Orc Harem Vol 1 Chapter 3

Chapter 3: The Lesson of Fighter King Rowland

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The strongest teachers had assembled.

All of them were great figure. Each of them was busy with their own business so it wasn’t like they could teach me every day.

They formed a schedule to make me strong with the most efficiency with Kaa-san as the central figure and the rest of them coming as their circumstances allowed.

The schedule chart had been finished in less than five minutes.

I was surprised when I saw it.

What’s the deal with this super packed schedule?

Furthermore it had been arranged until the minute details for four years from now.

For some reason in each month there would be one day that was signed with the mark of ☆.

This sign absolutely must be something insane.

「Say, Kaa-san. What is this day with the star sign?」

「It’s the day where you will be able to use the grand magic that is the pride of the great sage Merlin Enlight, the room of time’s interval. The magic will thoroughly drain the power of leyline circulating in the land, so once it’s used, you will need to wait one month before using it again. But, it’s a great magic that can create a room where the flow of time is different and you can perform special training for twenty days inside while only a day will pass outside!」

Was everything possible just because he was the great sage!?

「No, that sounds amazing but, I will age by twenty days in just one day if I use something like that won’t I!?」

「Strangely, you won’t grow old inside that room. Rejoice! You will be able to do special training nonstop for twenty days alone with the instructor that is assigned to that star marked day! The great point of the room of time’s interval is that there won’t be any entertainment at all inside and you absolutely won’t be able to go outside until twenty days passed, so you won’t be able to escape no matter what you do!」

「That gives me nothing but bad premonition you know!?」

Obviously it only made me wanted to run away if you made absolutely being unable to run away sounded like a good thing.

When I looked at the schedule again carefully, this day was already a star marked day.

「Your first day will be with the Fighter King Rowland. I leave it to you.」

「Ou, first I’m going to initiate you in how to use ki. If you can use ki even just for a bit, you will get tougher and your recovery power will also increase. Your stamina will also improve, and you will be able to have easier time to concentrate your mind.」

「Yes, that’s exactly why I leave Ork’s first day to you. For this whole day……the one day that will be stretched into twenty days, I ask you to make Ork to be able to do the basic of ki’s usage……how to sense ki.」

The Fighter King Rowland shrugged in exasperation.

I realized just how absurd the thing that Kaa-san asked just from that reaction.

「Big sis, even just that basic of ki’s usage will normally take five years to learn you know?」

「That’s only when the mediocre person learn it with the safe way. Please go through the extreme method. This child is my son. He won’t die, because he is a genius.」

「Gotcha. Then, I’m not going to be picky with the method. Don’t complain to me even if your son die.」

Kaa-san and the Fighter King Rowland laughed cheerfully.

The other teachers were also nodding in agreement.

They were talking about me ending up awakened or dead as though they were talking about idle gossip. I thought I heard they said something like nine out of ten people will die, ahaha, there’s no way that’s the case, 999 out of 1000 would die if this method is used. Seriously!?

The great sage Merlin Enlight handed a large bag to the Fighter King Rowland.

No-, where did you take out that bag!? Something that big obviously couldn’t be keep under the robe. My retort couldn’t keep up with the absurdities.

「Here is medicines and foods for two people for one month. All of them are special products that were created by putting together the best of science and alchemy. They have various effects like reducing pain, sustaining concentration, recovering from exhaustion, enhancing mind, healing wound, and so on……I also have prepared the necessary drugs to reinforce all types of muscles and improving magical circuit. Give them to him by strictly following the instruction in the attached letter inside. He will be reborn if he continues to constantly consume them for twenty days. This will be just right for the start of the training.」

The latter half was just doping ain’t it!?

Rowland cackled.

「Hee, this is a real nice side benefit. I’ll also be able to try the things that Merlin Enlight himself created. I accept it gratefully.」

Were the suspicious drug and that strangely delicious dumpling that Kaa-san fed me through that nonstop running for three days and three nights also created by this person?

Kaa-san hugged me tightly. She told me to come back alive and kissed my cheek.

It looked like a nice scene, but it was Kaa-san herself who did the utmost to force me into this extremely dangerous situation.

「Then, I’ll perform the grand magic of the room of time’s interval now.」

The great sage Merlin Enlight thrust his staff into the ground, then the mana from the leyline running inside the land burst out all at once.

He took out a test tube from his pocket and threw the melted mithril inside it to the air. The liquid drew dozens of layers of three dimensional magic circle that overlapped with each other.

The mana of the leyline flowed into the magic circles and formed the grand magic.

Everyone held their breath.

Even someone who wasn’t knowledgeable in magic would understand just how unworldly this magic was. Nobody would believe something like this existed without witnessing it themselves.

It was like a fairy tale.

A crack in space was formed in front of us.

