22 Chapter 22 – Good news (1/2)

The sun had yet to rise over the city of Two Fang.

In a room of a picturesque little lodge in the city, a young girl woke up in a daze.

In a white silken short robe, she sat up in her bed.

Rubbing her eyes softly in the dark room.

The skin of her arms and feet that was showing up to her thighs was unblemished and fair. Very unusually beautiful for a girl of her age.

Her eyes lazily opened on her lightly freckled face. It only further accented her youthfulness.

Those light blue eyes slowly began to clear as they accustomed themselves to the dark.

Pushing herself up with her dainty little hands. She got up from her bed and went towards the washroom in her room.

In a few moments, she stepped back out with steam following her.

Freshened up, she was now dressed in a light green cheongsam. Her light brown almost hazel hair was still slightly wet.

Rubbing her hair with a towel she made her way to a drawer on the other side of the room.

Picking up a small handheld mirror she checked her appearance. Rubbing her thin nose ridge she traced it down till it reached her cute pudgy nostrils.

She then picked up a small round container from the drawer. Opening it up she rubbed a finger in the hard wax like ointment in it and then closed it. She put her finger on her full and light pink lips. Lightly rubbing it on, she spread it evenly over her lips, giving it a glossy sheen.

Cleaning her hands with the wet towel from earlier, she patted her smooth and fair cheeks, then walked out of the room ready for the day.

This girl was Fen.

Making her way to the dining room she had breakfast with the other girls of the lodge then went to wake up Adam. The sun just barely beginning to rise on the horizon.

This was Fen's daily morning routine.

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After completing her daily task of waking up and dressing the heavy sleeper of a young master. She was now sitting alongside Adam in the dining hall.

Yuki was currently lecturing Adam on various topics.

'Mistress is so caring toward the young master but now she is so stern. Mistress is so admirable.' She knew how much her mistress loved her young master. Even so, to protect him she was willing to be stern when she needed to be. Fen was truly in admiration at this mother's capability of being flexible with her character just for her son.

While Fen was admiring Yuki, Adam was sitting and eating his food while listening to his mother.

Yuki started by recounting his eventful fight at the dungeon. Adam would occasionally chime in, filling in any details she missed.

When she was done she started pointing out flaws from start to finish. Adam was left flabbergasted. She pointed out things as small as the puddles in the room and gave three different ways of utilizing them in the fight.

”Putting all that aside I want you to start learning from each of your fights. I will not always be there to point out things for you while you fight. You need to be able to do this for yourself so you can improvise even as you fight.”

”If there is no room for leeway in your tactics you are bound to fail. Think three steps ahead, four steps, five steps…..a hundred steps ahead if you have to.” She said in a lecturing tone.

'Mother is right… Thinking back, my moves were all linear and crude recreations of what I saw in the painting. If my opponent was anyone other than the goblins with a bit more intelligence, they would have switched up their strategies continuously and broken my flow. They could've exhausted me easily.' He began to recount the events from his perspective. Even if the goblins had just retreated when he went in for his all-out attack's he would have most probably lost.

His moves were slow, crude, unintelligent and plain. The only times he slightly improved was when he improvised to kill the three goblins.

If his body wasn't capable of enduring that over an hour long pummeling he would have most definitely perished.

He thought back to how his energy was so boundless when he fought. It was most definitely the durability brought about by the magicules and his dual class body.

'I can't rely on durability always. What if my next opponent has an actual weapon. Will I just stand there taking their hits? Won't I just be a fish on the chopping block?'

”Mother what should I do to improve myself?” He asked humbly. He had her to advise him so he would most definitely not be reserved.

Yuki was satisfied by his straightforwardness.

”Good. You should be able to do things yourself but it is also good to ask when you don't know. They do say that having an elder in the house is an invaluable asset. Hahaha!” She sounded like a proper wizened old man at this moment.

He couldn't help but lightly facepalm himself at his mother's eccentric behaviour.

After a few more jokes and puns she got serious and started explaining things to Adam.

To sum it up… she pointed out the major flaws from his recent fight and ways to overcome them.