Chapter 24 Training Is Hard

The sun is brightly shining early in the morning bringing light to the whole land, and the chirping of the birds was so rhythmical that it brought happiness to everyone.

Alva was watching people training in her training area, this was not an unusual sight because she is the one who overlooked the training of the many new warriors.

But, today there was one unusual sight, Nikol was running around the ground with great vigour but his face didn't look good at all.

Nikol came to the training early in the morning thinking it was the easiest thing he will have to do since he played sports in high school and early morning training was nothing new for him.

He was too naive to think like that, Alva didn't want to lose as she promised yesterday so she didn't go easy on him from the start. He lifted unbelievable weights and ran holding them. He was forced to take blunt attacks from the sword non-stop. It was a literal hell for a newbie like him.

He wanted to give up in the middle but, after seeing Alva's smug face, he felt insulted. Nikol remembered his boasting last night so he had to keep going.

Nikol wasn't unfit by any chance, it was the training that was too hard. Even other girls were wondering why Alva did something like that to him. They wanted to talk but, they were afraid that they will also have to do the same thing.

"Ha~ Ha~ I can do this, just watch," Nikol was running with a huge block of wood on his shoulder. Normally, someone might think it's easy but in reality, it was an Asmogus trunk, it was five times more dense and heavy than a normal tree trunk.

Alva didn't think he would push himself like this because she did it as a joke. She felt bad doing a bad joke like this.

"Stop it~ I told you it's fine why are you being stubborn, Nikol?" Alva was shouting at him.

"What? Feel like giving up, I can do this all day," Nikol lied because he was feeling sick just from taking a step with it.

"I accept my defeat, stop it," Alva knew he was lying from his reddened face so she didn't mind losing to him, at the end of the day Nikol belonged to her. At least, that's what she thought, she didn't expect to harm him, Alva just wanted to show how hard this training can be but things went wrong when both of them started to act like kids.

He felt his leg giving up right after he heard Alva's voice and the trunk was about fall on his body but, Usha suddenly caught it without letting it fall. Unlike other times Nikol didn't feel that power in his body which made him more confused about his body.

"Be careful! What are you doing? I told you not to do anything dangerous," She almost sounded a little angry.

"I was - I was just trying to," Nikol didn't have an excuse to give to her. She quickly threw the log and caught his hand and lifted him and carried him like a potato sack.

"You're the future of our tribe, don't do things like this," Usha felt worried about him looking at his exhausted body.

"Yes, Chief," Nikol replied to him without any hesitation.

Usha felt dissatisfied because he calls everyone by their names but, he only call her like that. It's like he doesn't want to be close to her. She felt like telling him to call her by name but in the end, her pride didn't allow her to ask something from him.

"Alva didn't I ask you to protect him, what are you doing trying to kill him like this? This is not the training for beginners," Usha was angry with Alva.

Alva didn't answer her as she kept looking at Nikol with worried eyes,

"I'm sorry," Alva apologized with her worried look.

Nikol felt bad seeing her all worried about him,

"Don't be, it's my selfishness I continued this when you told me to stop it,"

Both of them were apologising to each other irritating Usha more and more.

"Damn it! Stop this," Usha didn't want to see two of them being like this.

Alva and Nikol went silent looking at her angry face.

"Alva, did you teach him the basics of magic? This kid has some mystery in his body, he might even be a mage," Usha saw something unusual in him, but she couldn't pinpoint what it was.

"No chief, You told me to wait until you come here, so I was just training him," Alva said with her usual respectful tone.

Usha nodded her head looking at her,

"Anyway, bring that mana stone, you found from that goblin mage's staff, we can use it to check his affinity for magic,"

Alva quickly went to bring the stone, because she was excited to know what Nikol's affinity was.

In this world normally everyone has their elemental affinity but that doesn't mean, they can become mages. They can use simple mana spells but, unlike mages, their spells are a lot weak and simple.