「Then, let’s go big sis’s kid. What’s  your name again……」

「It’s Ork. Please take care of me.」

「Ou. I’m Rowland. Call me teacher.」

「Yes teacher.」

Rowland grabbed my nape and leaped into the crack in space.

The actual training would begin now.

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When I opened my eyes, there was a vast expanse of pure white ground stretching endlessly.

The sky was dark and there was no light.

There was no sun or moon. There was only a huge hourglass floating.

「It has been a long time since I came here. When I traveled to save the world with big sis……with your mom, we lost against an unbelievably powerful enemy and scurried home. We would definitely die if we had a rematch, but if we left it alone, the capital would be taken down in three days. We came to have special training here because of that situation. Well, to tell the truth, our opponent was your dad. We won’t be able to come out from here until that hourglass floating in the air run out.」

I had vaguely suspected it. This person apparently had gone to a journey together with Kaa-san.

And, if they had special training here then that meant the great sage Merlin Enlight should be together with them too.

……The Fighter King Rowland and the hero Kaa-san, and then the great sage Merlin Enlight. What kind of orc could win against that kind of party?

Was that really an orc? Perhaps Tou-san was actually an outrageous monster.

I wanted to curse my fate. If only I could inherit even just a hundredth of that strength.

「I have a mountain of things I want to ask but, it feels like it will take a lot of time so let’s postpone it……we have to think of how to use the food and water carefully.」

「No, if you master the use of ki, you will manage somehow even if you don’t eat and drink for twenty days.」

「Ki is so convenient!」

What was with that all-purpose use?

「Then, let’s begin the lesson right away. In the first place do you know what is ki?」

「No, I only know that it’s some kind of convenient power.」

「I see, well, to put it simply it’s the life energy. You see, any living creature is constantly discharging life energy, whether me or you. And, some species like human or dragon kind can sense ki. ……Strange isn’t it? The species that can’t detect it won’t be able to do it no matter what they do. Even among humans, some can do it while some just can’t.」

「……Kaa-san said that I have excellent sensitivity to ki.」

「Nee-san did? Hou.」

Rowland put his hand on my shoulder.

What was he planning to do? When I was about to look up to his face, I felt a chilly goosebumps on the back of my neck and jumped back.

「Hee, so it’s true. Even though you haven’t even awakened, you can sense a ki this thin. So genius really exist.」

「W-what did you do just now?」

「I poured just a bit of ki in my hand. I also put malice into it. You sensed it just now Ork. Your sense is beyond average.」

It didn’t feel bad to get praised for having a good sense.

For me whose physical strength was inferior, ki was my hope. I absolutely wanted to learn it.

「Now I’m relieved. Big sis asked me to take the extreme method, but frankly speaking, I was unsure because normally anyone will die from the method that I’m going to do now. It’s an inhuman method that people rarely survive from. I’m going to get really rough with you……don’t die okay.」

I didn’t even have time to raise my guard. Rowland stepped with a wonderful movement from the blindspot of my awareness that I couldn’t even raise my vigilance.

Rowland’s hand touched my stomach.

And then, the bad feeling that I felt before this exploded from his palm with hundreds of times the intensity.

My body floated in the air with an intense pain accompanying it. I was blown away for dozens of meters before crashing on the ground and rolling away.

「Aga, agah, aaa, gaaaaaaaaaaa」

I couldn’t make any voice.

A large hole was opened in my stomach. Several of my bones broke. Blood was flowing out.

Intense pain ran through my body. It was a pain that I had never tasted until now.

No, it wasn’t just pain. My heat was getting taken away. This was poison. A cold poison that was trying to take my life.

「Calm down and listen. I’ll explain. Ki is the power of life. You can feel the power of ki the clearest when you’re right at the death’s doorstep. In fact, many times people got awakened to ki when they were in such situation. That’s why, I’m cornering you to a state where you still maintain your consciousness while breaking you to a degree where you just barely won’t die. Well, you’ll die if I leave you alone for several minutes though.」

I couldn’t reply.

I was going to die. Blood was welling up into my mouth. I vomited it out.

「And, I told you that ki is the power of life right? It will become poison if it’s mixed with malice. Even now my ki is enveloping and gnawing on you Ork. You aren’t aware of it, but right now you’re using your life energy with your self-defense instinct to block the ki that is filled with my malice. ……That’s why, become aware of it. Realize what is your subconscious self-defense instinct is doing. You should be able to see it while you’re at the death’s door like this. Don’t just sense it vaguely, have a firm image of it.」

Even if you told me something like that…….

It hurt, painful, I don’t want to die.

Please, save me. I reached out with my hand.

But, Rowland didn’t take my hand and only looked down on me.

Why, I’m really going to die here.

I vomited blood again. It felt like my consciousness was going to vanish.

