Chapter 4

Just outside of the library Marry was waiting with other servants for masters.

"Hey, Marry! Show me the way to barracks! I want to watch their training regimens." Jin burst out as soon as she entered the corridor.

"Sure, master!" Marry was happy to serve.

"Is it far from here?"

"About thirty minutes to go, master"

"Then can you tell me more about the war?"

"I don't know much, but I will try my best, master." They were going through brightly lit corridors, big rooms that were brightly lit too, some of them had greenery in them.

"How come it's so warm and bright here?" Jin knew, that in the medieval ages castles were very cold, and even vine served at the room temperature meant to be at 17 Celsius.

"Actually it's only that warm and bright in King's castle. See those windows at the bottom of the wall? They are fake!" Marry looked like a well-fed cat.

"How come?"

"They are special made magical devices, getting energy from the underground floors of the castle. Many Arch-mages were needed to design and implement this system! I don't know how it's functioning but they control the temperature and the level of lighting."

"And here I thought everything will be too backward here" Jin was glad he asked.

"Here we are!" Marry pointed at the stone two-story building near the castle walls.

"Let's go inside, I'll introduce you to the head trainer, master!" While she was showing him the way, 16 old Jin couldn't help but look at her voluptuous bottom. Marry wasn't that slim 90-60-90 girl everyone wanted to meet in his old world, she had 120-80-100 measures, she was well-fed and healthy.

"Master?" Catching his sight, she blushed a bit, then whispered.

"If you want to we can postpone the meeting with head-trainer, master"

"Thank you, Marry, but I want to become usefu... I mean stronger faster." He snapped out of his dazed state and continued walking towards the door. She just sighed silently and rushed to point the way.

"As you wish, master"

The first floor was spacious, there was a long corridor with four doors on the sides and one at the end of it. Marry went for the last door. On the other side, there was a big room with lots of three-story-high beds, there were at least fifty of them.

"Everyone is training, master, follow me!"

They crossed the room and there was another door, when Jin looked closely, he noticed that the door was in the big wooden gate frame.

"They are outside"

Jin continued to follow Marry. When they went out there was a big field with the barracks at one side and castle walls on the other sides. The training field was broken into three parts: archer zone, hand-to-hand training, and endurance training.

Jin looked at the field and heaved a sigh- he wasn't hopeless. The training was quite normal and he didn't see some superman like soldiers, they were running with normal speed, fighting without breaking heavens and earth, everything looked like those videos about training in the army. Maybe not now, but with due training, he could catch up with them, or even be better.

"Uncle Robin! Here is our guest of honor, master Jin Kurogane!" Marry hinted at the old coach.

"Hello there, master Jin, how may these old bones be of service?" obviously Robin was not slow at uptake. Just a second before he was kicking slow soldiers and yelling at them and now he was that old amiable uncle next door.

"I want to learn the basic training regimen if you don't mind." Jin didn't beat around the bush.

"Oh, sure" Robin sounded surprised but complied.

"First things first ten minutes of warmups, then ten kilometers of running, then one hundred sit-ups, then one hundred push-ups, then one hundred scrunches, when they are finished, we start basic combat exercises with dummies. The instructor shows the way the move should be delivered, then everyone repeats it under his watch. If they do the move wrong, they have their asses hanging upside down." He laughed with pleasure at the last line.

"Hanging upside down?" Jin was surprised, thinking it was a dog looking down pose from yoga.

"Well basically, when the instructor hits them on the stomach or back of the head – it's not that easy to stand straight, ahaha!"

"Oh, right, now I get it" Jin smiled wryly.

"The boys learn faster when you regularly whoop their asses!" Robin loved his job, or so it seemed.

"Next they have archery training, then one-on-one hand-to-hand training, and finally marching training."

"I wanted to ask, why do they need all this training if they can just level up with stats?"

"So you didn't start your training yet? It's cause the stats set up your upper limits and the speed of growth. You can have an amazing 100 str stat, but without training your actual stat would be much lower. When you start training your status menu will be updated and you will know your current status. I want to warn you – a status bar is just a convenient tool to follow your progress and to see your affinity, in reality, you can have max stats suitable for a knight and be a mage, but that would not be smart, ahaha."

"Can I have a round of training?" Jin asked suddenly.

"I'm sorry, master, that I can't do, we have quite a harsh punishment for disclosing the state secrets, you see" Robin looked a bit more solemn.

"Sorry then, thank you for the information, Robin!" Only now Jin realized he didn't know Robin's full name or rank.

"Have a good day, master!" Robin relaxed a bit.

"Where do you want to go now, master?" Marry didn't leave his side even for a second.

"Do you know what is scheduled for my friend today?"

"Yes, master! They will have feasts and entertainment for the rest of the day, do you want to join them?"

"I think I take you on your previous offer first" Jin awkwardly touched Mary's voluptuous bottom. At first, she flinched but then smiled back at him.

"As you wish, master"

All the way down to his room Jin was feeling awkward and tried not to look at her. He had that innocent stupid smile on his face, that he tried to hide to no avail.

"Here we are, master" Marry closed the door behind them and started to slowly take off her closes.

"Can you repeat everything you did yesterday, master?" She whispered down his ear.

"I never felt so good.." A little lie could hardly spoil the young man's pleasure, right?