Chapter 5

||Lor-Zod POV||

As me and Mother headed for the training grounds, behind the mansion, I could see several maids working around and bowing as we passed them.

Before I was born, there was no maid in the mansion. It was after I was born and they had changed my hair color that my parents finally hired maids to help around the mansion and watch over me when they're not around.

My parents really care for me, especially my mom. She has several backup plans if she or father don't make it back at the time they were supposed to.

Anyways, as we were moving towards the training grounds, I could see several maids looking at me with love and care in their eyes.

The maids really liked spending time with me. They always said things like I was extremely adorable and if they ever had kids, they hoped they would turn out just like me.

'*Sigh* the curse of being born adorable'

I thought as I shook my head.

We finally made it to the training grounds after a five minute walk.

When we got there, we saw a door leading to the inside of the training grounds. The exterior of the training grounds was large and looked like it was made to accommodate several people.

We headed towards the door and typed in the passcode, along with a retina Scan. Once that was done, the door opened and we went inside.

Once inside, I could see several Doors that led to different rooms filled with training equipments.

One of the rooms led to the controls for the training simulation.

Yes, a training simulator.

I remember The first time I came here and I found out about the training simulator. I was so excited to experience it as the realism in it is no doubt better than what the earth in my previous life could ever provide.

I still am.

' I can't wait to see what it brings me.'

Turning away from the controls, I turned towards the stage in the center of Training grounds, meant for spars and matches.

It was pretty small, but it had a huge blue glowing circle around it and just like every other thing in the room, was pretty futuristic.

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On the stage, was no other than General Zod, My father. He stood there with his back turned towards us and his hands behind his back.

Once he realized someone had entered the training Ground's, he turned towards our direction.

He had a serious look on his face and clearly meant business.

"Hello, my son. I hope your ready for your training?"

Mother put me down and I turned towards him.

"Yes father, I'm ready."

"Good, now step onto the stage"

He said as he made sure there was space for me and him.

I walked towards the stage and got on it. I looked towards my father and waited for what's next.

"Right now, I'm gonna be teaching you the basics to our martial arts. Usually, I would have waited for you to be old enough to have the appropriate physical strength needed to train in this martial arts but since you're far stronger than the usual Four year old and also meet the requirements for the martial arts, I decided that I'll train you right away."

He said as he got into a basic stance. His right or dominant foot in front and his left foot facing the left side.

"Now, copy how I positioned my body"

I immediately did what he said and copied exactly how he looked like.

My dominant foot is also my right so my body was positioned exactly like how his body was.

I could tell he was surprised due to the fact that I got it right on my first try. He probably wasn't expecting that and was preparing to walk up to me and correct any mistakes.

I'm a Four year old After all, It's natural if I made a mistake. Normally, four year olds aren't that smart enough to do exactly what he just did.

If it was a Ten year old, then maybe they wouldn't make a mistake but even then it's not absolute. Some could put their left foot in front instead of their right and mix everything up.

So seeing a Four year old not mixing anything up or doing something incorrectly must have surprised him heavily.

'Sometimes I wonder if he forgets how smart I am for a Four year old.'

I was able to say my first words when I was Four month's old and was able to recite the Kryptonian alphabet perfectly at Nine month's old.

Copying something as easy as a basic stance is no pressure.

Anyways, back to the training.

"Father, what's wrong? Did I do anything wrong?"

I said while a smile formed on my face. He could probably tell I knew he was surprised and was rubbing it on his face.

He too also smiled and woke up from his surprise.

"No, you didn't son. You did it just perfectly."

Mom was by the side and was clearly proud i was able to do such a thing at just Four years old.

Father went back to his stance and looked towards me, serious once again.

"This is the basic stance for defense. I'm gonna attack you and all you have to do is dodge, block or parry my attacks. Understood?"

I nodded my head towards him and he immediately attacked.

He charged towards me faster than what I've ever seen before. Well, except those overpowered anime protagonists who literally appear right in front of you.

What I mean by faster than what I've ever seen is by human standards. Back on earth, he would have been the fastest human if he existed there.

But that's just it, faster than them but it's not so much that it's supernatural.

That's what I mean. If you compare the current Zod to the man of steel Zod who had bathed in the suns radiation then the current Zod was nothing more than a snail.

He's just that slow, but to me, he's still very fast.

Ducking under a swing, I moved towards the right to get some space between us but father wasn't letting me have that luxury.

He immediately pounced towards me, throwing a punch once again.

Predicting the trajectory of his punch, i pushed it aside and moved away once again to gain some space away from him.

Tch, that would have been the perfect moment for a counterattack. unfortunately, I can only dodge, block and parry.

