Four years went by in the blink of an eye. After guessing what happeo his mother in the past that caused her extreme rea that day meeting Lance, Ace trained like a madman, albeit without his mother or anyone realising.

  He spent the wo years of his life fog on his flexibility. Wheurned four, he began adding light muscur exercises into his workimes – all the while making sure to spend his nights training his observation haki. Though, he cursed himself for not paying more attention to pops or the others about the best ways to train it.

  In his st life, he was tent with being a brute, so he virtually ignored his observation haki other than using it in its most basi.

  He khere was likely a better method, but his haki training simply sisted of him keeping his observation haki stretched to its maximum for as long as possible. He realised that he would lose sciousness as soon as he reached his limits, so he decided to make that the st thing he did befoing to sleep.

  After three years, he suddenly remembered Thatch had tried to expin that although spreading your observation haki out in its raw form is effective as it allows you to feel the auras of others, by pressing it, you see everything in your sphere of observation as if you had a bird’s eye view.

  The only prerequisite was that you o be able to spread your haki over 100 meters. In his st life, his observation haki barely reached 50 meters which was why he didn’t pay the adviy mind, but in this life, it was literally ten times what it was.

  When pressed, his area of observation was only 5 meters, but everything within that 5 meters was stantly projected in his mind. The other thiiced was that in its pressed state, he could see a myriad of multi-coloured specs of light. Although he couldn’t trol them in any way, shape, or form, he could still tell that they represehe various elements of a mage.

  From that day on, he ged his haki training to hold his haki’s pressed state for as long as possible.

  Though he knew his method of training would probably be described as primitive by those who specialised in observation haki from his previous life, it saw results. After three and a half years, his haki could reach 1 kilometre in circumferen its normal state and 10 meters when pressed.

  Even though he would sistently train his observation, he refrained from using his armament haki at all, not wanting to do anything to stunt his growth and affect his future. But that didn’t stop him from being a training maniac, especially as he began to see the results of his hard work paying off. Still, nothing could pare to the excitement he was feeling today!

  “e on, Mom, we’re gone!” Ace excimed with pure excitement pstered on his face as he pulled his mom through the busy streets of Wushan Town.

  “Haha, Ace, calm down. We’re already 20 minutes early.”

  Milianna replied as she allowed her overexcited child t her dowreet with a genuinely cheerful smile.

  “But we don’t know how long it will take us tister.”

  This was one of the few times Ace didn’t have to ‘act’ his age. The childish excitement he was exhibiting was 100% real, and it was for no other reason than that today was the day he started his warrior training.

  Within mihe mother-son duo had arrived at the empty area iowern region.

  By the time they arrived, several dozen children were already gregating in three separate areas.

  The northernmost group stituted childreween 6 and 8, the 9 to 12-year-olds stood in the tre, and those in the south were the teenagers.

  Ace sed the training fields with aed grin. ‘Here is where it starts!’

  Seeing him grinniedly, Milianna shook her head helplessly before leading him to where two of the Baru’s guards were leisurely waiting to begin the css.

  As they he blonde guard with his back to them turned around and was caught off guard at who it was.

  “Mil…

  Milianna!”

  “Hi Lance.”

  Milianna shyly replied.

  Ace could only roll his eyes at their dispy. Over the st four years siheir initial enter, they would run into each other every on a while, but their versations would sist of one or two sentences before they both hurried along.

  Ace wasn’t against his mom meeting someone as he was well aware that he couldn’t be her everything, but he absolutely refused to be her wingman. Even though he khe i from four years ago was still holding them back, and his part to py didn’t help, this was the otle he wouldn’t help his Mother with.

  Seeing how Land this woman were ag, the uard, a stocky bald man, seemed to put two and two together.

  “So you’re Milianna? Lance here has told me a lot about you. I’m Falkes.” He said politely. “And you must be Ace? Judging by the excitement on your face, you must be here to start your warrior training. Just to ensure you’re old enough, how old are you now?”

  “I just turned six today?” Ace eagerly replied.

  “You just turned six today? Haha, you couldn’t even wait to start training till after your birthday?”

  The bald-headed guard asked with an amused smile.

  “Us ioday is all he wants as a birthday present,” Milianna answered helplessly.

  “Haha, being a powerful warrior is the dream of just about every young boy,” Falkes added before pointing to the kids lining up in the northeror of the field. “Go line up with the other kids over there. That will be where you’ll train for the couple of years.”

  Ace hurriedly gave his mom a big hug, which she happily returned before running over to where all the other kids his age were.

  “Don’t worry, he’ll be fihe training for the younger children is more of an introdu than anything else,” Lance expirying to ease the worry on Milianna’s face after Ace ran off.

  “I uand, thank you. Am I alright to stay and watch?” Milianna asked iurn, evidently still worried about Ace.

  “Of course, many of the parents often stay and watch,” Falkes responded, pointing to a group of adults a few hundred meters away before he tinued. “Especially on their children’s first day.”

  “Thank you.” She responded before walking over to the rest of the worried parents.

  “Take care, Milianna,” Lance said, which elicited a shy wave from his crush and a burst of ughter from his fellow guard.

  “I’ve never seen you like that before!” Falkes teased.

  “I ’t help it; she just has that effee.”