First Step

In the morning he woke up before the rest, he got up trying his best not to wake the people next to him. Alex was currently on top of a tree looking around to make sure the camp was safe. Marco sat up and decided to check his stats.

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Name: David Lance

Level: 1

Health: 50/50

Stamina: 31

Strength: 21

Agility: 24

Mana: 48/48

Magic:

-Pocket Money (LV2)

-Charm

-Tame

[Pocket Money Activate]x4

[Money Received: 80 copper]

[Total Money: 380 copper]

[Would host like to exchange for 3 silver and 8 bronze] (Yes/No)

(("Yes"))

He walked over to Alex who jumped down from the tree as soon as he saw Marco stand up.

"Good morning sir."

Marco shook his head "Call me David, I'm still not used to it. The only reason I let the other call me Sir is because otherwise, they will start acting all weird."

He shook his head "Not possible."

Marco just scratched his head "Fine then if it bugs you so much then forget it, I was wondering if you had found a place where we could get a good rinse."

Alex began thinking "as a matter of fact there was a lake not far from here, I will wake Brad so that he can look after them and I'll take you."

He quickly stopped the captain who was on his way to the shelter "No don't wake him up I was actually thinking of all of us going at the same time. It's important to keep a clean body otherwise it can lead to more probabilities of being sick."

The captain nodded and walked back to Marco. "For now I'll be working out, when the rest wake up we can start making some walls so that we can use it to give yourself some privacy when cleaning ourselves."

Alex nodded and returned to the tree once again resuming the same position that Marco had seen him have earlier. He began stretching and realized how sore his body actually was, he could feel some pain in his arms and legs mostly.

(("See Lead I told you that I overdid it when I was putting the rocks on the baskets of the guards."))

Ding 🤖 "Just keep going and stop whining, you should be thankful don't act stupid you were really happy when you saw that your strength increased weren't you".

(("Of course I was, it's just this stupid body I'm frustrated over it. I only did 50 sit-ups yet I can feel a bit sore. Well anyways I get you are right besides the soreness just proves that the workout was effective")).

Marco began his workout again but this time he added 10 push-ups, and sit-ups and an extra 3 min run. By the time he was done the others had woken up and began to build the walls for the temporary bathhouse that they were going to use.

He could see that some of the kids were moving awkwardly. (("HAHA they should have simply listened to me, still I gotta give it to them since they did try to get stronger faster."))

Once they had finished the 4 walls Alex led them to the lake. Jack and Brad were carrying the four walls and Rex was carrying 3 towels that he had sent Brad to buy in the morning. Everything in their camp was hidden in case they would be stolen.

After a 40 minute walk through the forest, they arrived at the lake, on their way there they were attacked by various monsters but Alex and Anna easily took care of them.

They placed the walls on the edge of the lake and began putting them together using some more vines that the children had carried. When everything was in place he went in to make sure that everything was okay, when everything was like what he wanted he turned around and went outside.

When he headed back to the group he was surprised by what he was seeing Lora and Anna were begging to undress. He quickly ran to them and stopped them from going any further

"Stop, you ladies need some privacy, go and use the bathhouse that we made," he yelled out.

Lora and Anna looked at him with a surprised expression "Sir wouldn't dare to wash ourselves in your bathhouse".

Marco at all of them "What are you talking about? This was made by all of you and the reason I thought of making it in the first place was for all of us to use it".

All his guards began looking at him with an awed expression.

(("Why do they always get impressed over the easiest things".))

Ding 🤖 "Because regular nobles wouldn't even want to touch anything that commoners touched let alone you from the Royal bloodline".

He signed and grabbed Anna and Lora's hands leading them to the bathhouse "You two will be first then the little girls. After them will be the rest of the guard and then the boys and finally me.

The two women looked at him shocked, Lora was the one who quickly recovered "But your majesty we will dirty your bath".

Marco shook his head "This whole lake is connected and I bet we are not the first ones to bathe here the water is already dirty. Also, keep in mind that for me you guys are my friend don't be afraid of such nonsense".

They nodded and entered "One of the towels is for the females the other is for males and the last one is for me he called out".

When he went back to the rest of the group he looked at the guards "I trust that you guys will keep focused on your duty of guarding us", he said while looking at Brad's depressed face.

After Brad noticed that he was found out he turned bright red but then quickly nodded with the other two guards. After they bathed in the order that he had said before they returned to camp, everyone was now feeling more comfortable.

When they had retrieved all their camping supplies he began to eat the meat that they had smoked. Marco waited till they had finished before he spoke "We all need to make sure that we are clean if we don't then we will get sick. I would like all of us to take a bath every day but it's a bit time-consuming. From now on every two days we will be going back to the lake, Is that alright with all of you?"

The whole group nodded, after eating they began their training again, Marco, on the other hand, went back to meditate. He was close to being able to use Pocket money 5 times instead of four and at the moment what he needed was money.

Ding 🤖 "Hey shouldn't you be exercising more?"

(("No I want to get more money to be able to get my own weapon, also there was something that I was curious about."))

Ding 🤖 "What is it."

(("Well you said that I could get stronger if I killed monsters, I was wondering if I would still be able to level up if someone was holding them down".))

Ding 🤖 "About time you notice it, idiot, you have many different possibilities of getting stronger but you seem to have been ignoring them".

(("LEAD a simple yes would have sufficed well anyway I can start that tomorrow, for now, I just want to increase my mana. The guards are also training with the methods I gave them so I guess it did work on them."))

He meditated once more till the moon rose, the guards were about to go and sleep. He stood up and walked towards Alex who this time had the first shift.

"Captain I was wondering if you could tell me if it was possible for you to bring some monsters so that I could kill them and get an idea of how to improve myself."

Alex looked at Marco with an excited expression "Your majesty you bet we can, as a matter of fact, we wanted to do it a long time ago but we were afraid you wouldn't be willing".

He nodded (("Shit looks like I really am slow even they had the idea before me without even knowing about my ability."))

"Make sure not to bring something too strong though remember I'm only a beginner", he replied.

The captain burst in laughter "Don't you worry your majesty we won't, now get some sleep tomorrow will be a long day."

Marco nodded and sat down in the shelter he found a spot next to Lora and sat down, and looked at his stats.

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Name: David Lance

Level: 1

Health: 50/50

Stamina: 31

Strength: 21

Agility: 24

Mana: 52/52

Magic:

-Pocket Money (LV2)

-Charm

-Tame

[Pocket Money Activate]x5

[Money Received: 1 silver]

[Total Money: 4 silver 8 bronze]

He put the money away and laid back down to sleep "Looks like tomorrow I will officially take my first step in this world".