3 Months

Over a training area, a young boy stood upright with a wooden bow over his hands. With a relaxed grip, he kept the bow held with his left hand while he took an arrow with his right hand, placing the arrow over the shelf of the arrow nest.

He put three fingers over the bow's string "Umm" He breathed strongly, pulling out the string until it reached his nose while he closed his left eye, looking with his dominant one to the target, a dartboard 30 meters away. At the same time, a blue glow shined over a blue gemstone at his hip, causing the tip of arrow to froze, a thin layer of shining ice coating it.

"Buuu" Finally, he let out the air, relaxing his grip and allowing his fingers to slip backward, the arrow flew off, quickly flying over the air before piercing the dartboard.

"Boom!" The shine of the arrow increased, finally realizing an explosion that engulfed the target, destroying it.

"Not too bad" The boy said looking at the results while he lowered the bow.

"Have you finished your routine, Allen?" Outside of the training area, a blond woman appeared wearing a summer dress.

"Yes, miss Kobozeva" Allen nodded.

Three months had passed since Allen's reborn and the meeting with the Tsaritsa. In these 3 months, Allen had experienced a complete change, he was no longer a scrawny, famished boy that people looked at with disgust as if trash over the road. His face had regained color, his lustrous blue hair shined brightly with a tint of green and his body was filled with firmness, even recuperating some baby fat.

Allen now resembled a little cute boy that plus his spotless clothes, you would think that he was from a high-class family. It wasn't only the image, even his movements and manners reflected it, none trace of him coming from the slums could be found.

This change was all thanks to his regime and training over these months, Allen really surprised at how prepared and specialized was Snezhnaya's army for cases like him.

Over the first month, he had been focused on recovering from his poor condition, with light meals full of nutrients and light exercise, slowly improving the body without exerting big stress that could cause irreparable damage and poor growth to someone so young.

The second month, he had started to truly train, running and some lightweight, improving his strength without forgetting his flexibility.

Lastly, over the last month, Allen started some combat training, never forgetting the physical training that periodically increased in difficulty.

The combat training consisted in practicing some hand-to-hand combat and some weapon training, the most used for the army being spears and pistols. However, Allen decided against using them, choosing the bow as his preferred weapon.

Allen's vision gave him the ability to coat his weapon and make that coating explode with his Burst that made short-ranged weapons inadequate for him as he would also be damaged by the resulting explosion.

The spears weren't a bad option as their higher range and lower area of impact would made it a better option than swords for example, but the problem was the weight and difficult to appropriately use them due to his short body, preferring to try them into the future when he had grown.

On the other hand, pistols were unable to be effectively used as a coated bullet would be unable to be shoot adequately, being possible to explode inside the barrel.

For this, the bow was perfect as coating the piercing tip with his Skill would not affect the trajectory or the bow's body, the Burst could be activated with range, not receiving the aftermath and Allen didn't even need to worry about lowering the durability as the arrows were disposable.

With the bow as his main focus, he didn't forget to practice some close combat as the bow would turn impractical once the enemy approaches him.

With only one month, his progress had not reached a great increase, being weaker than the other soldiers as to enlist over the army, it was necessary to beat an armed and seasoned soldier, act completely impossible to a young boy as Allen so there was no one of his age at it, none other young vision wielder being enlisted.

That also made it difficult to compare his growth with others, not knowing if he was strong, average or weak.

Allen worked hard to improve these months but, of course, it wasn't all physical as he also was trained intellectually. For that, Alina or miss Kobozeva, as she wanted to be called, herself became his teacher, teaching him the common subjects, language, calligraphy, etiquette, and a special focus over maths that for Allen were relatively easy due to his previous life knowledge, Geography and History being the ones that he was most interested.

It might be thanks to his young body, but Allen found himself being able to quickly absorb any new knowledge, having the knowledge and experience from his previous life and the absorption and retention of a young child, increasing exponentially his learning speed, learning a lot from this new world.

Alina was strict and demanding, but it was undeniable that she was a good teacher for Allen, taking into account his strengths and learning speed and completely adapting to him, all the physical training also having been prepared by her.

With all their time together, Allen had become closer with Alina, really respecting the young and beautiful girl that became his only acquaintance, barely talking with anyone more. For Allen, it was a pity that he was unable to even call her by her name, only letting be called by the surname as first of all, she was his teacher, only letting when that relationship breaks.

Alina also had opened a little more to Allen, thinking of him as a kind of little brother. Nevertheless, she kept things separately, always thinking the work as the most important.

"Good job" Alina nodded at Allen and gave him a package, a brown box.

Allen looked at her confused but seeing Alina lifting her eyebrow and waiting for him, he knew better than ask about. Allen quickly unwrapped the box, revealing what it seemed a blue and white uniform.

"Quickly, try it" Alina ushered.

Allen quickly went to the changing room, hiding from Alina before trying the new clothes that were formed by an elastic one-piece suit made of something similar to lycra and a hooded coat.

Looking at himself over the mirror, Allen frowned "This is a Fatui Cicin Mage's suit!"

It was exactly the same that he had seen in the Genshin Impact game, the suit worn by that Fatui's troops that invoked annoying bugs and created ice barriers.

Seeing Allen leaving the changing room, Alina nodded "It suits you. It makes you cute."

"I would rather not be seen as cute" Allen grunted "I would prefer something cooler like that agent's rather than this female uniform."

"There's nothing to do" Alina negated "You don't have any achievement in your name, making it impossible to do a tailored suit for you, the Cicin Mage's being the only ones already prepared with your size." Alina explained.

"Moreover, they are really the most compatible with you. It is made with top-notch technology, being able to absorb the cryo elemental of the air to infuse its own abilities, which would help to strengthen your own cryo abilities, making it easier to absorb particles. Also, thanks to your own cryo vision you could even use it over places without high cryo concentration, being able to charge the suit with your vision."

"Yeah, I know, but even so..." Allen sighed looking at himself that now resembled a dressed-up doll 'I need to increase my ranks quickly, making my own uniform.' He made his own new objective.

"Now that you have your uniform, it's time for this" Alina said, handing him a paper.

"This is...!" Allen's eyes went wide.

"This is your first mission, Allen."