I honestly don't know how I was able to parry his attack. I have no knowledge when it comes to fighting except what I've read on books and seen online back in my past life.

'So how exactly was I able to do that?'

[Thats due to the new skill you just gained host]

I heard the systems voice in my head.

'Wait, you mean I just gained a new skill during this fight?'

I thought as I watched my father recover from his surprise and charge towards me once more.

[Yes, due to your Extreme Talent ability, it's pretty easy for you to unlock skills and develop them to their maximum potential. You're aware of that host so why the surprise?]

'Of course, I'm aware of that. What I didn't know was that I could also develop skills during fights.'

I thought while parrying one of his attacks and blocking a kick from him.

[Well, you can't develop any skill during a fight. The only reason you developed a skill right now is because this is your first fight and you didn't have any skill related to fighting except punching, prior to this moment. As a result, you developed a skill due to it being your first fight.]

I dodged one more of his punch by sidestepping and jumped over a leg sweep. It's honestly tiring trying to keep up with him and dodge his attacks at the same time.

'I'm surprised I haven't lost yet. I can only assume my body is adapting to his speed and strength seeing as how his punches or kicks don't hurt anymore after blocking it the first time.'

[Correct host. You probably haven't felt it yet due to you paying attention to me and your fight at the same time but your body is adapting to your father's strength and speed due to him being capable of hurting you. eventually your stamina will also start to increase so you can better keep up with him.]

Immediately after the system said that, I could feel the energy I was losing as the fight went on, start to fill back up.

My body was becoming energetic again and as a result, I was starting to keep up with my father better than I was doing previously.

I could also feel myself becoming faster and stronger. Fathers strength barely fazes me anymore and my speed has increased to the point, father doesn't look as fast as he was at the beginning.

'He's really starting to move as slow as a snail in my perception now.'

I'm pretty sure if I were to give him a punch right now, he would be sent staggering back from that one blow.

And all these increase in speed, strength and stamina came in just less than a minute.

Jesus, is this how doomsday always felt as he fought opponents stronger than him? They would pose a challenge at first only to be manhandled by him due to him adapting to his opponents strength.

And the adaptation was permanent and not temporary like some would hope. Meaning as he fights stronger opponents, he'll become stronger and stronger until no one's able to defeat him anymore.

'And to think I have an even better version of that ability. If the lower version can do that, imagine just what the better version can do.'

'Maybe reaching Tier 1-A isn't so impossible anymore.'

I dodged a light punch from father before sidestepping a kick from him and stepping backwards to dodge a heavy punch from him.

I was prepared for another onslaught of attacks, only for him to stay rooted on his spot with a confused expression on his face.

Seeing him like this, I decided to call out to him.

"What's wrong father?"

He turned towards me and decided to voice out his suspicions and confusion. Mom also seemed pretty confused on how I'm suddenly doing so good in fighting now.

"How were you able to block my attacks and dodge them? Not to mention, you started getting better in our fight to the point i was no longer able to faze you with my attacks."

He looked at me with a serious gaze and was expecting nothing but the truth from me.

'Unfortunately, it's the truth you shall not receive.'

I thought as I activated my acting skill again and turned towards my parents.

Mother had arrived beside my father as she too also wanted to hear how I was able to do that.

"I honestly have no idea how I was able to do that. One moment, it was hard trying to keep up with father and the next, it wasn't so hard anymore."

I said while having a confused expression on my face to add more impact or belief to what I just made up.

"As for how I was able to parry and block your attacks, I read how to do that on some books I found and simply applied them to our fight."

The moment I said that, I could tell they were very surprised this time. You don't see a Four Year old applying what he read, everyday.

It would have been extremely difficult to lie to my parents since they've dealt with far better liars than me but the acting skill that I have isn't a joke.

It won't be very easy to find out I'm lying.

"...."

My father remained silent as he stared at me. Trying to figure out if I was lying.

He probably didn't find anything wrong with what I said seeing as how he nodded at me and went back to his stance while mother just left and went back to where she was staying before, along with a proud smile.

She must have been very proud to have a genius son.

"Ok, from what I've seen just now from our spar, I can tell you have some form of mastery over blocking, dodging and parrying attacks. That's good, but your form still needs more touch."

"We'll get back to that later but for now, I'm gonna teach you how to attack."

He said as he got into a different stance this time.

"This is the basic stance for attack and defense. This stance makes it easier for you to counterattack your enemy while defending or keeping yourself from harm."

So basically, killing two birds with one stone.

"If you master it, you'll eventually be able to attack and defend yourself from enemies. And with how fast you learn, I have no doubt it won't be long till you master it."

