Chapter 12

Chapter 12. Galactic Martial God Chronicle - Reincarnation (3)

I watched the reincarnated clone riding home in the car in normal time and pondered.

“When is it normal to start talking?”

If I accelerated time for no reason and skipped too far ahead, I might end up being diagnosed with autism.

While time was accelerated, the clone only followed the commands I had given in advance, so communication with other people seemed impossible.

For now, would it be fine to run time moderately until the hundredth day?

When my clone slept, there should be no problem with accelerating time.

The problem was that perhaps because it was in the state of a newborn baby, the clone repeatedly woke and slept at intervals of 3 or 4 hours, and most of the time when it woke, it drank formula.

In the nursery, nurses worked in three shifts and watched over it 24 hours a day, so there were no problems.

Si-woo, who was taking care of me, was an android, so she probably did not need sleep.

As I was thinking that, we arrived home before I knew it.

Si-woo carried me inside together with the case, and inside the spacious house, there were several more android robots.

“Welcome back, Lady Si-woo.”

Unlike Si-woo, the androids waiting in the house looked robotic even from the outside, and their speech contained a mechanical sound.

“I have returned. Are there any matters to report from while I was absent?”

“Report: 1 item. There is a message. Would you like to output the message?”

“Output it.”

Si-woo and the android robot clasped hands, and Si-woo’s eyes swept through the air as if reading something.

“Hmm, I see. It is fortunate that all legal procedures have been completed. How did the disinfection of the entire house proceed?”

“Disinfection complete, reporting.”

“Good. Management Androids Raiden No. 1 through No. 12, from this moment on, enter normal management mode.”

“Executing normal management mode.”

At Si-woo’s command, the android robots headed somewhere.

I learned later that those android robots were normally connected to the house’s appliances and managed the house, only appearing when physical force was needed.

Si-woo carefully lifted the case containing me, met my gaze, and smiled brightly.

“We will go to your room now, Young Master. Your room has been fully prepared.”

Si-woo continued speaking to me even though there was no need to.

Well, a baby needed to keep hearing speech to learn language, so it was the correct behavior.

Assuming I could hear it even while asleep in the state of a newborn baby.

Carried by Si-woo, I entered my room, which had been decorated in a cozy, detailed way, and was laid down in a baby bed.

“Should I accelerate now?”

I had been observing at normal speed in case there was some information about this world, but it seemed there was nothing more I could learn with the body of a baby that could not move.

Well, even now, thanks to Third-Person Avatar, I could adjust the view and look around. Without it, all I would have been able to see was the sky, or the mobile hanging from the ceiling.

As I was thinking that, Si-woo removed her gloves, touched various parts of my body, and infused Mana into me.

Startled, I stopped myself from accelerating time and looked at Si-woo.

Si-woo, who had no idea I was watching, spoke as if explaining it to me.

“This is called Meridian-Acupoint Circulation. It is a massage that activates the body’s qi channels and helps prevent impurities from accumulating.”

Meridian-Acupoint Circulation! That thing that often appeared in martial arts novels!

Was it the thing that supposedly gave newborn babies an effect like complete bodily rebirth when performed on them?

Of course, the setting differed from novel to novel, but to perform Meridian-Acupoint Circulation, did you not have to be a master?

Whether she knew my question or not, Si-woo continued performing Meridian-Acupoint Circulation for several hours while continuing her explanation.

It was somewhat like an explanation copied from Wikipedia, but to summarize Si-woo’s explanation, Meridian-Acupoint Circulation was a great art that could only be used by someone at the Transformation Realm, or by several Transcendent Peak experts gathered together. Unlike adults, newborn babies had flexible meridians and qi channels, so it was said to have beneficial effects on comfort and growth.

It seemed it really was the Meridian-Acupoint Circulation I knew.

But that meant Si-woo, who was performing Meridian-Acupoint Circulation alone, was at least at the Transformation Realm.

Could androids train in martial arts too?

More questions arose, but after finishing Meridian-Acupoint Circulation, Si-woo sat beside my bed and recited some unknown scripture as if reading me a fairy tale.

“A tree must make its roots firm, its trunk strong, and its branches supple. In breathing as well, one must be like a tree....”

As she spoke, she infused Mana, no, qi , into my lower abdomen, and moved the qi she had infused by tracing her fingers over my entire body.

For a moment, I could not understand Si-woo’s actions, but through the consciousness connected as if one foot were inside the body through Third-Person Avatar, I realized something from the movement of the qi sweeping through my entire body.

“A cultivation method! Don’t tell me she’s making me learn a cultivation method from when I’m a newborn baby!?”

If so, rather than sharing sensations as if I had only one foot inside, it would be better to enter the clone’s body and feel it directly.

I immediately entered the clone.

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Several days had passed since I reincarnated in the body of a newborn baby and came home with Si-woo.

During that time, I experienced Si-woo’s cultivation method lessons and tried to move qi according to the cultivation method on my own.

At first, because the movement of qi was somewhat complicated, it was not easy to move the small amount of qi inside my body.

I could feel qi itself, but the qi inside my body was faint, and the qi outside my body was difficult to draw in.

However, perhaps because some spiritual medicine had been mixed into the formula, after I drank it, qi filled my entire body for a short while, and I practiced the cultivation method during that brief period after meals when qi was abundant.

Then, just like when Magic Bullet first appeared, ‘Bluewood Art Lv 1’ appeared in my Status Window.

Just because an ability had appeared in the Status Window did not make anything easier.

