Chapter 147: Aiwai’s Gifts
Some the time passed after Yale started training martial arts with Aiwai.
After reaching the 1-star Novice Rank, Wyba also started to train martial arts and some other weapons with Yale under Aiwai’s supervision, although both of them battled against ice golems and not against each other.
They remained with the same training routine until the birthday of Yale and Wyba.
Wyba had made a lot of improvements in that short time, she managed to reach the 4-star Novice and learned enough archery to be comparable with Yale before learning how to advance to the apprentice stage. However, Wyba wasn’t good at controlling her Spiritual Sense, so she was unable to advance to the apprentice stage like her brother.
Wyba didn’t like martial arts and other weapons, she liked archery, but she was unable to take any liking to melee combat, she preferred ranged combat. However, she knew that her brother was good with that kind of combat and didn’t want to disappoint him by not training with all her effort.
On the other hand, Yale had been unable to reach the expert stage in archery, but when practicing with weapons he managed to improve his talents with the spear and the rod to the perfect grade; practicing with Aiwai was a perfect combination with his capability to improve his weapon talents battling. However, Yale didn’t reach the apprentice stage in any of them.
Yale didn’t bother too much about the spear and the rod, they were secondary to him, and at least he improved his talent in them.
The matter which bothered him the most was that he hadn’t obtained any talent regarding martial arts nor reached the apprentice stage in it. Martial Arts weren’t like the weapons; the system hadn’t said that Yale could obtain talent in it just battling.
Yale liked the Martial Arts very much after training with Aiwai’s ice golems, he was very good and could defeat golems of adult size with his child form. Of course, Aiwai restricted those golems to be capable of using only conventional martial arts, without their ability in martial arts reaching the apprentice stage.
There wasn’t any special condition to reach the apprentice stage in martial arts; when the user of martial arts was good enough could find enlightenment in battle and advance. Talent and experience were very important to that and Yale were completely lacking in talent; his experience was enough to advance if he had talent, but it wasn’t high enough to supply all the lack of talent.
Yale didn’t know what kind of effects the apprentice stage of martial arts would have, but he was sure that they would apply every time he battled, so anything was great.
That was the reason Yale had a sad face in the birthday party Aiwai had made to him and Wyba.
The three of them felt like a real family who had always been together although they had only been together for a short time.
Yale wasn’t an exception and loved Aiwai as his big sister, although she couldn’t compare with Wyba as both of them had a stronger connection, Aiwai was comparable to Ange in Yale’s heart.
However, even if Aiwai had made a birthday party and Wyba was very happy, Yale was unable to be in a good mood.
He was in a bad mood due to his problems in advancing with martial arts and archery, but he also was feeling that his training speed was lacking.
In fact, Yale’s improvement in his realm, martial arts, and archery could be considered monstrous by anyone who saw him, but he still felt that his own training speed was too slow while looking to the system.
“Name: Yale | Age: 14 | Origin Level: 16 |Origin Points: 576/576”
“Vitality: 597 | Strength: 587 | Agility: 596 | Intelligence: 600 | Wisdom: 600 | Dexterity: 594”
The main reason for Yale being disappointed with his own training speed was that he wanted to go back to the Revgen Empire as soon as possible, but he couldn’t leave Aiwai’s side before having turned stronger and learned correctly from her.
The truth was that Yale didn’t want to part ways with Aiwai, he really treated her like his real sister and wanted her to come with him and Wyba and continue to live together in the Revgen Empire. However, that implied too many problems.
Although the Revgen Empire wasn’t as discriminative with half-beasts like the Zuatania Republic, they would still be looked strange by others due to not being used to them. Furthermore, Yale would need to reveal his capability to transform into a human and the fact Wyba can turn into a complete beast.
Both things were a complete abnormality; it didn’t matter the transformation skill a half-beast couldn’t turn into a human. That was part of their curse as a species born from a failure; based on the common knowledge, only a half-beast with a divine beast bloodline would be able to do it.
Yale had thought of using his past life as a reason; there was no way to confirm if an expert at Yale’s past life level would be able to do it or not, so it couldn’t be proven impossible.
As for a beast taking the half-beast form or vice-versa at will, although Yale wasn’t knowledgeable in the area, he knew that with Wyba’s realm that wasn’t possible.
Yale hadn’t thought a reason to explain that, but he would need one because if Aiwai met with Ange and Swordmad, she would discover that Wyba was originally a beast and she would also discover that Yale was born as a human.
Thus, the situation was too complicated for Yale, he cared about Aiwai, but he also thought about Ange and Swordmad that he knew should be worried about him.
The quickest solution would be exposing some of his secrets, but he knew very well the existence of soul-search, giving too much knowledge to others could bring a disaster for both parties.
“Yale why are you that depressed? I know you want to reach the expert stage in archery and the apprentice stage in martial arts, but you are still young, don’t be impatient.”
In Aiwai’s eyes, Yale was young, and he had a lot of time to improve. She considered Yale a genius with a great future ahead of him; if others heard that Yale was depressed with his current training speed, they would cry.
“I have prepared a lot of presents to both of you, and I know that some of them will improve your mood.”
Aiwai wasn’t stingy; she had prepared a lot of gifts for Yale and Wyba. She knew that kids liked gifts and she wanted to see them happy; although she knew that Yale didn’t like to act like a kid, she also knew that any gift related to improving his battle prowess would be effective enough.
“First! I made some new clothes for both of you. They have the best quality I managed to create in my life, and I used the best resources I had to create them. Their defense is far better than the defense of the previous clothes I had made for you, and if you use your energy on the clothes, their defense will increase more. Moreover, the new clothes can be bound and would adapt to your size, even if you grow bigger you can remain using them.”
Aiwai blinked an eye towards Yale when saying the growing part, even if Yale didn’t change in front of her as Aiwai wanted him to be in kid form, Aiwai knew that Yale liked the adult form more than the kid one.
Yale indeed loved those clothes; he didn’t even look at how they look, he was interested in the defense they offer and in their shape adapting capabilities. For him, that kind of clothes was perfect since he could change his height with Shape Shift.
“Thank you, sis.”
Yale was really thankful for that, especially because he knew that Aiwai didn’t like that he changed of form. However, if he had to change in an emergency, he didn’t want to lose time changing his clothes, so for him having that type of clothes was important.
Wyba also loved the new clothes, but she just liked them because the clothes Aiwai made for her were always cute and she loved wearing them.
“The next present isn’t something physical, but I am sure you will love it. In two weeks there would be a special training camp for kids under fifteen in a city near here. It is called camp, but it is basically an all versus all battle in a forest area controlled by the adults to avoid too powerful beast from being present. The purpose is to give the kids real experience, and they made them periodically. It doesn’t last too much, at night we will be at home again. Both of you will participate.”
Aiwai wanted that Wyba won some battle experience and although she knew that Yale didn’t lack experience in that area, different opponents may help him to surpass his bottlenecks.