He said.

'The stance does look far more complicated than the previous one and for a four year old, this would have been hard to accomplish but for me?'

I thought as I got into a similar stance. His eyes widening once again.

'It's as easy as pie.'

I thought as I smirked.

||Time skip to After the training||

Father really went hard on me once he saw just how much of a genius I am. He taught me how to defend myself from enemies, how to beat bigger opponents by using their own momentum against them and even gave me some ideas and tips on how to turn disadvantageous situations into my own advantage.

Mother was really worried he was pushing me too hard and so she cut off the training once she thought it was reaching a level Four Year Old can't handle.

She carried me after the training session was over and immediately headed for the mansion while leaving father with a dumbfounded expression.

After reaching the mansion and passing all the maids who once again bowed towards us, we finally reached mothers room and she immediately headed for the bathroom.

Once we got inside, she took off her and my skin suit, leaving us both naked. She then started washing me and cleaning up the sweat I accumulated during the spar.

While she was cleaning me up, I thought about the benefits I got from this training session.

'My strength, speed and stamina increased heavily while fighting father. Now if I were to fight him again, i would easily be able to go toe to toe with him and won't lose.'

My Senses didn't increase because there was no need to. They were already more than enough to keep up with him.

'Right now, my physical attributes are more than enough to crush him but I can't do that due to him having more battle experience and better skills than me.'

'The skill one is easy to solve since with my extreme talent, it won't take long to reach and surpass him but the battle experience is not something I can solve right now.'

I thought while thinking up ways to get rid of that problem.

'Hmm, I could fight against multiple opponents to build up experience but that still won't be enough. It seems that if I want to get more battle experience and improve at the same time, I'd have to go on missions.'

I thought as I finally came to a conclusion.

'I'll go on missions to build up Battle Experience while also improving. Father won't have a problem with it since he thinks it's natural and would also want to me to go on missions.'

'Mother may not want me to go so young but it's not like I was thinking of ever going on missions as a Four year old. I'll probably start from Ten, at that point, I would be far more stronger and skillful than I currently am.'

'Defeating father, even if I have less battle experience than him, would be easy by then. Hopefully, I get to meet stronger opponents on the missions.'

I thought, even if it's not likely.

'Status'

Immediately a screen appeared in front of me.

[Name: Lor-Zod]

[Title/Alias: <Son of General Zod> <Cutest Child On Krypton> <True Prodigy<New!>]

[Strength: 20]

[Speed: 20]

[Defense: 20]

[Stamina: 20]

[Senses: 11]

[Skills: [Walking] [Running] [Punching] [Acting] [Kryptonian Language] [Speaking] [Kicking<New!>] [Basic Martial Arts <New!>]]

[Abilities/Powers: [Perfect Kryptonian Physiology] [Superior Adaptation and Evolution] [Extreme Talent] [Anti Cloning/Anti Power Copy/Anti Power Theft]]

Mmm. So that's the new skill huh.

That explains how I knew what to do when I was fighting Father.

Over all, due to this Training Session, I'm far stronger than what I was before the training.

'Now that I have access to the training Ground, I can train my body just a little. I could also run the training simulator to project different situations so I can train my senses and awareness.'

That's what I'll be doing for the next Four years.

Training.

By then, I can relax while also enjoying what Krypton has to Offer for Entertainment.

Oh, Yh. I forgot to mention this but I wasn't born in the Phantom Zone like I thought I was.

I was born in Krypton, long before Superman was born but I guess that's obvious considering all that I've said before now.

"And done. Now, you're all clean."

Mother said as she finally finished bathing me. She used a towel to clean me up and then put a new Skin Suit on for me.

She carried me and we both went back into the bedroom and she dropped me carefully on it.

She too also got on the bed and sat in front of me. She folded her legs and we immediately started our daily conversation.

'Huh. I guess things aren't as bad as I thought.'

||Time skip - Four Years Later||

||Krypton, Argo City|| ||1971||

||3rd POV||

Lor-Zod had grown far stronger than he was before.

His physical attributes had increased immensely and his skills when fighting are astounding.

His fighting skills are now far better than Zod's and nobody in the planet is as good as him.

He spent a lot of time in the training grounds, doing exercises that wouldn't be too much for his body. He also spent a lot of time in the training simulator room.

He trained in different scenarios such as a disaster scene, fire drills, military drills and Emergency scenarios. He also trained with holographic robots in the training simulator to test how skilled he was.

Overall, it was a pretty stressful four years and Lor, now Eight years old, plans to give himself a break and have some fun.

During this time, he also came across someone he didn't expect to see.

