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sitting up from the bed abruptly, Alex sucks in a breath, looking outside the window he notes that the sun has yet to rise, so he gets out of bed as quietly as possible, puts on shoes, and gets dressed quickly, grabbing the wooden sword he goes outside, passing a few rooms he goes outside and starts swinging his sword, raising it over his head, and swinging it down evenly.

it went like that for about an hour, until he finished his first two hundred swings.

then started with squats, training his legs, then training his torso, and then came Abs.

you may ask why a seven-year-old kid is doing this, he was using magic to produce growth hormones, so he was working on making his baby fat into the muscle from an early age. still, he was seven, so he had to use healing magic every so often.

the sun was raising the morning training master three hours, you might think that a seven-year-old couldn't last so long but here's a counter-argument. Healing magic.

"hard worker aren't you?" asked a voice behind him, he knew who it was without even looking back.

"couldn't sleep" was his only answer as he continued resting.

"oooh? so what's bothering you?" asked Ghislaine as she got closer, looking down on him, Literally.

"it's nothing, I can handle it" Alex responds, not looking at her, instead he looks down at the wooden sword in his hand, thinking.

(now that I think about it, how am I going to use my Excalibur, how am I going to explain how it just appears when I call it, or the aura it gives off.) his eyebrows form a frown, while Ghislaine watches his facial expressions change with a raised eyebrow.

(can I suppress the aura? but then I would need to constantly divide attention to it, to keep it that way...

why does this have to be so complicated?)

he felt a finger poking the back of his head, turning around he saw his mentor still looking at him with that neutral face.

"you seem to be thinking awfully hard about something... I don't like secrets" she warns, though it seemed like she was talking about the weather.

releasing a sigh, Alex just decides to ask what's on his mind to at least distract her.

"can you suppress a weapons aura?" her eyebrow rose to the question and she took out her sword, a red blade with a slight curve to it, mostly known as katana, though not many use it in this world, she focuses all of her attention on it and suddenly Alex was overwhelmed by a feeling of dread, and as soon as it came it was gone.

"yes, they can, but answer me this, why would you need this kind of information?" she asked, but it felt like an order.

knowing how she was, he would probably be sent back home if he lied to her right now, and he knew for a fact that she was loyal, based on how she was in the Novel, so he decided to give it a try, what did he have to lose?

outstretching his hand he summoned a sword, its hilt was blue, with gold on the guard's blade itself was short, looked like it was not made for an adult, and it radiated a Holy aura.

Ghislaine's eyes widened as she looked at the sword in Alexes hand until he made it disappear.

"what was that?" she asked, disbelief written all over her face.

"it's a sword, from what I know, It grows with me, last year it was smaller because I was smaller, a sword made for me, but the only thing I don't know is how to suppress the divine power it gives off" Alex responded, soothing at the end of the explanation.

Ghislaine looked thoughtful for a moment before gaining a determined look in her eyes.

and that's when the training of hell began.

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a year passed, the training was like torturing but it got easier as time went by, Rudeus was still practicing with Eris, who was just advancing to the intermediate class. Rudeus however... let's just say magic is his strong point.

the teaching part of the job was going smoothly after Alex suggested Resting days, both of the girls could make fireballs... and that's it, only flame.

but somehow Eris almost burned down the house.

Alex was growing taller than Rudeus since he was using mana to get his body to produce Growth hormones faster, he's as tall as Eris now, though he has more meat on his bones.

and right now he was trying to control his sword aura, while Ghislaine was watching over him.

his only instructions were "cover it with your tuki, and have the intention to suppress it".

yes, he was having fun.

"your progress is not bad, considering you're age and the time you spend training," commented Ghislaine, sitting cross-legged on a barrel.

Alex looked up at her and raised an eyebrow.

"I took a few years before I could suppress it without using a sheath" she finished with a nod.

(sheath? wait, I can use a Sheath to suppress it?)

the confusion was written all over his face so she decides to explain.

"but the problem is that any sheath will not work, it needs a special sheath too. contain the power, my sword, I got when I became a Sword king, and the sheath came with it, it wasn't until at least four years later that I learned what you are learning right now" she says, as she places her head in her hand.

pondering a little Alex makes his sword disappear, then summoned it again but this time it was in Avalon...

he facepalms.

"you know, for a genius, you can be pretty stupid sometimes" he groans at this comment.