Orc Harem Vol 1 Chapter 4

Chapter 4: The End of Training and the After

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Twenty days passed since I entered the room with slow flow of time.

Today was the last day. During these twenty days, I had consumed the drugs from the great sage Merlin Enlight every day. Half of each day was used to thoroughly train in the basic of strengthening stamina and muscle strength, while the rest of the day was used to train in controlling ki. I spent my days like that.

The training of the Fighter King was precise. Added with the great sage Merlin Enlight’s food that was created by putting together the best of science and alchemy, my stamina and muscle strength had increased by several levels.

I was standing in front of Rowland while naked above my waist.

I wasn’t just standing.

I was keeping my ki contained so it wouldn’t leak out.

Greasy sweat flowed out from my whole body without end. And then my limit came.

「Puhaa」

I let out my breath, at the same time my spirit was exhausted and I fell on the spot.

Ki began to leak outside my body.

「So you are able to contain ki for 3 hours 22 minutes and 25 seconds.」

「……In the end, I can’t continue to contain ki even while unconscious. I don’t have talent. To think that this is the best I can do even after desperately trying for these twenty days.」

Containing ki was just the basic. I planned to finish it in several days, but it took me a week before I was able to contain ki just for a second. After that I continued my trial and error and gradually extended my time limit, but in the end this was my limit.

「What are you saying? This me thought that it would be already amazing if you become able to contain your ki just for an instant after these twenty days. That’s the limit of the normal genius……you got the talent that makes me simply jealous you shitty bastard. You did well.」

His fist that was hard like rock patted my head roughly. It wasn’t a bad feeling.

I was hungry to get praised like this.

「Tha-, thank you very much.」

「Ou. I won’t be able to come here again for a while, but train to contain your ki to the very limit at least once every day. It doesn’t matter how busy or tired you get, do it without fail. It’s fine even if you do it while doing other lesson. But, continue doing it without fail. If you do that, you will grow bit by bit. With talent of your level Ork, it won’t be long before you can do it even in your sleep if it’s just containing ki.」

「I’ll work hard! I absolutely will train every day.」

「Ou, I’m looking forward to it. We will use the remaining time to teach you one of my techniques just like you requested. Well, this is a service.」

「Hooray!」

I wanted to learn ki, but as expected as a man I also wanted to learn the technique of the Fighter King.

「You will need to accumulate effort with this one. But, it will become a sure-kill technique if you master it. It’s the sure-kill technique that I’m best with. Practice it every day properly.」

And so, the Fighter King taught me one of his sure-kill technique as a reward.

The training during these twenty days were so harsh and painful it made me vomited, but I had gotten strong and praised. It didn’t feel bad.

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When the floating hourglass ran out of sand, we returned to the forest.

Kaa-san was waiting for us there.

「Welcome back Ork, Rowland.」

「I’m home, Kaa-san.」

「How astonishing. You have really grown magnificently. It looks like you have trained your body properly. What about your learning of ki?」

「Ork, show her.」

Even if he told me that, what I could do right now was only containing ki.

There was no other way. I did just that.

「……Amazing, to come this far with just twenty days of training. Is Rowland a genius instructor?」

「No, it’s this kid who is the genius. Something like this cannot be achieved with just good teaching.」

「Kaa-san, I’m just containing my ki for a short time. Can you really judge just from that?」

「Yes, I have roughly understood from the flow of your contained ki. You can contain it for more than three hours if it’s like this.」

It seemed that Kaa-san was a monster.

I understood now that I had become able to sense ki. Even while we were talking like this, Kaa-san was also containing her ki and it was many times smoother and more powerful than mine.

Kaa-san’s age was already more than thirty, and yet she looked so young she could be mistaken as a teenage girl. It must be because she was containing her ki.

Rowland told me that it would become harder to age if one could contain their life energy.

「Rowland, please take care of his next lesson too.」

「Please take care of me, teacher.」

「Got it. I’ll go home for now but I’ll come again. This time I’m able to perform the greatest tune up to myself while also teaching Ork. I’ll come back again with the world tournament’s trophy as souvenir!」

Rowland waved his hand without turning around.

He was hiding his embarrassment. I understood him well after living together for twenty days.

Kaa-san opened her mouth after he vanished from view.

