8 Chapter 8: Nightly Routine

"A.I. Chip! Establish Task! Analyse the opponent's strength and the surroundings to come up with the best plan to defeat him!" [Task Establishing. Beginning analysis.] [Simulation results – Host is unwounded, target loses his ability to fight. Please confirm on whether to turn on the vision aid?]

"Turn it on! " Upon Leylin's command, countless of blue lines appeared before his eyes that, as if turning the area into some sort of virtual world.

[According to the target's reactions, there is a 99.98% probability that the first attack will be the Host's right arm! Most Effective method of combating this: Sidestep, Jump Slash!] Following the voice of the A.I. Chip, the blue rays of light in his retina had already formed an image of George, raising his sword and slashing towards Leylin's right arm.

"Heh! Watch the sword!" George as he attack first, waving his two-handed sword. He charged over, the motion almost identical to what the A. I. chip showed.

Leylin dodged the attack, and he raised both his hands along with the cross blade. Leaping up high, he viciously swung it down.

Jumping Slash!

"Damn! How did this happen?" George said.

George got up, a serious look on his face. He felt as if Leylin had predicted his attack, almost as if he had read his motions and knew them like the back of his palm.

"If you are not attacking, then I am going to counterattack!" Leylin said smilingly.

"Bring it on!" George stared with some sweat on his face.

Leylin gripped his cross blade, took a step forward and pierced forward! Every action and movement had all been accurately performed as seen from a textbook.

George tried to block it but failed. He countered Leylin's attack with a slash of his own.

[The best way to react: Left turn 50 degrees, Horizontal Slash!]

Following the A.I. Chip instructions, Leylin dodged George's large sword, and sent a horizontal slash, almost slicing George as he slashed.

The more they fought, the more perspiration formed on George's face.

His every move and action had all been parried perfectly by Leylin and his evading range had gradually decreased.

"I can't carry on like this any longer! I'll stake it all on this!" George fiercely swung his large sword and sent it clashing with Leylin's.

Bang! A piece of silver light flew out and directly pierced into the grass. It was the large sword in George's hands! The blade had not stopped quivering as it let out a sound.

In the sparring area, Leylin's cross blade sword had touched horizontally at George's waist. "You've lost!"

"Indeed! I lost!"

"Ah...The wonders of being young..." Seely said acting like an old man. Chapter 5 had been available the moment they fought today. It's been pretty long huh?

It's been a month and we are still travelling. To be truth... I just want to take a bath and sleep in a nice comfy bed! I'm missing earth and it's luxuries right now although we were just an average family, I still had a bed in my room. Sigh.

System, my status?

[Name: Seely Farlier Strength 1.9 Agility 1.9 Vitality 1.9 Status: Healthy]

Oh isn't this wonderful. I didn't kept the skill I'm for this whole month since I didn't want to let Leylin know I'm a total monster but instead let's be content with being a genius brother who needs to rest practicing breathing technique once in a while. Another thing.. everytime I do one revolution, black substance comes out so I do it at night with Leylin then leave it on while sleeping. When morning comes, I turn it off and take a bath. Now, every round of this breathing technique give me some miniscule amount of benefits. The limit of this technique should be that all stats will reach the stats of 2 but because the benefits gets smaller and smaller while it is used longer, my journey to being a 2 stat person might take longer than I expected.

I'm on my way to being OP too. I feel healthy, I can walk now. The moon shines and the air feels so fresh. This is what it means to be healthy! In my previous life, I didn't like to eat much vegetables but it's not like I'm malnourished but here.. oh even if I don't eat vegetables, Vitality is going up! Strength is going up! and even Agility is going up! Thank you breathing technique of the knights! I feel so healthy. No eyebags, no pimples and no headaches! Oh Vitality, what a wonderful stat to have.

Anyway, Leylin trained with George using a borrowed cross blade from him, after which they rest for a while and talk about Knights, Grand Knights and Magi. Later they decide to do last practice match before giving back the borrowed weapon. During the fight, Leylin used the AI.Chip to predict Georges attacks and defeat him.

During this one month Leylin fought George for practice every night after threatening George to tell his relationship with him as an acquaintance to the other. I still remember George's face looking like a man that had been betrayed by his friend hahaha. Leylin also still collects fruits, plants and berries that might help him increase his cultivation time using the breathing technique. His stats are now like this:

[Leylin Farlier. Strength: 1.5, Agility: 1.6, Vitality: 1.4, Status: Healthy]

Right now, Leylin's body state had not only caught up to his peers of the same age but had also surpassed some.

He said something to me like "I'm going to fall behind you if I don't do this" then look a little depressed but me being the best brother I am hugged and told him "Silly brother, I'll grow stronger than you right now and protect you so you also can grow strong but in the future when you surpass me, you should protect me too okaaaaa~y?" Leylin just smiled at me. Although I wanted that as a promise cause I'm sure as an MC he will get stronger than everyone else so making that promise sounds good for my future life here but I can't be impatient. Let's just do our best right now!

[Chapter 6 is now available]

System, you know what to do. [Transferring information to user's brain now. Transferred complete.] I already set the system to automatically transfer the information on chapters to my brain.

I heard George talking about recommending Leylin to the "Imperial Knight Institute" if he ever failed to become a Magus.

Leylin knew that the Imperial Knight Institute was the best Knight's institute in the Sarad Kingdom where George had come from. Not only were they recruiting nobilities, the entry requirements were also extremely high. 

