Week has passed since I have come to this world and all these days other than training this weak body, I also tried to gather information about affairs of this empire and world.
Till now everything is similar as I played in the game. World is split in four continents and total of seven different races occupies these lands. Humans, Elves, Beast men, Dragons, Dwarves, Demons and Fishmen.
All races has been in existence since formation of this world and all of them has their respective empires. However, fishmen have severed the contact with outside world presently due to some unknown reason and only selected individuals can visit their settlement.
Humans have grown strong with their new found powers and technology. They hold equal footing with other races now. Since thousand years royal family of Sun crown empire has been sole rulers.
During last holy war, Sun god graced Justus Crown his blessing and Justus was able to win during holy war with this new found power. After holy war was over, Justus united humans under one flag and established empire which is considered strongest.
However, In recent years, there has been power struggle between duke houses. Arcanum family and House of Poison both are neighboring duke families and allies since founding of empire but other duke families which are Eclipse family, House of Blades, Beast Hall and Blood Clan has been at odds with each other.
This whole story is same as when I played the game. Story starts similar to those other novels and game based stories where protagonist and heroines attend imperial academy where magic and sword skills are thought. After some time events start unfolding which in some ways help them grow stronger.
However, I am not taking that bullshit route like other extras where I am forced to attend academy to grow stronger. I plan to use each and every opportunity to gain power.
My first plan involves establishing company in this world. I will need funds to buy rare materials and artifacts which can boost my strength.
Second I am going to create a team of individual who can execute missions I give. I want to collect rare materials and collect record of all data from all over the world. Fights are not won by strength alone I think, fights are won by.
I will be focusing on these two plans for now and plan to reach Level 35 by main story's start. Also, while going through recent data on first princess I found that she has been sick since last year as well and not even imperial doctor has been able to treat her. It is said that she does not go out of her quarters and no one is allowed to meet her except permission.
"Knock knock"
"Young Master, master has called for you"
"wait I am coming"
{It seems things I requested for has arrived}
"Click"
"please lead the way sam"
Tap Tap Tap Tap.....
After wondering the mansion for 10 minutes, I was standing in front of my duke's study room.
"knock knock"
"come in neil"
Entering the room, I saw very medieval style of study room with main desk in center. There sat duke gabriel who was considered sword saint. However as per the game's story he has sustained grave injury to his mana core during his fight against SS class beast at northern borders.
"dad why did you call me"
"items you requested have been collected"
"However, I wish to know why did you order so many poisons"
how do I tell him that what he considers poisons are actually precious elixir which if processed correctly can help me increase my spiritual energy.
actually, spiritual energy is abandoned method used by old people of Asian. They used to call it qi there but due to difficulty of building qi, today people do not practice it.
according to the old theory of this world, this world was similar to real earth but who knows when different races started appearing in world. Along with these different races came Mana which enabled humans to quickly wield powers.
People of old time used to practice qi or rather spiritual energy but they abandoned it due to emergence of mana. However, as an player of this game, I know how to cultivate it because when I was playing it, I chose path of martial artist which enabled me to cultivate qi.
"dad I am planning to study medicine so I requested for all these poisons as I wish to experiment with them"
"you want to study medicine?"
"can you tell me the reason for it"
"I just wish to have learn basics of medicine so if I am injured in future, I can do the basic treatment myself"
"but you can always receive treatment from house doctor so why bother"
"house doctor will not be with me on battlefield or other places! right"
after like few minutes of thinking deeply, gabriel the duke replied
"ok you can take the items from sam but remember not to do anything stupid"
"sure I will keep that in mind"
"also from tomorrow onwards, you will be learning swordsmanship from captain of guards so be ready"
"dad I wanted to ask you when I can learn magic"
"you cannot learn magic before forming mana core and your body is weak so I suggest you wait 6 months before trying to form mana core"
thinking deeply I think he is right, my body condition is not good so I should do something about it quickly.
"alright I will focus on only physical training and swordsmanship for now"
"good"
"so I am leaving now see you at dinner table"
"yes go on and remember what I said! be careful with poisons"
"yes yes dad I will be"
I went to the head butler to collect the items that I ordered and returned to my room quickly. I knew that father was still suspicious regarding the poisons because he might be thinking what can 10 years old child know. However, I have really been learning medicine as I wanted to create pills using spiritual energy.
main reason why I have to resort to these is because I cannot form the mana core yet so consuming mana core of beast is impossible. therefore, I decided to take rather tough but confirmed measure which is to strengthen this weak body through ancient martial arts.
game developers included many ways to build characters in the game and cultivation was one of those way. I know the location of ancient martial art that can be found in eastern region. To be more specific it is hidden in Mist Forest in eastern region.
Those damn developers really made it hard for players to acquire skills and martial arts, I promise if they fall in my hands, damn I will beat them senseless.
"I think I should start working on processing those poisons"
so I started arranging the equipment and things I needed, I did not realize when the evening came to be but I decided to stop for now so I could have dinner with my new family. This was the only time when I did not feel lonely in this unknown world.
"click"
I packed everything and closed the door to room before heading for dinner.