I JUST WANT A PEACEFUL LIFE

"If this is the order and the decision of Duchess Amberblaze, I will do my best." said Phineas with the same business smile.

'Smart… This way, if he somehow hurt Eric, the blame would go to Aunt Extalia. He really looks and acts like a shrewd businessman with a silver tongue.' thought Angus.

"Alright, don't hold back. Crown Prince Eric, I hope you don't mind." said Angus with a smile.

"S-Sure." replied Eric.

After traveling with Angus for a while, Eric starts to develop a sense of inferiority to him. But, this jealousy never shows up as he fears Angus. The more he knows Angus, the more he realizes how monstrous he is.

Each time he hears new information about Angus, it becomes more ridiculous than before. Moreover, Angus is surrounded by monstrous people like his sister, Anna, Mira, and Darren. At this point, he didn't want any conflict with him.

After sending Eric and his two bodyguards away, Angus drags the sleepy Anna to another training area.

"Master Darren, please." said Angus as Darren and Mira followed them.

"Sure." said Darren as take off his gloves.

Using his sharp nail, he pricked his finger and let his blood drop to the ground. As soon as it reaches the ground, the blood spreads and covers Angus' surrounding area [Blood Rune - Isolated Space]. The blood turns into countless tiny moving red runes.

After a moment, the moving Blood Runes disappear as Angus can no longer see the outside clearly. It is like he is looking through blurred glass. The same thing also happens to people from the outside.

"I think this is enough. Thanks, Master Darren." said Angus.

"Anytime, Young Baron Angus, " Darren replied as he got out of the isolated space with Mira.

"Alright. Anna, wake up. We will also start training now." said Angus

"*Yawn* Noo.. Training is boring. Anna wants to sleep." replied Anna.

"Anna, don't be lazy. Besides, this training is important. We need to know the extent of your new body and power. Now, I want you to transform and fight me." said Angus.

"Ehhh… Really? Why didn't Angus say so? Silly Angus." said Anna.

"Alright, Anna will transform. By the power of the great Anna and.. meat. Anna will eat meat and like pork meat. Errm.. the blessed meat gives me power and ermm what's more…" said Anna.

The naughty girl doing a pose then stops and thinks of her following strange sentence line. She kept doing this for a few minutes, which irritated Angus.

"O blessed pork and lamb sauce… Anna wants to eat?! Then… Angus, which one is delicious? pork or beef?" Anna suddenly asked in the middle of her strange sentence.

"This girl… Just transform already!! Or you will not get any meal today!!" growled Angus.

"Ehhh… No way!! [Transform]" said Anna.

*Whoosh* Instantly, Anna's body slowly transformed. Her form is quite different than before. Her body has a sudden growth spurt with similar characteristics, such as gray skin and a pair of bat wings.

Her hand is turned into a sharp claw and covered with darker hard skins until her shoulder. Her crown horn has become more visible. Now, it looks like a tiara on top of her head rather than just a series of small horns.

Still, the most changing is her height and body. She no longer looks like a small little girl but a fully developed woman. Her bosom grew bigger and voluptuous while covered with similar dark hard skin like her arm.

The hard skin covered all her private parts like a dress but still showed enough of her seductive body. At the same time, Anna no longer has a childish expression but looks like a serious teenage girl.

If the previous Anna is a beautiful cute girl, currently she looks like a stunning, otherworldly girl. Even with the strong Forgotten King's blessing, Angus still considers her beautiful and lovely. Moreover, every slight movement of hers is like trying to seduce him as the opposite sex.

Unfortunately, Angus didn't get too much influenced by it as he is more preoccupied with Anna's core. Since her miasma is too potent, he couldn't measure it with a standard monster grading system. Luckily, her core still follows the standard grading system in terms of aura.

He is surprised that Anna bypasses the third grade and moves directly to fourth grade. Moreover, her mana density is comparable to Jayna, which makes all her mana-based attacks stronger than an ordinary fourth-grade combatant.

'Combined with her ridiculous physical strength and potent miasma, she may be capable of holding on her own against sixth grade if she is careful enough.' thought Angus while [Analyze] Anna's new form.

Angus already suspects that Anna is going through a breakthrough but not this fast, as she is only around 13-14 years old.

'No wonder everyone is afraid of monster-minded people. Their growth rate is too fast even for my standard.' thought Angus.

