waking up early in the morning to the cries of roosters was a new experience for him, after all he was from the city and roosters were rare

after he woke up, he was required to go to the training area,

the servants usually wake up earlier than the masters and start cleaning up the estate and do what servants do

for our young Arowne, as he was supposed to be the guard of the heir of the family, he started his training early, when he made it to 5 years, he no longer had to follow Alasteir like a shadow

but had to start his training to be his guard as he reached the minimum age,

for alasteir he also started his training but separately from him and the other youngsters in a private courtyard, the young master was not as talented as our Arowne, just average but he gets to practice in a secret family technique and enjoy resources like meat from magical beasts and high quality medicinal herbs and medicinal baths and such things

you can see the disparity between them, our protagonist and the other youngsters could only enjoy the leftovers

so back to topic, after making his way to the training field, some other future guards were waiting for the instructor to come, and as time was ticking others came in as well, and in 2 minutes everyone was there,

while waiting Arowne decided to do some stretching before they began training, as he was stretching he remembered one of his regrets from his previous life

it was legs flexibility, he always regretted not working on that, now in this life and since he is still young, he will use the knowledge of videos he watched on the how to and be as flexible as can be, not to mention that flexibility is a great boon in martial arts so he decided to work on the flexibility of the whole body

as he was stretching and warming up the instructor was seen coming and everyone lined up, backs straight and eyes trained on the front

when the instructor arrived he gazed at the trainees and counted 20, then he gave the order loudly

"go put on your gear and start running, last one get half a share of food, first get twice"

and so, with the signal everyone started gearing up, the gear was just a basket with straps filled with rocks,

the weight was adjusted by the instructor for each one of them, if it gets easy he adds more

and so everyone was having a hard time, the instructor didn't even have a shred of mercy and didn't care if the effort would break the young bodies of the children, he just kept pushing them, hhard

running stopped being a physical activity but a battle of wills, in the beginning of Arowne's training their were 50 trainees now, it went down to 20 so you could guess how hard it was to do this training, the survivors would be the leaders, the elites and the losers become ordinary guards or normal servant

after an hour of running the instructor shouted again

"now gather up"

after the sweating kids took positions he continued shouting

"5 years old give me 20 squats and jumps and the older kids add 20 to that for each year older, now! get to work" and let me remind you that this is while still having those weights on

after everyone was done he gave the next instruction

"5 years old give me 10 pushups and the older kids add 5 to that for each year older, if you don't complete them your meal will be cut by half"

that's tough man how are they even alive, are they monster, oh! i forgot we are on another world so old world norms go to the drain

and then it went on for 2 hours till breakfast, and he doesn't get tired from repeating the sentence, he got some thick skin, i give him that

everyone was gasping for air and shaking from exhaustion and after a few minutes of rest the instructor yelled again to the crowd

"gather up and put the equipment back to their places the head back to the dining hall after showering"

after the shout everyone scattered with shaking steps to the shed where equipment were stored and headed to the well, they took turns getting the water and washing up speedily using a crude soap, and after a change of clothes and dropping their smelly ones by the washing crew, they went to the servant hall for breakfast, by this time everyone in the household was awake and catering to their jobs

all the personnel was required to finish eating before the masters so that they could attend to their needs,

the breakfast was a loaf of bread and a large bowl of vegetable soup and a cup of water,

and guess who won the race and aced the training afterwards, of course it's Arowne, it seems that being highly talented is very helpful after all

due to this world customs the poor have only two large meals a day one in the morning and the other before sunset, and after a hard training the mc was ravenous, he devoured his double portion, he even got a slice of meat, and of course don't forget the last on the race he got only half a portion

when they finished eating, everyone dispersed to do their work, and so Arowne left to go attend to Alastaire

so far so good,the first day started very well