《Start With Contracting Sprites》Chapter 10: Classmates
Advertisement
The first day's training mostly trained the physique of the sprite. The physique was the foundation for everything. Many innocent beginner Sprite Trainers wanted to train sprites' battle skills right after contracting—that was unrealistic.
Su Hao's plan for Silkworm Baby was firstly physical exercises, and secondly, training Silkworm Baby's speed and agility.
So long as the speed was fast enough and it had enough agility, the simple skill of "dodging" could make a sprite invincible.
Su Hao couldn't remember how many times he threw the frisbee in the morning.
Silkworm Baby was energetic at the start, but after failing a few times to catch the frisbee, it lost most of its energy.
Fortunately, it still yearned for the handsome looks of its own kind in the videos and remembered what Su Hao said, "All the hardship and pain in the shadow is to show off on the field."
It was a wise saying that it treasured in its heart.
The little guy gritted its teeth and persisted.
Its progress was also very fast. After many adjustments, Silkworm Baby finally remembered the correct way to exert force, it leaped up like a little puppy and caught the frisbee between its teeth.
"Only sprites, with a much stronger recovery ability than ordinary animals, can be trained like this."
Silkworm Baby was small in size, and it fell down quite a lot of times, but it only felt pain and didn't really get injured. Its physical strength also recovered quickly.
Its progress was visible to the naked eye.
There was no wonder that sprites were "main characters" favored by Mother Nature—humans were just their feeders.
After training from morning till noon, Silkworm Baby could already manage to leap up rapidly and get the frisbee within three seconds after it left the hand. Sometimes, it even made 360-degree flips in the air.
If it wasn't that Su Hao forbade Silkworm Baby to come too close, the little guy might pounce on the frisbee even before it left the hand.
"Gurgle~!"
Silkworm Baby shook the dust off its body. Successive successes brought it a sense of accomplishment, and its enthusiasm for training rose again.
On the contrary, Su Hao himself was actually pretty exhausted.
As Silkworm Baby progressed, he threw the frisbee faster and higher. He must have thrown it hundreds of times in the same morning. Later on, he threw it with all of his strength. His arms were so sore and numb that he felt he was probably not too far from getting big arm muscles.
Advertisement
"Let's rest and eat."
Silkworm Baby was just feeling a bit of contempt for its Sprite Trainer, but hearing about eating, it forgot about everything else, ran up to him happily, and rubbed itself against his trousers.
Su Hao took out a portion of jade powder and placed it in front of Silkworm Baby.
Silkworm Baby approached and opened its mouth.
"Gurgle, gurgle~"
The whole silkworm looked like (◕ᴗ◕✿)~
Su Hao also took out his own lunch from his backpack. His was pretty ordinary: two loaves of caterpillar bread and a bottle of milk tea.
He tore open the packaging, squeezed the bread upward a little, and took a bite.
Silkworm Baby: っ゚Д゚)っ
It looked at itself, and then at the caterpillar bread in Su Hao's hand, and somehow felt that they looked… a bit alike, very alike!
Can it be that disobedient sprites will be made into bread? Oh so scary, gurgle o((⊙_⊙))o
Su Hao didn't know what happened, but Silkworm Baby worked harder during the afternoon training.
Perhaps it was touched by my good qualities.
…
For a few days in a row, Su Hao brought Silkworm Baby out in the morning and returned before dinner.
Apart from basic physical training and spiritual force training, agility training was also one of the daily training plans. In Su Hao's plans, in the early stage, the battle power of Silkworm Babies in the early stage was mostly shown through its agility and hitting force.
Agility training had already changed from throwing the frisbee to throwing elastic balls.
Interspersed in between were strength training and hitting-withstanding training. Su Hao chose the low-cost and extremely productive training method, bumping against trees. It trained the Silkworm Baby's hitting force, made its skin thicker and harder during the collision, and even made it overcome the fear mentality to reach new heights in its life as a silkworm.
The only problem to overcome was that Silkworm Baby wasn't very willing.
Fortunately, there were also targeted psychological guidance in the cultivation plans… It wasn't that Su Hao was a harsh trainer, but Silkworm Baby was too bad at resisting temptations.
