Novel Full Chapter 4 - Goofing Off
The following day, Angus arrived in front of one of the rooms inside the mansion. This room will become his study room for the next three years until he goes into the royal academy.
Arriving in front of the room, 'Huft… I hope I didn't get any weird teachers. Well, at least I could learn the one called magic besides the books.' thought Angus.
Although Angus wants to hide his real strength, he is still interested in magic. For Angus, who never knew the existence of magic in his past life, he finds magic is a marvelous thing that could contradict some physics and his past common sense.
Because of this, he wants to learn magic. But, magic itself is a complicated subject that not everyone can do it. Only a talented and hard-working person could do it.
*Knock* *knock* After knocking on the door, he hears a pleasant female sound from the inside, "Come in."
Angus immediately enters the room and sees a young woman in a strict teaching uniform that gives the vibe 'I am a teacher'. The woman is quite beautiful and tall with deep blue hair.
But, he knows behind her petty figure hidden an aura of a skilled fighter that is already through many life-death situations. He confirmed it by how she positions herself and her entire body language.
Before he could think further, "Done admiring? If yes, hurry to your seat, Mr. Young Master." Said the blue-haired woman in a sarcastic tone.
Without saying anything, Angus immediately went back to his lazy expression and sat at his seat.
After Angus took his seat, *sigh* "Well, my name is Andria Cobalt. I will tutor you for the next three years until you enter the royal academy." she looks disappointed by Angus's previous behavior.
After that, she immediately began her lesson. In summary, she teaches Angus some common knowledge about this world. From Andria's explanation, Angus found a lot of hidden dangers behind his everyday peaceful life.
One of them is the danger of monster hordes. Unlike in Angus's past life, the world he resides called Firuman, inhabited by many races and other living beings besides the human race.
But the most dangerous one is the monster, a being corrupted from miasma, which is also called corrupted mana. The monster tends to go berserk and seek the only destruction of civilization.
As for the reason behind this phenomenon, nobody could uncover it from ancient times. The only possible explanation is from the myth where a powerful evil god corrupted some beast into a monster through miasma and sought the destruction of civilization.
Fortunately, other civilized races are also not so weak just to be destroyed by a monster horde. They could utilize mana to protect themselves and fight back against the monster horde.
As time goes on, both the monster side and civilized races begin into stalemate situations. But, the danger of monster hordes still exists as they grow stronger and increase their number over time.
On the other hand, the civilized races could only pass down their mantle to the younger ones after growing at a certain age or slowly cutting down monster numbers.
Still, this kind of problem will only happen in the future for him to worry. Instead, he worries about his matters about the so-called politics between the nobles. If he is not careful enough, he may get stabbed in the back by other nobles.
Angus knows precisely how dangerous humans can be from his experience. Although he already decides to leave this matter to his brothers as the heir, he still needs to be careful around the noble society.
Fortunately, Angus's rank as noble is not tiny as the son of the duke. Basically, not many dare to stab him or try to 'use' him openly.
A few days later, Angus was called into the training ground by Andria for physical training. Because of the monster horde threat, all the people in the kingdom have learned some sort of self-defense since childhood, especially the noble one.
Since Angus wants to hide his real strength, he tries to put on a façade that makes him look like he has average physical strength.
The moment Andria tries to push him further than a normal average kid could do, Angus immediately stops his exercise and looks at her silently.
Angus looks at teacher Andria silently with an expression like mocking her, 'Are you a retard? To push me to do this?'.
Occasionally, he immediately leaves the training area while making excuses, "I am sorry, teacher. I need to go to the bathroom for a while."
Many times Andria tries to punish him for that. But Angus always gives the same excuse to go to the bathroom before going for hours. Then, he will be found falling asleep below the shade of a tree in the nearby garden.
Because Angus is also the son of duke Jacob, Andria cannot do anything too excessive about him besides tolerate his behavior. Even after she reported this matter to the duke himself, she only got a reply as let him be since he was still a child.
As time goes by, Andria gives up trying to push Angus training harder during the physical exercise. Fortunately, Angus was interested in magic, so Andria still could tolerate his lazy behavior.
Many young nobles also prefer the magician's path since the magician is positioned at the backline in battle. This way, they are safer than other combatants who fight on the front line.
'Hm… he also will not go further in this magician path because his mana is quite low and his mind power to construct magic circles is almost below average.' thought Andria as she looked at her students who tried to cast simple fire-based spells.
Andria will never think Angus planned all of this to give him the impression of a weak, spoiled noble son who is very lazy. Still, it is also true that Angus' mana and mind power are below average since he didn't increase them during the past few years.
Because of the status panel, he could monitor his growth rather than use it to improve further. He used it to make it stagnant.
Few years after finding out how the system works, Angus knows that doing specific actions continuously, such as training or reading books, will increase his status.
Reading books will increase his intelligence which will increase his speed to construct magic spells. So, Angus uses most of his time pretending to read books while he is just sleeping or goofing off.
He did all of this hassle because he learns he will be tested with a machine that will roughly calculate his body strength and mind power in the royal academy. Knowing this, he immediately planned to stagnate his growth by doing his daily routine carefully.
'Hmm… not too bad' as Angus looked at his status panel.
Host: Angus Victory
Age: 5 Years Old
MP: 5/10
Strength: 3
Dexterity: 3
Intelligence: 4
Vitality: 5
Soul Point: 31