CH 53

"Training Begins!"

Translated by Dawn

“First, let’s check the status.”

Sitting down on the bed at the inn, I first displayed my status to see how strong I am now.

[Name]: Roland

[Age]: 12 years old

[Gender]: Male

[Race]: Human

[Occupation]: Adventurer (C-rank), Former son of a lord

Physical strength: 3300

Magic power: 3000

Strength: A-

Endurance: B+

Agility: A

Dexterity: A-

Mental Strength: A

Resistance: A-

Luck: A

[Skills]: Appraisal Lv7, Physical Enhancement Lv6, Presence Detection Lv6, Presence Blocking Lv5, Magic Control Lv7, Magic Manipulation Lv7, Fire Magic Lv5, Water Magic Lv6, Wind Magic Lv5, Earth Magic Lv5, Ice Magic Lv1 (NEW), Swordsmanship Lv5, Hand-to-hand Combat Lv6

The first thing to note was the fact that my physical strength and magic power exceeded 3,000. Perhaps the result reflects the experience of my last battle between the Orc Generals and the orcs.

Secondly, the other stats had also increased, with everything in the A range except for Endurance. However, at this level, I could manage to defeat an Orc General without any difficulty, and if I wanted to fight the Orc King head-on, I would want two more levels higher.

Finally, as for skills, Appraisal, Presence Detection, Presence Blocking, Magic Control, Magic Manipulation, and Water Magic were increased by one level, and newly acquired Ice Magic was added.

If I wanted to go further from here, it would be desirable to increase the level of each skill and learn new higher level magic while increasing each parameter by two steps to 5,000 in Physical Strength and Magic Power.

“The problem would be that I would have to do it in ten days……yeah, impossible.”

I judged early on that it would be impossible, but if I didn’t do it, this battle would be a very tough one. However, that was only on the assumption that the Orc King would attack the city of Rendark, so if the Orcs didn’t actually come to the city, then my current thinking itself would be futile.

However, it was already close to a decision in my mind that a herd of orcs would be coming to Rendark. If you ask me why, I could only say that it was just a hunch, but somehow I didn’t think I was wrong.

For this reason, it was never a bad idea to further develop my strength, so I immediately used magic that was usable even in this room for training in magic control and magic manipulation while thinking about my future plans in my mind.

Currently, I have five attributes magic: fire, water, wind, and soil, which are the four basic elements, and ice, which is a higher element. By building the smallest attribute magic by controlling magic power and controlling it freely by manipulating magic power, I am killing two birds with one stone by training both magic control and magic manipulation as well as attribute magic.

After a few hours of continuing the training, I felt something strange in my body, so I stopped the training and checked my status.

“I see, it seems that the levels of the four basic elements other than water have increased by one level, and the magic of the higher attributes, flame, lightning, and earth, has been learned.”

The three newly learned magics were displayed in the status. Each of them was flame magic, a higher level of fire, lightning magic, a higher level of wind, and earth magic, a higher level of the soil.

Just as I was rejoicing in my newly learned magic, there was a knock at the door of my room.

“Rolando-kun, it’s me, Nesa.”

“What’s up?”

The person who knocked was Nesa, the inn’s signboard girl. Not being a stranger, she immediately opened the door and inquired about her requirements. I received a surprising word.

“Actually, there’s someone here who wants to meet you, Rolando-kun, have you heard anything about him?”

“Someone who wants to meet me? No, I don’t have an appointment for that. What’s he like?”

“It was an uncle dressed as a butler.”

“Hmm…”

As I pondered Nesa’s words in my mind, I thought about who the person who came to visit me might be. Several possibilities came to mind, but none of them were conclusive.

However, I could say with certainty that if the person was a butler, it would be a contact from a noble or someone with equivalent power, and it would not be good for me, an adventurer without roots (commoner), to ignore this.

I thought about it a lot, but I came to the conclusion that whatever the other party was, I would handle it by force, and decided to meet the person who said he was waiting for me on the first floor.

When I went downstairs from my room, I found a middle-aged man dressed as a butler waiting there. He looked to be in his late forties or so, with short gray hair and a fine mustache, and had a gentle air about him.

When I appeared, he bowed, hanging his head reverently. Then I start to give a brief self-introduction.

“Nice to meet you, Rolando-sama. My name is Marcus, and I am the butler of this city lord, Rubert-sama. Today I have been entrusted with a letter from the lord and his daughter, Josephine ojou-sama, and I have come to deliver it to you.”

“A letter?”

“Yes, this is the letter.”

The butler, who introduced himself as Marcus, presented two letters to me. The letters looked neat indeed, as you would expect from nobles, and the wax seal was properly decorated with the Raganfeild family crest.

(What should I do? I’d prefer not to accept it if I could, but it would be rude not to, and above all, there is the possibility of me being noticed.)

I would have preferred not to receive it if I could, but after weighing the disadvantages of not receiving it, I came to the conclusion that it would be better to receive it and reluctantly decided to accept it.

“I shall take my leave now.”

“Oh, please give my regards to the lord.”

“……I understand. Then.”

After a brief greeting, I saw Marcus off as he left the inn and returned to my room. I opened the envelope of the letter I had received, unfolded the letter, and began to read it.

First, I read the letter from the lord, which began with words of thanks for always delivering high-quality materials, followed by an apology for his daughter’s blunder.

The letter concluded with a request for him to visit the mansion in two days to express his gratitude and apology once again.

“At this point in my life, I never thought I’d have to meet with one of the city’s top people…….”

Although I was currently a commoner, I could not refuse an invitation from a noble. While the content of the letter was in the form of a request, a noble’s wish was no different than an order from a commoner’s point of view, even if the noble did not intend it to be so.

The problem was, I had no idea what the sender of this letter wanted me to come to his mansion for. Whether it was to recruit me as a servant or just out of curiosity to meet me at first sight, I didn’t know, and going to the noble’s house would mean that I was walking into a trap myself.

However, since there was no way to know what the other party was thinking at the moment, I decided to go to the mansion in two days’ time, having no choice but to dive into the dangerous place myself.

“Now, next is this letter……”

After reading the lord’s letter, I next opened and read the letter from his daughter, Josephine. Since I did not have a good memory of her, I was prepared for what kind of contents the letter contained, but surprisingly, the contents were words of apology for her actions.

It was a kind of penitence for how thoughtless and thoughtless she had been, and how badly she had treated me.

“Hmmm, it seems she was not just a selfish noblewoman.”

The letter I received left me with such an impression. However, it should be noted that if it was she herself who wrote this letter…

“For now, let’s go to the lord’s mansion in two days’ time……and in the meantime, let’s continue with the training.”

Thus, I continued to concentrate on my training until the appointed day, two days later.