The Arcane God - Chapter 69

Chapter 69: As The Days Go By
They heard Yara shouting from outside the door. “Father, are you up? Breakfast is ready and we’re all waiting for you.”

Oscar and Oberon looked out the window, but they didn’t expect to see streaks of sunlight. They had talked about the events of the past, overnight, and it was already morning time at this point.

So, the two stood up, smoothed their clothes and walked out of the hut, one behind the other.

“Oscar, I didn’t you were here in father’s room. I was wondering why I couldn’t find you this morning, even Maya went to your room to look for you.”

Oscar kept quiet but tried to squeeze out a smile. His mood had not completely recovered from the pain.

“You can ask him questions later. But first, we eat.” The branch master calmly walked towards the dining area.

After breakfast, Oberon still gave everyone a basic lesson, and then asked them to carry out their physical training.

The physical training arranged by Oberon was actually very simple, and it was based on running.

Every day, starting from the morning time, until more than an hour before lunch at noon, they had to run. It was an intensive training time to strengthen everyone’s physical functions.

But there was also a reward and punishment for the results of the exercise, and the daily intensive training was ranked the same as the competition. The last place in the competition had no food to eat at noon.

The workouts vary from day to day, each week. Specifically, it was arranged as follows:

On Mondays, they had to run from the academy to the south gate of the Mystic City. Write down the contents of the notice posted at the south gate, and come back to deliver it.

Because the South Gate was the direction where the entire Mystic City faced the center of the mainland, it was the most lively, and the official notices were also posted at the South Gate.

The Mystic branch was located outside Mystic City. In this way, it could not only exercise everyone’s body, but also keep abreast of some major events in the city, so as not to derail the communities.

As for Tuesdays, they would cut down woods in order to strengthen their arms. Before lunch, everyone had to go to the forest two kilometers away from the Mountains to cut a stack of tree branches and come back.

They asked not to use their essence, but only axes. But the branches of the tree could be brought back using their Spatial Storages.

In the end, the last place was determined by how much wood each person cut down.

On Wednesdays, they were to run from the academy to the north gate of Mystic City. Then to buy smoked ham from the old Barkley shop and come back to prepare the food. Basically, the last place on Wednesdays belonged to Zachar, and everyone knew the reason.

While on Thursdays, they practiced arm support. There was a big river at the back mountains. There were several iron chains on the river. Everyone had to climb back and forth, five times on these iron chains with the strength of their arms.

Oberon would be responsible for their safety by the river.

On Fridays, they were to run from the academy to the west gate of Mystic City. To sell ​​the sun-dried firewood to the designated houses in exchange for money and return it for delivery.

For Saturdays, they would hunt in order to improve their courage. Oberon would lead everyone to find some first-level and second-level beasts in the periphery of the ancient forest, and let everyone attack it together.

While training everyone’s courage, it could also improve everyone’s teamwork ability.

As long as everyone could hunt a beast together, the mission would be completed, and then the animal would be brought back to the academy to serve as food. But there were also occasions where the hunted animals were not edible.

For example, the first- and second-level low-level spiders, were not edible. They didn’t know if they could eat a spider successfully, but no one even wanted to eat one anyway.

However, they could also be exchanged for money, so everyone could still have a big meal with the exchanged money.

Sunday, was a rest day, but the students could practice individually.

The fire mage, Yara, the water mage Maya, the plant druid, Zachar, and the light mage, Oscar, practiced magical arts on one side of the playground, while fighter among them, Lester the swordsman, practiced weapon mastery on the other side.

In this regard, Lester, who was on the path of becoming a battlemaster, was at a disadvantage, because he only had half a day to practice swordsmanship due to the blade energy.

In this regard, Oberon once mentioned to him that he should do swordsmanship at night and harness ether during the day, but Lester refused.

The reason for Lester’s refusal was to practice along with everyone. This could enhance everyone’s feelings and mood, but also increase everyone’s ability to work together as a group.

He believed that the various swords skills he practiced every night were enough to make up for his loss of time in harnessing ether.

After all, he would become a battlemaster, not a mage or warlock.

And since Oscar entered academy, he had inherited Lester’s habit of doing physical training with everyone every morning, but he would harness ether in the night.

No one knew the real reason behind his actions. It was not until Oberon discovered the secret of Oscar’s special method of harnessing ether that Oscar’s secret was no longer hidden.

But Oberon did not let other students know about this secret. Only the three of them knew about it, including the Cleric, elder Cader.

In the blink of an eye, another half month had passed. Oscar and other five students spend their days in intense but fun environment.

During this time, the branch acquired the part-time services of a blademaster for Lester, a druidmaster for Zachar, and a water Magus for Maya.

Oberon continued to teach Yara and Oscar. The dual mage even found a good book based on the healing magic of a light mage from the academy’s library and handed it to Oscar.

For Oscar’s current power base, Oberon knew it was really too low for him to defend himself with. He was afraid that Oscar’s secret could lead to unnecessary trouble or danger for him once exposed, so the matter of the boy’s special nature and the mythical method of harnessing ether were hidden as secrets.

Oscar was also full of curiosity about Oberon’s ether weapons, but the branch master told him that his current power base was too low. He had not reached the level of essence explosion.

It would need essence explosion to stimulate the ejection and power of the weapons.

For essence refiners with low powerbases, it was impossible. Only when their powerbase reached silver-level or above, would it be feasible to trigger an essence explosion to attack an opponent.