To begin with, the Status Window was only an indicator that told me my condition.

However, the fact that Bluewood Art had appeared in the Status Window meant I was properly learning Bluewood Art, so it was good news.

By the way, seeing that what I learned was Bluewood Art and my surname had become Cheon, it seemed I had been born into the Cheon Family.

Since Bluewood Sword and Bluewood Art were said to be martial arts learned by the children of the Cheon Family, my senses had not been wrong.

When I performed Bluewood Art on my own, Si-woo, who had been teaching me Bluewood Art, looked puzzled for a moment.

“Uh... is he supposed to learn this quickly?”

Si-woo had introduced herself as a nanny android, but it seemed this was her first time taking care of a baby.

The posture she used to feed me formula and the way she changed my diapers had been somewhat unnatural at first.

After doing it a few times, perhaps because she learned, she became skilled right away, but at first, she had clearly been awkward.

After becoming somewhat accustomed to Bluewood Art in the body of a newborn baby, I went back and forth between my clone and main body, practicing Bluewood Art.

Perhaps because the clone’s newborn-baby body had no impurities in it, the movement of qi was natural, but my main body found it difficult to absorb and move qi.

It seemed that was because the clone was consuming spiritual medicine along with formula, while my main body had already aged as much as it had and could not consume spiritual medicine.

Even after I became somewhat accustomed to Bluewood Art, Si-woo did not teach me anything else and continued only Bluewood Art practice and Meridian-Acupoint Circulation.

“So this is as far as my learning goes for now.”

I made the clone repeat Bluewood Art practice and accelerated time.

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As time passed, my clone with a baby’s body grew.

After passing 100 days after birth, it became able to roll over and crawl on its belly. When 200 days passed, I became able to control my body to some extent.

And as I neared one full year old, I became capable of some pronunciation and toddling.

It was not as if I spent the entire year at accelerated speed.

From time to time, I took the time to practice the cultivation method in the body of my baby clone.

No matter how much the clone practiced, it was no more than marching in place.

Of course, I could feel my acupoints being trained to some extent according to how much the clone practiced, but if I did not embody the cultivation method myself, it had no meaning.

The time I experienced as a baby was about 30 days.

About 15 hours had passed for my main body.

Because of that, the Tower clone had to buy more sandwiches for my main body to eat and pass them through the Inventory.

Now that communication with Si-woo was slowly becoming possible, I decided to reduce the time I accelerated and increase the time I directly controlled the clone.

“Young Master, are you awake?”

“Mm.”

I got up and toddled forward.

Perhaps because I had learned a cultivation method, the growth rate of my body seemed quite fast.

“Young Master, before you watch television, breakfast and cultivation training come first.”

“Mmm, okay.”

Because my teeth had not all grown in yet, my pronunciation leaked, but simple speech was fully possible.

Si-woo picked me up, sat me in a baby dining chair, and placed baby food made with spiritual medicine ingredients in front of me.

It seemed the formula and baby food I had eaten all this time were all regular support items from the Cheon Family.

To my taste, it was almost completely unseasoned, but Si-woo’s cooking skills were excellent enough that I could eat it deliciously even with little seasoning.

“Hehe, it is nice that you eat everything without fussing over side dishes, Young Master.”

Perhaps because Si-woo referred to parenting communities while raising me, she smiled and praised me for eating well.

I did eat well.

Even if my body was a baby’s, the contents inside were a fully grown adult, so I had no choice but to behave calmly.

“All dun.”

“You finished it all. Well done.”

Si-woo took me down from the chair and cleared the table.

As an android, she did not eat, but from time to time, as if performing cultivation, she absorbed the surrounding qi and charged herself with electricity.

I toddled into the dedicated cultivation room prepared for practicing cultivation methods and plopped down in my seat.

I did not know what structure it had, but it had the effect of gathering qi in the space and holding it there.

I had begun directly using the cultivation room about two days ago, and until then, I had practiced Bluewood Art while lying in the baby bed.

I had only actually trained Bluewood Art by controlling my clone myself for about 30 days, but because I had made it practice Bluewood Art while lying in the baby bed like a macro, a qi center had already formed in my body.

According to Si-woo, even among direct-line members of the Cheon Family, my progress was extremely fast.

Since I was steadily training the cultivation method while reciting the mnemonic formula with an adult mind, it could not help being extremely fast.

Even so, I could not let my guard down. Right now, I was ahead because I had a mental advantage, but it was common for a child called a genius to become an ordinary talent as an adult.

To be honest, I knew I did not have much talent for using my body.

This body was my clone, and fundamentally, its aptitude was likely not very different from my own.

I did not have great greed.

My minimum goal was simply to reach a level where, when climbing the Tower, I would not end up in a situation where my body was too weak to run away and I had no choice but to die.

If possible, I wanted to achieve at least above-average results in this world too.

Sitting down, I performed Bluewood Art according to the set method.

The cultivation training Si-woo regularly had me do lasted 2 hours.

I wondered whether it was an order that could be given to a baby, but my mind was not that of a baby, so I trained diligently.

After cultivation training ended, it was time for something I liked.

Watching comprehensive history documentaries produced by a broadcasting company under the galactic information integration corporation ‘Beggar Sect.’

Now, thousands of years after humanity had left Earth, the Beggar Sect had escaped being a den of beggars and, along with the Hao Gate, become an information corporation dominating the entire galaxy and a supermassive sect of the righteous sects.

I picked up the remote control and played a documentary introducing the history of Murim, Earth, and galactic expansion on the display covering the wall.