「You’re going to die if you can’t do it you know? I’m not as lenient as Nee-san. You nodded when hearing that you’re going to learn the basic of ki right? You’re going to learn in twenty days what normally need five years to do. There’s no way you can do that unless you put your life in the line at least. After all you want to skip over the efforts that the normal guy diligently accumulate for many years.」

He wouldn’t save me.

I needed to do it myself to avoid death.

I don’t want to die, ain’t no way I’ll die here.

I still hadn’t nibble on an elf’s ear. I hadn’t buried my face onto the tail of a fox-eared beautiful girl and sniffed it all over. And most of all, I hadn’t impregnated beautiful girls!

That’s why, I’m not going to die!

What did he say again?

A ki that was filled with his malice was gnawing on me. My self was unconsciously resisting it.

Now that I thought about it, a bad feeling was clinging on my stomach. It was cold and painful. My body was trying to warm itself from that cold and pain.

That warmth was ki.

The instant I realized that, my vision suddenly opened.

The world was changing. It felt like I became able to sense something that I couldn’t see until now.

Aa, I get it. It was always flowing from my body.

Then, more, stronger. Pour the warmth in my body to my stomach. The cold wouldn’t go away if I didn’t go that far.

More, more. Warmer.

「This is astonishing. To come this far……I’m a bit jealous now. So Nee-san’s words weren’t just her simply being an idiot parent.」

After I gathered the warmth, the cold and pain vanished.

Even after they vanished, I continued gathering ki and healed the pain of the wound too. The hole was closing.

After a while, I had recovered to a degree where I could speak somehow.

In exchange I was feeling terribly tired.

Perhaps it was the recoil of forcefully dragging out the warmth.

「This, warmth is ki.」

「Correct. Normally you will need three years just to be able to sense ki’s existence. And then you will need two more years to be able to contain it. A total of five years. Aren’t you glad, you can save three years in just five minutes.」

「……I almost died.」

「There won’t be any point unless you got cornered to death’s doorstep after all. Be grateful to my skill in ascertaining that limit.」

He threw me a potion as soon as he said that.

My wound healed after drinking it.

Even after the wound vanished and the cold and pain vanished too, the warmth enveloping my body didn’t vanish.

That warmth was coming out from my body unceasingly.

So this was what it meant to sense ki.

「Now, with this you can see ki. Then the next step. The life energy is flowing out unceasingly. Don’t you think that’s a waste?」

「Certainly.」

「If it’s a waste, you just need to contain it without letting it flow out. Try looking at me.」

「The warmth……the ki isn’t flowing out. It’s flowing around your body.」

「That’s what it mean to use ki. I’m containing the ki that is flowing out, so I’m overflowing with life energy. Besides, I can also do something like this by constantly stockpiling ki.」

The ki flowing in Rowland’s body swelled up suddenly.

It was many times stronger than the ki flowing around me.

And then, he unleashed a straight thrust with his hand.

His fist’s speed surpassed the speed of sound. A shockwave was created.

「Using ki mean stockpiling the discharged ki inside your body, dragging it out explosively when you need it, gathering it into the spot that need ki, well, generally speaking those are the three ways you use ki. Your objective in these twenty days is to become able to contain ki. If you become a master, then even if you sleep you will be able to unconsciously stop ki from leaking out……you will train to be able to do that, increase the amount of ki you can contain inside your body, and increase the amount that you can discharge all at once in an instant. Well, first you gotta start from being able to contain the ki.」

I gulped.

Containing life energy inside the body. I understood from intuition that I would be able to become strong just with that.

The explosive discharge of ki that Rowland showed just now was even more amazing.

If I could master this, even my childhood friends who bullied me wouldn’t be my match.

……No, something trivial like that didn’t matter.

Surely I would be able to become a strong male and could have sex!

「Understood! How can I gather ki inside my body?」

「Who knows, you gotta find that out by yourself. I’m not saying this to be mean, the difference between each person is just so big that having strange preconception will just harm your progress. Well, you managed to sense ki. Then what’s left is to search for your own method through trial and error.」

「I’ll do it!」

「Oi, you have lost too much blood today so keep doing your ki training. From tomorrow I’ll train your stamina and muscle strength and flexibility until you almost break. And when you’re finished with those it will be special training of ki until sleep time. ……Also just because you’re going to self-train, don’t let your mind wander even for an instant. This is also training for maintaining your concentration. I’ll punch you if you lose focus.」

As soon as he finished saying that, Rowland performed a handstand with just a single finger, and then he began push-up in that stance.

His gaze wasn’t looking at me, but I was being watched by him.

That’s how it felt.

I couldn’t let my mind wander like this. Although I had no intention of slacking off. I wanted to obtain this power as soon as possible.

I had awakened to my ki in the blink of eye.

With this pace I should be able to easily do something like containing ki!

I’ll learn to be able to contain ki today and then asked him to teach me the next step of it.

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