Chapter 368: Super Special Training, Hell’s Kitchen (1/2)

“Professor Kennedy, is this a library? Do you usually live here by yourself?” Ayrin couldn’t help but ask as he followed behind the old arcane master.

The building they had entered as rather quiet, as if no one else was present, and contained several extremely spacious rooms within, giving Ayrin the impression that it was some sort of big library.

“It is not a library. It is a laboratory,” Kennedy replied in a tone much milder than before. It was evident that he had a much better impression of Ayrin than Stingham.

“It’s a laboratory? How can a single person have such a large laboratory? Professor Kennedy, you must be an extremely, extremely powerful arcane master?” Ayrin cried in admiration.

“Hmph! Such flattery. But this kind of bootlicking is too obvious to work on an old man like him,” Stingham quietly muttered to himself behind them.

“Good eyes!”

Much to Stingham’s disbelief, Kennedy’s face immediately brightened as he turned around, chuckling, and replied, “Ayrin, you really have a pair of good eyes!”

“It must be true since your laboratory is contained within a top academy, River Bend Academy,” Ayrin added, causing Kennedy’s face to brighten even further until it seemed like it was glowing.

Kennedy’s laughter grew even more animated as he exclaimed, “Youth, your future is looking bright.”

Wily looks appeared on the faces of Liszt and Ciaran. So it turned out that Professor Kennedy enjoyed being flattered.

“Professor Kennedy, what kind of special training have you prepared for me?” Ayrin asked in great anticipation. Flames burned in his eyes.

“What? Neither of you told him?” The smile atop Kennedy’s face abruptly disappeared as he looked suspiciously at Liszt and Ciaran.

Liszt giggled as he awkwardly scratched the back of his head and said, “We were afraid that he would get too excited if we told him. After all, not everyone can receive guidance from someone as great as you.”

“Of course!” Kennedy agreed as his face lit up once more. “Indeed, no one from River Bend Academy has ever been trained by me before.”

“Then it must be a super intense special training!” Ayrin exclaimed, his eyes brightening.

“Ha ha… I’m sure its killer.” A crafty look appeared on Stingham’s face. Led by such a strange old man, this training had to be extremely painful.

“Just what kind of special training is it? I can’t wait any longer,” Ayrin shouted.

“Of course it is super intense!” Kennedy boasted. “The special training I have prepared for you is to let go and eat!”

“What?” Stingham shouted as he tripped over his own feet.

“Eat?” Ayrin’s eyes glazed over as his stomach rumbled loudly.

“Ayrin, Professor Kennedy is the only master of nutrition in the Kingdom of Eiche. And this laboratory we are standing in now is the kingdom’s only nutrition research center.” Liszt struck while the iron was still hot as he continued in a grandiose manner, “He knows how to make many delicious dishes which are also extremely beneficial for arcane masters. Furthermore, his personal pantry contains numerous rare ingredients, including several which have gone extinct in the wild!”

“Eh? Doesn’t that just make him a chef?” Stingham said blankly.

“What did you say?!”

“I didn’t see wrongly. You are indeed an idiot!”

“A master of nutrition is completely different from a chef!”

Sparks created from arcane energy danced in the air as Kennedy was angered by Stingham’s words.

The overwhelming strength of his arcane energy fluctuations almost caused Stingham to kneel down and beg for mercy.

“Professor Kennedy, your special training will definitely allow me to greatly increase my strength!” Ayrin abruptly shouted. After a short pause, he asked curiously, “But how can eating mindlessly allow me to greatly increase my strength?”

Kennedy glared at Stingham , and then turned and looked kindly at Ayrin as he said solemnly, “Do you not get hungry very easily? Any slight movement and you feel starving. And do you ever feel full, even when you eat a lot?”

“It is like that.” Ayrin’s face reddened as he embarrassedly scratched his head and replied, “Even right after eating, I’m often so hungry that I do not want to walk anymore.”

“Definitely the bloodline of a giant food monster,” Stingham muttered scornfully.

“Shut up, idiot!” Kennedy shouted menacingly at Stingham before turning back towards Ayrin and genially saying, “This is occurring because your is greatly lacking nutrients. It is like an incomplete sentence.”

“Lacking nutrients? Like an incomplete sentence?” Ayrin repeated blankly.

“Correct.” Kennedy nodded. “Let me make a simple analogy. If we consider your body, and those of your peers, as houses, they would look pretty much the same on the outside. But on the inside, the furniture in their houses would be complete, whereas yours would all be missing parts and pieces. The nutrients you absorb by eating will allow your body to produce these missing parts and pieces.”

Ayrin became totally stupefied as he said, “So what you are saying, Professor Kennedy, is that my body still hasn’t finished growing yet?”