「Then, for the schedule today. You will have history lesson with the Wise King Vareo Forland after this Ork.」

「……As I thought, this schedule, isn’t it impossible?」

「You can do it if it’s you Ork. We will split the day into two. You will train your body in the first half, then train your mind in the second half. Thanks to cutting short your sleeping time to just one hour and a half, there is still a lot of time remaining even if we split the day into two♪」

「Even though girls will fall in love with me if I become strong, isn’t it strange that I’m doing something like studying?」

「Listen well Ork. Certainly you will be able to impregnate girls if you are strong. But, you will need education and resourcefulness to make them happy. Impregnating girls is not the end. The path after that is long. You have to make your girls and also your children to be happy too.」

「Tsu!?」

I was mistaken.

If I got strong, I would get popular among girls. I would be able to have sex. I would be able to impregnate them.

But, life would still continue even after that.

Only trash would make girls who liked him to go through hardships.

「I’ll do my best. I’ll learn to be dependable.」

「That’s the spirit! Now, it’s time to study.」

Like that, I was dragged by Kaa-san back to home.

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I was astonished when I returned home.

Thick books were piled up like a mountain.

「How wonderful that you have returned, my adorable great grandson. Now, let’s begin the lesson right away. Then, for the start, you shall memorize all the books here. These books recorded the history of all the major countries.」

Was it just my imagination that the table was buried by books and couldn’t be seen anymore?

「Umm, it’s not just Forland’s history, but all the major countries?」

「Fumu. Isn’t it only natural? From now Ork will learn about language, politics, law, and economics. But, those things cannot be separated from the history of their respective country. What kind of experience each country has accumulated, how did they interact with each other, what kind of mentality they harbor, learning history is learning the foundation of those things. It’s the basic of everything. Just learning the history of a single country will worth even less than shit. You need to have an overhead view over the world. Without the foundation of that, you won’t be able to learn anything no matter how hard you study.」

As expected from the wise king. What he was saying was filled with persuasiveness.

「I understand. But, if I’m just going to memorize book then what’s the point of having the wise king as my teacher?」

「Naturally I will also lecture you. What is written in book is only the minimum necessary fundamental knowledge. If you don’t at least memorize all of these, you won’t be able to understand it even if I give you a lecture. And so, I’ll do my office work over there while you are reading these books. The time limit is two days. I’ll be in charge of your study today and tomorrow. I’ll give you a test at the end of tomorrow. I heard that if you fail to do this, Mireille is going to scold you, you know?」

Kaa-san’s scolding……no good, I might die.

That scolding, Kaa-san would told me ‘bad child’ and……I was traumatized by that. It was destruction itself.

「No, this is impossible. This mountain of books!? Normally just reading them all will take one week.」

「How, were you lying when you said that you want to have the resourcefulness to make girls happy……I can’t imagine that you will be able to make a girl happy if you can’t even do this much.」

「……Dammit, I’ll show you!」

Whatever, I don’t give a damn anymore.

I’ll absolutely crammed them all into my head until tomorrow.

「Umu, do your best. The great sage Merlin Enlight-dono has created drugs to help maintain your concentration and improve your memory.」

「Isn’t Merlin Enlight too omnipotent!?」

Wouldn’t it be enough if I was taught by him alone?

And so, I borrowed the drugs’ power to somehow memorize all the histories of the major countries in two days. I also passed the test.

It was dangerous. I would get Kaa-san’s scolding if my score just one point lower.

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Like that, four years passed while I received the teaching from those five teachers.

Although I almost died many times, my body and knowledge continuously got trained during the four years of training.

I recalled the trainings from my teachers.

The wise king’s lesson. His lecture that was based on the histories I memorized was extremely interesting.

The knowledge that I only memorized became connected in my head and formed a tale.

The histories of all countries formed the great undulation of the era that couldn’t be formed by just the history of a single country alone.

It was a pleasure to see the world from the great point of view.

……Well, after I reached a stopping point with history, I was immediately made to memorize the thicker books of law and politics right away though.

The lectures about those topics was also interesting so now they were a good memory for me.

But the topic that was the most interesting in the wise king’s class even among them all was the kingcraft that demonstrated the way a king should be.

It was even more complex and raw than even something like law and politics. I had to challenge my brain matter until the limit. But, it was fun feeling everything that had been accumulated behind it all. And most of all, I was able to come into contact with what existed inside the wise king. I could think of myself as this person’s great grandson.

