9 The strict upbringing of Arthur ( Part 01)

In Glory City, inside a small courtyard that belongs to the Smith Clan, lives a well-known family. What made them famous was simply the fact that they are weirdos. The mother, Elisabeth Smith, is a bulky and ugly woman. The father, Luke King, is a crippled cultivator, lame and old looking young guy.

And there was Arthur, a young and extremely handsome kid that inherited all good traits that both of his parents one day they had. He was born with a problem that should have made him a retard, but destiny shine for him and now he is just a normal guy, at least a mortal one. All doctors told them about how well-built looks his physical constitution, but it was a shame that he probably will never cultivate.

The strangeness didn't end there. The ugly woman is ranked at army and is responsible to bring money to home. Her clan provided them with the normal resources after their kid became healed, all that with the influence of Arthur's grand-grandpa. The man started, since two years ago, to read and collect commoners' Martial Arts manuals but everyone knows that he was not fit to train in these.

Arthur lived a mortal and normal life for a descendent of a noble family. He knows that his mum is a powerful cultivator and his dad is a sick mortal. He only had to go to school, help his father doing the house chores and training.

Maybe no one in the world knows, but his father is a genius. His father can teach him about every kind of subject, and it looks like Arthur's father already read and read comprehended every single book inside the library. With his guidance, he learned how to talk and read in seven languages, maths, how to recognize medicinal plants and simpler concoction, and a lot of other knowledge his father accumulated before settling in Glory City.

His dad new hobbies was collecting and processing the knowledges of every commoner Martial Arts techniques he could put his hands on. It wasn't unusual see both of his parents discussing ideas that his father had about physical training. Beth always help her husband to seek the optimal results, applying Luke's theories on her subordinates' military training.

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Arthur woke up full of expectations, today is his birthday.

This world is ruled by the Dekatrian Calendar. In this world the lunar cycles have the same importance than the solar cycles. A year has thirteen months, each month with four weeks and each week with seven days. The day has 24 hours, each hour sixty minutes and each minutes has 60 seconds.

Every year we had a day named Achronian (the day outside the time) at his end, making the usual 365 days of a year. Because the cycle of Sun didn't have exactly 365 days each four years we had in our calendar the Synchronian, an elegant way to make the counting work.

The months are called (in order) Auroran, Borean, Coronian, Driadan, Electran, Faian, Gaian, Hermetian, Irisian, Kaosian, Lunan, Maian and Nixian (exactly A, B, … until N except J).

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Arthur born at 28G (or "the last of Gaian") of the two-thousand-forty-seventh year after the World Pact (that established how to measure time, length, weight and many other parameters).

Today, 28G-2052, he will not be a baby any more because he completed five years old and could start to learn more about the world. His parents already told him that will be too hard to him become a cultivator and the best thing that he could do to improve his chances are train his mortal body with Martial Arts.

For his birthday's present his dad made three manuals of mortal Martial Arts, a Meditation Technique and a new Breath Technique, all of them created or adapted by his father.

The three Martial Arts manuals worked as a set and meant to train his flexibility, speed and strength with a Self Defence Martial Art. The Breath Technique is responsible for maintaining the rhythm of the fight and guarantee the steady income of the oxygen.

The Meditation Technique focused on improve the ability to rest, absorb nutrients and improve the synchronization of the body and mind.

The Luke's lifetime of knowledge in commoner Martial Arts, Physical, Internal and Spiritual Cultivation was compiled inside these five manuals. After mastered they should improve Arthur's chance to become a cultivator and prepare his body to be able to learn any kind of fighting style.

Arthur's father, that is despised by the cultivators, is very well-received between the mortal people because he always used his knowledge and help his neighbours. For this reason, he could prepare the most intense training for his body and mind that he could think, preparing him to face many usual problems for both mortals or cultivators.

During all the week his schedule was full. Every day, from 05h~06h, he will train his Breath Technique, from 06h~10h, he will train his body with his mum using the techniques that his father gave him and to 10h~11h30 he will soak in a medicinal bath while use the Meditation Technique.

At evening, he will do errands and help many people at determinate schedule, working on various professions and doing lots of different works. By night, he will home study with his dad until the 22h.

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Beth, Arthur's mum, at least, give him proper presents. She gave him three things:

>A compass that can point both north or to a compass of the same kind that she has;

>A necklace that could make a temporary mana shield to protect him;

>A bank card with money for him to use when needed.

His grand-grandpa Smith send to him two spiritual artefacts: a wooden sword and a bow that could have their weight increased from 500 grams to twenty kilos.

All other relatives or people that his parents knew send him money, clothes, books and toys.

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This is the first day of Arthur as grown up. He still isn't an adult, but he had to start to do normal activities of the adulthood life.

He woke up at exactly five hours at morning, washed his face and teeth, put his clothes on, etc. When he got down the stairs he saw his dad with a stern face, without even needing to ask what happened his father said to him

"This is your first time being late, for each minute being late I will hit you one time with my cane. If I started to use this rule today you should suffer with thirty hits, be aware because it will not happen again. To prevent to lose any more time I will teach you the Breath Technique, I expect that it become natural because it is the first part of your training."