose that information. Doing so would only lead to more trouble for the future. Plus each 'God' only has to choose one being and bless and the one who chose him is kind of troublesome. 'I don't know why he chose me. I get it that's my ambition in this role but I don't think it was enough to gain his attention' he thought

"Don't sweat it, you will know when the time comes!"

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------------- I'm going to write in Adam POV from now on -------------

When we arrived back at the town, it was already like 7 am and people started to get busy. I don't know what the city ruler thinks about it, but something is sure, I'm coming for you Boi.

I told Walter and Isaac to meet me at the gymnasium in due time and went home. Since I did not have that much practice I decided to train with my dad a little bit. I arrived home, open the door and saw my father drinking some tea, seriously who drinks tea after just waking up.

Drinking tea right in the morning may disrupt your metabolic system due to the imbalance of acidic and alkaline substances in the stomach which can interfere with the regular metabolic activity of the body and keep you troubled throughout the day. This just proves that the person concerned is a monster who couldn't give a single damn about the disruption of his metabolic system.

Frankly, I don't even care. His Mana core is White in grade which is considered S-rank and his physical capacities are also graded S-rank making him an S-Ranker, one of the strongest individuals in the Empire and maybe even in the Top 10 worldwide among the humans, of course. That's what he said anyway how can I argue with that.

To scale someone's power level you need to know two things, his Mana core grade, and his physical capabilities grade, which can be divided into five parts, the strength, the speed, and the physique.

First, the Mana core. It is like cultivating from those Xianxia novels back on Earth but at the same time, it is completely different. First, you have to gather Mana by just sucking it in using a technique. There are millions of techniques that can help you with that, you just have to choose the one you like the most.

After your Mana core is formed you don't have to gather manner into your body anymore unless you want your core to be a huge one. With all the impurities that come along the Mana particles, the Mana Core start by being Red and then to improve it you have to Purify it by removing the impurities.

It's can take a long time to do it and it is very hard, only those with great willpower and Talent can make it to the top. From the lowest to the Highest mana core grade, it goes like this, Purple (F-rank), Red (E-rank), Orange (D-rank), Pink (C-rank), Cyan (B-rank), Light grey (A-rank), and White (S-rank). You can see the rank of your mana core while you meditate and by using a magical tool called Magicometer. I know even I don't understand why they named it like that, but hey I suck at naming things too.

As for the physical capabilities, it is divided into three sections and each is ranked from F to S. And to measure the physical capabilities you need to add them up and divide it by three. Like I have an A in speed, B in Strength and Physique which make my physical capabilities somewhere around B+.

The strength is the ability to lift a weight and the power emitted when trowing blows, the speed is the ability to move over land or the air by running or flight, the faster you are the higher the grade. The physique is the ability to resist blows and your recovery speed, you need a device called the Physicometer to be able to measure your physical abilities grade. You just have to add up your Mana core grade and your physical abilities grades and divide it by two to see your power level.

Anyway, I went to the bathroom and took a quick shower before eating my breakfast, and to remind you, I'm the one who does it in this house so my dad was sitting there waiting for me to serve him his food, sometimes I feel like I'm not a leader anymore.

He orders me around like I was his servant, he does that even in front of my men. Like if it is Wal or Is it wouldn't be a problem but it's no for the other guys, someday I'm going to try to tell him that. We started eating together like we always do while conversing about different things, be it magic skills, fighting techniques, you name it.

When we're like this, just chillin', our conversations can start with how to train his physique to the highest level and make a hole 180 to what is the cutest monsters inside the forest. It's kind of just like that Youtube thing back on Earth, you can start watching on a subject and finish on a whole different one that the initial one.

After eating we decided to train a little bit before heading to the gymnasium, we went out of the house and headed towards the training ground dad placed behind the house. I took my favorite lance which was bought by my father last time he visited the Dwarven kingdom in the west when I was still 5 years old.

Unfortunately, that time I did not go with him, he insisted that I needed to learn how to live by myself. Who would say that to a five years old kid, even though I appeared quite mature to him at that time!

We arrived and stood a few meters from each other, he took what seemed to look like a katana from my old world and took his stance. I did the same thing, instead, I had a spear in my hands.

We starred at each other for some time and sweat started to flow down on my face, I couldn't see any openings in his stance. Damn! Every time I face him my confidence takes a blow. Instead of just staying there I decided to attack first since I knew that he was not going to do it.

I charged towards him at full speed, when I kicked the ground some cracks appeared on the part of the floor I was standing on initially. In less than a second, I arrived in front of him and tried an overhead strike which was blocked and countered by a horizontal cut.

Seeing it coming I blocked the cut by grounding my spear on the ground before turning around and kicked him as some sort of counter, but the kick did not hit him instead I saw him on my left side preparing to upward slash. While I was busy turning around he already sidestepped and used some of his mana to enhance his attack.

At that moment, I knew that I wouldn't be able to dodge nor block this next attack and at that moment a sudden skill I've been trying to learn came to me and I decided to test it here. I used half of my mana to enhance my body to the limit. I've been trying to learn this A-ranked skill for a long time but wasn't able to, to learn this technique you need to have near-perfect control over your mana.

That was the reason it was considered an A-rank skill, it can increase all of your physical capabilities depending on the amount of mana you use. The more mana you use the more enhanced you'll become for a set period. According to his father who can use the skill, "the stronger you are the longer you can maintain it" he said back then when he was teaching to me.

He said that he could be in this state for around twelve minutes if he uses half of his mana, so for me, it would be around three to five minutes if I use half of my mana. Also, this Skill is very dangerous. The more you lose mana the more fatigued you would become since it plays the same role as your blood. So, if you use too much you can faint while still being in battle, the skill can even kill you if you're careful of the way you use your mana.

I used the skill [Limit Breaker] (AN/: that's the name of the skill) and I took half of my Mana from my mana core and started circulating inside my body. The faster it went the stronger I became, the more cells it went through the stronger those parts became and the faster I circulated it the redder my skin became. Also the more I circulated it the more my right eye hurt and soon red mana, most likely fire energy started leaking out of the eye. If I had a say in it, I looked pretty dope at that moment.

Feeling my strength and speed rise I jumped, spun around and kicked the blade that was coming towards me making it fly out of my father's hand. I made sure to stand back up, throw my spear up and used a C-rank skill that I created basing myself from my old fighting experience back on earth [1000 kicks], I kicked the ground and started my combo.

Ax kick, roundhouse kick, Joint kick, knee strike, tornado kick etcetera. And the crazy part is that all of the kicks were blocked and, I, wanting to at least hit my father one time, tried to sweep him but he jumped and when he did I got up and did another tornado kick.

This time he did not show pity and caught my leg before I blacked out. I did not know what happened after he caught my leg but I hope he wakes me up before 9 am.