My graduation test was really crazy. I was made to rule a small country as the wise king’s representative.

There was an insurrection occurring in that country that was still going on even while I was there. Thousands of people would die if I gave the wrong instruction at that time. It felt like my lifespan was shortened by the heavy pressure.

The class of the god of merchant who taught me about economics was also not less interesting.

First I made to do nothing but calculation for several months in order to obtain calculation ability. Thanks to that I learned the special skill of instantly multiplying eight digits numbers at the same time.

The origin of every kind of business, the prosperous time of industries and their current standing, interests, commercial law, the power balance between companies, laws that were related with business, the history as seen from merchant’s perspective. All of them were crammed into my head.

Those lessons got linked with the history that was taught to me by the wise king, deepening my understanding even more. It was interesting.

To give a finishing touch to the training, I was brought to other country to a city where the language and the sense of values were different. Then I was suddenly given an unreasonable task where I was given ten million gil and I had to do a business that doubled my starting capital within three months.

No matter how similar I looked like human, an orc making a successful business without any connections wasn’t a task with lenient degree of difficulty at all. I cried when I was able to just barely clear the task.

I wouldn’t be able to clear that task without making use of the knowledge of history and law that the wise king taught me and crossing a dangerous bridge.

Those days I felt a completely different hardship from simply using my body.

But I also learned the joy of doing business.

The class of the great sage Merlin Enlight was abnormal. He meddled around with my body as he pleased. His favorite saying was that I could be cured even if I died. I always got cornered until the verge of death by something that couldn’t be fixed or healed by anyone except him.

That was already a treatment for guinea pig.

Those were days of walking on thin ice that would lead me to death if I took even a single misstep. The great sage’s drugs were provided for the other classes too, but the usage of drugs was even more prominent in my magic lesson.

But putting aside that kind of remodeling, the amount of knowledge necessary for magic was staggering. I never thought that I would need twenty days in the room with different flow of time just for studying. It was a nightmare that I somehow managed to consume all the knowledge while being drugged to the gill.

After all the difficulty and information amount of the great sage’s lesson even made the classes of the wise king and merchant god that tormented me so much like that to look kind.

However, the lesson really paid off. I learned every kind of magic and took a peek into the abyss of magic.

I myself learned magic for fighting rather than as a researcher, so according to Merlin Enlight, it seemed that I was still standing at the entrance, but I had learned magic to a degree that most likely qualified me to call myself as a super first class magician.

And then, there was the swordsmanship lesson from Kaa-san.

……It was the usual torture. In the past I would have run away from it, but I was able to endure it thanks to the training from my other teachers.

Kaa-san also had screw loose in her head.

『Do you know? The world will look like it’s moving in slow motion just before you die. The world looks like it’s moving slowly. Don’t you think that you will be the strongest if you can cause such phenomenon to happen by your own will? That’s why, let’s try experiencing death, at least 10000 times.』

She said something like that and proceeded to repeat attacking me 10000 times and stopping at the very last moment to make my brain hallucinated my death. It was my trauma even now.

Thanks to Kaa-san’s swordsmanship getting burned into my brain through that, I was able to learn it in a short time. I also became able to cause the phenomenon of the world moving slowly by my own will.

When it came to sword, that person wouldn’t make the slightest compromise. She beat up swordsmanship into me thoroughly.

My graduation test was to survive in a deserted island that was overflowing with outrageously powerful and violent animal type monsters for three months. By the way I was tossed into that island without bringing anything, not even clothes, I was literally tossed in stark naked. ……Even now I still got nightmare about it.

The class of ki ad martial art of the Fighter King Rowland was the relatively enjoyable class.

The lesson suited me. I continued to diligently devote myself for four years, and now I had become able to contain my ki even while sleeping. And even when compared to Kaa-san or Rowland, the amount of ki I could stockpile inside my body and the amount that I could unleash instantly wouldn’t lose against them.

Well, I still couldn’t catch up to them in delicate control of ki, but it was only a matter of time.

「It was really long.」

All the classes had ended, and I got all my teachers to recognize me as fully-fledged.

In several more days, I would depart from the orc village.

I had obtained strength that wouldn’t lose against anyone and resourcefulness to provide for girls.

There was one thing that I could say with certainty.

I had been reborn.

The current me would surely be able to obtain the best females right away.

I’m looking forward to the journey.

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