Chapter 362

Chapter 362

Without a large caravan the group's travel speed increased considerably, not only that but with them not making stops at every city and taking a much more direct route it also meant that their usual training time was cut down and adapted to be practiced inside the carriage as much as possible.

While Ajax wasn’t glad about the loss of his physical training he had no issues dumping his mana into his Alchemy ingredients twice a day. Lexi was also in the same boat as she had no issues dumping out her own mana in repeated attempts of forming her Domain.

“Come with me.” The prince told Ajax in a commanding voice the first time they stopped to renew their provisions.

“What are we doing?” Ajax asked curiously.

“Starting your training.” The prince said, a small smile on his otherwise serious face. “Originally this was supposed to have waited until you accepted your position as Duke and had a much deeper tie with Gryndor, considering the amount of good will you managed to create in the last few months however it’s been accepted that you can begin earlier.”

“What training?” Ajax was confused as he was already training for multiple things.

“I was informed that a few years ago you showed a high level of interest in learning [Empowering Restriction].” the prince explained. “As one of my most used skills I can see why a hybrid fighter would be interested in that.”

Ajax was a little conflicted at the news. One the one hand he was extremely eager to learn the skill, on the other he couldn’t help but question if they really needed to wait this long.

“The first thing I need to tell you about this skill is that it will also be detrimental to you.” The prince’s words brought Ajax out of his internal debate. “Unlike most other skills [Empowering Restriction] actively slows the progress your skills will make, this is another reason it isn’t taught too early. The only reason why you are even a candidate at your current age is that you have an abnormal number of different skills already.”

That was a reason Ajax agreed with a lot more but there was one thing he wanted to clarify first considering the possible downsides. “Does it also make it harder for me to gain new skills?” Ajax was aiming for things like Vibration mana and most likely a number of additional mana types, he wasn’t ready to sacrifice all that just yet.

“Yes and no.” the prince answered with one of the least useful answers there was. “Skills brand new to you like for example an additional mana type will not be affected. Derivative skills however that are in part recreated with the use of this skill will be almost impossible to gain and if gained even harder to level.”

“Derivative skills? Like what?” Ajax asked.

“You currently have [Sense Mana].” The prince explained. “That is an Uncommon skill. [Mana Sight], [Mana Scent], [Mana Touch] are all Rare examples of Derivative skills that you can recreate by using [Empowering Restriction] on [Sense Mana].”

“Wouldn’t it just be better to get [Empowering Restriction] since they can be recreated?” Ajax questioned as he thought about it.

“As a stand alone skill yes.” The prince nodded. “I however have both [Sense Mana] and [Mana Sight]. The way [Empowering Restriction] works after it is initially gained is that only a short restriction can be placed on a skill, it is only after it passes level fifty that a more detailed or multiple restrictions can be used. Restricting [Mana Sight] from both eyes to only one would create a much stronger skill than simply restricting [Sense Mana] to sight only.”

Ajax took a moment to think through the consequences of getting such a skill this early when he was already pretty sure he would live for millenia. In the end however the answer he always came back to was that at worst all this would do would be to offset the advantage his Divine Witness trait gave him in acquiring certain skills.

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“I’m ready to start training.” Ajax said with determination.

“Allright.” the prince nodded. “The best way to unlock this skill is by adding non-beneficial restrictions to your skills.”

Level : 14

Health : 500/500

Mana : 200/200

Stamina : 760/1000

Vitality : 50

Strength : 40

Endurance : 100

Dexterity : 105

Intelect : 20

Wisdom : 19

Mind : 20

Perception : 80

Skills : [Climbing][Running][Danger Sense][Grooming]

Ajax managed to hold in the curse as he realized he had broken his restriction.

“What’s wrong?” Lexi asked him, noticing him tense up for a moment.

“Nothing...” he said a little dejectedly. “Just failed at something.”

Lexi had learned over the years they had been together that Ajax was always doing something or other odd, she had also learned to not always question it until he was ready to share as it was usually something odd that most of the time ended up working out for him.

“And so my watch begins.” Ajax mumbled later that same night as he stayed looking out the window of the moving carriage. He had at first been tempted to move away from the window so that he wouldn’t fail again on a twitch reaction but that would go against the focusing on the restriction part of the training.