At the Barimah's house, the first ray of light touched Flint's forehead and he woke up. He sits up stares at the table on his opposite, a screen appears before him. He takes a deep breath, "System. I want power and wealth. I want to surpass any and every noble." Silence, no reply for a moment, then.
[INFORMATION MAGIC DISPLAY LEVEL: 6
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DC: Power can be granted, but you must be worthy. Wealth can be gathered but it will be useless with the power to gain. You have to choose one, Wealth or Power?
Flint: What is this power you speak of?
DC: Power to trample even the gods.
Flint: I…. I choose Power. Even if I am wealthy, it doesn't mean I can get everything I want. With Power, one way or another I can.
DC: Excellent choice.
Flint: So, when do I get this Power?
DC: When your soul and body becomes strong enough to contain it.
Flint: So, how long till my body becomes strong enough?
DC: When you reach level 199.
Flint: That's….That's a long way.
DC: Not really, the possibility to reach level 199 has been proven with a duration of 10 years in environments with high EP density.
Flint: Do you know any place like that?
DC: Your Teacher, Twenny is higher levelled. Train beside her and your level will increase faster than a super genius.
Flint: Ri~ght? What makes Twenny so special?
DC: ERROR-ERROR. INFORMATION MAGIC level is too low. Can't deduce, detected backlash, erasing request.
DC: Cannot give reason, raise INFORMATION MAGIC level 6 to level 8 for answer.
END]
Flint sighs and gets up from his bed. He walks to the closet and changes to his work clothes. He wears the usual farm clothes then heads downstairs. He sees Aku cleaning the room, "Morning big sis."
Aku replies, "Morning Filly, did you sleep well?" She stops looking at him. Flint replies, "Great, and you?" Aku looks at him with a worried face. "I saw what happened yesterday, do you want to talk about it?"
Flint shakes his head, "I'm alright, I just need something to take my mind off it. I'm going to farm with dad, we'll meet Teacher after noon." He turns to leave, Aku sighs and gets to cleaning.
"Big brother!" Licia runs over and hugs Flint. "Good morning big brother." She gives a bright smile. Flint smiles, "Good morning, Li, did you sleep well?" he pats her head. Licia nods, "Yes, what about you, big brother?" she giggles.
Flint looks at her warmly and his thoughts, "Just what I needed to get my mind off things." And he speaks to her, "I had a great sleep."
"That's great." Licia giggles, "I'm going to help Big sis clean." She runs off to Aku as she takes a rag and cleans the tables and other stuff.
Flint walks outside to see John saddling the donkey getting ready to leave to farm. He sees Flint walking up to him, "I didn't expect you to join me to farm today. What happened?"
Flint shakes his head and takes a bag with the farming tools inside. "It's nothing dad, I just miss the farm."
John is surprised by his reply, his thoughts. "Isn't this the boy who kept crumbling about how we do the same thing everyday all day? Something definitely happened but if he's not ready to tell me I won't pry." They get ready and set off to farm.
At the exit of the gate is the village chief's daughter with her guards, she walks with her nose high as she looks down on anyone. Flint sees her and his expression hardens, John sees this and shakes his head. John's thoughts, "He still chases this thing when he spends time every day with another beauty. Open your eyes Flint, don't lose something before you realize you need it."
They leave the village and continue onwards to farm. Flint's mind wanders as he sometimes stands still on the farm. John stares at Flint but he continues working, "Somethings must be discovered alone." John continues with work.
John glances at Flint after he stood still for a while, he shakes his head sighing, "You'll get sick if you stay in the sun too long." Flint doesn't move as he stays there. John commands him, "Come here!" Flint is startled then he heeds the command and goes to the hut. John looks at Flint but even he is unsure on how to help him. "Flint my boy, having your heart broken is painful. I don't know what you're going through, but try to move on. At least do it for your family, those who love you."
Flint looks down and nods, "Yes father." They get back to work after resting till noon. After noon, Flint leaves towards the grass plains to meet Twenny for training.
He arrives to see Aku throwing complaints after complaints as she chases Twenny around and Twenny's laughter. They stop when they notice Flint walking over, Twenny approaches him. "What's up farm boy?"
Flint looks at her and stays silent. Twenny raises a brow, she doesn't always watch Flint so she's oblivious to his situation. Flint's eyes burn with determination, "Teacher, I want to grow stronger faster."
Twenny tilts her head, "Flint, this is already fast. Normal people take years to reach level 6 in 'this world'." Twenny spoke the truth, the EP density is so low she can barely use any skills perfectly without wasting a huge amount of EP.
Flint shakes his head, "It's not fast enough. I want to be powerful." Twenny looks him in the eyes then at Aku.
Aku looks at Twenny and steps forward, "If my brother is doing it then so am I." she stands with her little brother.
Twenny is taken aback, "Y-Y…... Listen, I know a way to train you to make you level up faster." The two starts to brighten up. "But, there's a big but. Once I start this training I'm not stopping even if you beg me."
Aku takes a step back, "J-J-J-Just what do you plan to do to us?" she curls a bit. Flint stands firm, "I won't." Aku looks at Flint and her thoughts, "I'm the older one, I wanted to be a knight to protect them. I won't give up now." She hesitates, "I-I-I'll do it too." She resolves.
Twenny looks at Flint, then Aku, then back to Flint and sigh, "I guess I'll up the training routine from now on." Twenny snaps her fingers, the two think she's just did it for nothing. A barrier covers the entire grass plain isolating it from outside, without Twenny's permission you can't leave or exit. "The next training is survival training." She gives them real weapons from her card storage as piles of weapons fall before them. "Don't ask how I got those."
Aku looks at the weapons frightened by how powerful and eerie they look. "By survival, you mean we fight monsters?"
Twenny nods and a large crystal appears in her hands. "This is a monster summoning crystal. It'll summon countless monsters as long as it has EP. I'll regulate it and keep summoning monsters. You have to kill them for the rest of your training."
Flint takes a broadsword which has a powerful aura, he sees his reflection in it. He grips the sword. "I'm ready." Twenny's thoughts, "Yeah no, you can't be ready for what's ahead."
Aku looks at her brother and she wrap her left arm around his shoulder. "My baby brother is so serious today. I've got your back." Flint smiles and nods, then they look at Twenny.