"Done with your [Analyze]?" Anna suddenly asked Angus.

"Anna?" asked Angus in surprise.

This is the first time Angus hears Anna speak intelligently without attaching strange words or names.

"Enough. I am getting bored. Let's start." said Anna as she charged at Angus.

Angus didn't surprise at her sudden charge and easily parried her fist while redirecting the force [Yin-Yang Balancing].

"Seriously?? Didn't I tell you to not break your form when attacking? It makes me easy to do this." said Angus as he grabbed Anna's hard skin wrist.

*Bam* Suddenly, Anna lost her balance and slammed into the ground while Angus still grabbed her wrist. Anna tried to pull her hand forcefully, but Angus didn't let her. With a little force, he manipulated Anna's balance and slammed her into another direction.

*Bam* *Bam* *Bam* Angus kept slamming her in different directions while grabbing her wrist. Normally, her wrist will be broken or detached from all the slamming and redirection force.

But Anna's hard skin is too durable. She didn't even get a single scratch from all the slamming.

"Urgh.." groaned Anna.

She didn't feel hurt from the attack, but her head was dizzy from all the continued redirected force. Her broken body balances making her head fuzzier. Unable to hold it more, she growled and released a mana wave toward the surrounding area. *RAAAGGHHH*

Once again, Angus already anticipated these moves. His [Analyze] already predicts her mana behavior when grabbing her wrist. He let go of her wrist.

In a split second, Angus uses [Rodeo Maneuver] and [Yin-Yang Balancing] to avoid the sudden mana surge while keeping his close distance.

As Anna is still defenseless from her outrage, Angus launches an attack on her face [Dynamic Punch]. *Bam* *Bam* *Bam* *Bam* In a single attack, Anna feels like getting punched by five punches at different locations in her head.

The punch force pushed Anna away into the distance. Despite the harsh attack, Anna has not gotten bruised or hurt.

"Tch.. Such hard skin. Her defense and physical capability become more ridiculous." said Angus as he looked at his bruised hand, which healed quickly.

As Angus's vitality has already reached 57 points, his body becomes very sturdy, so an ordinary attack without mana couldn't hurt him. Yet, his fist still broke each time he punched Anna's face.

Anna is trying to get up and wants to fight back. Unfortunately, she stumbles and gets more dizzy before vomiting. Suddenly, Her form got smaller.

"Urghh.. *Vomit* *Vomit* Hic.. Hic.. Angus, meanie!! Huaaa!!" Anna starts to cry while vomiting.

"Err… Anna, are you okay?" asked Angus.

"No, Angus meanie!! Anna's head is spinning!! Urgh.. *Vomit*" said Anna before vomiting again.

"Sorry.. Sorry… I guess I am going overbroad a little bit." said Angus as he tried to calm down the crying Anna.

"Meanie!! Bad Angus!! Anna wants meat!!" said Anna as she reverted back to her child form while crying.

"*Sigh* Fine. Here, drink this. It will help your dizziness." said Angus while giving Anna a potion.

Then, Angus decides to end the spar since Anna is still grumpy about it and keeps demanding her meat.

Coming out from the blood rune, "Ahh.. that's fast. Not even half an hour." said Darren from the side while accompanying Mira.

"Well, It seems I push her too much. Either way, it is good progress." said Angus while holding Anna in his arms with her new set of clothes.

"Meat! Meat! Meat!" repeated Anna to hurried Angus.

"Yeah.. Yeah.. Master Darren, Master Mira, I am going to explore the town. Did you want to join us?" asked Angus.

Mira didn't reply and only swayed her hand while reading her storybook on top of a flying pillow.

"Alright, then. Anna, let's meet Big Sis first. She must have done beating those knights." said Angus.

"Okay. See ya, Mira. Anna will bring back delicious meat." said Anna while waving at Mira.

Entering the previous training area, Angus finds the whole area is hot, like near an active volcano. He could see some places turned into hot sludge or crystallized glass from the temperature differences.

Most embassy knights have slightly scalded skin, similar to sunburn, while Jayna sits on the chair like a princess without a sweat.

One of the perks being a Fire Phoenix having endless stamina and high regeneration. This passive trait will become stronger as she advances and grows. Since she didn't use any big, devastating moves, she could fight for hours without getting tired.