'Oh brother, don't worry you'll definitely be a Magus so you don't need to consider that institute for knights.'

Leylin looked at me at the side of the bushes where I was leisurely watching them fight a moment ago and gave me a low-key thumbs up.

A Magus's greatness obviously exceeded the boundaries of a human, and Leylin could not even imagine it.

Furthermore, every Magus is a scholar filled with knowledge. Magi had strict attitudes towards experimenting with the secular world. They tried to study the laws of nature in order to achieve a massive amount of power to use for themselves! This lifestyle was more compatible with Leylin's previous life as a scientist.

"Yes! Even if it is a Grand Knight, they can only be the servant of a Formal Magus." George spoke seriously.

'See~ even George agrees that Magus is better than those knights' I told Leylin using the mind link we have but he just pretended to not hear anything since he was still talking to George.

"Goodnight George!"

"Goodnight Leylin!"

After Leylin handed the cross blade to George and bid him farewell, he turned to me and we both returned to the carriage.

The dimly lit carriage had only us inside. The interior of the carriage let off a very faint odour. The stench was a mixture of rot and sweat. Because of this, many noble youths refused to stay in the carriage any longer than necessary. Once they got to pit stops, they would escape to the grass fields outside like little wild horses coming out to play.

'In truth I also don't prefer the carriage but we don't have tents like those other youths. I'm kinda sick of sleeping here.'

'You're not the only one, Seely but there's no use complaining.'

'And those nobles, do they think no one knows about their lovemaking in the tall grass or at the forest. Because of them we needed to find a farther place to train. Sigh. I bet George is one of those rascals. He even dared introduced her sister Molly to you. The nerve.'

'Give it a rest, Seely. Although I also don't like George's lecherous side, he is still better than those people who look at us in disdain and someone who let's me burrow his crossblade to practice. By the way, do you really have no interest on practicing the crossblade?'

'Well I do want to have a weapon so I can practice...but I don't want to owe George anything, It's enough that George is letting you use a crossblade. In the future when you have an extra crossblade, you can just give it to me to practice. Don't worry I always try to memorize the moves and patterns when you fight everytime with George.' I used the A. I. Chip function in the system, of course. By transferring the data to my brain while Leylin was practicing with George, it also feels like I practiced fighting with George.

'If that's what you want Seely but enough talking. We should start cultivating again'

'Yep!' I activated my the skill once more and leisurely lean my back on the wall of a carriage. Being with a healthy body, I can endure the cold much better.

Leylin also lay down on a comfortable position and began his cultivation while I keep silently watching him and sometime rereading the chapters if I was bored.

After 20 odd minutes had passed, Leylin was completely drenched in his perspiration, but the amount of black impurities that had flowed out were clearly less than before.

"Phew!" Leylin opened his eyes and looked at his body. He said in slight exasperation: "The breathing technique's effect is reducing, which is logical. According to the A.I. Chip's estimation, Farlier family's breathing technique, even after optimising will completely lose effect by the times I've enhanced my body's statistics to 2. This is the realm of Preparatory Knights. After this, I have I must use my own power, as well as the external stimulations from near death experiences, to attempt exciting the life energy. Only then will I be able to improve again..."

'Oh yeah... brother... I'm already at 1.9 but can't go to being at a statistics of 2. I also think I need to attempt exciting my life energy.'

'What? you're already have a body that consists of a 1.9 statistics? When did you reach that?'

Leylin was shocked but didnt need to check with the A. I. chip. He trusted me enough as his brother to tell the truth.

'I think it was 2 days ago? I woke up and I already had a 1.9. stat body haha isn't this great?'

'Yeah, yeah. Grow stronger so you can protect your brother more in the future.'

'Hehe I will!'

(Sigh...A genius is a genius alright. I can only strengthen myself more so I can protect myself. Although Seely is here, I don't want to rely on him always and it's not a guaranteed that he will always be strong enough to protect me. Only one's strength endures their own survival...still.... it's great to have a brother like Seely.)

Ugh brother... I'm glad he doesn't know I can read even his deeper thoughts. I don't even know how to react to that last thing you said. Leylin is definitely someone who cares for his family! Hmmm.. talking about family.. I think he will have children in the future, right? I think he did have children in the later parts of the lightnovel. Well... that's for the future although the idea of having nephews is quite interesting.

Not knowing of Seely's thoughts about the children that he will have in the future, Leylin took out a yellow coloured fruit out from his pocket. There were some black spots on its surface, making it look quite horrifying.

Leylin directly placed it in his mouth, and then picked out a root of a herb, munching them together.

[Beep! The Host's body is slowly recovering from fatigue. It is possible to carry on with another round of the Knight breathing technique!]

The A.I. Chip's voice rang.

"That's great!" These herbal concoctions had been created by Leylin over the past month from countless experiments using the A.I. Chip.

That's the MC for you. Well he was a scientist...so maybe this is expected?

This herbal concoction that he made can reduce his fatigue, and increase the number of times he could cultivate in the breathing technique daily.

With the addition of a few more body¬strengthening medicine, the quality of Leylin's physical body had improved at an extremely fast pace.

"Again!" Leylin once again entered the state for the breathing technique.

It usually is like this every night during this whole month. Well, time to sleep.

"Good Night Leylin, don't work too hard."