I Just want a Peaceful life

Chapter 4: Goofing off

Chapter 4: Goofing off

The next morning, Angus arrived in front of one of the rooms inside the mansion. The room will become his study room for the next three years until he goes into the royal academy.

Arriving in front of the room, 'Huft… I hope I didn't get any weird teachers. Well, at least I could learn the one that is called magic besides from the books.' Thought Angus.

Although Angus wants to hide his real strength, he is still interested in magic. For Angus who never knew that magic exists in his past life, he finds magic is marvelous things that contradict physics and his past common sense.

Because of this, he wants to learn magic. But, magic itself is a very difficult subject that not everyone can do it. Only the talented and hard-working person could do it.

*Knock* *knock* After knocking on the door, he hears a pleasant female sound from the inside, "Come in."

Angus immediately enters the room and sees a young woman in a strict teaching uniform that gives the vibe 'I am a teacher'. The woman is quite beautiful and tall with deep blue hair.

But, he knows behind her petty figure hidden an aura of a skilled fighter that is already through many life-death situations. He confirmed it by how she positions herself and her entire body language from the first few seconds he enters the room.

Before he could think further, "Done admiring? If yes, hurry to your seat, Mr. Young Master." Said the blue-haired woman in a sarcastic tone.

Without saying anything, Angus immediately went back to his lazy expression and sat at his seat.

After Angus took his seat, *sigh* "Well, my name is Andria Cobalt. I will tutor you for the next three years until you enter the royal academy." As she looks disappointed by my previous behavior.

After that, she immediately began her lesson. In summary, she teaches him some common knowledge about this world. From Andria's explanation, Angus knows that there is a lot of hidden danger behind his everyday peaceful life.

One of them is the danger of monster hordes. Unlike in his past life, this world that is called Firuman is inhabited by a lot of races besides the human race.

But the most dangerous one is the one called a monster, a being that is corrupted from miasma, corrupted mana. They tend to go berserk and seek the only destruction of civilization.

As for the reason behind this phenomenon, nobody could uncover it from ancient times. The only possible explanation is from the myth where an evil god corrupted some beast into a monster through miasma and sought the destruction of civilization.

Fortunately, other civilized races are also not so weak just to be destroyed by a monster horde. They could utilize mana to protect themselves and fight back the monster horde.

As time goes on, both the monster side and civilized races begin into stalemate situations. But, the danger of monster hordes still exists as they grow stronger and increase their number over time.

While the civilized races could only pass down their mantle to the younger ones after they grew at a certain age or cut down monster numbers slowly.

Still, this kind of problem will only happen in the future for him to worry about. He rather worries about his matters about the so-called politics between the nobles. If he is not being careful enough he may get stabbed in the back by other nobles.

Angus knows exactly how dangerous humans can be from his experience. Although he already decides to leave this matter to his brothers, he still needs to be careful around the noble society.

A few days later, Angus was called into the training ground by Andria for physical training. Because of the monster horde threat, all the people in the kingdom have learned some sort of self-defense since childhood, especially the noble one.

Since Angus wants to hide his real strength, he tries to put on a fa?ade that makes him look like he has average physical strength.

The moment Andria tries to push him further than a normal average kid could do, Angus immediately stops his exercise and looks at her silently.

Although, he only looks silently his expression is mocking her like saying "Are you a retard do make me do this?".

After that, he immediately leaves the training area while making excuses, "I am sorry, teacher. I need to go to the bathroom for a while."

Many times Andria tries to punish him for that. But Angus always gives the same excuse to go to the bathroom before going for hours. Then, he will be found falling asleep below the shade of a tree in the nearby garden later.

Because Angus is also the son of duke Jacob, Andria cannot do anything too excessive about him besides tolerate his behavior. Even after she reported this matter to the duke himself, it only got a reply as let him be since he was still a child.

As time goes by, Andria gives up trying to push Angus training harder during the physical exercise. Fortunately, Angus was interested in magic so Andria still could tolerate his lazy behavior.

Besides, a lot of nobles also prefer the occupation as magicians, since the magician is positioned at the backline in battle which is quite safer than others.

'Hm… he also will not go further in this magician path because his mana is quite low and his mind power to construct magic circles is almost below average.' Thought Andria as she looked at her students who tried to cast simple fire-based spells.

What Andria never thought is Angus planned all of this to give him the impression of a weak spoiled noble son that is very lazy. Still, it is also true that Angus' mana and mind power is below average since he didn't increase them at all during the past few years.

Because of the host chart, he actually could monitor his growth but rather than use it to improve further he used it to make it stagnant.

Few years after finding out how the system works, Angus knows that doing specific actions continuously such as training or reading books will increase his status.

Reading books will increase his intelligence which will increase his speed to construct magic spells. So, Angus uses most of his time pretending to read books while he is just sleeping or goofing off.

He did all of this hassle because in the royal academy he will be tested through a machine that will roughly calculate his body and mind power. Knowing this he immediately planned to stagnate his growth by doing his daily routine carefully.

'Hmm… not too bad' as Angus looked at his status panel.

Host: Angus Victory

Age: 5 Years Old

MP: 5/10

Strength: 3

Dexterity: 3

Intelligence: 4

Vitality: 5

Soul Point: 31