5 Chapter 5. My son is a genius

In the courtyard of Elrod castle,

"Listen carefully, Tirus, you are well aware of how strong knights and grand knights are, since you have reached the age of 8, I shall impart you our family's signature technique." Mason Van Elrod said to his son with pride in his gaze.

*Shii*

In a blink of an eye, Mason appeared right in front of a gigantic boulder with his dual edged sword and pierced it through. One could see the scenery of the other side from the hole that was created with just one strike.

"This…this, what technique is this, father? Are you a grand knight?" Tirus asked in confusion.

"I am not a grand knight. It is our signature knight cultivation technique named 'Hundred Strike Manual'

it is said that if one were to cultivate this technique and reach grand knight, then after becoming a grand knight, they would have unparalleled agility and would be able to use our signature move 'The hundred strikes of death', the technique is all about piercing the target 100 times at an extremely high speed.

I can do 60 strikes but still, it's deadly and has saved my life on countless occasions. The best thing about it is that one can cultivate this technique twice a day! Why do you think I'm content with being just a knight? It's because I simply don't feel the need to." Mason explained the technique in great detail.

Actually, Mason never truly liked to train and thus when he became the head of the house, he stopped his knight cultivation and with secured a stable life with his political skills. He usually spent his days doing paperwork, and lusting after various women.

But this was also the reason why the Elrods were slowly losing their power.

"Do you understand the technique now? If you encounter any problem, then just come to my cabin." He gave the booklet and explained the entire breathing technique and their family's dual edged sword techniques to Tirus in great detail and simply left him to cultivate.

'He can cultivate twice a day, but he still is just a knight, and not just that, but he's even content with it! What a waste!' Tirus thought.

One of the types of people he hated the most were the ones who had potential, but wasted it, doing nothing.

"A.I. chip, scan the technique and optimize it!"

[Beep! Task established…. The optimization of the technique will take another 2hrs 3 mins]

"So fast! Maybe because the A.I. chip already had another techniques and enough information about human anatomy, I guess."

Time flew by quickly and soon, the technique was ready.

"A.I. chip, send the information to my hippocampus!" He said excitedly.

He felt a sharp pain in his head, similar to when he used the A.I. chip to gain the information about human anatomy. Furthermore, he thought that such information should be sent to his hippocampus so that he'd not need to search for every information from the files of A.I. chip.

The pain subsided he sat cross-legged and started breathing in a certain rhythm. For the first 30 seconds, everything was normal but then his veins started to bulge, his face turned red.

It felt as if his entire body was covered with ants, biting every corner of his body. This was the effect of the optimized knight meditation technique when used with 100% comprehension.

Thirty minutes later, Tirus opened his eyes to see his body covered by a strange yellow liquid with gave off a nauseating stench, but he couldn't puke, he couldn't even open his mouth since he felt as if he would vomit blood if he were to open his mouth, he didn't dare stop his meditation session now, as the A.I. chip had suggested him to cultivate this technique straight for at least 1 hour.

And thus, another 30 minutes later,

[Beep! Hosts physique has been nourished by vital force]

[There is a significant boost in all of host's stats]

The A.I. chip gave him a prompt. Earlier, he had been feeling nauseated, but now he was feeling better than ever, his body had excreted a lot of the yellowish liquid once again. He felt as light as a feather and it felt like if he wanted to, he could not sleep or eat anything for 2 or 3 days and he still wouldn't feel much fatigued.

"Show me my current stats!"

[Name: Tirus Van Elrod, Occupation: trainee knight, strength: 1.5, agility: 1.8, vitality: 2.0, status: healthy]

"How much did my stats increase from this session?"

[Beep! Calculating data….host's strength increased by 0.4, agility increased by 0.6, vitality increased by 0.5]

"Such increase in stats just after one session! This is definitely beyond the effects of a mid-grade meditation technique!…Don't tell me it has reached the level of a high-grade technique!"

"How is this possible? Oh, wait…is it because of the information that I had gathered? No, it wasn't even that much. The A.I. chip's processing power is definitely much more than it was at the beginning of the canon…maybe it's because I devoured Leylin's soul and so my soul became stronger thus upgrading the A.I. chip? Yes, this seems plausible." Tirus came up with an explanation for the A.I. chip's increased power.

After the meditation session, he went and had his body washed by the maid.

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After having his body washed he went straight to his mother.

"You have started your knight training, right, you must be exhausted. Go to your room, I will send you a gift." She told him and so he rushed to his room like a little kid he was.

"As I thought, my son is a genius, able to excrete the impurities from his body in his first day."

Tirus entered his room.

What he saw was a black box made with high quality wood and with a golden outline, it shined even in the darkness. There was a letter on top on it and was sealed with the mark of the Elrod estate.

To be continued….