Rina came with me to the mansion straight away and rest of the maids arrived next morning. Rina was very enthusiastic about being my personal maid, she asked Sebastian for a room close to mine so that she can be on my beck and call anytime I need her. She was bringing me food and drinks every time I was hungry or thirsty, she was ready with towels and water during my workout, she even decided to work out together with me so that she can better support me. She became my one-woman cheer squad. She even insisted on helping during my baths, but luckily, I was able to talk her into just helping me dress and undress. Any way you slice it; I am just a man and seeing her naked bathing with me would be too much for me to handle.
As for the rest of the maids they were very nervous and hesitant when they arrived thanks to my reputation, but they quickly realized that they had pretty much no contact with me since Rina made sure that they had no reason to be anywhere close to me. This calmed them down and fulfilling standard maid duties under Sebastian's leadership was more than comfortable for them.
I let the Sebastian know about how I hired Rina and also explained him that I was planning on buying all the slaves with similar situations, asking him to periodically make sure that there are no slaves like that in our duchy.
I rather quickly fell into a rhythm of waking up early morning, having breakfast, doing an intense work out session together with Rina, bathing, having light lunch, studying with Rina. First day I went to study with her in tow I noticed that she was not able to read so I started teaching her everything, reading, writing, math and after that all the required knowledge for the entrance exams. Not that I was thinking that she is going to need it, but it was good exercise for me to make sure I know everything and she was like a sponge, absorbing everything I threw at her. After studying we went for an afternoon jog and ended the day with one more bath and light dinner.
Every day I felt lighter and stronger. I was dropping almost three kilograms every week thanks to my hidden reincarnated tittle and my stamina was skyrocketing. After month of the intense workout I received message that my future sword and magic instructor accepted the work and was on the way to meet me, according to work agency she was meant to arrive in two weeks time.
Just several days after that my first huge breakthrough happened. I lost my Fatso! tittle, this more than doubled my stamina right away, unlocked my mana usage and boosted me to the classless level 1.
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Name: Victor Balzac
Age: 14
Class: Classless
Level: 1
Stamina: 250
Mana: 10
Affinities: N/A
Skills: N/A
Titles: Reincarnated (hidden)!
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Being able to use mana and not having the stamina penalty, felt incredible. The boost was so intense that I was able to do more than double the number of repetitions I was able to do before on all the exercises. This was also first time that Rina was not able to do all the repetitions with me and started cutting down on her numbers a little.
Soon the day when my instructor arrived came, I was nervous since I knew pretty much nothing about her outside of the fact that she was very strict instructor, that she was a woman and that she was top class with both sword and magic. There were several women in the game that could fit the later two but I had no clue who could be so strict that it would be mentioned to me so many times.
She arrived in pitch black carriage drawn by four black horses. There was no coat of arms anywhere on the carriage and the coachman was also wearing just simple dark clothes that didn't reveal anything. The moment the carriage stopped in front of mansion and Sebastian opened the door of carriage I froze.
The moment I saw my future instructor I knew who she was, she was a character from late stages of the game. She could either become the supporter of final boss of the game or join the main character depending on choices during the game in regards to beastfolk.
As you might have guessed she was a beastfolk, foxkin to be more precise. And there were multiple points in the game where main character could either help beastfolk, ignore them or join the oppressors for profit. In game helping beastfolk had very little to no advantage outside of her joining you late game while going against them brought you huge amounts of money, and despite that more than ninety percent of people still helped the beastfolk. That's how powerful she was.
And she was not only powerful she was gorgeous. She had pure white short hair with two cute white furred ears poking out of it and fluffy white tail swaying behind her back that contrasted with her very dark almost black eyes. Face that looked like it was sculpted by gods, rather short stature only a little more than 150 centimeters, she was very petite with rather large breasts for her height, one would guess that they were about D cups. She was wearing white qipao decorated with golden dragons.
In game she was greatsword user with unique skill berserk that halved the damage she received and doubled any damage she was dishing out. This complemented by very high mastery over greatswords, large mana pool and two affinities for Ice and Light. Made her the best tank in the game, despite being petite and barely above 1.5 meters tall.
I must have been starring at her too much since Rina poked me with her elbow into the ribs when she noticed my reaction to her. I chuckled and stepped up towards my future instructor, welcoming her.
"It is an honor to meet you and it is even greater honor to have you as an instructor, lady Yuki Sazanukachi, also known also the blade of truth!"
She chuckled and spoke. "You should know that the sweet talk does not work at me, Your Grace! But I will leave it to you. You are pretty good at it, Your Grace!"
"I was just stating the facts instructor Sazanukachi, just stating the facts. My name is Victor Balzac, I am going to be in your care. Please treat me as you would any other student, without any special treatment or the formal addressing."
She nodded smiling. "Only if you drop that instructor Sazanukachi nonsense and start calling me Yuki."
She extended her hand to me, inviting me to a handshake. I shook her hand as I answered.
"Yuki it is then. Please call me Victor or Vic!"
After this we went inside the mansion, she asked me all kinds of things regarding my status, my diet and workout routine until now. She then asked the same questions to Rina, since she insisted on training with me. After that she told me that she will take the rest of the day to form a proper workout routine for us and we will start from tomorrow. For the day she asked me to rest and skip any other workout I had planned.
We did exactly as she asked us to do and relaxed for the rest of the day. Next day right after breakfast it started. She met us in the garden and right away she pulled out two sets of black bracelets from her storage and placed them on our hands and legs. The she proceeded to infuse them with mana and they became extremely heavy, from what she told us mine were heavier than the ones Rina had. With this we were asked to run around the garden until lunch. Without break, without stopping, without slowing down.
She explained that in order to even touch a blade or think about offensive spell we need five hundred stamina and hundred mana first. She decided to first start with stamina since I was already training that before. Before we started running, she gave us both an unknown elixir and wished us good luck.
After that it was more than four hours of pure torture. The bracelets were extremely heavy and Yuki was making sure that we kept up our pace. There was really no rest until she was satisfied.
I was very curious what the elixir she gave to us did but she refused to answer and told me that if I had time to ask questions, I had no need for lunch and could use the time for lunch by running instead. I took the hint, apologized and never asked about the elixirs again.
After this hellish torture she released us, we took bath, had lunch and went to library for our lesson. Once done Yuki asked us to come back to the garden. Once we were there the mana training started. She explained to us how to infuse our bodies with mana and asked us to do that. Once we were successful, we received another elixir and were asked to maintain the spell active until we pass out. After that we were meant to activate it again and do the same thing again.
According to her, the basis of magic was large mana pool, it didn't matter how majestic and fancy spells you could cast if your opponent could just pump some basic spell with ten times the mana you had. And in order to increase your mana pool you had to empty it repeatedly.