Kara Zor-El or also known in the Future as Supergirl.

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Right now though, she's just a Seven Year old kid.

Kara and Lor got to know it each other through their parents when Zod invited Zor-El for a meeting to discuss the dome surrounding Argo city and how to further strengthen it.

Zor-El is a scientist who invented the dome that currently surrounds Argo City, protecting the city from any unexpected attack.

Kara was brought along by Zor-El as a way for him to introduce his daughter to General Zod's son since he's heard just how much of a Prodigy the boy is.

He hoped Kara and the boy would be able to become good friends who have each other's back and incase something ever happened to him and Alura, Kara still had a place to fall back to.

Although, he didn't have much hope if the boy was anything like his father.

If Zod didn't want to take her in for whatever reason, then his Brother Jor-El would happily take care of her for him.

As for Kara, she didn't want to go to the house of Zod due to the fact that she's heard how scary General Zod looks in person.

Although she didn't want to go, what Kara didn't know was that she would meet the love of her life in that same mansion she's trying to run away from.

She would also thank herself profusely for putting up with her father that day and deciding to follow him to the mansion.

Kara after meeting Lor for the first time that day, instantly felt drawn to him. Like he was what she was missing her whole life and she finally found it.

She would keep pestering him to talk to her since he kept ignoring her all the time. She didn't leave him until he finally talked to her and the moment he talked to her, she could feel her heart beating faster at how sweet and smooth his voice sounded.

She felt more and more drawn to him as they kept conversing and even Lor could tell she was a very nice person and would make a good friend.

After leaving the House of Zod and returning back home, she immediately headed for her room to write in her diary just how enjoyable her day was despite expecting it to be the complete opposite.

She wrote a lot about her time with Lor and just how happy she felt spending time with him. She didn't know what she was feeling towards Lor but she loved it. Hopefully, when she's older she'll be able to figure it out.

She kept writing for some time while also replaying the memories of her time with Lor. She couldn't wait to see him again tomorrow since they promised they'll meet up tomorrow to have fun together.

After that meeting with Lor, she would constantly meet up with Lor to have fun and talk about what they were gonna do the next day.

Lor and her met up so much that they could easily pass as best friends in anybody's eyes. Their parents also knew they were meeting up but didn't say anything about it.

Zod wasn't really happy about that since he thought that the time Lor was using to have fun, could be used for something better such as training his skills.

Although, he was appeased by his wife who was finally happy Lor was talking to someone else other than them and the maids.

Now that her baby finally had a friend, she would be able to watch him grow happy and have a healthy mindset instead of the stoic face and cold personality he already had at such a young age.

As For Lor himself, he really enjoyed his time with Kara and could confidently call her his friend. He knew a lot of things about her and just how she generally works, Same goes for Kara.

They both knew a lot of things about each other and could even be called best friends if they were back on earth.

'Hopefully, this friendship stays how it is for a long time. It'd be pretty disappointing if something came and caused a rift between us.'

Lor thought with a smile and was genuinely happy to feel the joy of pure friendship once again.

Kara watched him and was surprised Lor could smile. Lor always kept a straight face and never showed any emotion on his face.

To be able to see such a beautiful and happy smile on his face made her heart beat faster than it already was and a deep blush to appear on her face.

She placed a hand on her chest to calm down her beating heart and just watched as the Red Sun set.

Together with her Lor.

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Fifth chapter done, let's go!! I'm so happy!

That was a beautiful ending, wasn't it?

it seemed that way to me, At least.

Jeez, Four thousand plus words. I don't even know if I care about it being the longest chapter anymore.

Anyways, next chapter is basically gonna be slice of life and a little action, maybe.

MC has been training for more than four years now so I decided that he'll have a little break so he doesn't break down from only doing training in his free time.

Oh, and this was the first time I wrote a fighting scene and I was hoping y'all could tell me what you thought about it, i know it needs some more improvements and I'll appreciate it if you do comment what you think about it.

I also noticed that a lot of you don't like the system showing stats. I too felt like something was wrong with it when I was making the chapter but I just couldn't figure it out.

But thanks to one of my readers, I figured out what was wrong. So just for the next few chapters, pls put up with it. It'll change very soon.

As for the MC acting Immature, it wasn't supposed to look like that or make the MC seem dumb. It was supposed to show the MC trying to keep his pride as a man.

But I guess it turned out the wrong way, no worries, that was the last time he would act like that.

Also Comment down who y'all think the Yandere is as we're getting closer and closer to revealing who she is.

Anyways, I hope y'all enjoyed the chapter as much as I did.

See y'all next chapter.

Peace.✌️