(8) Rigorous training

Jake and the Old man were now at the Kingdom of Tirion. Most of the Kingdom's population lived outside the city.

"So many plantations..." Jake said as they walked through farms.

"You don't have to worry, outside the city, people are very nice and friendly,"

Jake nodded at the old elf, and at one point, they arrived at a farm

The farm had a red barn, a kind of field with different sections for different animals to stay, and the sections all have an entrance from a red barn. On the right of the barn was quite a big house compared to the other farms we went through.

"Is this your farm old elf?" Jake asked admiring the place.

"This farm has been passed down for generations, and I'm proud to say that this family farm is owned by me," The old elf said happily, "you will love my son, he is strong and goes on a lot of dungeon missions with his team!"

The old man's son was one of the best dungeon slayers in the countryside. He was a swords master and was part of a team composed of 9.

"I forgot to ask you old elf, what is your name?" Jake asked politely.

"My name is Ben Spring, and my son's name is Griamore Spring. I've got a daughter about your age whose name is Martha, and my wife's name is Maria," the old elf answered.

Jake and Ben entered the house, where there were stairs in front of them, on the right a kitchen, and on the left a living room.

"I'm back!" Ben said lifting his arms waiting for someone to hug him.

An old female elf came out from the kitchen and came to hug him. Jake heard one coming down the stairs and a strong man with brown short hair, and a well-shaved beard came out wearing a hoodie.

"So there are hoodies in this world..." Jake whispered.

The strong man was Griamore, and he instead, came to knock foreheads with his father as a sign of respect towards him.

From the living room, the sexiest elf with great thighs, a beautiful face, long brown hair which touched her waist and bright brown eyes presented herself wearing a Grimm team's kit and a short which couldn't be seen due to the kit's size.

"Hello, father?" She said in an appeasing voice coming to hug him."

"You have a guest I see!" Griamore said im a loud voice walking towards Jake, "tell me, what is your name?"

"My name is Ja~ oh no my name is Rohan," Jake said confusing his current name and his old one.

"Well nice to meet you, Jake, from what elf race are you from?" Maria asked Jake while showing him the way to his new room.

"I'm a white elf, I came to this Kingdom because I need to train to become stronger..." Jake told Maria while walking up the stairs following her.

"The white elves are at war with the Green elves from what I heard... It was wise for him to come here and train!" Griamore told his father.

"You've got a new member to train with!" Martha said, "but it's quite weird, I don't feel any mana emanating from him..."

"Well that's why he's here, he intends on levelling up as fast as possible!" Ben said trying not to laugh.

Martha and Griamore busted in laughter after hearing what their father said.

"Someone can't level up so fast, it's sure that when he'll reach level 100, the war will already be over, it took me 600 years to reach level 567, so how does this fool intend to level up by a hundred in a few years!?"

The three thought they could be heard, but the room in which Jake would sleep was situated right above them, and as Griamore has a loud voice, he heard everything including Maria who was both sitting on the room's bed

"I'm sorry for my son's mockeries, I hope you come to take it too badly, sometimes he doesn't realize what he says is vexing..." Maria said placing her hand on Jake lap.

"Don't worry, these days, I've heard a lot of people say that things are impossible... he just another one of the many..." Jake forced his smile and Maria decided to leave him in his room.

Once she was downstairs in the living room, the first thing she did was scold all three for being so rude.

"You guys should be ashamed of yourselves, the poor elf heard every word of what you were saying about him!"

"Really?" Griamore said realizing what he said was the type of action that would break someone's morale.

"Don't worry Maria, I knew he was hearing everything. To be honest, I've only spent some time with him, but he doesn't look like someone who would get discouraged that easily. Tomorrow you'll see, he'll show you mentally, he is the strongest out of all of us," Ben exclaimed.

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The next morning, Martha woke up early to let the animals out of the barn. She wore a pair of denim overalls and went outside.

Once she released the animals, she heard someone grunting behind the barn. At first, she thought it was one of their pregnant cows giving birth until she heard the thing say "96!"

She went behind the barn to check who was behind the barn, and she saw Jake doing pushups.

"He does have a strong mentality... I would've never thought he would come out to give birth... I mean to work out at such a cold temperature..."

"100... I've finally done it, I've spent all the night on it, but I've finally done my quest!" Jake said lying on his back.

'He spent the whole night working out...' I don't understand, I never heard him leave the house," Martha thought, but she then remembered she heard something during the night but ignored it due to fatigue.

Although it was just the first of long and painful training, Jake had made progress, all his attributes had increased by 3 points.

"I'm gonna prove that dude Griamore, I'm gonna prove to to to him that I can get stronger in only a year!"

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[Three months later]