7 Unexpected Gain

The previous Alex was a fool, not only was he a moron to get fooled by that Bernard but to also abandon his training.

He hadn't even started his mana training yet.

Since mana training can only be started at minimum age of 12, he hadn't started it before and just at the right age of 12, he was influenced by Bernard to abandon training and find pleasure in explicit activities.

If he had started training in mana at the appropriate age of 12 then Alex would have already become a Class 1 knight by now.

If this body had been a class 1 knight, I wouldn't have had to go through all that tough training since the bodies of a Knight are much better overall than a normal human's.

But finally, today was the day, I step onto the path of my dreams.

After taking a bath and dressing in his training clothes, Alex went toward the dining table to meet his father.

After opening the gate of his room, he was greeted by the same maid from last night.

"Hello Emily, were you waiting for long?"

"Ah, N-No young master, I only came a moment ago. Let's go, The Lord must be waiting. "

The maid's name was Emily, after Alex ordered, the chief of staff had assigned Emily as Alex's personal maid.

Alex and Emily made their way to the dining table.

Alex sat down at the table and his father spoke "So Alex, are you finally ready, although you are a little late in starting your mana training, with the diligence you have shown this past month, you will soon catch up to your peers in no time."

"Yes Father, you don't need to worry, I will definitely catch up to them." 'And surpass them too.' Alex didn't want to look too overconfident in front of his father so he didn't say it loud.

Alex has been called 2 times by his father this past month, he had wanted to give Alex his 6-star Mana technique so Alex can start his Mana training but Alex always refused saying he first wanted to improve his body foundation before starting opening his mana heart.

After dinner, Richard took Alex to his room and closed the door.

He removed a painting on the wall and opened the safe hidden behind. He took out a book form within and gave it to Alex.

At first glance the book seemed old and dusty, it looked exactly how the cultivation manuals in martial arts novels were described in his previous world.

Alex knew the true value of this book and felt his heart rate increase just by holding it.

It will be the start of his journey in his new world and this book will be his first step.

"Alex, although I trust you but I can't let you take this book out of this room, you can sit in this room till night every day for as long as you wish but you will have to remember its entire contents inside the room and will have to perform your training by only relying on your memory." Richard said.

"It's ok Father, I understand the need for it, I will remember its entire content before leaving the room."

After that Richard left the room leaving Alex alone.

'Hmm, this book is quite thick, it will take many days to remember it fully.' Alex thought to himself.

After that Alex sat down and started reading the book, he wanted to first read it completely to see if he understood the technique before he starts to memorize it.

After reading for almost an hour, Alex finally closed the book.

'Although there are some parts which are a little difficult but I can still pretty much understand the entire technique but memorising it will definitely be a pain in the ass'. Alex thought to himself.

This technique was called silence night and as its name implies, it can only be practiced at night.

The technique was not that difficult and is based on absorbing mana in the air not only by breathing but also through the skin, although the amount absorbed through the skin is pretty less as compared to breathing.

Then circulating the absorbed Mana in the mana veins and bringing it to the mana heart.

The difficult part was the path of the absorbed Mana to the Mana heart located in the center of the chest is quite complex and difficult to remember.

Alex closed the book and leaned back on the chair thinking about the contents of the book but after a few seconds he suddenly opened his and he almost couldn't believe what was happening.

He could remember the contents of the book clearly, the various explanations, texts and even diagrams from the book were as clear as day in his mind.

"This could only mean that I have a photographic memory but how? Neither I in previous life nor previous Alex had a photographic memory so how?"

Since all Alex has been doing is training in the field for the past month he didn't notice that he had a photographic memory, there were a few incidents where he thought about this but he just thought that he must have a pretty good memory. Only now did Alex realise that he had a photographic memory.

"System is this also a gift from you?" Alex asked the system loudly instead of asking in his mind.

[ No host, this has nothing to do with the system, even the system has no idea how this happened, it may just be a fortuitous incident, either way, the host should be happy about it.]

Alex was really happy with this, he wanted to start absorbing Mana at that very moment but he could only do so at night with this technique and that too for only 2 hours since that's the limit a body of a normal person could handle.

Alex got up and left the room, he was in a pretty good mood.

After leaving the room, Alex didn't waste his time and instead went to the training field to start his strength training from today.

Alex spent the whole day in the training ground and only left at night.

"Emily, bring my dinner to my room, I will be eating in my room today. Also, ask the chef to add an extra amount of meat in all of my meals and remove sugar completely from my meals. Ask him to prepare my meals seperately if necessary, also take this gold coin and give to him for his extra efforts."

After half an hour, Emily entered the room with Alex's dinner.

Alex slowly ate the food, savouring its taste and reminiscing about his month here, he was happy that he got this Chance to live his life in the the way he wants and fulfill dreams which he couldn't before.

After eating food Alex send Emily away as it was already late night and Alex didn't wanted to start rumours about him and Emily amongst others, at least not now.

After Emily went away Alex sat in the mediative position in the room to finally begin his Mana training.

( To be continued )

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