In the human race, mages are very rare but in return, they have the advantage of numbers and the physical strength to compete with others. It says that dragonesses are the most powerful beings but, most of them think it is a myth as nobody had seen a dragoness in real life. They are considered legendary beings in this world.

Alva took a few minutes to return back with a green-coloured stone which looked absolutely beautiful,

"Here, hold this Nikol," She handed over the stone to Nikol, who looked at it with shining eyes.

"Is this what you guys call mana stone? It looks like a gem," He said holding the stone against the sunlight.

"Gem? What is that?" Usha and Alva both were confused by his words.

"Nothing! So what should I do?" He asked.

"First, concentrate and try to use your mana against your stone, It will show you what your element is, and then we can learn some spells," Usha gave him some instructions on how to use it.

Nikol didn't understand but, he tried to do as she told him. He held the stone tightly in his hand and tried to use his mana but, he felt next to nothing.

Nikol tried his best but, he felt no mana coming from him or at least he had no idea what it felt like.

"Why aren't you doing anything?" Usha was confused,

"Nothing is happening, I don't feel something like what you explained, chief," Nikol felt frustrated because he wanted to at least find what was up with his body with these abnormal things.

"You don't feel mana? But it's impossible every living thing has mana, fuck that, even dead thing has miasma which is basically dirty mana," Alva said looking at him with surprise.

"I have never heard of someone without mana, at least until now," Usha said with a surprised face.

Alva and Usha noticed how Nikol felt through his sour facial expression. Nikol wanted to know so badly what was happening to him. At this point, he had already acknowledged the fact that he might not be able to return home.

"Shit! Do I have to rely on something I don't know every time?"

Both, Usha and Alva tried to console him with different techniques. Alva held his hand with love looking at his face,

"Don't worry, Nikol you're strong, remember you saved Nym and me from a group of goblins,"

Usha was different from Alva, she was caressing his head like a loving mother while looking into his eyes,

"Yeah, it's like she said, we will protect you,"

Nikol felt sweet inside him looking at all the care he got from these two beauties but, the bitterness he felt inside didn't vanish fully.

"It's ok, remember we defeated those goblins together," Nikol reassured them but inside he was feeling anxious.

They forgot about the other spectators around them because of this incident, Usha and Alva only realised what they did in public after seeing everyone whispering among them,

Alva was known as a tough and cool person so they were more than surprised to see her act caring to someone like that.

The most surprising one wasn't Alva, people around the training camp had their mouths open seeing Usha acting like that. They had never seen her caring for someone like that. Of course, she was the proud chief of the tribe but her love was mostly tough and they never so her being lovey-dovey with someone.

"Did you see that, She is patting her(him),"

"What happened between them?"

The people around them started to gossip about them.

Usha quickly took her hand back and coughed like trying to deny what she did just now.

Alva didn't mind them seeing her like this because in her mind all that mattered to her was Nikol.

"Looks like we will start a weird rumour," Nikol said while laughing.

"Let them, either way someday they are going to shake their hips for you," Usha said.

"Oh~ before, I forget, did you decide a way to start scared impregnation with girls?" She asked from Nikol.

"Let me think, what about dividing them into groups and sending them, I can't deal with more than ten at the same time, I think five will be my limit but I'll try my best," Nikol already accepted the fact someday, he is going to fuck more than four hundred women in this tribe but he was pretty sure even for him that's not possible.

"Let's do that, I will make arrangements, your first group must be remarkable girls,"

"Don't train so hard, take it easy and Alva don't do the same mistake again or you will have to clean the whole mansion alone for a whole week," Usha gave her warning before leaving.

*Phew

Alva sighed feeling relieved to see Usha going back,

"Idiot! Do you know how scared I was, I thought I was done for, from now on always listen to me ok," She pinched Nikol's hand.

"Hehe~ that depends on the situation," Nikol said while giving his usual smug smile.

"Tsk, if you're not Nikol, I would have already killed you," Alva said while telling everyone to continue the training.