Chapter 14: You are my trainer?

Next day.

I slowly walked towards the training room with faint excitement visible on my face. Questions such as who will train me? What rank will he or she be? Were popping up in my head.

As I reached the door of the training room I quickly re-adjusted myself to a stoic face permeating endless indifference. I opened the door to see a man in his mid 20s with black hair and blue eyes. He wore a black suit along with a black tie and a white shirt, the man was quite handsome but obviously couldn't compare to me or father.

"You've finally arrived young master Lazarus" his voice sounded in my ears, he had a gentle and mature voice . He bowed with his hand on his heart as it was part of etiquette.

'Appraisal' I thought to myself.

Name: Jeremiah Stigand

Race: Human

Age: 25

Talent: Sword Master, Fire Manipulation, Lie Detector, Intimidate

Rank: A+

Str: S-

Int: S-

Sta: S-

Agi: A+

Def: A+

Mana: A+

Wow quite an impressive set of talents and an A+ rank as well, my father is really kind and thoughtful.

Although revelling in the fact the my father cares so much about was quite pleasing I couldn't just stay silence so I said "you are?" This was done to keep up my appearance of not knowing who he is as I have yet to tell anyone about Appraisal.

"My name is Jeremiah Stigand and am A+ ranked, I was privileged enough to be chosen by the master to train you for a while young master Lazarus". Jeremiah humbly introduced himself.

"Alright then, I want you to train me in the sword" I said quickly getting to the point.

He was definitely chosen because he has the talent Sword Master, something I am bound to aquire meaning he was specifically picked to help me improve in swordsmanship. If father has chosen him with this motive in mind then he really must be skilled and exceptional at swordsmanship, I can't help but look forward to my training while trying to prevent myself from revealing my exhilaration.

Jeremiah smiled and replied to Lazarus "I was expecting you to say that young master. I have already prepared a training schedule for you to follow and complete. With your talents you will be able to quickly adjust to it and become proficient in swordsmanship and later reach D rank, which is the minimum requirement for one to enroll in Luxurion Academy".

Jeremiah was sure that Lazarus would easily complete his training as he is one of the most if not the most talented Gremory in history.

"So what is the training schedule?"

"Well before you practice swordsmanship I'd rather have you increase a specific attributed yours, stamina. It will allow you to train for longer in the art of the sword after starting the basic training. After the basic training it will be centred around improving basic sword skills and finally grow mastery in your chosen weapon manual".

I digested the swords he spoke and squinted my eyes when he said 'weapon manual' at the end.

Weapon manuals are weapon techniques used with the weapon the manual is for. You have to use mana to bring out the true power of the technique which needs us to convert mana into an element. This is why having an element manipulation talent is useful as you would have greater affinity with that said element making your attackers more powerful. For example Jeremiah, he has Fire Manipulation meaning if he has a sword manual centred around the fire element his attacks will be more powerful. Not only that it will improve his rate of comprehension of the manual and thus increasing his mastery faster. A weapon manual doesn't only depend on your skill with a weapon but also your mana control and elemental affinity. Those who tend to manifest a elemental manipulation talent are born with high affinity with the specific element.

"For your training you will have to run 50 laps around your mansion everyday, take a 5 minute rest, do 300 push ups,take a 5 minute rest again and resume doing other exercises 300 times as well. Of course don't forget to take a break between them like I have already said, do this for about 2 weeks and we will officially begin training in the sword but you will have to continue with the training I have already mentioned".

After hearing what he had to say I was in complete state of shock. I couldn't help but feel that I might end up dying before completing this 'basic' Spartan like training before the two weeks are up. I am afraid I won't be able have the opportunity to decimate my enemies with just a swing from my sword.

I mean doing 50 laps for an E- ranker is already challenging but to do it around my MASSIVE mansion is basically asking me in a round about way to kill myself. AND I have to do 300 push ups as well as other exercises on top of it with ONLY a 5 minute break is terrorising, why does he want to me to go through this torture?Like what grudge do you hold against me Jeremiah? I don't remember doing anything to you. Is this revenge for killing you when I was playing the game? IS IT?

Lazarus continued moaning in his head while the training ground was encompassed with utter silence. Jeremiah nor Lazarus moved or said anything.