Su Hao also chose some relatively affordable spiritual plants according to the cultivation plan for Silkworm Baby to absorb. This was the benefit of Wood-Element Sprites—they both assisted in growing plants and absorbing the essences of plants.
The spiritual plant he chose was the most suitable for Silkworm Baby to absorb, and the cheapest.
On the eighth day of training, Silkworm Baby had gotten bigger in size, and its progress was already very clear.
Advertisement
On this day, when he set off in the morning, Su Hao already changed from running to riding a shared bike. Silkworm Baby, which had already grown into the size of a fat cat, ran after him with its little legs, and it was able to catch up with him!
The energy stored in its body had increased a lot, and its control of spiritual force also improved by many levels.
It could already focus the spiritual force light spots it spewed out to a straight line, with the furthest distance being 383cm and the longest timing lasting 5.4s. But the spiritual force output was already many times its initial level. The power was enough to tear up an ordinary piece of paper.
Without learning any unique skill, Silkworm Baby's battle power was still shown through its speed and strength. The spiritual force represented its accumulation.
However, it also learned how to wrap spiritual force on its body and use its full force for a hit. It could directly break a small sapling as thick as a teacup!
On top of the gratification, Su Hao also felt a bit regretful.
He regretted that he didn't find an opportunity to give Silkworm Baby a beating—now, he was already no match for it.
Its battle power was roughly equal to 1.5 of himself.
His position was relegated once again.
He also felt an almost unnoticeable bit of backward benefit on himself.
No, although he was a bit stronger, that was because he himself exercised, what had that got to do with Silkworm Baby?
Not far away, Silkworm Baby passed through the woods rapidly, continuously making "S" shapes or "8" shapes. It kept at its full speed, and occasionally it would accidentally bump onto a tree trunk, its soft body contracting toward the front, before bumping back at once.
The tree shook, and leaves fell.
Su Hao leaned against another tree and flipped the Moral Education textbook in his hand.
Sprite stream students also needed to study academic knowledge, and Moral Education was an important subject among them. The weightage during the college entrance examination would not be lower than any main sprite subjects.
There was clearly no such thing before transmigration!
On the brink of tears, Su Hao could only force himself to focus and memorize its content word by word.
Back side of Lake East Hill, by the lakeside…
A neat-looking young woman dressed in sportswear with long hair tied into a ponytail was squatting by the lake, giving orders to her sprite.
It was a sprite with a height that reached the calf, and a completely water-blue body consisted of water streams. It looked like a little girl wearing a long dress that reached the floor. It was submerged in the lake, lake water covering half of its body.
"Little Spring Sprite, absorb lake water, contain it in your body, then mix with spiritual force into a stream, and spray it out!"
"Hum~!"
Its little body inflated like a balloon. After many seconds, Little Spring Sprite's mouth opened slightly, producing a stream of water as thick as three fingers closed together, and it sprayed it out forcefully.
The white water stream was sprayed over a distance of more than 20 meters, bumping onto a tree trunk as thick as the open of a bowl. The continuous spray of water stream made the tree shake continuously. Bits of wood flew up from the trunk, water droplets splashed. After several seconds, the water stream finally lost its force, thinned into a water line, and dropped onto the lake surface and the earth.
There was already a wet puddle of water at the bottom of the tree, and much of the wood on the tree trunk was rubbed off. This spray of water stream, although not a unique skill, already possessed a preliminary wounding power.
"This is it, excellent!"
Little Spring Sprite ran up the land, as though asking to be rewarded. The girl held Little Spring Sprite, lifted it up, and made two turns.
She almost threw Little Spring Sprite out.
"Well… What shall we train next?"
Gu Lingyao took a notebook out of her backpack, on which was… The training plan her uncle had prepared for Little Spring Sprite.
A training plan carefully made by a certified Sprite Cultivator.
It allowed Gu Lingyao to start cultivating Little Spring Sprite before school started, and with methods wiser than those from the school. After all, there was no certified Sprite Cultivator to make personalized cultivation plans at school.
"Hum~ Hum~" The complimented Little Spring Sprite flapped her dress like water waves. "Hum?"
It suddenly looked toward the woods on land.
"What's up, Little Spring Sprite?"
