Reward

When Adrian woke up the next morning, like he usually do. He woke up to find a pleasant surprise, his wounds had healed quite a bid, they didn't hurt like the day before. This quite surprised him, but he didn't really dwell on that thought.

He decided it was time to get some clothes on, and look around the mansion. He sat up in the bed, and saw there was some neatly placed training clothes by the side of his bed, and a little letter that said.

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Hello Adrian

I would love if you could join me for some training when you wake up. I didn't want to wake you earlier, since your wounds should have a little more time to heal, but when you wake up, please make your way to the training grounds.

Sincerely a grateful father

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At the end of the letter there was direction, as to how to get to the training grounds. Adrian was really excited for this, since he hadn't been training for a day, for a battle/training freak like him, it was detrimental. Adrian hurriedly got up, took the white training ropes on, and went to the training grounds.

As he made his way to the training grounds, Adrian was in awe at how gorgeous the hallways were. beautifully cut stone slaps as floor, oiled wooden planks as the walls, with lots of paintings and oil lamps as decorations. The left side of the hallway, was actually just a lot of massive windows, pointing straight to Emall.

He didn't pay too much attention towards this, since he was in a hurry to get to the training grounds.

As he got to the training grounds, he could see a lot of people. Most of them was standing around in a circle, and in the middle, two people were fighting. There were four people that stood by themselves, and they were looking at the big bunch of people in the circular formation. Adrian recognized one of those four, since she was the girl he had saved.

The training grounds was quite plain looking. It was a big square, which was probably grass once, but that grass had disappeared from years of training. In the right side of the training grounds, there was an archery range. To the left side, there stood 6 training dummies in a row. In the middle was just a big open field, where the fighting was currently going on.

"Adrian!? you are finally awake, how do you fell? Still hurting?" She ran towards him, with a very worried look in her eyes as she said this.

"I am fine miss Joanna, it healed surprisingly fast, and i think i have you guys to thank for that" Adrian answered quickly, with a big smile on his face. He was very glad, that such a stunning girl showed him so much concern "So thank you, miss Joanna" He continued with a bow.

It was almost unnoticeable to see, but Joanna had a small blush on her face. Adrian didn't see it, since it disappeared as fast as it came. Joanna suddenly grabs Adrian's hands, and says.

"first of, no miss joanna, call me Anna! second, I have some people that would like to meet you!" She started to drag him with her, towards the other people, that was standing together with her before.

Adrian didn't really pay attention to them before, but now that he was closer, he could see that one of them, was a handsome Middle-aged man with short blonde hair, around 185 cm tall, with a majestic air around him. The other was a very beautiful woman, who looked the exact same as Joanna, but a little more mature, and with a lot of majestic air around her.

The last one stood a little in the background. He had some beautifully made leather armor on. He did not have his helmet on, so you could see that he was a young man, around Adrian's age. He was very handsome, and had some similar facial features as Joanna, his hair was blonde though.

"Adrian, these three people wanted to meet you! this old man here is my father, Gus Woolace Emall! The woman by his side is my mother, Elanor Woolace Emall! The boy around your age in the background is my brother, Alex Woolace Emall!" Joanna slowly introduced them to Adrian.

"How can you call your father old? I am not even 40 yet, I still have a lot of good years left in me!" Gus looked at his daughter with a loving gaze, one could see that he loved her very much. He walked towards Adrian, and stretched out his hand, going for a handshake "Adrian, I must thank you, as you saved my daughters life!" He had a look of gratefulness in his eyes.

Adrian stretched out his hand to grab Gus' hand, and they shook hands firmly "I-I only fought two small wolves, n-nothing much! i-in the end, I ended up in your mansion wounded!" Adrian said, he was a little intimidated by the majestic aura coming from Gus. He bowed his head "S-so thank you, and sorry for the inconvenience!"

"You saved my daughters life, that is the least our family could do for you! I was actually thinking of giving you a thank you gift for this! So, what do you want, I will give you anything, as long as it is in my power" Gus looked at Adrian with both a curious and grateful look.

"I-I-I don't really want anything ... I j-just want to travel!" Adrian answered, stammering! He didn't think he needed a reward, he just did what any man should have done.

"Come on boy, tell me what you want, you can ask for anything!" Gus said, with a sly smile. He suddenly looked over at his daughter. Adrian didn't see the little hint the old man made, so he gave them an answer no one expected.

"T-then, could I ask for a teacher, who can teach me in the way of the spear?" Adrian said. After a some time of silence, Adrian looked up at the people, to see that they were all looking at him with shocked looks. Even the big group of soldiers in the back, stopped the fight, and looked at Adrian with a dumbfounded looks.

"HAHAHAHAHA" Suddenly Gus starts laughing loudly again "I like you kid, you would rather train than have gold or women!" Gus said, he was looking at Adrian with a respectful look "This can be arranged, but I need to know what class you are, to find you the best teacher!" He continued.

Adrian was a little confused at his words, but it was fine since he would get himself a teacher now. He was very excited for the future.