"Hum! Hum, hum~"
"You're saying that there seems to be something over there?"
Gu Lingyao got nervous. Can't it be some wild beast?
She and Little Spring Sprite's two pairs of eyes stared at the woods.
Rustle.
Rustle.
The bushes shook.
A small little figure squinted out of it. Two sprites stared at each other.
Silkworm Baby: (O_O)?
Little Spring Sprite: (๑°⌓°๑)
Advertisement
- In Serial6 Chapters
A Game of Villains
Top-rated Russian Dystopian LitRPG Series is now available on Amazon.They lied, they lie, they will lie. This world is built on deception. Vasily entered the store that fateful evening and became involved in a life-or-death game arranged by a mysterious creature. He survived, but instead of being on Earth, he now appeared to be in a different world, with other people who had passed a similarly deadly test. Some made it through by using force, some by using their cunning… Everyone has their own story, but they all have one thing in common — there are no good people among them. The world of Karik turned out to be akin to a game. In it, one can level up, grow stronger, even resurrect in case of failure. But if one makes a mistake of believing the wrong person, they will die for good. Will the magic that Vasily needs to conceal, or maybe his patron, who seems incapable of telling the truth, help him? Who can say?
8 174 - In Serial28 Chapters
Reluctant Visitor
It was a normal day for Daniel, until his vision blurred and he found himself as a volunteer for clearing a forgotten dungeon in a strange new world.
8 101 - In Serial81 Chapters
Immortal Ki Technique
In life I devoted myself to my King and my martial arts, giving up everything else: friends, family, love and even wealth. After death, I was reborn into a world filled with powerful beasts and chaos. Why can't I have it all on my second chance?
8 237 - In Serial10 Chapters
A Lazy Programmer
Marcus spends his days writing compilers until he finds himself propelled into another world: one where magic exists and is governed by laws similar to those of any programming language. While he's an excellent software engineer, any mistake in this world leads to magic backlash up to and including massive explosions. The dangers of this world include not just the pressing attacks of monsters flooding from dungeons, magical beings inimical to civilization, deadly weather, and magic-enforced slavery ... but also the slow decline of civilized peoples: they're crumbling under all the pressures as well as low birth-rates and high infant mortality rates.Can a lazy programmer save civilization?
8 638 - In Serial13 Chapters
Every Hateful Instrument
Hail-and-Farewell Vinright is a pirate, ferrying drugs and weapons across the galaxy. When he discovers that the headaches he's been plagued with are not a sign that he has a brain tumor, and are instead the rare God-given gift of the power, one in a million psychic abilities, Hail sees the opportunity to help his family profit. Only people with the power can build the stardrives at the core of every ship, and the market for them is controlled by the Imperial government. Pirates would pay huge sums for one, so Hail's family enters the market. Aymon Sandreas is the least likely candidate to take the Imperial throne upon the retirement of his master, First Herrault. When Aymon steps too far out of line, his master sends him away to find the pirates who are flooding the galaxy with stardrives, destabilizing the Imperial government and the spacefaring Guild. Expecting an easy but boring task, Aymon's interest is piqued when the mysterious stardrive maker proves a clever and capable adversary. When Hail and Aymon finally come face to face, Aymon offers Hail an opportunity: work for me, in exchange for your life. But Hail wants nothing more than revenge, and he's willing to play the long game to get it...
8 158 - In Serial13 Chapters
Blood of the Past
He awoke in a startled rush feeling as though it had been centuries since last he had opened his eyes, but alas, it had. His thoughts returned and he heard the screaming of his people and the great pain from the burning fires set against them. He was shunned and outcast along with the rest of his people, and the wars, the terrible wars fought because they could not understand. The Humans could not understand and would not understand him and his peoples true nature. He stood, his strength returning to him, as he did so the dust that had gathered on him fell to the floor. He looked around the cave which he hid in all those centuries ago and he found the way out. He made his way towards it, wanting to see the same as which he had when he entered, wilderness. He made it to the mouth of the cave and found it to be near midday, and he saw naught but wilderness. Save a lone tower far in the distance clearly overgrown and abandoned. His blood boiled as he stepped into the light and the harsh reality of him and his people rushed back into his mind. He would wait for night, and then he would move.
8 155

